Duke's wife

Chapter 121

"...... Your Excellency."

"I take care of my brother, my servants, and my maids."

With that, Arthur jumped on his horse. Then he sped straight to the forest path that stretched toward the capital. Then all the knights, except those under Lord Tor, began to pursue Arthur at once.

Lord Thor took Leon in his arms, turned to the remaining knights, Sally, and other servants and maids.

"...... Now, your Excellency has given us orders, so let us hasten the preparations for our return to Felix's Castle."

"The Duke will come to your rescue, right?"

One of the young maids, who had been trembling with fear a moment before, shouted at Lord Thor. He looked straight at the young maid who had asked him a question, smiled lightly, and replied:

"Of course you will."

"...... Yes."

"So we must make it safely back to Felix's Castle, so that when they return, we will be able to welcome them."

Lord Thor turned his head away from the young handmaiden, who smiled softly at his answer, and mounted his horse immediately.

He wrapped his cloak around his body and Leon's fallen body so that they wouldn't fall off. As if he had vowed to protect Leon's safety at the risk of his life. He gritted his teeth as he looked at Leon's broken carriage and Grace's empty carriage.

All that awaits Duke Felix and his knights is victory. He would surely find his wife and return to the castle of Felix. And then a new world will also open up.

With this firm belief Lord Thore, he rode toward Felix's Castle.

* * *

Like the petals of a flower fluttering in the wind, the shattered body was being put back together. Kidnapped by a demonic monster, Grace arrives in the dark underground.

The monster let go of Grace in its arms, swung its fingers in the air to summon a net, and bound Grace's wrists with it.

"Uh-huh."

Grace groaned at the force of her wrists and ankles and squinted around. She desperately needed a clue as to where this place was.

But apart from the stairs leading to the upper floors, the torches that illuminated the door, and the black stone door a few steps ahead, everything was so dark that I couldn't find the slightest clue.

As Grace surveyed her surroundings, the monster threw open the closed stone door and pulled her inside, her bound hands and feet.

"Now, let's get in. Offerings."

"Ugh!"

The monster's grip was so hard that her wrists were tightly bound by the rope, and she was dragged into the chamber.

Grace bit her lower lip in a sense of strangeness in the basement, with its walls of thick stone on four sides, torches at regular intervals, and a small bed in the center and a table with a long sword.

'...... There is no doubt about it. This is the place I saw in my fantasies.'

Grace looked away desperately, groaning at the monster's force as it forced her to kneel on the floor. Anything goes, and I wanted to find a clue to this place, or a way out.

But the monster chuckled and sneered, as if reading Grace's thoughts.

"There's no point in looking around with your eyes shiny like a rat."