Master, scream~?"
Tama muttered while pointing at a vent.
According to the map there's another floor below and the vent is connected to there.
--There's a prison below huh.
According to the map, there are numerous isolation cells with people with serious crime inside, there are also a lot of people with mental disorder and zero HP and stamina.
I have a bad feeling about this somehow.
I'd like to return without seeing it if possible, but I'd hate it if I felt hazy once I did that.
"Private Tama, go back to the surface first and secure the route."
"Aye!"
Tama followed my order with a shupin pose, and so I went to the cellar alone.
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"Help me help me help me help me help me--"
"Don't eat me, no don't! Stop it stop stop it--"
Among the scratching and grinding sounds, screams and shouts like they're from madmen are reverberating in the cellar.
It seems this dungeon has been sound proofed with magic.
--Rather than prison, I guess this is more like a torture chamber?
I go to the room in the back where some people who seem to be the guards are.
A man suspended in the air hanging from the ceiling and two jailers are there, there's a transparent wall between the two parties.
There's the usual emperor statue put inside the room where the man is.
"--St-stop it already."
"Of course I won't rite'? Did you stop when the 29 women you killed asked you to stop? You didn't rite'?"
The jailer who cut off the criminal's appeal lowers a lever on the wall.
The man who's suspended in the air hanging from the ceiling gets lowered and then the capybara-like animals below start munching on his feet.
Screams are echoing in the dungeon, the other criminals locked in their isolation cells begin to voice their resentments.
Apparently, they're using this place to carry out punishments and collect miasma.
"Geez, this is disgusting."
"Don't say that, the emperor decreed to instill 『Don't want to go into prison ever again』 and 『Not worth the crimes』 into the prisoners rite'?"
"Even if it's a national law, disgusting thing is disgusting."
I totally agree.
"Wish my transfer request gets accepted quickly."
"Thatsso? Executing justice on the bad guys, this is the best workplace for me though~"
Unlike the man who looks like he's going to get sick from the stress, the jailer who's been rhythmically operating the lever looks cheerful without a hint of stress.
It feels like I'll get mentally ill if I remain here any longer, so I teleport back to the top of the spire where Tama is waiting.
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"The way they're doing things is similar to Master if we exclude the science and humanity parts isn't it."
Once we got back to the solitary island palace, I told everyone the things we saw in the Weasel Empire's city, and then Arisa said that.
"Arisa, what do you think you're doing likening the weasels to Master! We're talking about weasels here, they must be plotting something."
Liza who hates weasels openly shows her discontent.
"However, their rationality is very like the weasels. You'd normally hesitate to do many things even if you knew they were efficient."
Hikaru seemed like she agreed with several things about the weasels even though she sounded disgusted with them.
As a former king, perhaps she thinks that the way they're preventing the people from starvation is acceptable.
"Creating monsters by their own hands.... Such an immoral act as if they've sided with the Demon God."
"Maybe there's a demon lord lurking in the shadow of Weasel Empire?"
Sera and Zena find the fact that they're creating monsters deplorable.
"Satou, perhaps that emperor statue can be used to control monster outbreak if we put it in a monster dominion?"
"Master, I support the princess's suggestion, so I inform."
"Nn, possible."
Nana and Mia agreed with the princess.
It's certainly possible.
The problems are the way to replace the emperor statue and to purify the accumulated miasma.
I'll investigate the manufacturing process of the emperor statue when I visit the imperial capital.
Also, Tama and Pochi who had been quiet were embarking in the journey to the dreamland with Lady Karina in the sunny living room.