Chapter 48: The Smile Gradually Turns Sinister
“How does Young Master feel about the taste of the fish?” An suddenly asked afterwards.
“Mm, it’s very delicious.”
“That’s great. It wasn’t in vain for me to spend so much effort catching fish for Young Master.”
A charming smile gradually appeared on An’s dignified and pretty face, causing Muen to be somewhat absent-minded.
Although tsundere was terrifying, it had to be admitted that when An was acting like a normal person, she was indeed a beautiful woman with delicate features.
Moreover, her figure hidden beneath the maid outfit was also well-proportioned, no less than Selicia’s.
If I could date her, it wouldn’t be bad at all. Of course, the premise is that she has to return to being a normal person.
“By the way, An, it seems like you’re completely soaked. What happened?” Due to the dim lighting, Muen didn’t notice An’s unusual state until she mentioned it.
Muen then realized that she was completely drenched, as if she had just swum 400 meters in the river. Her usually meticulously arranged hair was sticking to her forehead, and there were also quite a few mud spots on her clothes.
This appearance was unimaginable for the usually meticulous An.
“It’s nothing, Young Master, just got caught in a bit of rain,” An replied.
“Caught in the rain?”
Muen frowned. “Since you got caught in the rain, why didn’t you go take a bath and change your clothes?”
“Because I wanted Young Master to have lunch as soon as possible, isn’t Young Master hungry?” An replied matter-of-factly.
“It’s okay to have lunch a little later, but what if you get sick from being soaked in the rain!”
Muen’s expression turned serious. “Hurry back, take a hot bath, soak for a while, change into warm clothes, and then sit by the fireplace for a while.
Just to be safe, it’s best to ask the doctor for some preventive cold medicine!”
“Young Master…”
An’s expression was somewhat stunned, but her cheeks visibly flushed. “You actually care about me so much, I’m so touched, I really want to…”
“Alright, stop being flirtatious, hurry up and go!” Muen interrupted.
“Okay.”
Feeling Muen’s rare warmth, An obediently nodded and quickly cleaned up the remnants of the food. Despite Muen’s repeated urging, An still meticulously collected all the fish bones and then left with them.
“Well then, Young Master, I’ll take my leave.”
“Hurry off!”
“Okay.”
Despite being scolded by Muen, An’s expression of happiness became even more apparent. She walked away briskly.
In the narrow and dim dungeon, silence returned. Muen watched An disappear into the darkness, his serious expression immediately crumbling.
Then…
The smile gradually turned sinister.
“Heh.”
“Hehe.”
“Hehehehe.”
“Sure enough, a woman in love will lower her IQ.”
“Opportunity, isn’t it right here?”
…
After making sure that An had truly left, Muen stretched his muscles and bones. Although he couldn’t move much due to the shackles, it helped him understand the limits of his current mobility.
“Indeed, the first step is to free my hands, isn’t it?” Muen looked to the side.
To completely seal off his movements, his hands were tightly shackled to the wall, forcing him into a crucifixion-like position.
This position rendered him unable to do anything, so he had to break free from the handcuffs on his hands.
“It’s okay, it’s okay,” Muen reassured himself, taking a deep breath as a long-held determination surfaced in his eyes.
“I’ve tried many times in the Dark Book Space, I can do this.”
With firm resolve, Muen pressed his right thumb against his palm, then exerted force!
“Click.”
Accompanied by the crisp sound of bone displacement, a severe pain surged into Muen’s mind, causing cold sweat to bead on his forehead.
“Hiss… as expected, even though I’ve tried in the Dark Book Space, this kind of pain in reality is still hard to endure.”
“After all, it’s a dislocated thumb.”
But fortunately, this pain was not endured in vain. After dislocating his thumb, Muen’s hand could indeed easily slip through the handcuffs.
TV dramas weren’t lying to me!
After successfully freeing his right hand from the handcuffs, Muen pressed his palm against the ground, aimed at the position, and then forcefully pressed down.
Crack.
The sound of bones shifting echoed once again, accompanied by another wave of intense pain.
“Hiss… damn it, getting bones set hurts even more than dislocating them,” Muen gritted his teeth, enduring the agony.
But he didn’t even have time to rest or alleviate the pain. After resetting his thumb, there were still bruises around the bone, and his hand couldn’t help but tremble, but he didn’t have time to worry about that.
He didn’t know when An would come back, so he had to seize the opportunity.
Muen raised his hand and, with trembling fingers, slowly retrieved something from his mouth.
It was the fishbone he had cunningly hidden under his tongue, narrowly escaping An’s detection…
The fishbone.
It was also his key to freedom.
Lockpicking Level 8.
Muen looked at the records in the Dark Book, feeling the fruits of his hard practice, and couldn’t help but show a faint smile of relief.
Father, Grandfather, and all the ancestors of the Campbell family, I misjudged you.
Your eclectic collection in the library isn’t entirely useless!
At least that book, “Unlocking with Fishbones: One Hundred Methods of Burglary,” is proving very useful now!
“Alright, let’s begin,” Muen took a few deep breaths to calm his nerves and steady his trembling hand.
He carefully held the fishbone in his right hand and cautiously inserted it into the lock of his left handcuff. His heart raced with anticipation. Success or failure, it all hinged on this moment!
…The result was even smoother than Muen had imagined.
Under his impressive Lockpicking Level 8 skill, not only were his handcuffs easily undone, but even the reassuringly large lock on the iron gate yielded effortlessly to the fishbone.
An seemed to have never considered this possibility. Despite her caution in not even providing Muen with clothes, she had never anticipated Muen learning such a miraculous skill as unlocking with a fishbone.
Father, Grandfather, and all the ancestors of the Campbell family, thank you once again!
You guys are a bunch of muscle-headed fools who don’t like reading. How great is that?
“I need to make a quick getaway,” Muen muttered to himself.
After unlocking the door, Muen cautiously stepped out of the iron gate. The light outside was dimmer than in the cell, with only a few meters away illuminated by a glowing stone embedded in the ceiling. Fortunately, it didn’t affect visibility much.
“This… seems to be some kind of underground storage room?” Muen observed the clutter around him, vaguely recalling where he was.
In the farthest corner of the Duke’s mansion estate, there was an underground storage room where the maids used to store various items.
Later, it was abandoned due to renovations in the estate.
Muen remembered exploring this place when he was younger. He had stumbled and fallen hard because it was too dark. He subconsciously touched his forehead, where he could still faintly feel a small scar.
“I remember that time. It was when An had just become my personal maid. She comforted the crying little me and rescued me from this place,” Muen reminisced.
“It was from that moment onwards that Muen began to rely more and more on An.”
“An was so gentle back then, like an older sister.”
…
So why did she become such a dangerously possessive yandere now?!
“I remember that time. It was when An had just become my personal maid. She comforted the crying little me and rescued me from this place,” Muen reminisced.
“It was from that moment onwards that Muen began to rely more and more on An.”
“An was so gentle back then, like an older sister.”
…
So why did she become such a dangerously possessive yandere now?!