Exploits from Another World Ch. 5 (Too Tired For Escaping)

Too Tired For Escaping

Kingdom of Esseavast, Ingtasia

June 2021

For the rest of Eleth's speech, I went along with whatever The Princesses had us do. I don't think that failure of a princess was aware literally everyone in the room heard her announce me and Terensu's "execution". But, there was no time to think about that. After all, she did say two weeks from now was when the proposed execution would be. So that gave us two weeks to escape... Right? Well if we want to live of course.

Also, if we didn't have the chance to escape. I'd make sure everyone in the public knew how much of a failure the princess summoned. If I'm going out, I'm bringing someone with me. As much people as I can preferably.

"Your rooms are on the 14th floor," Eleth said, smiling as a guard accompanied us up the castle. I'll tell you now. The staircase going up was tiring, to say the least. Also... Are all the rooms are on the 14th floor? How is that even possible...? Agh. I'm too tired to think about it. Well... I guess that's magic for you.

All of the students had a room to themselves. That's a shocker. But thank God. I don't think I'd want to share rooms with anyone considering what happened earlier. Fitting 500 some rooms onto one floor. Kind of amazing once you truly think about it. Back on Earth, how many rooms were on one hotel floor...? Well. I can't remember, but it being in the triple digits is more than enough for anyone to see why it's mind-blowing.

I thought back to what I was told a bit earlier. So I'm staying in room 234 huh? That's my room, though it's rather far away from the stairs leading up here. What a fucking pain. First up the stairs... Now all this walking... This room better make up for it. The thought about being executed faded away soon after walking down the long hallway to my room.

"What a tough situation…" I said sighing. I'm exhausted. I want to go to sleep.

"Mhm." Terensu replied back

I walked the rest of the way to my room, splitting up from Terensu about halfway. It probably would've been best if we stuck together... But I'm sure we'll meet up again sooner or later. The hallways were mesmerizing. Though repetitive, the patterns on the walls were beautiful. Not to mention that the ceiling was relatively high. Meaning you wouldn't feel claustrophobic or anything of the sort walking through here.

I was walking relatively slow, so once I reached my room, which took forever, no one was in the hallways surrounding it. It was scary, to be honest. Reflecting on how long these hallways are. If a monster just suddenly came from around the corner. Imagine how far you'd have to run. Not to mention I don't even remember the way to the stairs. Wait... Shit... I don't remember the way to the stairs... Fuckkkkkkk...

I looked left and right panically. Calm down... Calm down... There's no point crying over spilled milk. I can just let future Riamu handle that. But I'll be completely honest... I'm scared of ghosts... Who isn't…? But I know, I know. Someone like me, being afraid of ghosts? It's weird... Back on Earth, I didn't dwell over them much. Since I thought they were nothing but fiction... But! But... Considering the fact on how something impossible like being summoned to another world literally happened today... Ghosts are things starting to sound a bit more believable. Oh, fucking wait a sec... I'm 99% sure there are ghosts in this world...! It's a fantasy world…! There's a damn demon lord for fucks sake...! You know what... It's fine. I don't even care... For now, let's just sleep for tonight and go over what happened today... Yeah!

I appeared in front of my room with sweat on the legs of my glasses. I opened the door leading in cautiously. Peeking a bit into it before fully entering in. The first view greeting you once you entered was a pair of sofas along beside a table. Walk a bit more and you'd see the huge modern looking bedroom. The room given was honestly surprisingly nice. Compared to the rest of the castle. This modern style was more of my thing. Back on Earth, this would've had to be a remarkably luxurious hotel to stay at. I can't even imagine how much it would cost to stay in a place like this.

I didn't have anything on me, since I left most things at the school. Though I did have my phone with me. Not like it would of much use, but it still had a decent amount of battery left in it. I wasn't going to use it though. Who knows how much something like a modern-day smartphone would sell for hehe...

I walked by the bed and threw my phone onto it.

"They didn't even give us any spare clothes..." I groaned to myself, taking a seat on the bed. Would I really be dying wearing shorts and a sweatshirt? It's not that it wasn't comfortable... But wouldn't it be cooler dying in like some medieval robes or shit?!

