Mythran's Master Of All

Ren was escorted back to the cell and deposited with the other 3 criminals. Elerlyth still had the sad smile on her face but Ren smiled and sat down next to her again.

“How long did they give you?” She asked.

“For the murder? Nothing. They let me go because I was telling the truth.” Ren said.

The 3 of them had shocked looks on their faces.

“What are you doing back here, then?” Emanon said.

“I argued with them and I was sentenced to a night in jail for breaking and entering.”

“You... you argued over not being convicted?” Betrach asked.

Ren chuckled. “Of course not... I argued about how the system worked.” Ren took Elerlyth's hand again and smiled. “Thanks to you. If you hadn't pointed out how unbalanced it was, I couldn't have argued about it.”

Elerlyth's face lit up, from both the compliment to her intelligence and Ren's Aura, then she frowned. “Wait. You're happy about getting sentenced to a night in jail?” She said. “Are you feverish or something?” Elerlyth reached for Ren's head with her other hand and pressed it against his forehead. “No, it feels okay.”

Ren laughed. “I am kinda happy about it, actually. I mean, I can spend the rest of the night in here with you.” Ren thought that Elerlyth had blushed a little, but couldn't really tell. Her skin seemed to get a little darker around the cheeks, but that was it. Ren looked at Emanon and Betrach.

“Despite how we all got here, I'm glad I got to meet you.” Ren said. “I've been kinda on my own up until a little while ago and I had no idea that stuff like this happened.” Ren smiled. “I learned a lot tonight.”

Betrach snorted and Emanon laughed. Elerlyth shook her head. “You're actually glad to learn about this?” She said and waved her free hand around. “We're in jail! You might be getting out in the morning, but the rest of us...”

Ren nodded. “I know. You've all been kinda shafted by the system.” Ren stood up but didn't let Elerlyth's hand go. He activated Enchanted Eyes and looked at the window above their heads. There's the Protection rune... the Glyph of Hiding in Aimus' barn... wait, the Terror rune? No way!

Elerlyth could feel the rush of emotions coming from Ren, wonder, shock, and then anger.

No wonder I've never heard of any kind of jail break. When people do somehow discover there's a jail here, when they try to do anything, they're immediately terrified. There's another rune there... damn, I can't make it out. Ren activated Read Rune and Decipher. Okay, I can see the shape, but I don't recognize it. Ren looked around the cell, didn't see any other enchantments, and deactivated his activated enchantment abilities. I'm surprised they don't have some kind of barrier in here, though. Ren shrugged and sat back down.

“What is it?” Elerlyth asked.

“Nothing really. I'm just surprised at how this is all set up.” Ren said.

He didn't even try to hide what he was thinking. I felt his surprise just before he sat down and thought he wouldn't admit it. That's... refreshing. Elerlyth thought. “You look a little tired, Ren.” She said. “Why don't you lay your head down and take a nap.” Elerlyth patted her lap.

Ren looked at her in wonder. He'd watched anime where girls let guys do that, but he'd assumed it was something that boyfriends and girlfriends shared, then remembered he had seen other shows where friends did it as well.

“Are you sure?” Ren asked. “I've never done that before, but I've always wanted to try it.”

Elerlyth smiled and nodded. Ren scooted around to lay on his back on the bench and used Elerlyth's lap as a pillow.

“Oh, wow... that's comfy.” Ren said and looked up at Elerlyth's face. “Thank you.”

Elerlyth chuckled and Ren felt it through her legs. It was a neat feeling. Elerlyth stroked Ren's hair like she'd stroked the dire wolf cloak and Ren closed his eyes.

That feels really nice. Ren thought, took a deep breath, and fell asleep.

*

Several minutes later, Emanon approached Ren and knelt by his money pouch. Elerlyth kept stroking Ren's hair and shook her head.

“Don't.” She whispered. “He really is as innocent as he looks.”

“But... but it's right there!” Emanon whispered back. “He's got to have at least a hundred gold. Look at his clothing.”

“That doesn't matter. He's the only one I've ever met that didn't hate me on sight or shy away from me.” Elerlyth said. “I won't have him robbed after giving me such a gift.”

Emanon shrugged and walked back to his side of the cell.

“You really like the kid, huh?”

Elerlyth nodded. “I don't know if it's because of the way he makes me feel, or for treating us like we were normal.” She said. “He sat here half the night and just listened. He didn't judge us, or even say, 'how could you do those things'.” Elerlyth continued to stroke Ren's hair and listened to him breathe. “I think... I think he's pretty special.”

Bertach started to laugh and caught himself at Elerlyth's glare. “Not that kind of special... what special meant years ago. Exceptional. Unique.” She looked down at Ren and sighed. “I don't know who he is in real life; but in here, he's definitely someone to keep an eye on.”

