Year 1399 of the Imperial calendar - Shouyo continent - Dungeon cell
(Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel POV)
"..."
I sit down in the middle of the darkness.
"..."
A normal lady probably wouldn't be able to keep calm in this cold and dark place, but my body and eyes are used to it since I was a child.
"..."
I can easily see the moldy bricks that make up the walls and floor, the rotten wooden board that I sleep on, and the thick steel bars that have a door leading to the hallway.
"..."
And at the cell on the other side of the corridor, I can see the man that claimed to be a butler.
"Hmp! Hmp!" Foreign man
There is no window to see the passage of time, but that would not matter to him, that man spends every moment throwing punches in front of him.
"Hmp! Hmp!" Foreign man
One after another, the rhythm of his arms stretching out in front of him is only interrupted by his daily needs.
"..." Dungeon Guard
At first, the guard tried his best to get him to talk about the True Demon Queen, but even though he never opened his eyes in this place, getting close to that man without getting hurt turned out to be too difficult.
"Hmp! Hmp!" Foreign man
They even tried to starve him, but that only lead to him bending the steel bars and taking the guard's food.
"..." Dungeon Guard
After months of failing to get a word from him, the guards decided to simply ignore him.
"..." Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
Why is he still here?
If it were me I would have left a long time ago, this type of darkness is too impure for my taste.
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...
Today, A visitor seems to have arrived.
"Be careful in there" Dungeon Guard
The guard lights a torch and gives it to someone.
"I will, thank you" Annoying voice
So it is her.
"..." Foreign man
The voice of the man training at the other cell stops as if he doesn't want to bring her attention to him.
"Sui..." Annoying voice
The Saintess stops in front of my cell, with a worried face.
"I am not your friend" Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
I answer from the ground with my back laying on the wall.
"I am sorry..." Saintess
"..." Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
She stands in that place without saying anything for a moment.
"I know this is sudden, but are you..." Saintess
I can see some hope coming out of those words.
"A person from another world?" Saintess
I just ignore her words.
"..." Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
"This game plot has already changed too much, you never did anything I expected you to do and the NPC I know never pushed the Saintess over the stairs of the academy" Saintess
Her words never make any sense.
"Maybe you didn't hate me, but it was the plot adjusting itself" Saintess
She gets closer to the cell.
"We can be friends, let's get out of here and look for Shinku together" Saintess
I stand up and walk to the bars of the cell in my academy uniform soiled to the point that nothing but solid brown is visible.
"..." Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
I look into the golden eyes of the chosen one of god.
"You will, don't you? Let's get you into new clothes and..." Saintess
I interrupt her delusions.
"I am the daughter of the Graupel dukedom, no one else" Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
"Eh?" Saintess
She seems confused by my words.
"It is true that I didn't want to push you down the stairs..." Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
"Then..." Saintess
"But that doesn't mean that I don't hate you" Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
I bring my face closer to the bars.
"The further away Shiku is from you, the better" Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
Frightened by me, the Saintess tries to take a step back but falls to the ground.
"If you are the savior sent by god then I am sorry for the future of this land" Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
She gets up and walks quickly towards the exit.
"This city is doomed to never have a competent queen" Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
I sit down in the same spot as before.
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...
"Hmp! Hmp!" Foreign man
The man in the other cell keeps his training as I see the light of a torch approaching.
"Pitiful" Ferdinand
The pope's blue habit steps in front of the steel bars.
"..." Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
I was never comfortable around this member of the Isekai Church, there was something in his voice and eyes than never that I never liked.
"You lost the chance to attend the wedding of the century between the representant of god and the representant of royalty" Ferdinand
I don't care about them.
"..." Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
"As expected from the daughter of the Graupel dukedom, but I wonder how long can you maintain your mind cool" Ferdinand
He opens the door of the cell and enters lifting a soundproof barrier with an artifact inside his clothes.
"...What do you want?" Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
I stand up and walk as far as I can from the Isekai Pope.
"There is no need to be so alert, I only want to share some information" Ferdinand
He takes a decored box of about 60 centimeters from a bag on the side of his waist.
"The outside world changed and I wanted to share its delights with you" Ferdinand
Did she make a new cake or something?
"I do not need any food" Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
He smiles at me and extends the box to me.
"It is not food, it is something that will surely surprise you" Ferdinand
...It is too suspicious.
"Whenever it is, I do not need it" Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
He keeps the box in front of me and doesn't move it at all.
"...Are you sure? it is important information about the current state of the four duchies" Ferdinand
"..." Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
He will not go away until I open it.
"...Alright, let's get this over with" Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
I take the box from his hands.
"You sure remind me of your mother" Ferdinand
I remove the wrapping and open the lid of the box.
"Just before I poisoned her" Ferdinand
"!!!" Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
And inside of the box resides the decapitated head of my father.
"Your family is dead, your house has been destroyed, you don't have anything left!" Ferdinand
He raises his voice in ecstasy.
"HAHAHAHAHA!" Ferdinand
He left behind her calm and collected facade and now seems like a totally different person.
"...What is wrong with you?" Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
"I love to separate children from their parents!" Ferdinand
His face right now could easily win the title of the Lord of Evil.
"I even have the privilege of taking away the parents of the Saintess, her tears and grief over them gave me a pleasure that I will never forget" Ferdinand
So this is the true face of the leader of the church.
"And That stupid Maine girl even come to me afterward and called me her family, that was the best feeling ever!" Ferdinand
He brings both hands to his cheeks and shivers.
"..." Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
"Now let me feel your despair! let me see the tears of the last member of one of the four great duchies!" Ferdinand
This person is disgusting.
"I am sorry to disappoint you" Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
I calmy land the box with my father's head on the ground.
"But I didn't know my family that well how to break my mind for them" Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
He picked the wrong target for his nasty fetish.
"...You can't do that" Ferdinand
He kicks the box and gets closer to me.
"You have to cry" Ferdinand
His eyes widened as wide as they can look at me without blinking.
"You are sick in the head" Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
His hands wrap around my neck and lift my entire body.
"Despair" Ferdinand
It hurts.
"Kugh!" Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
My body still being strangled hits the wall.
"Despair!!" Ferdinand
My mind is fading.
"DESPAIR!!!" Ferdinand
I...
"..." Ferdinand
The strength in his hands fades away and I drop to the ground.
"KUGH! UGH!" Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
While I still gasp for air, the Isekai pope's body land on top of me.
"..." Ferdinand
"?" Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
On the back of his body, dozens of black scales perforate his clothes and skin making him bleed to death.
"Are those...?" Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
The scales on the Foreigner's pants?
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"Hmp!..." Foreign man
Days after that incident, the man in the other cell finally stopped punching the air.
"..." Foreign man
He holds his right arm straight out in front of him and freezes in that pose.
"..." Suigintou Arnestianne Graupel
I hear steps approaching.
"Stand up Villiness, today is your execution" Dungeon Guard
The Foreign man seems to be in some kind of trance and doesn't seems like he will help me today.
"Killing the Isekai Pope will be your last act of evil" Dungeon Guard
As the guard forces me out, I catch a glimpse of light on the foreigner's chest.
