Chapter 662 – Escape
“So what is your escape plan?”
Nora asked.
“It’s an escape plan…”
Even if it was an escape plan… There wasn’t much to tell them.
“I can’t tell you the details, but I plan to escape through the Pantherans first.”
“Panderan?”
“Escape from Karaz and crawl back to the Pantherans?!”
Nora and Cowra look bewildered at my plan.
“Do you think that makes sense? Even if we escape from Karaz, infiltrating the Pantherans again is just as difficult as escaping from Karaz?”
“Don’t worry, Cowra. I’ve made a plan.”
“You made that plan?”
Cowra’s eyes are full of distrust.
“Of course.”
Kaura, who was momentarily speechless at my shameless answer, opened her mouth again.
“… Okay, let’s skip that for now, but why on earth are you going to Pantheran?”
“You’ve heard that, right? They say there’s a space transport device there that leads to the outside.”
In fact, such information was circulating in Pantheran. Cowra must have heard it.
Of course, I don’t know if there is a real space movement device in the Panteran’s central palace.
Once the Sunni infiltrated, they could not find it.
But anyway, my goal is Helena.
It is premature to bring up Helena’s story with Nora and Kaura.
“Is it true that there is a space travel device? How did you know that?”
“It’s a trade secret. I can’t tell you until you escape.”
Even if I exercise my right to remain silent, there is nothing Cowra can do. She was just a follower of my escape.
“So… When do you plan on leaving?”
Nora, who was quietly listening to our conversation next to us, asked.
“I plan to leave within a week.”
“A week?”
“That fast?!”
Nora and Cowra are shocked that it happens faster than they expected.
“I’m sorry, but I hope you follow my wishes.”
Nora thought for a moment and then said.
“… Then, how about leaving on this Maseok convoy day?”
“Maseok convoy? Why?”
“It’s the same with the hasty resumption of the magic stone convoy this time… It seems like the military has something up to it. Wouldn’t it be better to take advantage of the military’s attention being focused on that and escape from Karaz?”
Nora’s opinion was valid.
The convoy of the magic stone to the Pantheran will probably be within a few days of our escape.
If I asked Suni to adjust the schedule a little, it was not difficult to set the date.
‘Basmore… What are you planning to do again… Is it because of Sunni?’
Suddenly, a man appeared in my head.
It’s Laurent.
He remembers being seriously injured by Sunni.
“Have you seen Laurent recently?”
I asked Nora about him.
“Ro… Rang? Well? I heard he was seriously injured… But he seemed to be walking around fine again recently?”
“Then, is Laurent also participating in the magic stone convoy?”
“You don’t know that. It’s not from us. The company will take care of it, right?”
“…”
It smelled.
Could it be… Are these guys going to do the same thing as before?
Who do you think is a fool?
And Sunni was no longer in Panderan, and he couldn’t go there now.
In any case, Nora’s opinion was not bad.
Since he failed once, Basmore will also be focusing all his attention on that.
I accepted Nora’s opinion and set the time for escape as the night the Maseok convoy departed.
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「Suni: … I arrived at Pron without any problems. I think the owner can move as planned.”
The Bark family escape plan was proceeding smoothly.
The day of Karaz escape has arrived.
After finishing our last dinner in Karaz, I was waiting for Nora and Kaura, who would soon come here.
“Are you really going?”
“…”
“Gulp…”
Rania, Emily, and Nehru looking at me. A little tension can be seen on the faces of the three women.
The backpacks they are carrying seem a bit large for those of people running away at night.
Of course, she wasn’t heavy because she had physical strength that was incomparable to that of women on Earth, but it was a very poor outfit for escaping.
“Is that all you need to take?”
I looked at the backpacks they were carrying and asked.
“It’s a little lacking, but I have to lighten my body, so I can’t help it.”
“Put down your backpack.”
“A boat or a backpack?”
“…?”
“There are only things you really need?”
I think Rania thought I was going to check her bag.
They put down their bags despite hesitating at my instructions.
I put the backpacks they had put down into the inventory.
“Huh?”
Their eyes widen as they see the backpacks they put down disappearing before their eyes.
“Bah, what was that just now?”
“…?”
“It’s subspace.”
“Ah, subspace?! Mr. Bark. Were you a subspace expert?”
Nehru was surprised and asked me.
“Yes, you can think of it as something similar.”