"Wow. It's already pretty dark..." I whispered to myself, taking a look out the glass door leading onto the balcony attached to the room. Though to be fair... I may have complained a bit. Well, more than a bit about this world. But rooms like these are way better than those inns the cliche isekai protagonists stay at.

I stood up and walked onto the balcony, opening the glass door. I looked down the balcony tentatively. Geez. How tall really is this building? Maybe jumping off right now would be better than being executed...? Kidding. I'm not that weak as to kill myself just for something as petty as being executed.

This might just be me. But wouldn't it be nice if I had a glass of wine or something to match the room. I know, I know. I'm underage. But technically speaking, I can't be completely sure if there's a certain age you have to be to drink alcohol in this world. But hell. I'm not even asking to drink it. I just thought it'd look fucking badass to stare out the balcony with a glass of wine in my hand.

"(Yawn). Damn... All this wine talk is making me tired. To be fair, I did have a pretty rough day." I said to myself going back inside of the room. I closed the glass door and jumped onto the bed, spreading my arms and legs.

Though I said it was rough... I had fun. This world, even though I've seen literally only the castle. It looks fun. Do I want to go back to Earth? Hell yeah. I hate this world already. But it does look fun. Eh... But aren't I trading comfort for fun...? Neither are guaranteed. But which one would I rather have...? Ah... I'd rather have comfort. Damn it... CAN I GO BACK TO MY OTHER WORLD PLEASE?

"Nice bed though... Ill give them that... Very nice bed... I could just fa-"

(Knock Knock)

I turned my head behind me swiftly. Ah... Terensu is it? I didn't expect him to show up today. And here I was, about to go to sleep. Can't even let me imitate the "Doze of to Sleep Without a Blanket On And With Your Face on the Bed" cliche?

"Fuck off," I said sitting up. Look. Once I get dozy, I'm GOING to sleep. I'm really fucking tired you know.

"Riamu, open the fuck up. We got some shit to discuss." A voice shouted from behind the door. So it was Terensu huh? My intuition has been on point ever since we came here. Well, it was always on point hehe.

"(Sigh)... Yeah yeah," I responded jumping up, walking to the door. I crouched down to look beneath the crack in the bottom. Just to make sure it wasn't some kingdom dog using some sort of voice-altering magic or shit.

Well, I'll be damned... Those are definitely Terensu's shoes. But for some reason, there's more than just his pair... Yeahhhh I really don't want to open that door.

"Who's with you?" I asked him standing back up. You can never be too safe. Imagine I just get jumped out of nowhere. Depending on this response, I may just jump off the balcony hehe. Kidding.

"Let's just say they're people who're like us," Terensu said knocking on the door again. People like us? Ah... I did think it would be weird if Terensu and I were coincidentally the only ones who had no class. Like, come on? What are the chances of that happening? I'll admit. It'd be pretty cool. Some kind of villain backstory shit. But well, this is reality-... Actually... Thinking about it now... What the hell is fucking reality...?! Can I call this reality?! As much as I hate it here. There's no denying this is like a fucking dream. Not a dream come true, but a literal dream you would have at night...

"Well, alright then," I said opening the door carefully. I fully opened it then stepped back a little. Behind the door was- Wait... No way...

"No way... Sorabu... Antoniusu and Neisunu too? What are the fucking chances? I thought just Terensu and I not having any class was surprising... But you guys too?" I said as they walked in. Ah. You probably don't know what I'm talking about. Well, I, along with Terensu were apart of this group chat based around anime. No, we weren't some nerdy otakus who sent each other pictures of their waifu- Well... Eh just forget about it. The point is, we knew each other well. You could even consider us as good friends.

"What are the fucking chances indeed. Now hurry. We're in a rush." Terensu said sighing. He walked past me and took a seat on my bed. Guess he was tired of dealing with all of this. After all, they all came to him instead of me.

"Big coincidence, right?" Sorabu said chuckling a bit. I turned back to the group. Sorabu. A bit shorter than me, pretty smart. He was extremely reliable. It's a shame he didn't have a class... He would've put it to good use.

"You can fucking say that again..." Neisunu replied going after Terensu and taking a seat on my bed. Neisunu. Also shorter than me. The first one I met here. It was a while ago. Like a really long time ago... But he was the first person I talked to when I moved to this new school after moving from my old one cause of an incident. He was definitely the most questionable one here. Though, I trust him a lot.

