Plan to Escape

There are 2 guards on the 5th floor. They wear leather armor and swords as a weapon. They're standing near the stairs and sometimes they will monitor us.

On this floor, there are 4 cells but the other 3 are vacant. They may be separate us with Sam because of our age. I and Sophia inside the same cell. The cell size is around 3x3 meter square.

I can't do something suspicious for now. I lean my body on the wall. The basement looks like a dungeon. The floor and the wall is stone, this makes me uncomfortable.

I lift Lady Sophia's head and place it on my lap. The stone floor is hard and uneven, that would make her head hurts. She is my key to escape so I need to take care of her until tomorrow.

Roughly 30 minutes, Lady Sophia wakes up. It seems the drug's effect wears off. She opened her eyes and staring at my face.

"..."

"Is there anything in my face Lady Sophia?"

"..."

Okay, she is weird now. I placed my hand on her cheek and lightly taps her cheek for few times.

"Ah...no..Nothing wrong Vin...."

'Is that so?"

"More importantly, what's happening? Where are we now?"

She tried to raise her body, but I hold her shoulder to prevent her. I put my index finger on my lips to tell her to keep quiet. Before I tell her, I look at the Guards and make sure they won't hear us.

"I will tell you If you lower your voice. Also please stay still to pretend lost consciousness. There are 2 guards on the outside and I don't want them to hear out conversation."

The guard won't able to notice If Sophia has been waking up from that far. If they notice Sophia already wake up, I am afraid they will take her somewhere or they will monitor us strictly.

She is pouting, but I give her a simple explanation.

"Lady Sophia, If you wake up, I am afraid the Guard will take you somewhere. Not to mention they will cautious and will keep their eyes on us. If that happens, we can't talk freely. So please stay like this for a while."

She nods her head and I begin to tell her anything I know.

"Lady Sophia, we are on David's Mansion secret basement. You lost consciousness inside the carriage. They take Sam into a different place and I don't know the exact location. Currently, we are on the 5th floor in the basement."

I can feel her body trembling, but I place my hand on her forehead. She must be scared because she was separated from Sam.

"Don't worry, We will save Sam. But all we need to do is wait. Tomorrow my friend's aids will come to rescue us."

I hide the fact that David already trapped us from the start, to prevent Sophia from panic. If that happens, it will affect her mental state and ruin my plans. Until tomorrow, she needs to stay in top condition.

"I have a plan to escape from here, but are you trust me?"

She nods her head once again. I can see her trying to hold back her tears. I pat her head to help her calm down.

She is very anxious now. What she needs right now is someone to rely on. Someone who can give her hope.

I will fill that role for the sake of keeping her mental state. Based on my experience, when my parents pat my head, I feel comfortable and happy.

But in Sophia's case, she would feel secure and safe. I don't know how much she trusts me, but I know that she at least expecting something from me.

There are some methods to calm her down in this situation like Verbal and Physical contact.

The verbal method is like giving her suggestions, advice, or tell a joke to ease her anxiety. But they would take a lot of time to erase her anxiety with this method. The guard will notice if I talked longer with 'sleeping' Sophia.

Physical Contact is like Patting her head, Hold her hands, Hugging and maybe Kissing. This method is very effective and can be done in a short time, but you need to have a relation with her. With my current relationship with Sophia, I only can pat her heads at most.

"We need to wait Lady Sophia and tomorrow we will find Sam and escape. So please rest and recover your energy. Don't worry, you can sleep on my lap."

"Thank you, Vin."

I thought she will have a problem to sleep in this condition, but she falls asleep quickly. Maybe because she was almost crying, and that makes her eyes tired so she can sleep faster than usual. Her face is relaxed now.

"Fuuuh."

I thought I can't persuade her, but fortunately, that doesn't happen.

After that, I continue to keep my eyes on the guards. They don't have a shift and stay on this floor all the time. One of them left just to take food for us. They give us 2 pieces of bread twice. I and Sophia eat the breads to replenish our stamina.

Finally, the time has come.

I open my status and find my mana is 750 now. The guards are still sleeping. I wake up Sophia from her slumber. She yawning and rubs her sleepy eyes.

My preparation is complete. I use my [Mana Thread] to reach all the outer walls. Now I can cast my mana shield remotely. I cover the outer wall and the entrance with my mana shield to prevent the sound from leaking out from this room.

My mana shield can block the water when I catch the fishes, so maybe I can use my mana shield to block the sound too. This is just my guess and I decided to gamble. I activate my buff to enhancing my body and begin my plan.

I pushed her down and Sophia makes a surprised face.

"Eh...Vin what are you doing?!!!"

"I love you, Sophia, I love you, Sophia!!!"

I hold her cheeks with my right hand and I draw my face closer to hers.

"What are you doing Vin???!!!! Nooooo!!!!! Please don't do this Vin!!! HEEEEEELPPPP!!!!!"

She tried to resist me, but her strength isn't match with me.She screaming loudly and make the guards wake up.

"Hey what are you doing?!!!!"

The guards notice me and they immediately open the cells to help Sophia. He tried to grab me with his hand, but I grab his hand instead and throw him on the ground. I kick his neck with all my might and I can hear a cracking bone from the fallen guards. His neck is twisted in a strange direction and died instantly.

I stand near the fallen guard without doing nothing while gazing at the last guard.

His friends shocked by this sight but he immediately comes to attack me with his swords. I take my mitrill dagger from my sleeve and throw it with full power (enhanced by my buff) to his neck. My dagger pierced his neck without resistance and he falls backward.

He must be thinking that I didn't have a weapon so he tried to attack with his weapon to defeat me.

Too bad for you.

I take their swords and retrieve my dagger. I don't loot the sword before because I want to use a surprise attack.

The surprise attack is more effective than a pointless duel with the sword. It will waste my energy and cut our time to escape.

Ahh, I forget to explain anything to Sophia. I cancel my mana shield to save my mana.

"Lady Sophia, I am sorry because I doing something unforgivable to you. But I need to do it to lure the guard here."

That was my plan.

First I cover the whole room with mana shield to prevent sound leaking out. After that, I will lure the guard to enter our cell, and the perfect method is to assault Sophia. She is an important hostage, so they will do anything to stop me. And when they enter the cell, I will kill them immediately.

"Why don't you tell me before?"

"I want to make your act looks real. I afraid they won't be deceived if I tell you beforehand."

"But..."

"We don't have much time, soon the other guards will smell the blood. We need to escape immediately."

I take her hands and climb the stairs stealthy.