To be exact, among my awakening abilities, inventory was a skill, but it is much easier to understand if it is called subspace.
“Nehru? Subspace? What is that?”
“…?”
Rania and Emily look at Nehru with expressions like they don’t know what we’re talking about.
“Ah, Rania and Emily, who have been living in Karaz for a long time, may not know. I don’t know the exact principle, but subspace refers to a space that is invisible in reality. Bark put our backpacks in that space. I think so.”
“Invisible space? That’s fascinating… There are people with that kind of ability outside Karaz?”
“Yes, but I understand that people with subspace abilities are quite rare. I understand that in Zephyria, the use of subspace is strictly regulated so that civilians cannot use it… It’s surprising that Bark had such abilities…”
“Ah! That’s why Bark said there was no need to prepare for escape!”
Rania seemed to have finally realized where my unfounded confidence came from.
“No… If you have that kind of technology, you would have told me a long time ago, right?”
Rania rolls her eyes and scolds her.
“I wish I knew now.”
“Could it be… That you didn’t trust us?”
Rania did not just pass over.
“Hmm… It’s not that I didn’t believe it, it’s that I was careful.”
Rania’s interrogation could not continue.
Because her guest came.
-Empty.
There was a knock on the front door.
It appears that other escape members, Nora and Kaura, have arrived.
“I’m going out.”
Nehru runs to the front door.
After some time, an unexpected uninvited guest was seen among the people entering the house. There should have been two people, but there was one more person joining.
It was the cloud.
The guy who treated me like a fool when he said I was escaping from Karaz came to visit me.
Is it because of Cowra?
But she couldn’t let me go alone, so I said she followed me…
“What about other Rebellion members?”
I asked Cowra where the other Rebellion humans had gone.
“I went on a magic stone convoy to Pantheran.”
It was strange to hear that Claire and that guy named Herman went to Pantheran to escort the magic stone.
The two go on a magic stone convoy, and the two try to escape Karaz. What kind of judgment is this?
“…”
There is no time to solve that question.
Although there was an additional-uninvited guest, we decided to leave.
I walked down the dark night street.
There is almost no movement of people in Karaz when the sun goes down. Besides, it’s almost midnight now.
The footsteps of seven people were heard especially loudly.
We can’t feel eyes paying attention to us.
Anyway, the magic suppression device on our ankles tells us our location, so the military doesn’t particularly monitor us.
“Where are we going? What are we going to do with the magic suppression device? If we don’t solve that, even if we escape, we’ll eventually get caught.”
It was Cloud who came along and flirted with me.
“Cloud is noisy. I never asked you to follow me. If you’re dissatisfied, just leave.”
“…”
Cloud kept silent at my scolding.
When I led the group and escorted Maseok, I headed toward the southern door that leads to the outside.
Originally, I was planning to secretly cross the barrier.
However, as Nora said, I don’t know what he is doing in Zephyria County, but I couldn’t feel Besmore’s presence in Karaz tonight.
What this means is that even if a somewhat strong force is used, it will not be detected. Although it is a bit drastic, I decided to use a more convenient method.
“Now, are you just leaving for a moment?”
Kaura saw me calmly approaching the metal door beneath the giant wall south of Karaz and asked urgently.
The wall surrounding Karaz had security sensors that immediately recognized Karaz headquarters when inmates approached.
“I told you not to worry. It was all planned.”
The cloud that was following me slows down.
His hand was holding Cowra’s wrist.
I felt the will to get out at any time if things went wrong.
I expanded my consciousness as I approached the gate. My expanded consciousness placed the surrounding barrier, including the metal door, within its territory.
Once inside the realm of consciousness, information inside the barrier quickly enters the head.
‘Soldier? Are you an officer?
Inside the thick barrier, I recognized two humans in a situation room-like place. It looked like a soldier guarding a guard post or guard post, or an officer on duty.
It’s already late at night.
They were sleeping stretched out.
I couldn’t feel any life other than them.
We did not secure the realm of consciousness to simply obtain information.
I used the powerful ‘power of deception’ within the expanded realm of consciousness.
My foot crossed a line that prisoners should not cross. The security sensor on the barrier instantly scans my body.
And the security sensor recognized me as a human being who had to pass through this place due to the ‘power of deception.’
-Okay…
The huge metal door of the barrier opens.
“Huh? What, the door just opens?”
I confidently passed through the gate of the wall and left Karaz, taking my confused companions with me.
