Chapter 390 – An Unwelcome Reunion
The dungeon of the imperial palace.
I felt like I had heard such a story in passing sometime.
In a secret place deep within the imperial palace, criminals who have committed serious crimes for which the death penalty is considered an overly lenient punishment are imprisoned.
Wolfgang thought it was probably one of the common ghost stories floating around the empire, but seeing it with his own eyes, he couldn’t help but admit it.
That is, it is a ghost story derived from fact.
—Gooooo…
Rusty iron bars showing traces of inestimable time. A dark and ominous energy flows out from that gap.
Wolfgang, who was silently watching the prison entrance with his arms crossed, asked.
“What on earth are we doing here?”
“It’s a sunspot. “It is a place where trash that has committed a sin so serious that death cannot atone for it is imprisoned.”
Then the official raised his glasses and answered casually.
Wolfgang’s eyes turned to his expressionless face. He was so young that you couldn’t tell his age difference from the outside.
He looks like a typical civil servant with a short and slim appearance, in complete contrast to the imposing appearance of Wolfgang.
However, isn’t it quite impressive for an answer coming from a man who doesn’t seem to have anything special about him other than his intellectual appearance?
I don’t know, but he definitely doesn’t seem like an ordinary person. After all, to take on an important position in the imperial palace at such a young age, of course you must not be an ordinary person.
Wolfgang’s thoughts on management ended there.
What was important now was the question of why he was in the dungeon, even receiving an emergency call from the imperial family.
“The reason I called you here is that the criminal inside is requesting to see you.”
Before Wolfgang could ask about it, the management spoke first.
However, after listening to the official’s explanation, my doubts grew even more.
“Do you mean me?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
Common sense tells us that Wolfgang was not a person who could be deceived by criminals who dared to request to see him.
Aside from his status as the princess’s fiancé, he is a high-ranking general in the empire. This made no sense at all.
Rather, Wolfgang chose to be cautious rather than show his displeasure. It was an order from the imperial family, not from anywhere else.
Of course, it wasn’t called because there was a good reason.
Wolfgang quietly stroked his chin and thought.
‘They decided to give me something in return for asking to see me.’
A criminal who has committed a serious crime worthy of being imprisoned in the sun, but at the same time, a precious body with enough value to be able to point out a person with influence over the entire empire and request a visit.
There is only one person you can guess.
After thinking, Wolfgang nodded and said.
“Okay… “Let’s go take a look somewhere.”
“Yes, this way.”
He was the official who guided him inside the sunspot while still maintaining a strictly business-like attitude.
He was a man who left a strong impression on Wolfgang in many ways.
‘What a strange person.’
At first meeting, it could have seemed rude to just do our own thing without even saying a word to each other.
It was not because he did not respect Wolfgang, but rather because he thoroughly distinguished his own role.
His own role is solely to convey the will of the imperial family. Acting as if nothing more or less than that.
Could it be that all people who directly serve the imperial family are like this?
—Okay…
While I was thinking that, the door opened with an unpleasant noise, and a vague figure wearing thick robes appeared inside.
The guard who guards this place. It looks like that to anyone.
As soon as Wolfgang met him, he instinctively realized that he was something other than a human.
A completely alien being that is neither human nor sub-human. He felt like he was facing a ghost. It’s probably something similar in reality.
Anyway, whatever that being was, it wasn’t that important.
Above all, Wolfgang has experienced too many things in his life to be surprised by such trivial mysteries.
By the way.
“Oh, you… “
“Do you know me?”
As soon as the guard recognized Wolfgang’s presence, he trembled and immediately lowered his head.
His attitude was so low-key that it was a little strange.
“No, no. You are an ancient being. I have never seen you, I don’t know who you are, and after today I will forget you.”
The jailer desperately denies him three times.
“I am just doing my duty. So please forget me too.”
Then he hurriedly began guiding the two inside.
At a sight that no one in the room expected, the official’s face, which had been as expressionless as a machine, finally dawned on him.
“What about the general… Who are you? The author is a person who never bows down even to members of the royal family.”
“I’m just an ordinary soldier who uses some strength.”
Wolfgang felt strangely cool at the official’s reaction, but he also felt a little uneasy.
Why is he always revered by such ominous beings?
If you think about all the people who showed suspicious reverence or favor to Wolfgang so far, they were all demons or something unknown.
Of course, it would not be directed at Wolfgang, but at the mysterious being sleeping in his mind.
It was not very pleasant to those who accepted it.
If he had been an adolescent around the age of fifteen, I would have said yes. Swallowing those thoughts inside, Wolfgang continued walking along with the guard.
—Roaring…
“Uh, uhhh… !”
“Don’t come closer… That means don’t come near me… !”
“The devil! The devil has finally come to devour us all! Oh, the nameless devil will be healed! Please eat me first!”
“Oh, world terminator! Please bring destruction that will end this suffering!”
The prisoners react very violently every time he passes by.
Everyone looked like a vicious criminal, but there were also a lot of legendary criminals whose names you might have heard of only in history books.
Everyone was busy bowing to Wolfgang every time he passed by.
‘No, what is this again…’ ‘
It was Wolfgang who felt unseasonably depressed.
It took several years for him to wash away the bad image he had created due to the numerous wounds and scars he received during the war and to finally be treated as a hero.
Among these vicious criminals, you are respected even if you just breathe.
It could be said that I feel a sense of skepticism about the life I have lived so far.
“…”
Not only was the gaze of the official looking at him gradually changing from interest to fear, but the fact that he was now breaking into a cold sweat was also not pleasant at all.
‘No, it’s not like that… ‘
If the atmosphere had been a little lighter, I would have tried to change people’s perception by telling a joke. Wolfgang’s mood became increasingly depressed.
“This is this place.”
And finally, let’s arrive at the destination.
Seeing the official slightly stuttering and taking a step back from him, sadness and irritation welled up in Wolfgang’s heart.
The destination of those bad feelings is the cause of this incident.
“What, are you really here?”
A demonic woman whose entire body is chained and tightly bound to a chair.
It was Ramiel.
“Nice to meet you, Nari.”
Her eyes were wide open, as if she didn’t expect him to come, and when she saw Wolfgang’s face, she naturally shrugged her shoulders.
Isn’t this a truly disgusting sight?
“You… “
Wolfgang clenched his fists and glared at Ramiel.
—Shock!
“Hey, hey… ! Don’t be angry… No, please don’t be angry… “
Immediately, Ramiel cowered her body.
Looking at her tail, her horn that had been cut off by him was still intact, and her face was quite gaunt, as if she had not been treated properly.
—I’m shivering…
Moreover, the sight of him being tied up is needlessly obscene.
It must have been her who called Wolfgang, but when she actually faced him, she desperately avoided her eyes and trembled.
Because her upper body is tied with chains, her large breasts are especially protruding.
“Ah, ah!”
That wasn’t enough, as Wolfgang got closer, the pattern engraved on Ramiel’s lower abdomen glowed red.
At the same time, it was Ramiel who started making strange moans.
“Huh… Yes, this is it…”
Although Wolfgang was looking at that with disgust, as if he were looking at an insect.
Ramiel, who was continuously moaning as if he had a fever, spoke without paying attention.
“I’m going to get better… First… Can you come here and touch me?”
“What?”
The expression on the official’s face as he watched the two from afar became even stranger.
