I had no choice but to accept the Demon King’s offer. Any hope that I might have some leniency from him was lost, and I ended up tossed in a dungeon shortly after that. not talking about a cursed dungeon, but a castle dungeon. I could call it a jail, but that word didn’t do the dark, muggy underground prison justice. Well, that was the plan from the beginning, so one could say that everything was going according to plan.

He had made me promise to sit through the wedding of Carmine, or I suppose it was the princess. Then, I was to declare to the people that the demons were uniting with the humans and that we were to surrender. It sounded like a fair deal considering, but I knew how this story ended. The demons began an aggressive campaign, conquering the north. I didn’t know how big Twilight was, or how many countries the Demon King conquered, but the bloody war he started continues until this day.

I sat in my cell, and when I was sure I was going to be left alone, summoned a few creature comforts from my Inventory. I had feared that their dungeon would have some kind of anti-magic spell or something. Maybe, the real Demon Castle did, but dungeons were bound by certain rules, and one of those rules was that it couldn’t trap or stop your progress. Technically, tossing me in a jail cell would break the rules of a dungeon. They could trick you, get you lost, throw enemies at you, make environments impassable, but they couldn’t just lock you up and keep you there.

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When the first dungeon I ever entered, Mina’s Dungeon, collapsed all those months ago, there must have been a means of returning to the surface. Since Mina’s Dungeon had a lot of Portal traps, one of them must have led up past the blockade. It was just anyone’s guess how. Thus, although I was shoved in this jail, there had to be some way out. I spent the better part of an hour looking, only to try the front door to find it unlocked. This dungeon was getting lazy if its big workaround was to just make the cell door lock break.

With my way out secure, I settled down. Now, it was just time to wait. During the wedding, when everyone was distracted, we’d make our move. If Bernard acted like his Demon Prince counterpart, he should use the opportunity to attack his father. The army would move in. I’d free Carmine in the chaos and bring her into the safe room to recover. Once the Demon King finished off the prince, Xin, Carmine, Garnet, and I would work together to take him out. Well, I had a feeling it’d be mostly Xin. Comparatively, the rest of us weren’t as strong.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t get any news from the outside. I just had to wait and hope the girls were doing their job. I did occasionally communicate with the princess, but I gained little more than well-wishes and more complaining about how the life of a princess was hard. I found I preferred the solemn silence of a jail cell during those times.