I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 112

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Chapter 112

 

Mint kept watch outside the alley with Helios beside her.

 

“Didn’t I mention? The one we’re hiding from isn’t me, but that other person over there.”

 

“…You didn’t mention it.”

 

“Oh my, look at me. I must have forgotten.”

 

Mint muttered with an expressionless face and continued.

 

“There’s someone nearby who gives me a bad feeling. We can’t fight openly, can we?”

 

So there was an enemy.

 

“Did they follow us?”

 

“Not exactly. But they seemed overly sensitive to Kia. So I avoided them for now.”

 

It was someone who had been staring at people indiscriminately.

 

‘An ability that activates when eyes meet.’

 

As a result of Mint using ‘Mind’s Eye’, that person had the ability to see through Kia ability users or the amount of Kia.

 

In other words, a walking Kia detector.

 

While Mint could perfectly hide her own Kia, Helios was different.

 

Moreover, his latent Kia amount would be tremendous, so he couldn’t be seen.

 

Fortunately, they just needed to avoid eye contact.

 

‘Oh no.’

 

And the enemy happened to be on a path that would pass this direction, approaching nearby.

 

“Honey.”

 

Mint somewhat urgently grabbed Helios’s sleeve and pulled him. Startled, he braced himself against the wall.

 

The two faces drew close together.

 

‘Don’t look at the entrance.’

 

Mint whispered with her lip movements. Helios held his breath slightly.

 

The distance was close enough for their breaths to touch. Their eyes met. They were eyes with long eyelashes.

 

Thump thump.

 

Helios felt dizzy, worried his growing heartbeat might be heard.

 

“…Normal dates.”

 

After biting his lips briefly, Helios boldly leaned down.

 

“Don’t they also involve things like this?”

 

Touch. Their lips collided directly. Mint’s eyes widened for an instant.

 

The thrill and pleasure of having flustered his Master consumed his body.

 

Helios opened his mouth as it was.

 

What followed was a repetition of what had happened every night in their lodging.

 

Only after a long while did Helios pull away.

 

Mint sensed that the person she’d been watching for had moved away. No, they had moved away long ago.

 

‘What a sight.’

 

Before her stood a man who had turned as red as possible, even his chest visible between his shirt had turned red.

 

Mint slowly savored the moment, then set aside her regret and spoke.

 

“There’s a back gate in the village. Let’s go that way.”

 

* * *

 

Night is good for moving stealthily.

 

But the enemies would know this too, so their vigilance would be even stronger at night.

 

I boldly eliminated all traces of our presence, made ourselves completely invisible, and crossed over the back gate.

 

The result was successful.

 

No matter how much we traveled by carriage, my sixth sense, which could detect a wider range than ordinary Kia ability users, had sensed the pursuers.

 

But now I could no longer feel any presence.

 

After that, we headed toward our destination at a reasonably fast pace.

 

Halfway through, I used Kia to maximize our speed.

 

And during the few days it took to arrive, I taught Helios intermittently.

 

Unlike in prison, this was more intense, involving real combat. A method that pushed him to his limits.

 

Thanks to the compass containing Kia that Sergeant Steven had given us, finding the location of the rift wasn’t difficult.

 

Finally, I arrived at the location of the rift together with Helios.

 

“Here it is, our final destination.”

 

Helios gazed at the unfolding scenery with a tense expression.

 

As we went further north, massive Gray Rocky Mountains stretched out before us.

 

This place where ordinary people were forbidden to enter.

 

Above this deep land where no one lived, pitch-black holes floated gently.

 

Looking closely, the inside seemed as deep as the ocean depths or an abyss. Some ominous power swirled as if it would explode at any moment.

 

That was the form of accumulated Corrupted Kia. A ‘rift.’

 

‘What, they said it was a few years old, I thought maybe around 3 years…’

 

It looks like it’s been festering for 5 years, doesn’t it?

 

Since I had to go straight to the 70th Floor, the Warden must have chosen this after much deliberation.

