“So..um..being a slave huh..what do you want from me though, really…?”

Sitting on the ground in front of a huge throne in which the queen lazed around in. Yuri asked tentatively.

“Hmmm..well for now, how about you do me a little dance.”

The queen said leisurely while messing with her long red hair.

“Eh. No way…”

Yuri’s sceptical gaze met with the queen’s curious one.

“Do it or I shall have you and that sword kid executed..NOW!”

The queen pulled on Yuri’s collar chain and forced her to stand up.

“Tch..damn you…”

Yuri began to move her body in a half hearted manner that barely qualified as dancing.

“Hahaha, what the hell is that, do you need to go to the toilet or something?”

Laughing loudly at Yuri’s stale movements and her red face.

“Well that’s fine, now come here.”

She patted her lap.

Yuri reluctantly walked over and was grabbed by the queen who began hugging and stroking her head.

“You are so cute my little slave…I’m going to have so much fun with you today..”

Yuri barely hid her disgust at the queens words and quietly submitted herself to be the queens plaything until she could figure out a proper plan.

—

The rest of the day went by with Yuri being forced into many humiliating situations, such as having to try out various frilly dresses, and dresses that barely qualified as clothing.

She was also forced to obey the queens embarrassing commands, who included but were not limited to, lifting her skirt and similar actions. Luckily the situation never developed to the point where Yuri worried about losing her newfound maidenhood, which made her sigh in relief at the end of the day.

The queen slept soundly on a large fluffy bed which occupied most of the room with Yuri serving as her body pillow.

After Yuri made sure the queen had fallen into a deep enough sleep, she began her attempt at escaping.

“I would rather die than live like this even a single day longer..” She muttered quietly so as to not wake the queen.

She began to slowly loosen the queens grip around her, taking just over an hour of careful moving and struggling as her grip was that of a bear.

After freeing herself of her captors embrace, she began to work on the lock that hanged on her collar. She had borrowed a few small hairpins from the queens head to unlock the lock. It didn’t take her very long to open the lock as this worlds locks were quite primitive compared to her worlds.

Finally free from the chain that bound her, Yuri began to look around the room for any items she could use. She felt quite defenceless without her dagger, until she saw a familiar sparkle in the fruit bowl nearby. It was her dagger which the queen had mistaken for an actual fruit knife and had put it aside.

“Thank you goddess of luck if you do exist in this world.”

Muttering quietly, she quickly pocketed the knife and hid it underneath her very revealing pink lingerie that the queen had provided for her. It was more of forcing her into it though.

It was a full on girls battle outfit for the bedroom, that revealed a lot of the body and even came with knee socks. Although she hated wearing it, she had to admit that the queen had good taste in that regard.

“No no no, can’t get distracted..”

She pinched herself and kept looking around for anything useful. All she could find however was the knife she already pocketed and a key that hung from the queens neck. Thinking it was important, she carefully extracted from the queen who was in a deep sleep and put it around her own neck.

Moving towards the door, she stopped and briefly considered slitting the queens throat before escaping, but decided against it as it would cause more trouble in the long run.

She put her ear against the door and listened carefully. She could hear the low mumbling of two people, presumably guard, that were directly outside the door.

Yuri could take care of them if she drew a few runic spells, but that would not only wake the queen but every other occupant in the castle. So she wisely decided against it.

“Situations like this demand a stealthy approach..”

She tried to remember the map that Delem had shown her when they were discussing the plan, she could roughly remember the location of the jail cell that Hikaru was presumably kept in.

Before she could do anything else, she grabbed an apple from the fruit bowl and drew a few runes on it, slowly putting it next to the queen. The runes on the fruit flickered and grew into a full sized image of Yuri, instead of like a hologram, it looked like an exact copy of Yuri, other than the fact that it didn’t move and just laid there looking asleep.

“Hehe..usually this spell only lasts a few minutes..but with a the addition of my new runes, it should last until the queen wakes up..should buy me some time just in case..”

