Chapter 56: Arrested
The fire at the Apothecary's station rightly alarmed the rest of Turbidity, and both Gregory and Lothar quickly led their soldiers to the office building, which had been reduced to ashes. There, they found the patrol soldiers who had been knocked unconscious and tied up by the cheese men, and the three mages who had fainted near the ruins of the station. Judging from the confessions of the soldiers and what was found at the scene, there is no doubt that the Cheese was arrested and imprisoned on suspicion of setting fire to the premises of the Pharmacy Society.
When Cheese woke up again, what he saw was neither the sky nor the rudimentary wooden hut in the quarantine zone. It didn't take any experience or reasoning, and the mage knew what kind of building he was seeing—the cell. The rough touch of the straw underneath him made Cheese, who was only wearing intimate clothes, feel a little uncomfortable, and he realized that the gray robe was no longer on him. Although the robe contained almost all the items that the cheese belt had on his body, the good thing was that if he wanted to actually take those items out of the robe, without his own approval, I am afraid that I would not even be able to find the "pockets" containing those things by physical means alone. So Cheese doesn't worry about the safety of his assets.
In contrast, the mage can clearly remember that Elsa had seen himself in another state in the fire, and he didn't care much about his secrets being leaked, especially to the boss lady, who was a little special to him, and what really made Cheese uneasy was that he knew how much of an impact he would have on ordinary people in another state, in a sense, it was more dangerous than a raging fire.
Relying on his right hand to support his body, although Cheese's left arm can move freely in the fire, the mage's left hand is still unable to exert force under normal conditions. After barely sitting up, a feeling of weakness swept over his body, and Cheese knew that it was because he had used his strength too harshly before, which had caused some side effects to occur in him. Although the mage had already learned how to control his power at the lowest cost, the situation was urgent, and Cheese was not allowed to cast spells calmly, so he had to use this primitive method to deal with it. Feeling a feeling of weakness that I hadn't felt for a long time, this feeling often appeared on Cheese's body when he didn't know how to use his own strength, but since receiving the teacher's guidance, this feeling has not been felt by the mage for many years. Although he had expected that this operation would not go as smoothly as he imagined, he would force himself to use this power, which Cheese had never expected before.
"It's really, embarrassingly. ”
Shaking his head, Cheese said with a wry smile. His gaze followed the surroundings of the cell. The cell in which the mage was imprisoned was not very large, the square room was less than ten paces long, and half of the cell was filled with the straw on which the mage had previously laid, and it seemed that they served as a "bed" for prisoners. Three of the cells were walled on all four sides, and the remaining one was made up of fist-thick iron railings that Cheese guessed were supposed to be hollow, and that a small town of Turbidity could not afford to waste so much iron on building a prison. The upper part of the wall opposite the railing had a vent in the upper part, also sealed with iron bars, and judging by the location of the vents and the faint sunlight that came through, the cell should have been located below the ground.
"Cheese, is that you?"
At this moment, Elsa's voice came from behind a wall, and judging by the magnitude and source of the voice, Cheese was certain that the proprietress should have been locked up next door to him, and that the walls of the two cells were not too thick.
"It's me, are you okay?"
Answering the boss's question, the mage found that his voice did not know when it became extremely hoarse, and the original smooth pronunciation made his throat have a faint pain at this time, which is not a good sign, for the cheese There is no way to pronounce the words clearly, but it is not only the communication with people, many spell spells have strict requirements for pronunciation, and the wrong pronunciation may even bring completely unpredictable consequences, so if a mage loses his voice, then his ability may only be able to play two or three out of ten。
However, for Elsa now, the cheese's voice is not a problem for her to consider, as long as she can still hear the mage's voice, the proprietress will let go of half of her hanging heart. However, the other person's voice also awakened the vague memory, and the indescribable eyes once again occupied Elsa's brain, and the indescribable horror made her unconsciously let out a short scream.
Hearing this scream, thinking of the previous experience, it was not difficult for Cheese to guess what had happened to the other party. Originally, the mage was counting on the proprietress to forget about that time because of her confusion at the time, but now it seems that things may not go as smoothly as Cheese thought.
"Calm down, Elsa, calm down. Whatever you see, don't think about it, it's just your illusion. Although her voice was hoarse, the mage's words seemed to have some kind of calming magic, and the proprietress who had been in fear slowly calmed down after hearing the words of the cheese. She leaned against the wall between Cheese's cell and hers, gulping in for air like a drowning man fresh out of the water.
Cheese leaned against the wall as well, so he could communicate with Elsa at the lowest possible volume. Although he knew that his power would bring an unimaginable impact to ordinary people, this was the first time that Cheese had encountered such a situation, so the mage didn't know how to make the boss lady stop remembering what she saw at that time, although it used a little means to temporarily free the other party from fear, but this was only a temporary means.
Gradually, a slight sobbing sound came from next door, and there was no other sound in the dungeon, and although Elsa had lowered her volume, her cry was still clearly heard in Cheese's ears. I don't know why, maybe it was because I caused the collapse of the boss lady, and when the mage heard this cry, there was a faint sting in his heart in addition to guilt. He instinctively wanted to comfort Elsa, but he opened his mouth but didn't know what to say. At the end of the day, Cheese is not a person who is good at communicating with people.
After a long time, Elsa's cry slowly disappeared. The proprietress finally calmed down and sniffed hard twice, she spoke.
"Where are we?"
"I don't know, but it's probably a prison or something like Turbidity Town. Cheese responded.
"What about Mr. Leon? he's not here?" asked Elsa, who was more interested in asking if the Knight Captain had escaped with them.
"I don't know, I fainted after I brought you out. Woke up and got here, and I think Leon must have been taken alone by the people who found us. Whether it's the Count of Montenegro or the Gregories, I think they all have a reason to do that. I guess he's safe, though. ”
Hearing that the blood lion also escaped from the sea of fire, the proprietress breathed a sigh of relief again, as for where the knight chief was now, in fact, she didn't care very much. After all, just like Cheese said, Leon's identity is still the second leader of the Kingdom Knights, and since he didn't die in the flames, those people in Turbidity Town don't have the courage to move him.
"You got us out?" Elsa asked. But in fact, she doesn't need to answer with cheese, and the answer to this question is also very clear. So without waiting for the mage to answer, she spoke again.
"Didn't you say you couldn't help it?"
I don't remember saying that, but it was a real headache for me. Besides, I'm a serious mage, and if the fire burns to death, if it spreads, I will be laughed off by my peers. Hearing the other person's voice, he gradually returned to his usual vitality, and Cheese's answer became lively.
A chuckle came from next door. Although the mage's words were not funny, Elsa just couldn't control herself from laughing. Her smile also completely eased the tension between the two of them because of what had just happened.
Cheese wanted to say something more, but at that moment, the door opened at the end of the prison hallway, and someone came in.