"This world is so ass," Antoniusu said, sitting on the bed as well. Sorabu and I followed them soon after, sitting on the couch. Antoniusu. The only one here taller than me I think. Not to mention the only one here with curly hair. I've known him just as long as Sorabu and Neisunu. Though, I didn't really start talking to him until two years ago. He doesn't take petty things that seriously. It makes him funny though. I wonder what his abilities would've been...

"Now that we've all sat down... Is there anyone else without a class?" I started immediately subsequent sitting down. Trust me. I didn't want to be that guy. But I'm so fucking tired. You wouldn't even fucking know. I just want these guys to go back to their rooms. And maybe we can have a more probable discussion tomorrow.

"Ah yes... What we came here to discuss. Well, I did some thinking. And if you were listening to Eleth when we were in the throne room..." Terensu looked at me. Hey. Why is he looking at me...? I was listening to her... For the most part. Look, the whole stat screen shit is self-explanatory. Anyone who's at least played some type of RPG knows how to use this.

"She said that a kid who was summoned with his classmates was also a Non-Magic user. Meaning, that since there's an average of 25 students in a class, and one out of those 25 students was a Non-Mag user, about every 1 in 25 summoned are Non-Mags." Terensu continued. Ohhhh. That makes sense. Though it can't be completely accurate. After all, she never said there was more than one case of this happening.

"I think I get what you're saying... So basically, since it's 1 in 25 summoned. Because there's about 500 of us... 500 divided by 25... There could be the chance. That about 20 of the students are Non-Mags... Including us?" Sorabu finished Terensu's thinking.

It made sense. But then that would mean there's more than just us five, unable to use magic. Sooooo... Why the hell did none of the other 15 speak up? Afraid that they were gonna die? It would've been unavoidable. They should've just consulted with us.

"So why didn't anyone else speak up?" Antoniusu asked, scratching his head.

Well, the answer was obvious. Say you were in their position. What would you do? To be completely honest, I don't give a damn about any of them, so staying silent is technically the safest position to be in. Not that it matters to me anymore.

"Why would they?" Terensu asked, standing up walking to the balcony.

"That's true... But in the long run, the more people the better right? They could've you know... Came to us at least..." Antoniusu said staring at Terensu confused.

"Well... You're right. But what could they do? They're... How do I say this? Weak." Terensu said, answering Antoniusu's question. He stared off into the distance, with emotionless expression.

"Just what the hell are you staring at-," Neisunu asked walking up beside Terensu. Wait, now I'm curious... I stood up and walked over to them. The other two followed behind.

"What the fuck guys? Are you amazed at how nice the scenery I got was...?" I asked sarcastically, staring at them. I shook my head and jumped onto the bed. Well, they do what they want. I'm fucking tired.

"That's exactly what it is..." Terensu replied, still staring off. I looked up at him disgusted. Well. Yeah. It's a nice view. But what...?

"This is a really nice damn view. Like... Perfect." Neisunu agreed. I mouthed the word "what" and stared at them confused.

"Compared to mine... Yours is really really nice." Sorabu smiled, staring off the balcony.

"Thanks... I guess...?" I said, still staring at them.

"I'm kind of confused... But I guess the view looks nice...?" Antoniusu stated. I rubbed my eyes. Idle talk... Yeah, I'm going to fall asleep.

"Turn the lamp off before you leave," I said throwing the blanket over myself. I trust them enough where they wouldn't leave the door unlocked... Or opened... Well... I think I'll just wait till' they leave.

"Really nice view, let's go," Terensu said ignoring my words. He turned around and began walking out of my room.

"Goodnight~."

"Huh...? What the hell are you talking about? We're done here now. Come on." Terensu snapped at me. As he walked out of my room along with Antoniusu.

"..." I laid there frozen not questioning him. After a few seconds, I stood up. throwing the blanket to the side harshly.

"From the bottom of my heart. Fuck you. I thought you guys were going back to your rooms..." I sighed walking out and closing the door of my room. I don't know what Terensu has in mind. Maybe staying in the same room? That's technically not a bad idea. Though then they could kill both Terensu and me in one swing. That couldn't have been it though. We would've just stayed in my room. With my "damn amazing" balcony view

"Well, you're wrong. You really think we I would just come to your room and leave after barley having a conversation? I was just explaining the basic gist of the situation we're in now." Terensu replied leading us through the halls.

