We were placed in a room on the second floor. The room was heavily guarded. Earlier, I saw five knights stationed outside our room. When I looked out the window, I saw a large number of soldiers outside.
My phone and Kuti's vibrated. I opened it to find another message from 999. "King Majagada is foolish. I consider your task complete. Now you will assist the Order of the Knights."
"What about our parents?" I asked.
"They are safe. Don't worry," 999 replied. "Adventure freely, Thomas. Isn't this the world you wanted? Why are you concerned about something so simple?"
Kuti looked at me, "It seems we will be switching sides. But Grandmaster Indarto is very kind to provide us with a room like this."
The door to our room opened, and Grandmaster Indarto entered alone. "So, how do you like this room? Do you like it?"
"Yes. Thank you for the accommodations, even though we are on the enemy's side," I replied.
"No, no, no, you envoys of the god are not on the enemy's side. You were influenced by a misguided person," Indarto said, approaching me. "I'm curious, why did our beloved god suddenly let his envoys fall into the hands of a misguided person?"
"So, can you tell me how you were chosen to be envoys of the god?" Indarto asked, taking a chair from the dressing table and sitting in front of me. Hearing his question, I decided to lie and not reveal that we came from another world. I hoped Kuti would follow my lie if questioned separately later.
"W-we lived as ordinary kids until the day before Majagada attacked our city. God 999 gave us power. Then we were captured by King Majagada and forced to follow him," I replied.
"Hmm, interesting." Indarto now moved his chair to face Kuti, who was sitting on the edge of the bed. "And you?"
"The same. We were neighbors and childhood friends until Thomas and I received power from God 999," Kuti answered.
Indarto then approached me again and invited me to follow him. We left our room on the second floor. I was escorted to the first floor and then into the basement. This was it, further interrogation. I was taken to a room filled with various equipment.
"As promised, I will not touch your girlfriend," Indarto said, sitting me down in a chair and tying my hands behind my back with rope. "So, I will torture you until you become my slave."
Indarto hit me, but I held back my laughter. He was stunned when he punched my stomach and felt the pain himself. He looked perplexed and picked up a knife, cutting my thigh, but he ended up cutting himself.
"W-wait! You have this ability! Truly an envoy of the god!" Indarto panicked and untied my hands from the chair. He ordered the guarding knights to take me back. I glimpsed Indarto panicking over what he had done.
Back in the room, Kuti looked worried and immediately greeted me. "What did they do to you? Are you hurt?"
"No. But someone finally realized we are envoys of the god," I replied.
Indarto entered again, this time with a servant carrying food. "Ah, forgive me! You truly are envoys of the god! I apologize for doubting you. When you go to the sacred tree, please speak to God 999 to forgive us! We understand why God 999 sent his envoys to our enemies!"
Seeing Indarto's changed behavior, I was puzzled. He left us and closed the door. I sat beside Kuti, who was still on the bed. She checked my body for any injuries.
"I asked 999. The real reason he wanted us to help Majagada is that the Flokian Knights League had deviated far from their path. But he wants to discuss more when we get to the sacred tree," Kuti said, showing me her conversation with 999 on her phone.
I glanced at a request from Kuti to 999, asking for me to always be with her. I felt relieved to see that. I hugged her and kissed her lips. "Thank you. I'm very tired. I want to sleep."
"Sleep, I will keep watch," Kuti said, stroking my hair. I closed my eyes, listening to her hum a lullaby.
When I opened my eyes, it was already evening. I found Kuti also asleep beside me. I took a fruit from the basket of food Indarto had brought earlier and ate it. Kuti, hearing me, woke up too.
"It's already evening. I want to bathe," she said, yawning. "If not, I might just sleep again."
"Hey, eat first..." I handed her the apple I had bitten into. Kuti quickly ate and finished it, then lay back down, inviting me to sleep again.
There was a knock on our room door. "Sorry to disturb you, but I just wanted to inform you that the bath is ready for you."
"Grandmaster Indarto?" I asked.
"Yes, it's me. You can just call me Indarto," he replied.
The bald man was now acting kindly towards me, speaking in a soft tone. He sincerely escorted us to the bath outside his mansion. I let Kuti go first to clean herself, and then it was my turn. Since the bath was mixed-gender, Kuti's invitation tempted me, and I ended up bathing with her. Fortunately, this time there were no incidents. After bathing, we found two new outfits provided by Indarto. There was a note on top, apologizing and explaining that our clothes were being washed and cleaned.
"Wow, when he doubted us as envoys of the god, he didn't treat us like this," I said, putting on the clothes he provided.
After bathing, we were invited to tour outside the mansion. We were treated to a beautiful view of Indarto's vegetable fields. Our eyes felt refreshed seeing such a beautiful sight. The plants grew lush and healthy in this soil.
"Are these workers slaves or not?" I asked, seeing the workers in the fields.
"Slaves," he replied.
"Aren't slaves forbidden?" I asked again.
"To save costs," Indarto answered and fell silent.
"Isn't it against the god's rules to enslave our own people? Our people are only allowed to enslave other nations," Kuti suddenly asked.
Indarto remained silent and then led us to his farm. "This is my farm. Can you bless it so my livestock will prosper?"
Kuti and I stopped at the entrance of the farm. I let Kuti respond. "We don't know if we can bless it or not."
My phone vibrated, and there was a message from 999. "Don't bless. Don't touch anything inside. I'll come tomorrow to meet them."
"Hey, aren't you supposed to give us more explanations? Why is it like this? You said this is a game world and we were just having fun," I asked.
"I'll answer tomorrow," 999 replied.
I followed his message and prevented Kuti from entering. We decided to return to the mansion to collect our equipment and planned to escape from here. Along the way, Indarto kept asking us to bless his place, but I refused due to 999's orders and his treatment of the slaves.