2705, Escape
Clang! A heavy iron gate slammed shut in front of Carl-Kestis. Then, with a sharp hiss, more than a dozen blood-red laser beams shot out, sealing the gaps in the bars.
Carl-Kestis slumped to the floor and stared at the gate before him.
Hmm, seventeen alloy bars and thirteen laser beams. Even if the power went out, they could still keep whoever was inside from getting out. How thoughtful. Carl-Kestis counted the bars at once, then realized he had nothing left to do...
The entire cell was empty. Aside from a bed built into the wall and a toilet in the corner, there was nothing.
Carl-Kestis immediately deflated. Tilting his head back, he lay down on the hard bed and stared at the ceiling.
He still had not dared to make up his mind to resist.
At the last moment, he had sealed the item inside the compartment beneath the floor and surrendered without resistance.
After all, the man's voice that night had been far too strange. He had lived in the Kingdom of Dawn for ten years, and barring anything unexpected, he planned to continue living there. There was no reason to give up everything for some inexplicable storage device and an equally inexplicable mysterious person, was there?
More importantly, he still believed in the Kingdom of Dawn's justice system. At least based on the news and cases he had encountered so far, the Kingdom of Dawn's laws were strict, but for the most part, they treated everyone equally.
Of course, there were privileged classes too—the prominent figures of those Mega-corporations. But even they would not go too far. Most of the laws they broke involved illegal experiments and the like.
Carl-Kestis believed that at most, he would be found not guilty due to ignorance, because he