Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 432: Vacation

Rienne gestured for the knights to secure Zach and his maids.

"I can walk on my own," Zach said, refusing to have his wrists tied. But Rienne didn’t say anything, and the knight insisted.

Zach punched the knight in the gut, collapsing their armor.

"I SAID! I can walk on my own!" Zach shouted at the same time. He looked at the knights who pointed at him with their spears again without so much as a hint of worry on his face. The only emotion he displayed was irritation.

Rienne narrowed her eyes. She sighed and waved back the knights. She glanced at the knight who needed help to get up.

There were better armors out there, and this wasn’t the most elite of knight squads belonging to the Imperial Family. But that was still refined metal that was supposed to protect the knights from attacks that not even their martial energy could.

Zach had dented that with his bare fist. She had brought the knight behind her because she had an idea of how strong Zach’s familiars were. She thought the knight would have been more than enough. She thought she had overestimated the maids.

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She might have been wrong since she forgot to take Zach into consideration.

Following Rienne’s orders, the knights didn’t touch Zach or his maids. Instead, they surrounded them with their hands on their weapons as they started to descend the mountains. The seemingly inconspicuous knight walked at the back, ready to act at less than a moment’s notice if Zach’s group tried anything.

Following them from far behind were Violina and the others.

Rienne thought Zach would question what was going on or why he was being arrested by the Imperial Palace. Maybe he would chat and try to fish for information by pretending like it was no big deal.

But he was silent as a mouse all the way to the bottom of the mountain range, where they had carriages waiting. He didn’t say anything even when she asked why he was standing on a barrier and floating forward instead of walking like everyone else.

She heard him talk a little with his maids after he entered their carriage, but she couldn’t hear what they said.

She couldn’t help but be suspicious. Shouldn’t he be questioning everything, wanting to know what was happening, and claiming innocence?

But she wasn’t in charge of questioning him. All she was supposed to do was bring him back to the capital whatever it took. Since he was coming along willingly, she could be considered halfway done with her assignment. She just had to reach the capital safely and then she could wash this off her hands if she wanted.

However, the return trip was not as easy as she had expected.

All the time, monsters crawled out of whatever hole or crack was nearby to attack them. She didn’t even understand where all these monsters came from. Individually, the monsters were no trouble for the knights she brought. Even she could deal with the monsters. There was also her special knight who could help if necessary.

But it took a toll on the knights’ minds to be continuously attacked, even if the attacks could barely scratch their armors. With the continuous monster attacks, the trip back to the capital suddenly felt a lot longer than it had done the other way.

Still, the Imperial Knights were elites of the Empire, and they only lost a day or two. They were still in time.

Zach was put in a fancy jail cell. It had a bedroom, a living room, and even a kitchen with ingredients. But he could not leave. The walls were fortified, the door was locked, and the cell was in a mansion close to the Imperial Palace. It was not that far from the Empress Dowager’s palace.

At least, Zach thought it was close, but he might be wrong.

Unfortunately, he didn’t have anyone he could talk to since the Palace had separated him from his maids and his maids from each other. And there was no way he was giving Rienne or the knights outside his room the satisfaction of talking to them.

Contrary to what Rienne thought, Zach hadn’t been asleep all the time. He had heard that his entire family was under suspicion of treason. That was a heavy crime to lay on one of the four founding families. It wouldn’t happen without reason.

Zach had no idea what was going on, and he didn’t think his family would leave him behind intentionally.

Something was happening, something beyond his control.

But with no information and not enough power to go up against the Empire, there wasn’t much he could do. However, he could control himself, and he could shut up. He would make the imperialists tell him what he wanted to know by making them talk as they tried to get him to talk.

However, they didn’t seem to have any intentions of forcing his mouth open any time soon. They left Zach alone in his cell for several days without so much as slipping a note under the door. The idea was probably to isolate him and make him worried since he couldn’t even talk with his maids.

It was psychological warfare targeted at the spoiled and social nature of a young noble and summoner reliant on their surroundings.

Zach was a little worried, but not enough for it to affect his mentality.

He had food. He had a decently comfortable bed. It wasn’t as comfortable as one he shared with his maids but it would do. And he even had books to pass the time with when he wasn’t sleeping.

But what helped him keep his utter calm was the experience he had. This solitary confinement that still respected his decency as a human and the son of a Duke could not compare in the slightest to the mind-numbing isolation he experienced after killing the Basilisk.

He had gone crazy during that.

Aside from not being able to leave his room and being alone, he was currently on vacation compared to that.