Ch.155Season 2 – Please Open the Prison Door

As Xiaoling’s portal closed behind us, a completely new scene unfolded before our eyes.

“Where… is this place?”

“This is Shinan, Father.”

“…This is?”

Wait, wasn’t this just supposed to be some salt mining area?

A pitch-black tower reminiscent of a dark lord’s castle from a fairy tale, with purple lightning flashing and striking around it.

It made me wonder if this was even Earth. Yet apparently, this was still Korea.

“Um… well, I guess we should go in?”

“Brother, should we just destroy it right away, the two of us?”

“Yeah. Let’s do that.”

Well, at least we’ve arrived.

I was planning to go straight into that prison tower and cause some havoc.

That way, we’d naturally find the people we needed to rescue.

Just as I was about to start my kaijufication…

“No, you can’t! Father.”

Yurian jumped in front of me, desperately blocking my way with her arms spread wide.

“Yurian?”

“Isn’t our mission to rescue the hostages, not to fight?”

“Um… that’s right?”

“If you charge in recklessly like that, you might put the hostages in danger!”

…She has a point.

Maybe gaining overwhelming power has made me forget how to use my brain.

That could have been disastrous.

‘Come to think of it, our role isn’t just to demolish that place, is it?’

So what should we do?

Even if we wanted to sneak in disguised, there wasn’t a single guard coming out of the heavily fortified tower.

Plus, while it looked like a tower, the prisoners were actually held underground.

“I wonder if there’s some kind of back entrance?”

“Idiot. Do you think they’d make something like that in the world’s only prison?”

“Well, do you have any better ideas?”

At my question, Kang Mirae grinned as if she’d been waiting for this moment.

“Of course I do!”

“What is it?”

“Hehe. You think I’ll tell you for free?”

With that, the so-called holy maiden spread her legs in a vulgar manner.

“I’ll tell you if you come between my legs!”

“Ugh… aaah…”

“Haah…”

Yurian’s face turned red watching this display.

Since I was her father, I couldn’t damage my daughter’s dignity like that.

Thwack.

“…Huh?”

Instead, I went with what’s always been the remedy.

Bonk!

“Gyaak?!”

I answered with a heavy knock on her head.

“Want another hit before you talk, or will you just talk?”

“Ugh! Hey! Can’t you take a joke?!”

“No, what kind of adult makes jokes about passing between legs? Aren’t you embarrassed? Wait, are you really a holy maiden?”

“Y-you should be the embarrassed one! Why are you blaming me?!”

Well, because you started it first…

Anyway, we didn’t have time for this bickering.

So to help Kang Mirae come to her senses faster…

“Grrrr…”

“Eeeek?!”

I showed her Ria, who had been growling like a beast with blood-red eyes flashing behind me.

“You’re lucky it was me. If Ria had hit you, your head would’ve been cracked open already.”

“Brother… should taste between my legs first…”

“……”

As the kid grew from child to adult, the level of her comments seemed to have gotten more intense.

But it was effective. Kang Mirae nodded repeatedly and explained her plan.

“It’s simple! We have the imperial princess who built this prison right here!”

“…Me?”

“What are you trying to make Yurian do?”

“Simple, have this child and that white monster Ria take us in as captives.”

Kang Mirae’s plan was straightforward.

Unlike Leon or Shina, Yurian was just someone who couldn’t return to the empire because she failed her mission.

She could say she came to Shinan with us, human rebels, to atone for her sins.

Ria could pose as another child of future Ria, and of course, Jaewon and I would hide our identities.

“But what if they recognize our faces? Wouldn’t the plan fail from the start?”

“Oh, that shouldn’t be a problem, Father.”

“Really?”

“Yes. This prison tower doesn’t even have radio waves due to the surrounding environment. I learned at the academy that if you want to send any news here, a ‘messenger’ has to come in person.”

“So basically, information travels extremely slowly.”

“Yes, that’s right… Jaewon… sir.”

In the middle of the conversation…

“Sir?”

“Sir?”

“What’s with the ‘sir’?”

“…?”

Even though they’re family, Yurian still seemed awkward with Jaewon.

She was addressing him with the honorific “sir.”

But this was an issue for the two of them to resolve, so I shook my head at the two women beside me, telling them not to interfere.

“Anyway, shall we try entering that way?”

“I agree, Father. It seems like we don’t have any other options.”

“M-me too! I… I agree with Holy Maiden Kang Mirae’s opinion, Father.”

“Hmm… I’m fine with anything as long as Brother is okay with it!”

“So it’s unanimous then.”

“Hehehe. What would you have done without me? Come on, praise me!”