She began to draw runes underneath the queens bed.

“Hmm this will hide my escape route for a while, hopefully. Good thing i bothered to learn all these random spells..”

She activated the runes once she was done. They gave off the typical red flickering glow that seemed to be associated with a broken spell. But which to Yuri meant, her spells had gone exactly as they should. A small hole appeared on the floor where the runes used to be.

“Perfect. Just big enough.”

Crawling into the hole, she found herself inside a small tunnel like area.

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“This must be something like air vents..”

She began to crawl through the passage that even she with her small body frame barely fit through.

Crawling around in the dark, she passed by several small holes as big as her fist. From which air seemed to flow into the tunnel. All the rooms on the other side were dark, so she kept crawling instead of taking an unnecessary risk.

She was finally met with a light at the end of the tunnel. Quickly crawling towards it, she jumped out the tunnel and into the light. When she quickly realised she was in a not so desirable situation.

Yuri was so happy to finally be out of the dark cramped horror movie like tunnel that she hadn’t bothered to look what was actually on the other side. The other side in fact contained..nothing.

To be more precise, it was where the fresh air was supposed to come from, the outside. But there nothing underneath Yuri, as she quickly realised that she was very far away from the ground.

As panic filled Yuri’s head for a moment before gravity began to pull her down, she realised she didn’t have anything to draw a rune on. Usually there was always a wall or the ground. This time there was nothing, she hadn’t even bothered to grab an extra fruit.

Quickly getting closer to the ground, her thoughts turned frantic and she realised that she did have one thing other than air. Her own body.

She began to frantically carve out runes on her left arm, spraying blood through the air. Just mere moments before she hit the ground. She swiped the blood covered runes and froze only a few centimetres above the ground. Then immediately falling on the ground face first, where she lay for a few very long minutes.

“….Never again…”

She muttered and got up from the bloody ground.

“From now on i will always carry some spells i make beforehand..never again..ah i better stop the bleeding..”

Drawing a simple healing spell on the ground, she completely healed her wound which wasn’t more than slightly deep scratches.

“Aaah..I’m all bloody now..”

She drew a water spell that Hikaru had used before. Which had ended up in a big hole in the wall when Yuri tried it. This time she made sure to not use any special runes and made a small stream for her to wash up.

Finally done washing up, she moved towards Hikaru’s location. Realising she was in the royal garden in front of the palace. She was lucky no guards had passed by when she was laying down. But they likely didn’t see her as it was so dark.

The jail cells in the palace were in the underground level at the back of the palace if she remembered correctly.

This time, instead of walking through the palace. Yuri simply snuck on the outside of the palace and walked around it untl she was at the back wall of the palace that led to the backside of the palace. Which wasn’t a particular hindrance as Yuri simply used the same spell as when she escaped the queen and made a small hole in the weak wall which crawled in through.

She saw a few guards patrolling in the distance.

Taking two fist sized stones from the ground. She drew some runes on them and threw one towards the guards after activating it.

It made a loud noise as it hit the ground, making the guards patrolling approach towards the source of the noise. The stone gave off a bright red glow and exploded into a mass of small lightning bolts that struck the two guard, making them faint, or die, Yuri didn’t particularly care which.

All she cared about was the noise the spell would make. Fortunately it was no more than the sound of a loud taser, which wouldn’t draw too much attention.

Running by the guards and grabbing one of their swords on the way. She made her way towards an iron door that was at the end of a small staircase leading deep underground. Yuri opened the door and threw in the remaining stone inside. The familiar sound of a taser echoed inside, accompanied by the sound of something heavy falling over.

Yuri walked in and found two guard laying limply, one still sitting on a chair while the other was collapsed on the ground.

Inside were a few very cramped cells, all of which were empty except the last one. In which a familiar raven haired man resided. Meditating quietly.