 

Originally, he would have eliminated a safer rift than this.

 

But the appearance of the assassin had thrown everything off course.

 

“That’s the rift.”

 

“…”

 

“How is it? What’s your first impression?”

 

“…It’s not my first time.”

 

I tilted my head. Would an ordinary person have occasion to see a rift?

 

Generally, Corrupted Kia formed or encroached upon uninhabited lands in every corner of the Empire.

 

Since I didn’t know everything about the Male Lead’s past, I roughly accepted it.

 

“I taught you the purification method on our way here, right? Just do exactly as I taught you.”

 

Helios looked at me with a somewhat wistful gaze for a moment.

 

When I tilted my head at his inexplicable look, he said it was nothing.

 

“A rift is created when Corrupted Kia accumulates, and a rift is also something that must be eliminated because it’s dangerous—if left alone, it will move somewhere and explode.”

 

“….”

 

“Master really spends too much time on theory.”

 

“Oh my, this child doesn’t understand how important the basics are.”

 

“…Just knowing the core is enough. So, the method is to forcefully smash Kia into it and suppress it until it’s gone, right.”

 

“Master never used such crude terminology, but yes.”

 

“…I finally decided on a new title and can’t even use it for a day.”

 

“Hm? What did you say?”

 

I definitely heard it, but tilted my head at words that didn’t immediately register.

 

Because they didn’t fit the context.

 

Helios said never mind and shook his head. At the same time, blue Kia began rising around him.

 

I could no longer speak to him.

 

Because I could clearly see he was concentrating.

 

‘Like a priest.’

 

Priests who committed crimes also come to prison. They were masters at putting on benevolent faces as if they had made a pact, but.

 

“…Ugh, Boss. That bastard should just be killed. No, castrated.”

 

Their crimes were more vile than anyone else’s.

 

Anyway, despite that, it was ironically true that when priests, who were generally born with healing Kia, used their abilities, the sight was sacred.

 

But it was nothing compared to the scene unfolding before my eyes.

 

Noble and holy.

 

How many times had I used such words in this world?

 

To eliminate a rift, you must compete with purely refined Kia and the quantity of Kia.

 

The Kia that densely surrounded Helios and spread widely beyond came flowing like wind.

 

The blue Kia was like waves and like the sky.

 

It looked sacred.

 

‘How beautiful.’

 

I couldn’t help but think this unconsciously.

 

‘Focus on the rift.’

 

Helios glanced at me and got caught red-handed.

 

Rift elimination is different from using material-type or elemental-type abilities. It’s a battle fought purely with the quantity, strength, and endurance of Kia.

 

The first stage is to manifest all of one’s Kia externally.

 

But this was unfamiliar work for Helios.

 

Helios, who had reached his first limit here, gradually showed a flushed face.

 

“Ugh…. Haa. Haugh….”

 

His face reddened. It was different from when he occasionally blushed while looking at me—this was blood rushing due to physical pressure.

 

The special examination was, in my opinion, the fastest and most difficult trial that would make him one level stronger.

 

Kia is mysterious—after using all the Kia in one’s body, the vessel grows slightly larger and the amount of Kia also increases.

 

Afterward, it has a tremendous impact on using abilities, allowing overall growth of one or two levels.

 

However, using that entire amount is never easy.

 

Kia ability users are instinctively designed to be unable to consume all their kia in order to preserve life and maintain a body superior to ordinary people.

 

Ignoring this and squeezing out all kia involves tremendous pain.

 

The body screams in protest.

 

‘You’ll die if you do this, I won’t do it,’ it says.

 

Sweat drips steadily from the tip of Helios’s chin.

 

Watching this, I recalled the man who would climb on top of me every night and kiss me.

 

His face when holding back was always strangely alluring.

 

But his face now, biting his lips, was wrinkled similarly yet completely different.

 

His shirt was soaked through. Rougher breaths burst from his mouth as he sweated like rain.

 

His hand stretched toward the rift trembled mercilessly.

 

Whooooom!

 

The rift began to vibrate.

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