…Should I give her another knock on the head?

I thought about it, but she really did come up with the strategy.

Pat pat.

“?!”

“Yes, you did well.”

“R-right? You punk! You should treat me better normally!”

“Try not to swear in front of the kids.”

“Ah, right. Fair enough.”

You have to alternate between carrot and stick.

After praising Kang Mirae, I looked at the three behind us and decided to implement the plan.

“Alright! Let’s tie the three of us up first!”

***

Earth of the future.

The prison tower built by Han Shinwoo, founder of the Empire, to imprison all dissidents and rule through fear.

The Prison Tower.

While the exterior of the towering structure was impressive, the true value of this tower lay underground.

Its depth was approximately 1,000 meters or more.

Only Han Shinwoo himself, who built the tower, and the head warden knew its true depth. Neither the other guards nor even the prisoners who entered could fathom how deep it went.

The number of successful escapes was, of course, zero.

It was impregnable.

Even during the war with humans, this place never fell to any nation’s attacks.

That’s why it was also called the “Hell Tower.” And then one day…

“Huh?”

“What?”

After decades, unexpected visitors arrived at the tower.

“W-what’s that?”

One of the guards who was observing the entrance through magical devices serving as CCTV—where there was usually not even a shadow of a living being—suddenly spotted gorgeously featured female villains transporting hostages tied with ropes.

He immediately stood up…

“W-what am I supposed to do in this situation?!”

Since there hadn’t been a single incident like this since the war with humans, he frantically asked his seniors, but they were all new guards born after the war generation and didn’t know either.

“Huh? Is that…?”

Just then, the deputy warden entered the monitor room.

“D-Deputy Warden!”

“Unidentified individuals have appeared in front of the prison tower. Should we follow protocol and attack them with lightning as a preemptive strike?”

“…Have you already fired?”

“What? N-no, not yet…”

“Good job. Be flexible. If you hadn’t been, you’d be screwed by now.”

“What?!”

She praised her confused subordinates and said with a smile that she would go out herself.

“Open the door. I’ll go greet them personally.”

“The princess… I mean, Deputy Warden, you’re going yourself?!”

“Yes.”

“It’s been a while since I’ve seen my family’s faces.”

***

Meanwhile.

“Why isn’t anyone coming out…”

It had been about 10 minutes since we arrived in front of the prison tower.

By now, there should have been some kind of response, but there was nothing, and I was starting to feel uneasy.

“Is the plan failing…?”

“You shouldn’t be the one saying that when you designed the plan.”

“Ugh… hey, should we just go back?”

“No. Our images have probably already been captured by the magical devices around the prison tower. If we retreat now, we’ll definitely become suspicious.”

“So it’s like spilled milk that can’t be put back.”

“Yes, that’s correct… Jaewon… sir.”

“……”

“……”

“……”

This is painfully awkward.

The situation wasn’t resolving, brother and sister were addressing each other with honorifics, and as a father, I couldn’t imagine a more awkward situation.

“Haah.”

Is this really okay?

As I was looking up at the gun barrels on top of the tower with anxiety…

Rumble.

“Huh?”

“Oh!”

“The door is opening…”

With a heavy sound, the door of the prison tower, large enough for a giant to enter, began to open.

“Sister Yurian!”

“Sis…”

“ter?”

“?!”

A girl ran out quickly and jumped straight into Yurian’s arms, who was at the front holding the ropes.

“It’s been so long~. Do you remember me?”

“Uh… huh? Huh?! You, could it be Rio?”

“Yes! I’m now the deputy warden of the prison tower! Oh, I guess you wouldn’t know since you were still at the academy back then?”

Since she was calling Yurian “sister,” does that mean this girl is my daughter too?

As I was staring at the girl with black short hair and unusually pale skin…

“Brother…”

“Ria?”

“She seems to be our daughter too.”

“Huh?!”

Another one?

No, another one?!

Another daughter with Ria?

‘How many children did you have?!’

I had started to suspect something from her pale white skin, maybe because I’d already seen so many children between Ria and me.

Honestly, it was a bit shocking.

Not that I was bothered by having another daughter!

Just then.

“Huh?”

“……”

My eyes met with my daughter named Rio.

“Sister, who are these people?”

“Ah, well… I failed to complete the mission that Fath… His Majesty the Emperor personally assigned me. So I’ve been temporarily exiled from the empire.”

“Huh? They exiled you for something like that? Our dad is even more of a stubborn old man than I imagined.”

…At least she speaks quite pleasantly.

“I personally like her.”

Jaewon, who was also being held captive beside me, voiced my thoughts.