Seirei Gensouki's
Chapter 136: Escape from Creia pt2

「It appears that the redirect works very well. To think that we can leave the mansion easily ....

Christina surveyed the surroundings in awe while wearing the veil of her robe.

Whether it was the garden mansion or its surroundings, it was almost empty and could not even be compared to a few minutes ago.

Thanks to that even Christina-tachi who is basically a noob at the spy can easily escape from the mansion.

Seeing that they could easily sneak out of the mansion, the level of damage they would cause to count Claire's house would be greatly reduced even if they were captured later by chance.

And since they had already changed the color of their hair with magic tools, it would greatly reduce the chances of them being found just in case the army questioned them in the city.

Although Christina only had half hope on the plan that Rio suddenly raised, her hopes exploded over her expectations.

「Haruto will definitely do this kind of work. Let's go to south gate 」

「…………. . You sure have faith in his abilities don't you?

Christina looked at Celia with curiosity that put her trust in Rio.

「Because there is no reason for him to be unable to do such things」

Celia smiled awkwardly but had an apologetic expression on her face.

Precisely she became more confident due to the cooperation of Rio and Aisia but Christina-tachi had no way of knowing about Aisia.

「I saw ................... Then, let's be on our way so we won't let the opportunity it created pass by」

Although he was worried about many things, it could not help as they did not have any leeway for such thoughts.

If the soldiers concentrating on the northern block returned after some time had passed, the city's defense might increase.

Although the gate was already open in the morning under normal circumstances, with the situation that had just occurred, it was easy to understand if the soldiers severely restricted the gate's traffic since morning.

Of course that did not mean that there was no option to wait in the Creia fortress until the situation turned cold but the search force would increase drastically after this.

Now with the possibility that Christina was fleeing the city from the north gate, they might have to consider that the search party would reach outside the city.

Section 5

Stabilizing the vigilance of the surrounding area while hiding in the territory of the capital cheerfully only prevented the method.

Therefore they can escape from the city as long as they are not found by their opponents in the current situation.

So Christina-tachi decided to speed up their pace.

A few minutes after their escape.

Since most of the soldiers inside the fort were currently mobilized towards the northern block, they were at least able to find the soldiers in the southern block.

On the other hand, there are many civilians because the pleasure block is also located in the southern block.

In addition, it is noisier than usual because of a ball of light that exploded a few minutes ago but then, it was, Christina-tachi who had no knowledge of the normal situation of this block did not know about such things.

They were in no hurry to go to the south gate but walked with reasonable steps and then, their movements stopped.

「As expected, the gatekeeper is there. Next is what we will do to escape from this gate ………………. 」

Vanessa who was hiding behind the cover glared at the south gate with a sullen look.

The height of the fortress surrounding the city easily surpassed tens of metre―― Not a height that could be easily jumped by them with incredible physical ability magic.

They had no choice but to open the gates if they wanted to leave the city.

Fortunately it was thanks to the diversion on the other side, the defense of the south gate was sorely lacking.

And then Vanessa noticed that they could easily leave the gate.

"Too slow"

「……！

Suddenly they heard a voice from behind.

Christina-tachi trembled in surprise. When they turned to look at the owner of the voice, Rio was standing there in a black robe encircling his body.

「Yeah, that surprised me. That's an incredible footstep. Even Vanessa failed to realize it 」

Christina said so with admiration. After which, Vanessa showed a somewhat irritated expression.

Section 6

「It looks like you are very surprised by it. My deepest apologies for such an action 」

Rio apologized awkwardly with a wry smile on his face.

「Do not worry, it's reassuring. Although I apologize for asking this when you just came, do you have a method to pass through that gate? 」

「Let's take a break from the front gate. Since I messed up the north gate, this gate should be left almost empty 」

「It looks like you really caused a commotion at the north gate instead of」

「I should have said it earlier during our strategic meeting, right? Because distributing their combat potential by messing up some gates is a necessary condition 」

「This is indeed as you said but, it does not mean that concrete methods are taught right?」

Christina showed a slightly surprised face when she heard Rio say it with a wry smile on her face.

Christina currently has no strength unless she reaches 『Restoration』. It was something that even his pursuers knew well.

And then, the shortest route they had to take from the capital of Creia to 『Restoration』 was to use the highway leading to the northeast.

As long as the fact that she went from the north gate remained, Christina's pursuers would not hesitate that she fled north.

Sure, they might head to one of the four directions if they took a detour after leaving from the north gate but, that would also be suspected of being a diversion.

「Because we don't have time to explain the situation. Let's open gate 」 immediately

After saying those words in a tone as if he was just walking around, Rio went to the south gate.

「Eh ………. . Uh ………. 」

「Haruto will be fine」

Christina missed her chance to stop him because of Rio's extremely high behavior. He decided to watch the situation calmly after Celia convinced him.

「Oi, stop there! No one was allowed to pass through the gate at night. Open your hood and show your face 」

One of the two gate guards who noticed Rio called out to him.

「I have to go outside, no matter what. Can you let me through? 」

"No . Night traffic is prohibited by the command of the territory! 」

Although Rio looked like he was trying to negotiate with them, when the distance was getting closer to them, he closed the distance between him and the gatekeeper in an instant and nailed a knee strike to the stomach of one of the gate guards.

The body of the gatekeeper who received the knee strike was sent into the air and then fell to the ground like a sack of potatoes.

The other gatekeeper was looking at the scene with a dumbfounded face.

Section 7

「WHA ………. . B-BAST- ……………. GEH! 」

Rio was already an inch away from the chest of the gatekeeper as the gatekeeper tried to say something. The gatekeeper was blown away after the punch from his elbow landed on the chest of the gatekeeper.

He continued to enter the guard room without confirming if there were any soldiers left or not inside, and it turned out that he had found no one inside. Perhaps the stationed soldiers also rushed towards the northern block.

After confirming that fact, Rio exited the guard room and gestured for Christina-tachi to come over.

「I will open the gate. Please use this time to strengthen your physical abilities with magic or magic tools 」

「Understood」

Christina-tachi nodded at her with a tense expression as Rio reminded them of their plan.

「Two of you, take this sword. When the situation turns worse, protect yourself with that sword 」

Rio took the sword from the gatekeeper's sword belt and gave it to the two black-haired youths.

「Y-Yes .......」.

Although the two of them had remained silent thus far with tense expressions on their faces, it became even more tense after they received the sword.

「Then, I will open gate」

"Please"

Rio entered the guard room for the second time and fiddled with the necessary mechanism to open the gate. After which, a loud echoing sound echoed around him.

「Gate OPEN! 」

「WHY DID THE GATEKEEPER BELOW OPEN THE GATE? 」

The gatekeeper who was currently in charge of watching above the fortress was making a commotion when they saw that the gate was open.

"NOW! 」

Christina-tachi left at full speed after hearing Rio's signal. Rio also followed them from behind, the sixth step of them echoing in the center of the city in the middle of the night.

They might strengthen their physical abilities but that does not mean that they can slow down as they only get a little distance from their pursuers.

Thus they continued to run with everything they got until the view of the city stopped.

It seems their timing is too bad because it's right before sunrise. The eastern sky was starting to become brighter.