Chapter 1:
“I don’t believe this!”
A voice echoed through the hallways of the stone-walled prison and was suddenly heard in the middle of the night.
Some disgruntled voices immediately answered with complaints. Most of which involved something that insults the person’s breed, or some usually unspoken body part, and telling him to be quiet in a very unfriendly manner.
Immediately recognizing his mistake, the prisoner shouted outside his apologies. More complaints echoed.
“Shut up!” A guard from above yelled. “Get back to sleep!”
The disgruntled prisoner huddled on his bunk. Sleep would not visit him for hours to come.
“It’s all that stupid lawyer’s fault… How could he not defend me properly… for such a stupid case, too…”
Somewhere far away from the prison....
Sangome entered the room. She was greeted by those who were around, and then went back to whatever they were doing.
“It’s a bit quiet now, isn’t it?”
“Yes, it certainly is. Not much people are around now.” Responded Allamorph, the resident Fairy Godmodder.
“Who are you calling a godmother? I’m not even female!” I said modder… M-O-D-D-E-R. Did I mispronounce it in some way?
“Oh, alright then… Anyway, have you heard the news, Sam?” Allamorph asked Sangome.
Sangome was very tempted to answer him with a facial expression. She does not like being called ‘Sam.”
“Yes, I did. The poor guy… He got tossed in jail. What was he in for?”
“Illegal possession of a cowbell, ” Allamorph replied.
“That’s all?”
“Also, attempted assault using said cowbell…” Allamorph grimly continued.
“Oh, I see.” Sangome said.
Desbreko, who was sitting in a corner, looked alive once again, and this time, has a cup of tea in his hands.
“Sorry about that, I was away – tea.” He smiled and sipped at his cup. “What did I miss?”
“Nothing much.” Allamorph answered. “We were just talking about the recent case.”
“Ah, yes, the cowbell incident…” Desbreko then patted Michi on the head.
“EH?” Michi replied.
Desbreko just smiled, sipped his tea, and went back to watching his Anime.
Jomz, who was counting the number of grass blades in the lawn at that time, approached Allamorph and Sangome and joined their conversation.
“Who got sent to jail?”
“You have not heard? What rock have you been living under?” Sangome asked.
Jomz pointed out the window… it was a huge rock just across the street.
“ಠ_ಠ,” said Sangome…
“Anyway, it was Shin. Shinmaru got sent to jail.”
“He got sent to jail on account of illegal possession of a cowbell, and attempted assault using it.” Spoke Allamorph.
“So, whose fault is it this time?” Jomz asked. “We can’t blame Shin on this one… after all, he’s the one behind bars…”
“The Attorney.” Allamorph said.
“Cheese Head,” Michiyo blurted out.
“Ace,” Sangome exclaimed.
“Great…” Jomz replied with great enthusiasm. “No, I did not! What kind of narrator are you anyway?”
Uh, *ehem*, moving on…
At that moment, Ace entered the room.
“You sure got nerves showing your face like that!” Sangome pointed at the attorney.
“What face?” Ace seems to be wearing some sort of Kamina mask that is beaming with pride and smiling at everyone. Allamorph snapped his fingers and a mirror appeared in front of Ace’s face.
“Oh, I forgot to take it off…”
After removing the mask and taking a seat, Ace explained the situation to everyone.
“There was nothing I could do. They got me by a technicality, so Shin was sent to jail.”
“What technicality?” Jomz asked.
“I can’t explain it that well in a way that people who did not study law could understand.”
“In short, you don’t know…” Sangome interjected.
“I blame the narrator!” Ace immediately shouted.
“Anyway, he will be held there for a day.”
“A day?” Everyone chorused.
“That was just too weird…” Allamorph commented.
“Yeah, even Adam spoke…” Jomz noted.
“More like twenty-four hours.” Ace continued his explanation.
“That’s not too bad right?” Jomz said. “I mean, it is just twenty-four hours…”
His comment on the matter got greeted with cold stares.
“Here’s the situation, little man…” Allamorph said. “Imagine yourself confined in a room, with nothing but walls and bars, and nothing to do but kill the time away… Could you handle that? And worse, you need to do it for twenty-four hours straight… You are not allowed to do anything…”
“So?” Jomz continued…
Allamorph was very tempted to turn this idiot to human ribbons… He was, unfortunately stopped by Ace and Sangome…
“Look,” Ace said, while trying to calm down the fairy godmodder, “just think of it as a very long time to be idle around here.”
“Alright, so we plan on busting him out, correct? And isn’t the prison just between that wall over there?” Jomz pointed at the opposite wall.
“Let’s just break it and drag him out of there!”
“We can’t.” Allamorph said. “That will be tantamount to breaking the site rules.”
”Huh?” Jomz, clearly confussed, asked. “How can breaking a wall be breaking the site rules.”
“Look carefully, you idiot.” Allamorph pointed at the title above the walls were some words were written. It read “SITE RULES.”
“Oh, I thought those were just graffiti…”
“You should not go off and be breaking the site rules…” Allamorph continued, “unless you want the Lady of the Otakudom be after your behind and putting you on ice.”
“If you plan on busting Shin out of jail,” Ace explained, “you need to find a way around the site rules. That way, you won’t be prosecuted. I’ll leave it up to you… I need to go…”
“Hold it right there, Ace…” Sangome held the attorney’s collar before he managed to get away. “You should help us.”
“Why?”
“Because, after the twenty-four hours are up, I’m sure Shinmaru will unleash his Lord of Moe powers on you for being the failure that you are…”
“Besides, we need to find a loop-hole that will not get us or anyone else in bigger trouble…” Jomz said.
Ace gave it some thought…
“Well?” Sangome asked.
“I think I’ll answer it in the next chapter.” Ace smiled. Sangome was very tempted to throw him towards Michi for a few million hits of poking…