“Hey! Hikaru! Wake up damnit, i’m here to save you!”

She whispered loudly.

Hikaru slowly opened his eyes, which went wide as he saw Yuri in front of him.

“Yuri..how did you get here?!”

He appeared genuinely surprised that Yuri had managed to get to him.

“You better be thankful..i almost died you know. And i had to endure the perverted habits of the damn queen for a whole day..”

Sounding annoyed, she complained angrily.

“Yuri, you should have continued to wait with the queen. I was going to come rescue you as soon as i had meditated and gathered enough strength to break out of here!”

Hikaru sounded concerned about her as he said that. Yuri was however too busy trying to open the door with various runes to notice.

“Ugh..what the hell..none of my spells are working..?”

Her attempts at activating the spell she drew on the door seemed useless as the spell wouldn’t even activate.

“Ah yes..that’s because it’s made out of magic absorption stone.”

Hikaru stood up.

“Pass me a sword through the small hole in the door used for giving prisoners food.”

She quickly slide in a sword through the small hole, a second later the door was cleanly cut into four pieces from the inside. Hikaru stood with a bent sword in his hand, wearing the same clothes he had when he was captured.

“Hmm..these swords are no good..too weak..”

He threw away the bent sword while muttering.

“Yuri..i couldn’t tell because it was dark but…what the hell are you wearing..?”

As soon as Hikaru said that, Yuri realised that she was still wearing the revealing lingerie. She quickly moved her hands in order to cover herself while crying out in shame.

“Don’t look damnit! It’s embarrassing! A man shouldn’t be wearing these things..”

Yuri stepped back slightly while blushing.

“Well, it doesn’t matter right now i suppose. Since it suits you anyway.”

Yuri turned red at his words.

“Let’s get my sword back and we can leave this place..”

Hikaru approached a small chest in the corner of the room while kept blushing in confusion at his words.

“Ah there it is..” He took out a simple longsword, the same one he always had with him, and quickly tied the heath to his hip. “Well then, let’s go?”

—

Yuri and Hikaru stood in front of a fat, heavily sweating, fat man. Did i say fat twice? Who they knew by the name of Delem.

“Well then, previous king..I hope that our deal is still on?”

Yuri took out a pair of red panties and put them on the table in front of him.

Delems eyes went wide in disbelief when he saw the panties.

“You..actually did it!?” He exclaimed loudly.

“Well of course, wasn’t that our deal?” She raised an eyebrow “So now for your end of the bargain. Our information?” She held out her hand.

“Ah yes yes. Here it is.”

Delem took out a big stack of papers and handed them to Yuri, before quickly grabbing the red panties and giving them a deep inhale.

“Well then we shall take our leave..”

Slightly disgusted by the sight before her, Yuri wished to get as far away from the creature in front of her.

“Ah, don’t you want any of the items you didn’t use? It was an agreed upon bonus after all?”

The fat man asked with panties covering most of his face.

“That won’t be necessary..well then..nice doing business with you..”

They quickly left, with Yuri walking slightly ahead of Hikaru.

After they were a fair bit away from the fat man’s lair, Hikaru began to praise Yuri on their way back to the inn.

“I can’t believe you actually got the panties while you were escaping, that is something that takes a great amount of nerves!”

“Ah, i didn’t actually get the panties..” She winked with a mischievous smile.

“What do you mean, i just saw you hand the queens underwear over to Delem?”

“Ah that..” Yuri picked up a small stone and drew some runes on it. The stone grew and stretched until it became a pair of red panties, identical to the ones she had handed over to Delem.

“What, how..?” Hikaru exclaimed while poking the fabric “It feels real..?”

“Yes, well you know that illusion spell in runic magic? Well apparently if amplified enough, it can temporarily make the illusion gain physical form , but even with my magic and runes it’s something that lasts around a few minutes at best”

Yuri smiled sadistically as she heard the cries of a certain overweight man, echo in the distance.