Somehow, princess Alice managed to find the key to the prison door. So, he can get alen and grace out of there. He's slowly opening the main basement door. Checking right and left to make sure no one saw him.
But as it turned out, when he managed to get grace and lash out with the sneak out, prince Ken got in the way.
"Princess Alice, who are these?" asked Prince Ken.
Princess Alice chuckled. "Oh, yeah. They're my friends and I was just about to introduce you."
"Since when do you have friends from the dungeon?" asked prince Ken as if he knew everything. Princess Alice had no answer. He got caught easily. In his heart, his own fault was reckless. Meanwhile, prince Ken smiled with satisfaction.
***
Jerry's at the food house. Sitting with ichiro and jirou talking about things. He explained some things about the world outside the kingdom. That's been highly developed and there are no wars.
"Is it more comfortable there, Jerry?" ichiro asked.
"Not necessarily. There's also a lot of competition. Business, media, politics, we can't get away with it."
"I don't know anything about it," said jirou.
Ichiro chuckled. "You and I never had an education. So learn from the well-educated!"
"Whatever. I'm just living happily," blured jirou with pride.
"I moved here because I was uncomfortable," Jerry said with a sad face. Jirou and ichiro looked at Jerry with a gaze of pity. "My hard work, my achievements, was never deemed to fail to further education."
Jirou embraces and taps Jerry on the shoulder. "Calm down! We're here for you now. We'll always support you."
Jerry was happy to have friends like jirou and ichiro always beside him. Although, in his old place he also had two good friends. Thinking about it, remembering something.
"Jirou, ichiro, didn't I leave my friends with you?"
Jirou and ichiro are starting to panic in silence. Do they have to be honest?
Ichiro stood up with his throat. "Jirou, shouldn't we go back? Prince Edwin must have been waiting. He was lying. Trying to change the subject. It just made Jerry suspicious.
"All right! Let's go!" take jirou. When ichiro and jirou started walking, Jerry got annoyed.
"Wait!" he said with mendelic eyeballs. Ichiro and jirou are turned around simultaneously. Suddenly, Jerry kicked off the table, then grabbed hold of jirou's palace envoy's lapel.
Ichiro was shocked. "Jerry, what are you doing?"
Jerry glared at jirou's eyes. "Where are my friends?" Jerry hisses.
Jirou reflexively pushed Jerry to the ground. Jerry clearly lost because of jirou's big body. "Do you really want to know?"
Ichiro's trying to placate jirou so it doesn't let him escape. He held jirou's body from behind, but to no avail. Her little body was also driven by jirou.
Jirou looked closely at Jerry who was now harrowing his anger. "Your two friends are in jail! We reported to Prince Edwin! Are you happy?" shouted jirou with a loud enough voice. The shop owner made it out.
"What?" Jerry cried no less loudly. He immediately stood up and swung his sword at jirou. Luckily jirou was able to restrain the blade with the one carrying it.
"Are you crazy?" Jirou yelled again, letting Jerry go backwards.
"You're a traitor!" Jerry said it with great emotion. Then, attack jirou with a sword again. But there can be a margin until the sword in his hand is torn. Ichiro picked it up quickly and secured the sword.
"Listen carefully! Confession is not betrayal. Your friends are stealing in the basement. We tried to chase them, but instead met prince Edwin," Ichiro is trying to explain the truth.
Jerry began to calm down. "So now they're in jail?"
"Right! Prince Edwin forbade us to tell you.
Jerry felt his body go limp. She was devastated because her best friend was now in an unsafe place. On the other hand, she regrets telling them about the palace. Perhaps, he will continue to blame himself.
***
Back at court, Jerry could not imagine meeting the man who had once disrespected him enough, his father. In King Luis' Chambers, a few men were assembled. Grace and Elan were also there, standing next to princess Alice, also prince Ken. King Luis contacted his father after learning of the prisoner who was seeking release by his daughter.
"I didn't expect you to be in this place. Go home! Run my company," says Anton, his father.
Jerry put up an expression of dislike. "What for? Would dad's company go bankrupt without me?" he said. His smiling father now looked disappointed.
Anton pointed to grace and elan. "Yes. I asked them both to find you and bring you back. Instead, I was contacted by king luis because your friends were thieves."
"Bring them back, daddy. Dad sent them as stuff. Take it back like that." Jerry said that on purpose to get grace and scolding. Because there's no other way.
"What if I gave you a choice?" King Luis has been quiet ever since because of a conversation between jerry and Anton. Jerry immediately turned to her. "I will not allow your two friends to return home because they have stolen valuable things from this palace. However, in exchange, you'll have to replace them in prison if they both want you to free them."
Anton was surprised. King luis didn't discuss this before. But now I make that choice. "My king, apologies. But that's not fair."
"That's very fair!" asserts prince Edwin, who suddenly entered the room. Jerry looked at him in disbelief. "Theft of property in this palace is punishable. If they want out, someone has to take their place."
Everything has value. If you want to take something, you have to give it something equal. Jerry's dilemma now, his mind's a dead end. On the one hand, he wanted to free his two friends. But, on the other hand, he didn't want to go to jail either.
Anton looked at jerry with a serious look. "Just come home with me. Just leave them here. You don't have to take responsibility for their mistakes!"
His father's words made him angry. "I'm not dad! From the very beginning, my father abandoned me as if I wasn't your son. I won't sacrifice my friends for your selfishness!"
Princess Alice lags at Jerry's words to Anton. Still, he quite understood every word jerry said. He could only guess that jerry might be the one who ran away from home because of Anton. Just as princess Alice opened her mouth, Anton spoke first.
"You're a real jerk," hisses Anton.
"If you want to fight, go outside. I want to sit on this throne quietly," said King Luis, who was totally indifferent to the issues between father and son.
"Your Majesty, I have made my decision!" Jerry said with conviction.
To be continued....