"Kallen, long time no see." Yae Sakura directly used the sword in her hand to cut down the prison door, then walked in.
"Sakura?! Why are you here? You shouldn't be here!" Kallen's shocked voice came out.
At this moment, Elysia also happened to run to the outside of the cell.
Hearing the footsteps, Yae Sakura immediately turned around and looked outside.
"Elysia..." After seeing who it was, Yae Sakura put away her sword.
"Long time no see, Miss Pink Fox." Elysia greeted her with a smile, then walked directly into the cell.
"Elysia! I knew you'd come to save me!" Kiana, who was lying on the ground, wiggled and stood up, then directly pounced towards Elysia.
Elysia reached out and caught Kiana, then put Kiana on the ground.
"You're also here to save someone," Yae Sakura said after cutting off the shackles on Kallen's body.
"Yes, after all, we can't just leave them, can we?" Elysia looked at the shackles on Kiana's body. "Miss Fox, can you help me remove the shackles from this child too?"
"Mhm." Yae Sakura drew her sword again.
After unlocking Kiana's shackles, Yae Sakura planned to take Kallen and walk out.
"Wait, Sakura, I can't go with you," Kallen said anxiously at this moment.
"Why?" Yae Sakura was stunned for a moment.
"Because this is my outcome. Although I don't know how you got here, Sakura, you shouldn't have come," Kallen said, shaking her head.
"What do you mean this is your outcome? As long as I take you out of here, won't that be enough?" Yae Sakura stopped in place, then turned around and looked at Kallen.
"I don't know when it started, but everything here is in a loop. I've thought about escaping, but I can't. Sakura, don't be here, please. I don't want to drag you into this loop as well," Kallen said anxiously.
"A loop?" Yae Sakura recalled the loop she experienced in Yae Village. Every time she fell asleep, she would fall into a loop and didn't know when she would wake up.
Then, after waking up again, she met Miss Aili.
She didn't understand. She should have died in that treatment.
But then she slowly woke up and has been following Elysia, unable to leave her side.
"Yes, a loop." Kallen smiled bitterly.
For her, this place was hell, where she could only experience being captured and then killed countless times.
"Is there no way to escape?" Sakura asked.
"No way."
"Cough cough, can Elysia interrupt here?" Elysia said, raising her hand.
Just now, she was listening to the two of them talk while also listening to Kiana recount her encounter with Kallen and their conversation after she woke up.
"Miss Kallen, in the loop you mentioned, have we appeared before?" Elysia asked, pointing to Yae Sakura and Kiana.
"No." Kallen shook her head.
"Then why can't you come with us and end this loop?" Elysia tried to guide her.
"It's useless, Miss. I've experienced this kind of loop countless times, and in the end, it will always lead to the same outcome." Kallen broke free from Yae Sakura's hand and sat back down in her original spot.
"You two should leave quickly too. I don't want to drag you into this loop," Kallen said, hugging her knees.
"What if we insist on taking Miss Kallen with us?" Elysia said, walking in front of Kallen and reaching out to lift Kallen's chin.
Looking into Kallen's eyes, "Oh, my dear Miss Kallen, isn't there still unwillingness in your eyes? Why don't you try coming with us?"
"Even if I go with you, I'll still be brought back. It's meaningless," Kallen said, tears flowing from the corners of her eyes.
She was also very unwilling, but she couldn't leave.
In the loop, she had also tried to escape. Grandpa Arthur had prepared everything for her. That time, she escaped, but the next day, she returned to the day she was captured.
She didn't know how many times she had tried. After realizing she couldn't escape, she already felt it didn't matter.
But in this loop, something went wrong, and she was able to meet a brave young lady, even though she initially fell from the sky.
And she could see Sakura. Now she was already very satisfied. Perhaps, in the next loop, she would never see Sakura again.
Elysia squatted down and hugged Kallen. After a while, Elysia let go, then reached out and wiped the tears from Kallen's face.
"Alright, Miss Kallen, your Sakura is still here, you know. Crying like this will leave a bad impression, you know." Elysia directly pulled Kallen up.
Yae Sakura also walked to Kallen's side at this moment. "Although I don't know what you've been through, this time I'll be with you." Yae Sakura said seriously.
Kallen directly threw herself into Sakura's arms. "Fool! Big fool! Why did you come?! You should have just let me bear all of this myself! I clearly told myself a long time ago! I would persevere! But! But why did you come?!"
Kallen burst into loud sobs.
Elysia walked to Kiana's side at this moment. "So, should we try to rescue this lovely young lady?"
"Of course we should!" Kiana said seriously.
"I didn't expect anyone else to come to this broken prison," a voice sounded from outside the cell.
Hearing this voice, Kiana immediately assumed a fighting stance.
"Be careful, Elysia, this is the person who knocked me out and brought me here." As Kiana spoke, the person outside had already walked out.
"Grandpa Arthur." Kallen lifted her head from Sakura's embrace and spoke to the person outside the cell.
"Is he an enemy too?" Sakura vigilantly watched the black-robed man outside the cell.
"No, he's Grandpa Arthur, he's... my family's butler, and also my teacher," Kallen quickly explained.
The person Kallen called Grandpa Arthur now took off his bird-beak mask, and his black robe was also removed.
Then, the face of a white-haired but very robust old man was revealed.
"I didn't expect you, Kallen, to have so many good friends who would come to save you," Grandpa Arthur said with a smile.
"Grandpa Arthur," Kallen said softly.
"Alright, since you've been rescued, hurry up and leave. Don't stay here anymore," Grandpa Arthur said, waving his hand.
"But Grandpa Arthur, if I escape, you'll..." Kallen said anxiously.
"Alright, Kallen, your Grandpa Arthur, I'm already half-buried in the grave. Being able to die in your place is already a gain for me. Besides, your Grandpa, I might not even die."
Grandpa Arthur walked directly in and reached out to push Kallen.
At the same time, he said to Sakura and Elysia, "I'll leave Kallen to you. Once you're out, find a place to hide first, because the entire city is now under martial law since this place was broken into."
Grandpa Arthur sat directly inside the cell, then took out a knife and sharply cut himself several times.
"Grandpa Arthur!" Kallen quickly broke free from Sakura and reached out to cover the wounds on Grandpa Arthur's body.
"No need to cover them, Kallen. I won't die. I know what I'm doing. Hurry up and leave." Grandpa Arthur pushed Kallen again. "That pink-haired young lady, take Kallen and continue deeper. I opened a secret door there when I came. You can just walk straight out."
"Thank you." Sakura thanked Grandpa Arthur, then pulled Kallen and ran out.
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