Spear Hero #007 - Prison

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	【Yari no Yuusha no Yarinaoshi】

	   『Chapter 7 / 415 - Prison』
	=== Loop 4 - Schild Welt Arc ===
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TLNOTE:
 Motoyasu have same habit like Naofumi by giving nickname. Frankly speaking, Naofumi is tame compared to Motoyasu. I will give reference from main story at the end of chapter whenever he give bizarre nickname.
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 I shift my gaze and look down while falling. Now I'm sliding in this branching hole and keep going down.
 Quickly I stab my spear on the wall to stop myself from falling farther.

"This is…… what people call pitfall trap." (Motoyasu)

 Those ignorant bastard…… For one brief instant, the idea to slaughter every single live in country crossed my mind.
 The problem came if I lost my temper and start using skill recklessly. It's highly possible that dear father, Ren, or Itsuki get involved and accidentally killed.
 Now I'm confused about what should I do.

 It's hard to use Portal Spear inside the castle.
 Even if it's possible to use it immediately after summoned, I must do it outside the castle…… To begin with, I didn't set destination point after being summoned again.
 Dammit, I can't remember well Portal Spear's full usage and limitation.

 If I use portal here I will arrive at nearest village.
 Return to castle from nearest village will consume more time so that's not an option.
 Bigger problem, I never test it and things could go really wrong.
 I will experiment with it later, knowing its usage and limitation necessary for the future.
 To escape this pinch……

"There's only one option, climb it." (Motoyasu)

 I use spear as a pick substitute and start climb this sliding hole.
 It's a little dark so I use magic to illuminate my sight.
 Now I got new problem…… I don't know my exact location and if I fall down farther I will end up in a maze. This is very complicated situation.

 All of sudden I hear a shrill from stabbed wall.
 Probably there's a cave behind this wall, It might easier to go back to surface that way.
 I point spear at the wall.

「Meteor Spear！」

 Spear piercing the wall and make exploding sound, dust fill the air.
 It works good and paved the way for me. Not wasting any time I jump to the newly opened hole.

"This place is……" (Motoyasu)

 Complete darkness.
 I feel my surrounding, looks like this place is a prison.
 So Melromarc's palace have an underground prison as well.
 ……that exploding sounds is very loud yet no guards come to check it.
 Apparently this place is deepest part of castle prison.

 I get out to passageway by cutting the wall.
 Hmm…… This place quite tattered here and thereー…… Water dripping everywhere and small mouse-like monster running all over the place.
 I heard faint sound of water stream when take left pathway.
 Melromarc's sewerage connected to river outside the castle, isn't it?
 Then I should take right pathway if I want go back to castle.

 Which means I must take the right pathway.
 I see a lot of prisoner as I walk in this passageway.
 There's a people who wear nice dress, normal people, and of course I see shabby people as well.

"Oi. I never seen you here, are you Melromarc's soldier?" (Prisoner)

 I look at the cell where that voice came.
 Before I heard that voice, I walk without gave particular attention to prisoner's plea.
 Not that voice, that voice is an exception and I can't ignore it.

 That's obvious, I'm not hearing pig's bark or man's voice. I hear woman's voice.
 Inside the cell is a woman with both hands cuffed and hanged from ceiling…… Then she forced herself to stand up.
　Her feet shackled, what a cruel treatment.

"What are you looking at?" (Woman Prisoner)

　Strawberry blonde and good looking face.
 Feels like I've seen her before.

 Aaah!
 She is esteemed sister's friend and Ren's sparing partner pig…… Or so what I think.
 Esteemed sister's friend, abominable Fiancee's bodyguard, Woman Knight…… That's how dear father called her.

 I see, there's no way I will hear pig's bark from her.
 Good friend of Firo-tan's esteemed sister must have marvelous heart.
 Calling good person like that a pig is rude.
 Why did she detained here?

"I never seen you before…… Who are you?" (Woman Knight)
"That's my line. What are you doing to make you imprisoned?" (Motoyasu)
"Me? I punished this country's knights who hunt demi-human…… My action back then made the country revoking my knighthood." (Woman Knight)
"Oh……" (Motoyasu)
"I'd be good if I still alive until Queen's return…… Well, just my wishful thinking." (Woman Knight)

 Looks like she is waiting for Queen's return.
 Queen…… Her name is useful in previous loop.
 Use her name in threat, everything will go well in this Melromarc.

"Now tell me, who are you?" (Woman Knight)

 A little bit of explanation won't do any harm.
 Because she is esteemed sister's friend and Fiancee's bodyguard, Woman Knight.
 Not a pig.

