Soru peaked around the corner where the main control center was. There, he saw another one of Madam Cherry's butlers and the last one on the list. Goos was supposed to be standing guard of the door, yet Soru was watching him slump on his chair with his green hair covering his eyes.
'Perfect.'
Goos by far was the laziest butler in the building always taking naps whenever he can. Soru observed this whenever Goos would supervise him and he would find him sleeping 5 minutes in.
The control room would usually have hired guards stationed 24/7 but since Gran was a guest currently, they upped the security a bit. That's when Goos was stuck in this night guard role promising Cherry that he would take it seriously. Obviously, that wasn't the case.
'I originally had a perfect excuse lined up to get him out of position but I just came up with a better one.'
He grabbed a small orb on the side of his hip and started to use Air Writing on the orb similar to how the other butlers would communicate with him.
"Hello, Goos? We have a situation in Madam's bedroom."
Startled by the beeping noise, Goos woke up with a jolt. Still a little groggy at being interrupted in his beauty sleep, he answered with a little irritation in his voice.
"What is it Soru? Can't you handle it yourself?"
"Yeah about that, it's Sir Gran's maid. She is insisting to go inside Madam's room and I don't think I can hold her back. She is being a bit aggressive, I need some help." The orb relayed everything back in text for him.
Sighing loudly back into the orb, Goos lifted himself off his chair in a huff and started to speed walk towards Cherry's room to get it over with. Hiding in the shadows once more, Goos brushed past him without realizing the opportunity he was giving Soru.
The moment Goos left his view, Soru immediately headed towards the control room and entered it swiftly.
'Sorry about that miss maid but you shouldn't have been wandering around the mansion at night!'
He ignored everything in the room and went straight for the desk but was a little surprised when he found out that it looked a little different from what he remembered. Not seeing the device that he saw earlier nor the drawer, he started to look around the desk.
Breathing a sigh of relief when he was able to find a button well hidden underneath the desk. After pressing it, a few hidden compartments showed themselves containing documents. He recognized his coworker's faces and realizes that those were documents of themselves. Moving them aside, he was presented with a map.
Studying the map for a minute, he was in awe of what he was witnessing. The map had the layout of the mansion in its finest detail and he can see one green moving dot going towards Cherry's room while three other dots were within Cherry's room itself.
'Amazing! This map records people's positions in real-time! No wonder they always know where I am."
He saw his dot as well sitting inside the control room. Seeing that Goos was getting closer to Cherry's bedroom, he put the map to the side and got the last thing that was inside the hidden compartment.
It was a tablet-looking tool, slick in design. Across its surface was all the butlers' names in order with an array of buttons next to each name. This was a standard slave tool that buyers would buy in order to keep their slaves in line. Soru was able to see a shock button, constricting button, and even the explosion button that Cherry threatened him with whenever he displeased her.
Looking past all he saw the free button that he so desperately wanted next to his name. Considering how easy this was to get to, the other slaves most likely never even thought it was here. After all, on the outside, this looked like a regular office that Cherry would use. A smart owner would have such an important item next to them at all times in their storage ring.
After freeing himself and relishing the breathing room that removing the collar gave, he looked at the other butlers. He considered releasing them as well, providing him an opportunity to escape by ensuing chaos. Most of them treated him either nicely or indifferent to his presence. Either way, it was a perfect distraction for him to silently escape. If they decided to kill both Cherrys then that would be icing on the cake.
The moment he released the other slaves, an explosion rocketed the entire mansion shaking it to its core. Soru struggled to hold on and after a while, the shaking stopped.
'What happened? There is no way they retaliated the second they were free?'
A little too curious for his own good, Soru slipped into the shadows once more and went straight towards where the explosion happened. Much to his surprise, it was located in Cherry's bedroom. Outside the room, Soru spotted Goos laying on the wall passed out with some blood coming out of his head. He didn't look dead but he wasn't waking up anytime soon.
The door to the bedroom was open so Soru peeked inside to see the commotion. Inside, Madam Cherry, Spindle, and Inca were half-naked with what looked like clumsy put undergarments on. Cowering in the corner from the ensuing fight, Wonder, who was also half-naked, and Gran was fighting a small girl.
'Wait wasn't that Gran's maid? Why are they fighting?'
As if Gran could read his mind, he asked the same question.
"Lily! What are you doing and how did you get this strength? Cease this nonsense and maybe I won't reprimand you so hard!"
