Anchor, Stop Pretending, You're in Chaldea - Chapter 53

“Danger!!!”

Mashu immediately raised her shield to block the attack aimed at Elisabeth.

Plop.

There was actually a dull sound coming from the shield?!

Then, Mashu exerted force with both hands and slammed the shield heavily against the nearby wall!

Crash——!!!

With a loud noise, something fell from the gap between the shield and the wall.

“Squeak, squeak…”

The thing writhed on the ground, making an unpleasant sound, and finally turned into a pool of blood that seeped into the floor.

“…What is this thing?”

Mashu looked at this strange creature under the dim light with an incredulous expression.

“This is the familiar of the stalker! It was using this to attack us before. Kiyohime was also caught by the stalker while fighting against these creatures.”

Elisabeth’s face turned pale.

She had fought against these creatures, which resembled sea anemones but were covered in sharp teeth, together with Kiyohime. However, they couldn’t kill these familiars at all, and they kept multiplying.

In the end, Elisabeth was the only one who managed to escape.

“These are sea monsters summoned by the enemy Caster.”

Bai Qiu immediately confirmed the identity of these familiars.

Needless to say, Gilles de Rais was causing trouble again.

As long as he had the book of Prelati in his hands, these sea monsters would be endlessly summoned.

“Everyone, be careful as we move forward. There might be these sea monsters lurking throughout the entire castle.”

Then, Bai Qiu looked at Elisabeth beside her.

“Let’s find Kiyohime first. Do you remember the approximate direction of the prison cell?”

Although half of the castle had been destroyed by Mordred, prisons were usually located in the basement.

If Kiyohime hadn’t returned to her Heroic Spirit form yet, there was a high probability that she was still being held there, waiting for rescue.

Finding Kiyohime would increase their combat strength to some extent, as Heroic Spirits summoned through restraint were natural allies.

The more people, the more power they had. They could act accordingly when the time came.

For now, they could only hope that Mordred, Johanna, and Emiya Kiritsugu could buy them more time.

“It should be this way!”

After confirming, Elisabeth led the group and ran towards the corridor on the right side.

At the corner of the corridor on the right side, there was indeed a staircase leading to the underground. Elisabeth suddenly seemed to remember something and walked towards the lower level.

After continuing to descend for a while, the group arrived in a darker corridor.

The walls of the corridor were still adorned with rusty candlesticks, with candles that were only half burned.

The faint candlelight flickered, making the corridor even darker than outside.

At regular intervals on both sides, there were iron doors chained with iron chains.

Inside, it was eerie and terrifying, and eerily quiet.

“Yes, this is it. We escaped from here to the outside back then!”

Elisabeth’s memory gradually became clear, and her footsteps quickened.

Soon, they arrived in front of a prison cell where a large hole had been melted in the door.

“That’s right, I was locked in here! This door was burned by Kiyohime when she saved me. That girl, even though it was our first meeting, she always wanted to burn me with fire. She’s really a difficult person to get along with.”

Then, Elisabeth looked towards the dark corridor ahead and without hesitation, walked briskly towards it.

“Since she was able to come here before, it means she must have been locked up inside. Maybe this time, they’ve locked her up in there again!”

Before the others could react, Elisabeth had already started running towards the inside.

That idiot!!!

Bai Qiu immediately signaled Mashu and Martha to chase after her.

To casually run around in the enemy’s stronghold like this, no wonder she got caught.

At this point, they couldn’t give up on Dragon Lady, they could only follow and see what happened.

“Kiyohime!!!”

Not long after, Elisabeth, who had been running all the way, stopped in front of a prison cell.

In an excited tone, she shouted inside:

“Kiyohime, I’ve come to save you!!!”

Bai Qiu and the others soon caught up and saw a small space where a girl wearing a kimono was sitting in a corner, hugging her legs.

After hearing Elisabeth’s voice, she seemed to have some reaction.

“It’s me, Kiyohime. I’m Elisabeth, the one you saved before! Do you remember?”

Elisabeth grabbed the iron door and kept shouting inside.

After confirming that it was Elisabeth, the other person slowly stood up and walked to the front of the iron door.

In the dim light, the delicate face of a slightly fragile girl appeared in front of everyone.

“It’s you? How did you come back?!”

She looked at Elisabeth with some disbelief.

“You saved me, so of course I have to save you. That stalker didn’t do anything to you, right?” Elisabeth proudly introduced.

“These are the people who came to help you. How about it? Shouldn’t you thank me?” Kiyohime looked at Bai Qiu and the people beside him, showing a regretful expression.

“You shouldn’t have come…”

“What are you talking about? I’ll let you out right away.”

“…It’s a trap.”

“What?!”

As the prison door opened, accompanied by Kiyohime’s words, screams of unease came from the adjacent cells.

“Squeak——!!”

A large number of sea demons rushed out from all directions, completely blocking the narrow corridor.

The twisted and disgusting figures of these low-level familiars were everywhere.

“Senpai!”

“Master!!!”

Mashu and Martha immediately protected Bai Qiu from both sides.

Seeing this, Bai Qiu didn’t panic. If he hadn’t anticipated this situation before, it could only be said that his understanding of Gilles de Rais was not deep enough.

The warm and hospitable Bluebeard, Gilles, was not just a reputation.

But these were nothing more than low-level familiars. With Mashu and Martha, they should be enough to handle them.

“Squeak——!!”

In the darkness, these sea demons opened their mouths full of sharp teeth and attacked the group!

“Haah!!!”

Mashu immediately raised her shield and the sea demons were instantly knocked back. Those on the corridor were squeezed together and crashed into the walls, turning into a disgusting pool of blood and gore.

“Oh Lord, forgive me, Martha is about to unleash her Fist of Liberation!” Martha’s holy gauntlets radiated a sacred glow.

With one straight punch, the high-jumping sea demon was instantly shattered. In an instant, the second punch was thrown, directly hitting the sea demon and causing its entire body to burst. The sea demon hit by the punch winds also turned into blood.

Watching the battle of the two, Elisabeth and the weak Kiyohime also joined in.

The magic spear pierced through the sea demon’s body, and Kiyohime opened her dragon-patterned folding fan, unleashing blue flames that turned all the sea demons in front of her into ashes.

Before long, all the ambushing sea demons were completely eliminated.

The corridor was filled with blue sea demon limbs and the stench of blood.