Aqua "helps" again.

"Kazuma!" Aqua hissed as he was startled awake again.

"Oh great... Let me guess, you got another plan to try and get my hopes up, only to dash them?" Kazuma asked in a deadpan.

"How rude! I've got a simple, but effective one this time!" Aqua huffed. She then tossed in a hacksaw. "We both saw at the bars until we make an opening large enough for you!"

"Problem... I can't reach the window," Kazuma deadpanned, even as he picked up the hacksaw.

"Not a problem!" Aqua asserted. She then whipped out a stepladder. "You can just use this!"

"Uh huh..." Kazuma droned. "And... How exactly were you gonna get it in here?" he asked, looking at the bars, which were too narrow to get the ladder through.

Aqua paused, looking at the ladder... Then at the bars, then the ladder again. Then... Well, you get the idea. "...be right back!" she shouted, dashing off with the ladder. Kazuma sweat dropped as he heard the guards and Aqua having a bit of an argument outside, Aqua trying to get the GUARDS to give him the ladder as some sort of outside gift. "No, seriously, Kazuma needs this!" she was saying.

"What could a prisoner possibly need THAT for, other than an escape attempt?" the guard demanded. "Hey, she's running away! Get her!"

"...and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what I'm supposed to save this dying world with," Kazuma stated in a dead tone, chucking the hacksaw back out the window. "Is it any wonder I have no immediate plans to fight the Devil King? ...fuck it, this ass of a lord is going to try and have me killed regardless, so I'm gonna take every opportunity to insult him to his face tomorrow and make this whole sham as much of an embarrassment to him as possible... Might as well get some enjoyment out of it..."