Chapter 42 : Redemption in the Basement

The scorching air seared his body; flames danced around him.
Burning, it was burning, everything was burning.

Under the pitch-black night sky, a little girl’s face was stained with blood. Her eyes were red, as if she had just cried a great deal. She reached out and tightly gripped someone’s sleeve.

Although her golden hair was covered in dust, it couldn’t hide its stunning color.

That man, so familiar yet his face was unclear.

“Where are you going? I have no home.”

“Father, mother, sister, they’re all gone.”

At this moment, the girl was all alone.

“Hey, will they really become stars, watching me from the sky?”

The little girl wiped her face with her sleeve, lifting her teary eyes.

“Ah, look there, isn’t that a triangle? The Summer Triangle… no, does this world not have such a name…”

“Hmm… a triangle, very bright.”

“That’s them. Because they became stars in the summer, they will always be with you in the summer.”

“When you feel sad, you might as well look up at the stars.”

“Always? Always and always? Forever and ever?” Although the girl didn’t know how long forever was, she thought it must be a very long time.

“…Yes, forever and ever.”

Hearing the man’s affirmative reply, the girl visibly cheered up. She covered her eyes with her hands, leaving only a slit, and stared at the night sky.

“Father! Mother! Daniela! I’m here, I’m here!”

She shouted towards the night sky, then, with downcast eyes, she leaned on the man’s chest and sobbed softly.

“If, if there really is a God in this world…”

What was her next sentence?

“Phew… phew… phew!” Schiller awoke from a restless sleep. He found his back already drenched in sweat.

“I feel like I had a terrible nightmare…”

As he awoke, the dream also quietly faded from his mind like a candle in the wind.

“But, I can’t remember the details no matter how hard I try…”

He tried to raise his hand to wipe away the sweat, only to find that he was still restrained.

“Depressing… so depressing!”

After that, not only did Sheryl bring him some suspicious-looking food at intervals, but she also made advances on him, followed by the process of feeding him medicine mouth-to-mouth.

However, when he woke up, there was no unpleasant sticky feeling on his body. Sheryl had probably washed his body herself.

Forget about escaping, his brain could no longer judge how much time had passed. He even felt as if he had been locked up for a year.

It was possible that not even a day had passed, or it could have been twenty years.

What if, when he escaped, he found that the outside world had turned into a cyberpunk world? So, so scary.

But the crisis of the world’s destruction was also tangibly approaching him.

If he couldn’t find the protagonist, then the story would develop exactly as in the original work!

“Damn it, I can’t really be a s*x s*ave here for the rest of my life, can I?!”

“No, that sounds so… painful!”

‘A man, must sacrifice himself for the country, and treat death as if returning home…’

“I really… really want to watch Yuri!”

The physical exhaustion was one thing, but the mental blow was the most important.

Sometimes, he even started to think that perhaps it wasn’t so bad to continue like this.

A decadent life where he didn’t have to think or do anything.

The long-term lack of Yuri had started to mess with his brain. He even started to fantasize that the shackle on his right was the top, and the one on the left was the bottom.

“The left one will be called Adachi, and the right one will be called Shimamura… you two will become great lovers!”

“Wait, wait…”

“With the leg irons, aren’t there four of them? Pink, red, yellow, blue, why don’t you just form a band together, call it the Chain Band.”

The sound of a door opening.

“Heh heh, Schiller, honestly, talking strangely again…”

As soon as Sheryl opened the door, she heard Schiller’s strange self-talk. These days, he would occasionally say things she had never heard before.

The meaning of those words and sentences, she didn’t understand at all.

However, she didn’t care much, just treating it as Schiller’s fantasy to relieve boredom. Although forcing him was not her wish, who told him to always think about escaping?

“It’s okay, he’ll get used to this life soon!”

The book said that once a man is spoiled too much, he will become a useless man, and can only rely on himself to live. That was her intention.

“Lil, it’s time to let me go…” Schiller said in a hopeless tone.

“The world will be destroyed… it really will be destroyed!”

Regardless of the Demon God, that Ophelia, she was a terrifying woman who had personally raised a world-destroying monster. That spider was also a very tricky mid-game boss in the game.

“…” Sheryl just sat down beside him, burying her head in his chest.

“Hey, don’t you believe me? What I’m saying is true…”

“Yes, I know, Schiller doesn’t lie.”

“Then! Why…”

“Mmm!”

She silenced him with a passionate kiss, making him swallow the words he was about to say.

“It’s okay, I’ll protect you. Schiller doesn’t have to worry about anything.”

“…”

‘Bad, so bad.’

‘I have to create a short gap.’

With that, Sheryl stood up. This time, contrary to her usual behavior, she didn’t feed him medicine.

Looking closely, her usually gentle expression also carried a hint of impatience.

“Someone from the main family is here. I have to go deal with it…”

“Wait for me, I’ll be back soon.”

Her figure disappeared outside the door.

“…She’s gone.”

“Could this be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?!”

“Time is tight and the task is heavy, one force and two points is to do, two horizontals and one vertical is to get it done!”

His strength was not enough to break free from the restraints, but magic was not in this category.

[Freeze]!

In this world, there was something called the laws of physics. Most objects would be damaged and become brittle at extreme temperatures.

With the release of silver-white magic, he also used [Body Enhancement] to strengthen his own power.

He forcefully used his hands, instantly shattering the restraints on them. Then, he repeated the process to break the restraints on his feet.

“Next, is to escape!”

Although he was naked, without even shoes… at least he had underwear.

‘Heh heh, Superman also always wears his underwear on the outside.’

Until Aileen returns, he couldn’t stay in the Viscount’s manor.

Fortunately, Celia’s book mentioned a “legendary secret passage in the basement.” At that time, he had only thought it was a rumor.

“Waaah! I miss you so much, Celia…”

“Aileen! Where are you…”

He sincerely thanked the two of them while fumbling for the mechanism.

When he touched a certain recessed stone brick, he was sure he had found the right answer.

“! Oh, oh!”

A clicking sound was heard, and a dark tunnel appeared in front of him. On the side of the stone wall, a mechanism was also installed to restore everything.

This would be a perfect escape.

Schiller thought for a moment. He went back to the bed. Under the bed was the book that Sheryl regarded as her bible, and the quill pen she had been using to write and draw on it… although the name was very strange.

He casually flipped open a page, folded the corner, picked up the quill pen, and wrote that sentence in the blank space above.

Then, he placed the book flat on the bed and crawled into the tunnel without looking back.

With the sound of the mechanism being restored, everything returned to silence.