'Lily' spat on the ground looking completely out of place once she stopped trying to disguise herself. Right before their very eyes, Lily started to morph into a taller more sleek male. He had a lax smile and an easy-going face. With his confident smile and minimal robe, the brown-haired man spoke while everyone stared in shock.
"Sorry to break it to you, but your Lily is dead. I killed her and pretended to be her so that I can sneak into this place.
"W-What? Lily is...?!"
"Save your crying until after your death. You should know that I am from Hell's Gate and there is a bounty on your head along with anyone else related to you. Be glad you only one of have whatever you call that thing in the corner.
Hearing the dangerous man refer to her, Cherry started to whimper excessively.
"Gran, you can beat him, right? Kill him right now!"
"I-Impossible! You are the Devil's Mask, aren't you?! What rotten luck to have someone like you as my opponent."
"Gran, stop ignoring me! YOU CAN KILL HIM, RIGHT? I DON"T WANT TO DIE!
Gran couldn't take his stupid aunt's cries any longer.
"Tssk, will you shut up you old hag?! Blue boy, can you still fight?"
Wonder was no doubt the strongest servant currently here at the Fourth Stage of Acceleration Realm, however, he shook his head in denial. He looked like a bomb had exploded right in his face with black spots everywhere.
"I-I took too much trying to stall him until you came here."
"Useless slave. Move out the way if you are only going to be a burden."
Soru was in shock with what transpired. Everything although a little chaotic was perfect for his escape. He didn't want to be here a second longer, after all, Wonder was at the Fourth Stage of the Hyper Acceleration Realm, one realm above Soru. If he took all the damage in a matter of seconds, then Soru could just die from standing too close.
Gran got into his fighting position while Wonder stepped a few steps away from the ensuing fight. Before the other guy got into his position though, he looked towards the doorway straight at Soru. Feeling a chill down his spine from the gaze, he turned back and hid behind the wall while sweat poured all across his body.
"It seems as if we have a guest, if you don't come out, I will be forced to get you."
Silence echoed across the room. The others could only guess who it was and their suspicions were correct when Soru revealed himself. It looked like he wasn't there a second ago then appeared like a ghost. Everyone was staring at Soru expectantly wondering why he was here.
"Wait...you can hear?"
Madam Cherry was the first to point out what was making her confused. Could he have heard all this time? How long has he been lying about his problem?
Giving her a sinister smile, he opened his mouth for the first time to talk. And with a few words, the entire room went into chaos.
"I disabled the collars. So now I am free."
It took a while for anyone to process what Soru had said. Seeing that Soru didn't have a collar around his neck, the other slaves looked down on theirs and barely noticed that the red beeping light wasn't there anymore. Taking off their collars was a surreal feeling. They never thought they would become free from this wretched woman in their lifetime.
Inca laughed with joy while Spindle just sat against the wall with a smile on his face. Wonder was staring at the collar in his hand with disbelief. Organizing his thoughts, his head turned towards Madam Cherry who was shrinking herself in the corner hoping to go unnoticed. She received a notification that someone opened her desk but she couldn't do anything about it in this current situation.
He dashed towards her with murder in his eyes preparing to kill her. Even with his battered body, that didn't stop him from exacting revenge on the ugly bitch that forced him to be happy when they did the deed. Shocked at the sudden turn of events, Gran also turned back and tried to stop him but was intercepted by the other guy who looked amused by the situation.
Leaping in the air, Cherry stood no chance to Wonder's cultivation level as he coating his hand in what looks like lightning and pierced her stomach. Gasping for breath, Cherry looked up at Wonder with a pleading expression. The reason he couldn't do this before was that if he killed her, the collar around his neck would explode along with the others sending their souls to the afterlife.
"Please Wonder, don't do this. I treated you so well, you were my favorite. You were always there and are the biggest. Don't tell me that you didn't enjoy our nights together as well?"
Listening to her words almost made Wonder puke. Her favorite? As if! Because she liked him so much, they did so many things that Wonder would never forget even if he was free. He would remember it forever and it will haunt him for the rest of his life. Shedding a tear, finally showing a drop of emotion after decades of servitude, he spat on her face with satisfaction.
"Rot in hell."
Coursing his Star Energy into the lightning in his hand, he yelled out for one last time.
"Electric Cherry!"
Lightning burst out of Wonder's hand piercing through Cherry completely. Removing his hand, Cherry's body flopped to the side with a giant hole inside her stomach and lightning dancing excitingly on her body.