"Where are we going though...?" I asked, yawning. I was at my limit. Usually, my will to do something productive like this would be quite high. But well. Like any normal human. That "Will" gradually disappears as the night rises. Meaning... I'm fucking too tired to be walking around. I don't sleep a lot okay...! I went to sleep at 3 AM the night before...

"Just keep following. Oh. Also which one of you can yell the loudest." Terensu asked. I eyed him suspiciously. Why would he need to know that now of all times? Well. I don't really care. Just, please. Please get it done quickly. I want to go sleep~

"Well. Me obviously." Neisunu said, raising his hand.

"Eh, I don't think so." Antoniusu followed raising his hand.

"Actually. I yell quite loud." Sorabu interrupted pointing a finger up.

"So do I... But I'm not in the mood too." I said.

We stopped in the middle of the hallway. Terensu carefully looked back at us before turning back to continue to walk.

"Fuck it doesn't matter. One of you- Better yet. All of you just start screaming random words or whatever once we get back to the stairs." He said as all of us began looking at each other.

"Yo?" I turned my head from Terensu to the others.

"Uhh. Would that not attract attention?" Sorabu asked confused.

"Just do it," Terensu responded. We all looked at each other then shrugged. Fuck them but I ain't screaming shit. Too tired.

.....

A couple of minutes passed of idle chatter before we reached the stairs heading down. We all stopped. I breathed in through my nose then exhaled from my mouth. I don't know what was about to happen... But whatever energy I have left. Gather into the moments about to come. Please.

"What are you waiting for? Get screaming." Terensu nudged Antoniusu who looked at him with his mouth hanging.

"W-... Then what...?" Antoniusu asked taking a step on the first stair heading down.

I looked at Terensu. My eyes widened. Oh, wait... He couldn't mean...

He stared back and grinned. All of our faces dropped. Yeah. We got the memo. He wants to escape tonight. Right now. Come on... Can't we at least do it tomorrow. I. CAN'T. RUN. I'M. TOO. TIRED.

"No... B-but why do we have to scream? Aren't we rushing it a bit? Can't this wait till tomorrow...?" Sorabu stuttered asking. He turned to the stairs and began walking down.

"No. The sooner the better. We're screaming so if there are any other students hesitant about this whole Demon Lord thing... Remember? Like Antoniusu suggested?" Terensu said nonchalantly.

We all turned to Antoniusu who had his mouth open.

"Now's the time to leave. Hopefully, at least some people were woken up by hearing the princess's whole declaration of assassinating us." He finished. I turned to the others. All their mouths were wide opened. Yeah. Expected.

I took a step down the stairs. We were rushing things 100%. We had a whole week to escape for fucks sake. Why escape the night your sentenced? Doesn't escaping before your execution sound cooler. It just makes your blood pump doesn't it..?

I sighed, turning behind me to face Sorabu and the others.

"Welp... I guess there's no other choice..." I sigh, looking at Terensu who had a smug smile on his face.

"Fuck my life- CATCH US IF YOU CAN BITCHHHHH!" I yelled jumping down the stairs. Oh god... Are we really doing this... Good news. I was wide awake now. Looks like that shot of adrenaline really does the job of replacing sleep.

"Man... YOUR MOMS A WH**E!" Neisunu followed jumping behind me. I looked back as Antoniusu held up the middle finger to whatever was behind him.

"WE'RE GONNA DIE LOL!" He said jumping down.

"Oh shit. People are starting to come out of their rooms. FOLLOW US IF YOU DON'T HAVE MAGIC OR WHATEVER." Sorabu said, finalizing all of us who had to jump down.

"Well... Let's fucking dip." Terensu said jumping down the rows of stairs. Not going to lie. Landing on your knees and rolling down the stairs hurt. Not to mention there were a damn lot of stairs.

"Let's get the hell out of here..." I said, running down the stairs.

"No shit. Also... To where exactly do you plan on taking us...?" Antoniusu asked wiping his eyes.

"Huh? The school obviously." Terensu replied keeping his eyes forward.