After Link, Yu and Yurine went outside. Sivina followed behind them.
"Kigaro, Lonu, Kahan." He called to the three Roarons standing guard outside their room. "Follow me."
In the dungeons of the Full Moon Manor, he wanted test his newly designed weapon before carnival.
"Sivina, take Ana and meet us at the entrance."
The dungeons here were not big. There were a few cells and a few prisoners inside. A blacksmith met Yu at the entrance to the dungeons.
"Here it is..."
The blacksmith handed Yu a wooden box. The box was too heavy for Yu to carry. After asking Kigaro for help, he opened the long rectangular box.
Inside the box was a rifle. It was a rifle Yu had designed and it looked even more primitive than the first rifles produced in the First World.
It had a long barrel and a wide grip. A simple mechanism was attached to the back of a steel rod. Since there was no gunpowder in this world, he had created a device using magic stones to fire the bullet.
When the trigger was pulled, the firing mechanism would hit the magic stone hard and detonate it, and the resulting explosion would push the front steel ball out of the rifle's barrel.
He examined the steel weapon and was again disappointed. It looked nothing like the weapon he had designed.
He placed a magic stone inside the gun and inserted a bead-shaped bullet through the barrel of the gun.
"Come here, step away and point that thing against the wall and pull that thing over there towards you. Once you do that, there will be a pardon for you and you will be free."
There was a risk of the gun going off and he wasn't stupid enough to try it himself. If it was going to explode in someone's hands, it would be better if it exploded in the hands of a criminal.
He gave the criminal the gun and retreated to a distance. The man didn't even realize what he was holding.
"Yurine, you build a windbreak in front of us, just in case. You," he called to the roarons. "Get in front of Yurine."
Yurine couldn't see anything and complained because the roarons were in front of her, but Yu wasn't going to back down. He took Yurine in his arms and closed her eyes completely. He didn't want her eyes to be damaged in any way.
"Yurine, the wind wall."
The prisoner began to tremble with fear as Yurine formed a wall of wind in front of the roarons to give her a third shield.
He had the intelligence to realize that he was about to do something dangerous while they were taking such precautions.
"Like I said, point that thing at the wall and pull the trigger."
The black-haired prisoner hesitated, but he wanted his freedom back. So he pulled the trigger and...
The steel of the rifle shattered as the magic stone exploded. The man's short scream was the last sound that came out of him. His face and neck were shattered by the blast of the rifle, his hand was severed and his dead body fell to the ground.
The other inmates were first shocked by what they saw, then the first inmate screamed and everyone started screaming.
"The body of the weapon is too weak, it needs to be strengthened and the magic stone needs to be reduced in size. Work harder and tidy up over there."
There was no need to stay any longer in this place with prisoners banging on the bars, or to examine the weapon, which was, in a word, a failure.
"It was already clear that he was going to die, the chances of us succeeding the first time were very low. At least I had chosen a death row inmate."
The death of a criminal for the sake of developing a rifle was a risk Yu was willing to take. If he had not given up on this world, he would have struggled with his conscience, but now he would have been more indifferent to the death of people because he would have undone all the deaths.
Of course, since the deceased was a death row inmate, he thought it was good that he died in whatever world he was in. He didn't feel the need to empathize with a criminal who deserved to die. He didn't care about the dead person.
They arrived at the gate of the Full Moon Manor with Kigaro and the two other roaron warriors who would guard them today.
Link was indeed gone and today Sivina and Ana were to guard them with the roarons.
Since Dimen had relatives of his own, he wanted to be with them if there was going to be a festival, and Link was absent, but otherwise the original cast was complete. There was even a surplus.
"Hi, Luna."
Yu was still wearing his butler's clothes, but because it was a festival, Luna had taken off her maid's clothes and put on festive clothes.
She had a pink, fancy dress. She wore red shoes under her frilly skirt and her shoulders were bare. She wore her hair up so that her ears and the nape of her neck were fully visible.
"Girl neck... no time for fetish... She's pretty, but... But... Anyway, don't let me spoil it."
Making her feel like her emotions were being toyed with would only increase his guilt. For now he gave her a warm smile. He thought that once they got Vermia back, she would enter Cornelia's service and be free of him.
"H-hi."
Luna was really an innocent girl. She had been trying to look pretty for Yu and now she was giving him shy looks.
"I cut up a corpse in front of the girl and it didn't do any good... Should I… No but… Maybe if Sivina says bad things about me to her, or she sees me with Link while doing gay thing… God no! No I can't doing such a thing please delete my brain history god so I don't remember what I thought."
It hurt Yu's conscience that those looks weren't meant to be seductive, but because she was truly embarrassed. Luna's cheeks were flushed and as Sivina looked at her and sighed, Yu felt a guilt he never thought he would experience.
"Huh? Hah? HAH!"
The sound of Yurine tapping her mana-transmitting foot echoed through the mansion.
"Yes, be jealous and cause trouble. Don't give your daddy away. If I have to refuse, I'll use you as a reason."
If it was someone she loved, she might have seen Yurine's jealousy and shouting as a real problem, but now her jealousy was working in his favor.
"Why are you looking at each other like that?! Yu! Explain this now! I order you to explain!"
"Is something wrong, young lady?"
"Are you kidding me, Yu! Of course there's a problem! Stop seducing girls! How many times do I have to tell you, huh? Enough!"
When Yurine used the word seduce, Luna's cheeks turned red and the look of pity in Sivina's eyes grew. Yurine was punching Yu.
"I'm sorry, young lady."
"Yes! You must! Apologize, of course!"
Yurine grabbed Yu's hand so tightly that it hurt and brought it to her chest and turned to Luna, who was watching them nervously.
"Don't try to seduce Yu too!"
She was now in the 'I don't want to give my father away' mode. Yurine had a right to be angry. She was thinking of offering him her mother and Yu suddenly flirted with a girl.
"You guys walk in the back! I forbid you to go near Yu!"
Yurine, still shouting, threw Sivina, Ana and Luna to the back of the group. She and Yu were going to lead the way and not let the girls get close to him tonight.