Kidnapped to Another World

KTAW Chapter 181

Chapter 181

Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out...

I keep trying to flex my muscles and exercise my body. I mix up meditation with various types of exercise while trying to stay on my feet. I am flexing the muscles in my feet while clenching my toes, fingers, and hands while going through the movements. It's partly that I'm afraid to touch this disease ridden prison's floor.

I catch glimpses of cockroaches occasionally but they are somehow afraid of the vampire smell and avoid our cell but swamp the other cells. There's the coughing of diseased inmates all around us in the cell block area, mostly faint but consistent. The halls are dim with the only light being given to the guards while they patrol. We're thankful for [night vision], a trait from the demon genes, me for mine, and her for hers.

Nothing is working. No matter how hard I try, I can't do anything about the shackles as I try different exercises and also go about testing the strength of the metal bond. I keep shaking at them but they are solid. I tried also seeing if there were things I could bang them against, until I remembered the prison guards patrol this hall.

I've even rubbed the skin on my wrists, and my wrists themselves completely sore from the last few days of trying to figure out how to get the shackles off. At one point I'd even resorted to the plan of having Mallory break my thumbs to try to squeeze my hand out but then I realized there was a safe catch mechanism that would have prevented that from working as well. And there was also the risk that Mallory would lose control of herself when breaking my thumbs, being able to smell my injuries and therefore blood by effect.

"You are kind of interesting and entertaining aren't you?" Mallory said. She looks like she's relaxing and sleeping except for those evil red eyes that glare at me. They glare at pretty much everything though, so it doesn't mean she's mad at me. In fact, she might be putting up a front of toughness because of the whole boss and prince candidate thing.

"I don't think I am. Why do you think that?" I stopped and said.

"Well you still haven't given up, but there's very clearly no way out. Even as a strong vampire I can't get through the thick metal bars of this cage. Also did you notice the bars on our cage are thicker than the other cages? And yet you still want to try to get out?" she asked while pointing to the front.

"You're right. This cage was modified recently to hold stronger predators," I noted.

"Yeah. I don't know if I should be insulted or happy that they flatter us," she said.

Then it got quiet after that. None of us feel like talking.

I need to get out of here. You aren't truly ever safe with a vampire. And even though she does sort of have the loli-ism thing going with nice big boobs I can't let that undermine my guard. And I have to keep working at the shackles.

For now I ignored her.

I'm concerned anything I say to her may subtle like, give away the fact that I feel trapped and helpless before her. I don't want her to think that way for fear of how it may change her loyalty.

But then...

"Don't you think you are just using up a lot of energy?" Mallory said a minute later while I'm still messing with the mana inhibiting shackles, that are preventing me from using spells.

"What makes you think that?" I said.

"Well you could just pass the time peacefully for now. We have as much time as we want don't we?" she said.