"I'll make it short.  Today Melromarc summoned Divine Heroes, I'm Spear Hero." (Motoyasu)
"What!? Why are Spear Hero-dono in this place!?" (Woman Knight)

 She shake the chain and bend her body forward after hear my explanation.

"Tell me why you're here!" (Woman Knight)
"Just like I said, today Melromarc summoned Four Divine Heroes." (Motoyasu)
"Summoned…… Why are the summoned hero in this place? How many people they summoned!?" (Woman Knight)
"They summon all of us.　They threw me into pitfall trap and somehow I ended up here." (Motoyasu)
"They threw Divine Hero to pitfall? Why did they do that!? What's wrong with this country!?" (Woman Knight)

 It'll be easier for me if I have answer to your question.
 But I can think some reason why they threw me here.
 Most plausible explanation is they think my existence will be dangerous to this country.
 It's not an understatement if I said entire Melromarc see me as an enemy.

"Maybe this is unbelievable but I came from future. This country's princess a.k.a Red pig will accuse dear fath―― Shield Hero rape her in the future. King dishonor him together with other heroes, that's the story." (Motoyasu)
"……" (Woman Knight)

 Oh my? Why she fall silent?
 I know, I know, I'm not a believable man.

"That's very possible…… This is King and princess you talk about. Favored another heroes to gain their trust and laughing at Shield Hero's suffering. I know they can do something worse than that." (Woman Knight)

 Her pale face became paler.
 It make me happy to see someone who trust me.

"Demi-human country won't keep silent with their treatment to Shield Hero. My father spend his life built relationship with demi-human country and now his lives lost in vain." (Woman Knight)
"In my future, every single person in this country knew Shield Hero's great effort crushing Three Heroes Church. Melromarc treat dear father much better than before after Queen came back." (Motoyasu)
"That kind of future…… Best outcome after everything this country did to Shield Hero and that outcome isn't impossible…… Stop it, seems like finally I lost my mind. Believing insane thing like that truly happened…… Everything is just my imagination." (Woman Knight)

 I understand it well, now she make me her imagination friend.
 Confined in this place in long time might make some people going insane.

"After I told them the future they threw me to pitfall. I want to go back to dear father's side as fast as I can." (Motoyasu)

 Yep, I worried his safety.
 Best thing I want is he take dinner in leisure right now, but that possibility is near zero.

"That's all you want to know, we will meet again in the near future." (Motoyasu)

 According to future I know, she will live through this.
 Firo-tan's evaluation of me will raise remarkably if I help esteemed sister's good friend
 However, if I don't save dear father's life now, I won't meet Firo-tan.

"Wait!" (Woman Knight)
"Need anything else?" (Motoyasu)
"If…… if you are not my illusion, take me out from here! I must protect that place, my father's…… his last word, I will fulfill it. I will be punished for prison break for sure. If that's all I take to know the truth I will accept any punishment!" (Woman Knight)
"My pleasure!" (Motoyasu)

 I don't know if she can be useful to me, but she is esteemed sister's good friend.
 She ask for my help, this Motoyasu will always help people who show devotion to dear father.

"Who's there!" (Castle Jailer)

 Soldier with lantern in his hand showed up out of nowhere.
 Right, there's no way exploding sound will go unnoticed.

"You are Spe――" (Castle Jailer)
「Air Strike Javelin！」

 I was going easy when throw spear, you know.
 The reason I didn't kill him isn't to just let him pass out to wake up later, I will ended up destroying everything and it will troublesome to walk in rubble.

"Guha!?" (Castle Jailer)

 Ignoring faint soldier, spear return to my hand.
 All chain is broken in a single swing, now nothing can keep her in this place.

"Now come, we have no time." (Motoyasu)
"That strength…… No doubt this is legendary hero's power, I'm…… not hallucinating." (Woman Knight)

 After removing her chain she take sword from faint soldier's waist.

"This way! I will lead the way." (Woman Knight)
"I leave it to you." (Motoyasu)

 We run through prison's passage with she in front of me leading the way.

"Oh yeah, I haven't introduce myself. My name is――" (Woman Knight)
"Eclair right?" (Motoyasu)

 Firo-tan always call her that.
 I won't make any mistake, her name is Eclair.

"Wrong! It's Eclaire. Eclaire Seaetto! Spear Hero-dono, what's your name?" (Eclair)
"My name is Motoyasu, Motoyasu Kitamura." (Motoyasu)
"So it's Kitamura-dono…… I will confirm Kitamura-dono's story by my own eyes!" (Eclair)
"No problem." (Motoyasu)

 Like that, we begin our first objective. Prisonbreak.