Gowther tilted his head, frowning ever so slightly. "Baste... Dungeon?" he repeated what King had said. "Where they held Ban when he was captured." King muttered. "But it... it was shut down, wasn't it?" Elizabeth asked. "Yes. It was." King answered. "Therefore it would be an easy place to hold a hostage illegally." Gowther nodded slightly, pushing his glasses up his nose. "I suppose we shall go, then?" "If that is where Melodias-sama is being held, we have to!" Elizabeth burst out. Diane nodded in agreement. "We have to rescue Captain!". "So? What are we waiting for?" Hawk asked, and they set off on the Boar Hat's green pig. It wasn't long until the place was in sight.
-Meanwhile, in Baste Dungeon-
Melodias squirmed uselessly as his legs were revived so he could feel the pain. Turns out, a poison had been on the blade that would temporarily paralyze him. Flames flickered dangerously on the soles of his bare feet, threatening to light the skin ablaze. Finally, the threat was fulfilled. Pain seared through Melodias, and he cried out, kicking out his legs to try and extinguish the flames to no avail. They spread up his legs, burning away. The rag tied loosely around his waist turned to ashes, leaving his burning body exposed. He looked up longingly at the water, screaming in pain until finally he called out, "PLEASE! IT HURTS! MAKE IT STOP!" The water poured down on him. The chains binding him to the metal stake released him onto the pile of charred wood, the smell of his burning flesh reaching his nose. He tumbled down, pain flaring through him ever time his burned lower legs and feet hit something. He ended up looking up at Freesia, his usual torturer, with fear rather than defiance. "Finally... finally for once I was able to savor... a Sin begging for my mercy... oh... oh, that tasted wonderful." she licked her lips as if complimenting his finest ale at the Boar Hat. Disgust filled him... not only for the one who'd tortured him, but for himself for giving in and begging her for mercy. "Now, then. You will tell me where the other Sins are?"
Gowther looked through the crack in the door just in time to see Melodias, charred leg s and feet, looking up at a lady in strange bug armor as she ordered him to tell her where the rest of the Sins were. His bland expression turned to one of mild surprise as the obviously weak Melodias croaked out a feeble, "I told you no from the start..." The lady, who Diane whispered through the window was Freesia, pulled something out of the charred remains of logs that had recently been lit, judging by the smell of smoke and the glowing hot embers still lying there. A brand with the symbol of the Weird Fangs. Gowther, King and Merlin all reached to open the door at once, knocking it down instead as Melodias let out a cry of pain. Gowther quickly recovered, forcing himself to look on with a mask of calmness as Melodias attempted to pull away from the brand.
Freesia pulled the metal away from his chest, smirking in satisfaction and pressing down on the mark in his chest. "Hmmm... Four out of Seven Sins have come to his aid? Cute. Melodias, you have been quite the satisfying toy... and look at that. In your pitiful attempts not to reveal their location, you led your friends straight into my clutches." a cage fell down on Gowther, Merlin and King, though Gowther gave no sign he cared. Diane could simply knock the roof off the place and pick up the cage, or Merlin could use her magic, or something. "Captain!" Diane yelled in concern. As predicated, Diane knocked the roof off, but not to free them. She lifted Freesia, crushing Melodias's torturer's skull.