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Chapter 297. Underground Dungeon

In the central part of the oasis city of Radaja, stands the palace built by the waterside of the oasis.

Captured, we got taken to the dungeon underground.

In the damp and dimly lit stone dungeon, there are several cells.

In one of them, the three of us with another people were thrown in while still bound with ropes.

The desert warriors who brought us to the dungeon showed a somewhat sympathetic face behind the iron bars.

"You guys had a stroke of bad luck. Well, the girls' mouths were too foul. If they'd been a bit softer... Nah, wouldn't have worked either way. Once that magician girl of yours caught the king's eye, you guys were done for."

With a clank, the warrior shut the door behind the iron bars and shrugged his shoulders.

If I recall correctly, he was the one who looked bewildered when the king ordered our capture.

"If you think so, couldn't you have helped us?"

Yumitsuki snapped at the warrior.

The warrior chuckled self-deprecatingly.

"It's the king's command, can't go against that. I value my skin too. Aside from that, I'm starting to feel like taking a leak."

Whistling, the warrior went up the staircase, the exit of the underground dungeon.

The clacking of his footsteps on the stone stairs faded away, soon becoming inaudible.

We were left in the cells of the underground dungeon.

The three of us, Me, Fuune, and Yumitsuki, were seated on the floor with our arms and hands bound tightly with sturdy ropes for adventurers' restraints.

Active skills like magic cannot be used when our hands are bound.

Our weapons are stored in the [Item Box], but the skill called [Item Box] is also unusable when both our hands get restrained.

By the way, a notification for mission completion had appeared upon entering the cell.

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Special Mission, Arrested in the Desert City and Entered the Palace's Underground Dungeon completed!

Each party member gains 40,000 experience points!

Current experience points

Musou Daichi...... 1735904/1743010 (Next level: 7106)

Kodachi Kazane...... 1614036/1743010 (Next level: 128974)

Yuzuki Hotaru...... 1669651/1743010 (Next level: 73359)

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"That was quite a strange mission, wasn't it?"

"Yeah, really. But, Senpai, what do we do from here?"

"Well, let's see. It feels like anything could happen."

Though we intentionally got caught because of the mission, we didn't have a plan for what came next.

As for the adventurer restraint ropes, with my current strength, I could easily tear them apart if I wanted to.

Although they are very sturdy ropes, capable of withstanding even a level 25 adventurer's strength, unfortunately, I possess 2x that level.

After untying ourselves, if I retrieve the Spear of the Sea God from the [Item Box], we could destroy the iron bars locking us in the cells.

However, it's better to decide on our course of action before taking any action.

While I was pondering over various matters, Fuune brought something up.

"Daichi-kun, there's something that's been bothering me."

"Bothering you?"

"Yeah. The rope tying me up is surprisingly loose. It could easily come undone, not just for us."

"...? Did those warriors make a mistake in tying us?"

"Maybe. But the one who tied me up was the same warrior who brought us here earlier. And he said something strange to me in a low voice. 'I'm not into tying up women too tightly', he said."

"So, he made a pass at you, Kazane? Can I turn him into a rusty spear?"

"Senpai, Senpai, calm down. It's probably not like that."

That was the conversation we had, sounding remarkably casual for prisoners in a cell.

"Are you guys also imprisoned for a false crime?"

A voice, seemingly belonging to a young girl, came from somewhere.

In front of the cell where we were imprisoned, across the hallway, there was another cell.

In the darkness near the back wall, a girl sat cross-legged.

She seemed to be around sixteen or seventeen years old.

With tanned skin, long black hair, and deep green eyes, she was a beautiful girl.

Her clothing looked high-quality, but it appeared quite dirty.

That such a girl also got imprisoned here. We got taken aback, and I replied to the girl.

"More or less, yeah. What about you?"

"I am the princess of this country, Lulu. No, if my father has passed away and I become queen, then I'm no longer a princess, am I?"

"""The Queen!?!"""

The three of us echoed in surprise.