"AIKO! YOU BETTER HURRY UP! WE CAN'T HOLD THEM BACK MUCH LONGER!" Kenji shouted as he and Shinji were struggling to keep the barricaded entrance to the palace dungeon shut while a hoard of soldiers were attempting to break in.
"I finished a while ago!" Aiko said.
"Huh! WHAT?! THEN WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SO SOONER?!"
"I wanted to paint them, but couldn't find any paint down here!"
"GOD DAMN IT AIKO! YOU NEED TO TELL US THESE THINGS!" Kenji shouted
"LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS LATER, NOW EVERYBODY READY! ON THREE!"
"ONE… TWO… THREE!"
And the moment Shinji finished counting, he and Kenji and Aiko took their positions, letting the soldiers knock open the door.
*Bang*
*Bang*
*Smash*
"SURRENDER YOURSELVES AND RECEIVE YOUR …! INQUISITOR MUNETO?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
What greeted the royal soldiers upon entering the dungeon, was not, the brat disciple trio, but rather a very disturbing scene of a naked and crying inquisitor Muneto wearing qi suppressing handcuffs, and chewing on a ball-gag, while the interrogator Minoru, the man who was attempting and failing at torturing Aiko for information, was also naked, handcuffed and ball-gagged, while mounting Muneto's behind. In addition to this, there were any number of sex toys strewn around them.
After inquisitor Muneto spent an entire day inside the dungeon, people came looking for him, as he is quite a busy man. Officials he had a meeting with, his wife and concubines whom wanted to speak with him, servants and subordinates that needed to report to him. Not to mention they had another criminal they needed to lock up, until the execution date was set. So, of course, it didn't take long until someone realized there was something going on in the palace dungeon. Unfortunately, the dungeon only has one known entrance, hence, they had no choice but to try and break down the extremely sturdy metal doors.
They had speculated any number of scenarios. An escaped prisoner, a prison riot, a sudden malfunction in the door lock trapping the men inside. However, not a single one in the crowd, were expecting the answer to be gay sex, which of course it wasn't, but part of Aiko's escape plan was creating a diversion, that would grab everybody's attention, which this definitely did.
"Honey! Why would you do this to us?"
"YOU'RE TEARING THIS FAMILY APART!"
"I have no father!"
As the homophobic and/or betrayed family members were taking jabs at the two men being forced into this position via a body enchantment carved directly on to their butt and or genitals, Aiko, Shinji, and Kenji, alongside a large group of walking armor sets, left out the front door, then locked the crowd inside the dungeon from the outside.
*BANG**BANG**BANG*
"WHO CLOSED THE GATES! OPEN THIS DOOR!"
"You know! I can't believe that worked! I thought for sure at least one of them would notice us before it was too late!" Shinji said.
"Well, it's not like any of them was expecting to see that!" Kenji said, before leaning in closer to Shinji.
"Also, is it just me, or is Aiko starting to resemble the boss more and more these days?" Kenji whispered.
"Let's just agree to keep an eye on her, and make sure we never offend her from now on! If we are lucky, this is just a phase brought on by whatever she experienced down there, and she'll get over it eventually!"
"If you want to make out, then do it later! We don't have a lot of time!"
"WE ARE NOT MAKING OUT!" Kenji and Shinji shouted in unison.
Fortunately, most of the guards in the immediate area were currently locked inside the dungeon, or they would have already been surrounded by enemies, just from that shout.
"Keep it down! Please!" Aiko said, as one of her now mute golem ancestors who was currently possessing the armor golems handed her a black sphere made from rotating discs.
"Let's see, it's like this! Then one to the right, and, press this down, and what was it again? Oh, thanks! Now I just need to throw it right? Okay!" Aiko said, talking to the mute golems both through the psychic network and with her mouth.
After confirming she had done it correctly, she threw the glowing sphere as high as she could, as it suddenly got suspended in the air, emitting some bright lights that could be seen from anywhere in the capital.
"Okay! So how long will this actually take! Cause I have a feeling that they are not going to let us do this for very long?" Shinji asked, Aiko.
"Hm? 10-20 minutes, maybe? Depends on how quickly they respond!"
"Oh, and what happen after that artifact is done then?" The eye-patch man asked.
"Well, we'll win of-!"
Mid way through her explanation, Aiko froze as she saw who asked the question. She started hyperventilating again as she stared at him in silence.
"What's wrong, your highness! You didn't really think I wouldn't show up after such a display, did you?" The one-eyed man said in an amused tone.