*

Ren opened his eyes and looked up at Elerlyth's charming smile and smiled back. He sat up and rubbed his eyes. “How long was I out?”

“A few hours.” Elerlyth said.

Ren looked at her in awe. “And you sat here and held onto me the whole time?”

Elerlyth nodded.

Ren reached for her hand and held it. “You didn't have to do that.” He said and smiled. “Thank you for taking care of me.”

In the light, it really did look like Elerlyth blushed, even though her skin didn't turn red and just went slightly darker.

“There's a soldier coming down the stairs, Ren.” Teepo said.

Thanks, Teepo.

Ren let Elerlyth's hand go and stood up. He adjusted his cloak and ran his hands through his hair. “How do I look?” He asked her.

“Like the dashing hero that you are.” Elerlyth said and laughed.

Ren grinned. “Thanks. That's exactly the look I was going for.” Ren walked over to stand close to the cell door.

“What are you doing?” Elerlyth asked.

“Getting ready to leave.”

Elerlyth looked a bit forelorn, then realized what Ren had said.

“But-” She started to say and the room's door opened. “How?”

Ren tapped his ear, indicating that he heard it, but he meant that Teepo had told him. Ren had kept Teepo out of all the stories he'd told, too. That was a secret Ren intended to keep. Aimus had been an exception to that, and Lucy already knew about it. No one else needed to know. The soldier came over to the cell and opened the door. Teepo was on his shoulder.

Ren stepped out and turned around. “Well... don't just sit there. Are you coming, or what?”

The 3 of them had shocked looks on their faces, stared at each other, and then stared at Ren.

“Come on, you lot.” The soldier said. “I'm not holding this door open all day.”

The 3 of them jumped up and practically ran out of the cell. They stood near the wall, farthest away from the cell door as they could get without looking like they were doing it. Ren chuckled.

The room's door opened again and a different soldier brought in a well dressed man, still in his nightclothes. Emanon stared at the man as he was placed in the cell and the soldier holding the cell door closed it.

“Say... isn't that...” Emanon started to say and Ren smiled.

“Follow me.” The soldier said and the 4 of them did as they were told. Teepo hopped off the soldier's back and onto Ren's chest, then crawled up into the hood of the cloak. The soldier went up the stairs, out the back door, and around the guardhouse to the Armory. The captain of the guard stood there.

“Good morning!” Ren said to the captain, who nodded in response. Ren couldn't see the stares that Bertach, Emanon, and Elerlyth were giving him; but he could certainly feel them, and smiled again.

The captain of the guard opened the Armory and pointed to Ren. “You first.”

Ren nodded and followed the captain into the Armory and to the cabinet that held his things. Everything was returned, even the low quality short sword that he'd taken from the fake Mitchell.

“I still can't believe you're doing this.” The captain said, and indicated the others waiting outside.

Ren shrugged. “It would have bothered me to just leave them rot in jail.”

The captain shook his head. “You're really soft at heart, aren't you?” Ren grinned.

“I thought you were a magnet for trouble before... but now?” The captain said. “It's like you have a recipe for it or something.”

Ren laughed. That's because I do.

The captain led the way out and Ren stood there as Emanon went next. He came out with a few more rags to his clothes and several bulges that weren't there before. Elerlyth went next and when she came out, she had a low quality bow and 2 small daggers on her hips. A thin armor plate was hooked around her bustier and 2 small plates were secured at the top of her boots. Ren's Vision of Impurity could see how weak the iron was and that it had several small cracks around the edges. Elerlyth stood next to Ren and he turned to her as Betrach went into the armory with the captain.

“May I?” Ren asked Elerlyth and pointed to her chestpiece. Her eyes widened and she looked around. The soldier was watching them as they stood there, but wasn't looking at them. Emanon was looking longingly at the trees and bushes nearby. You could almost feel his need to go and hide in them.

Elerlyth nodded, thinking that Ren was quite bold to ask to touch her breasts in public like this, and she blushed when Ren put a hand behind her back to steady her. When Ren reached for her chest, Elerlyth caught her breath. He's really going to do it!

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Ren ran his hand over the metal and felt all the bumps and scratches on the surface and shook his head mentally. Such shoddy work! How could anyone be happy with producing this garbage? Ren thought then ran his hand across the metal part of the bustier, right at the edge of Elerlyth's breasts. Her face turned an even darker shade that almost matched her lip color and she could feel how intensely Ren was concentrating on her. Ren didn't touch Elerlyth's skin, however. He massaged the metal and felt the imperfections and stress fractures. His eyes widened when he found a fatal flaw in the metal, right at the center of one of the breast pieces. Ren let Elerlyth go and got a popup.