I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 113

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Chapter 113

 

The second stage of the rift elimination process. The rift reacting.

 

Due to the nature of rifts, they react to massive amounts of Kia.

 

Because of this, the prevailing hypothesis was that when they were about to explode, they moved to areas with many people due to the large total amount of Kia gathered there.

 

And at this point, the rift begins to vibrate and the density of corrupted Kia it emits reveals the overall scale.

 

But…

 

I frowned.

 

What is this?

 

‘That thing, it wasn’t even a 5-year-old rift?’

 

This wasn’t the rift we had been briefed about beforehand. No, the location was right, but.

 

It was something that Helios absolutely couldn’t eliminate at his current level.

 

Rather, at this rate, he’d be swept up by the rift. The worst outcome that prisoners experience during special examinations.

 

He would merely become a sacrifice to eliminate one rift!

 

“Ugh, haah…!”

 

Helios must have felt his Kia being sucked in too. He seemed flustered by this situation.

 

No, he must have realized this wasn’t the proper process.

 

I had informed him of the worst-case scenario, after all.

 

“Tsk.”

 

In my hand was a recording device containing Kia. I had turned it on from the moment Helios activated his Kia.

 

Without delay, I floated it up into the air.

 

Though my memories of the previous world are quite hazy, that thing is a tool similar to a camera.

 

Something that records videos.

 

‘Getting the angle just right.’

 

In the blink of an eye, I was standing behind Helios. I skillfully adjusted the angle of the recording device floating in the air.

 

I wouldn’t be visible.

 

— Helios.

 

The moment I placed my hand on his back, he flinched. I spoke to his mind to prevent our conversation from being picked up by the recording device.

 

“…s.”

 

— Don’t speak, just listen.

 

I pressed firmly on his back. As expected. Helios’s body was trembling mercilessly.

 

— The rift you’re seeing is different from the one the higher-ups targeted. It’s much older and more dangerous. Eliminating it with your current ability is impossible.

 

Already feeling tremendous pain from releasing all his Kia, he was on the verge of losing control of his Kia as the rift devoured it.

 

‘I knew this would happen.’

 

When a Kia ability user can no longer control their own Kia and becomes a living rift.

 

It’s a precursor to ‘rampage.’

 

— But there’s no time to take another special examination, nor do we have the capacity to find another rift. If you fail, this is the end. However. At this rate, you’ll just be devoured and it’ll be over.

 

When I spoke bluntly, his body trembled finely. As if he had much to say.

 

I forgot the situation for a moment and let a small smile creep up before erasing it.

 

“….”

 

“Helios, are you prepared to die? Are you really okay with dying?”

 

Helios’s head shook weakly.

 

“I want… to live… and go. Together with… Master.”

 

A voice enduring pain.

 

— Right. Then you’ll have to endure a little more pain.

 

Kia flowed out from beneath my feet.

 

— It’ll sting a little.

 

Mint light. But before it could be seen by the recording device, it transformed into blue light and melted into Helios’s Kia.

 

‘I can’t help him.’

 

As long as that recording device is there, I can’t solve it for him instead.

 

But. If it’s just calming his Kia so he doesn’t go into rampage like this.

 

‘The special examination isn’t a trial meant for failure in the first place.’

 

If you fail, it can’t be helped. But at least they give you a precarious stage where success is possible.

 

So this test was wrong from the start.

 

— Helios, I didn’t tell you this because I was worried our disciple might get cocky.

 

I deliberately spoke playfully.

 

— You’re more of a genius than you think.

 

Sincerely.

 

In fact, that crack is just something the current Helios can’t do. If he grows, he’ll be able to do it.

 

— Honestly, you can’t even handle one-tenth of the Kia you possess.

 

He doesn’t know his own power.

 

When I first saw him, he’ll probably never know that even I, who rarely gets surprised, was amazed by his overwhelming amount and potential ability.

 

— So this time, let’s try raising it to one-fourth.

 

I pressed firmly on his back.

 

— Don’t die.

 

I want to have him, I don’t want to let him go, and it’s troublesome.

 

Even so, I have to leave. Because getting out is my only goal.

 

“I feel… weak…”

 

His trembling subsided just a little. I saw even more Kia bursting out from his body, which I thought had finished.

 

A Kia ability user’s growth is like an insect’s molting. You must shed your shell for the next growth to occur.

 

Whooooom!

 

Helios was standing still in the middle of that process.

 

“…I still… think it’s good… to learn… guns.”

 

“You said you wanted to learn guns?”

 

“Are you still unchanged in that thought?”

 

Laughter flowed out at his voice that sounded squeezed out. To say such things in the middle of all this.

 

As expected, the Male Lead is different from the very beginning.

 

— If we survive safely, I’ll think about it.

 

I whispered softly to his voice while looking at his broad back.

 

— Showing your real face.

 

Ridiculously, at that moment Helios’s Kia increased as if it would explode.

 

Yet it remained stable.

 

* * *

 

My whole body feels like it’s being torn apart.

 

Where exactly is the end of this fight? I want to give up. I want to be at ease.

 

I want to lie down like this and close my eyes forever…

 

‘Don’t be ridiculous.’

 

Helios shouted. He mocked himself. Give up after coming this far?

 

That can’t happen.

 

For whose sake would I die young here?

 

Master’s words were right. Inside him remained enormous Kia that even he himself didn’t know about.

 

He could feel the pulsating Kia. If only he could safely resolve this rift today. He would become completely different from who he had been until now.

 

He could tell for himself.

 

However, because he had released all his Kia for a long time, his blood vessels had expanded. Indescribable enormous pain struck him down.

 

Helios gritted his teeth.

 

In the midst of this, that Master should have been gently cheering on her disciple, but instead she provoked him.

 

— If you can’t do it, there’s nothing we can do.

 

She really was a bad person.

 

His vision was getting hazy. The Kia that had surged before his growth didn’t feel like his own at all.

 

It tried to move on its own. He wanted to give up.

 

If he died young here, Master would probably treat someone else well again as her disciple.

 

And hold their hand. Give them training.

 

At night, would they possess you? Would they kiss you like I did?

 

His head spun round and round. Pain that felt like his brain would melt came over him.

 

I can’t let that happen.

 

Helios gritted his teeth.

 

You reached out to me on your own.

 

So this is mine.

 

She must take responsibility for saving him, for the affection she won’t call affection.

 

Something I can’t give to anyone. The first thing that’s truly mine under the sky.

 

So…

 

Crack!

 

“Haa, haa…”

 

He heard the sound of something breaking. It sounded like something being torn apart.

 

It also sounded like enormous pottery breaking. And it sounded like thunder splitting the earth.

 

Breathing heavily, he slowly looked up at the sky.

 

The sky was collapsing.

 

No, it was torn apart.

 

The crack that had filled his entire vision had finally disappeared.

 

Torn to shreds.

 

The fragmented black sky fluttered like delicate paper pieces.

 

They were fragments of the massive crack.

 

The Corrupted Kia scattered and scattered again, being consumed by his Kia and purified.

 

It was a distant and magnificent sight.

 

And Helios had no energy left to appreciate it.

 

Though his Kia had returned, his body pushed to its limits couldn’t stand properly on the ground.

 

His swaying body was caught by something solid and slumped down.

 

Master held Helios, who was much larger than herself, and stood firmly.

 

…You’ll always be like this, won’t you.

 

“Congratulations.”

 

When he slowly raised his head, the person with jet-black hair, probably the most beautiful in his world, was smiling.

 

More brightly than ever before.

 

“You’re probably stronger than people from the 70th Floor now, aren’t you?”

 

A bright, cheerful smile.

 

For some reason, as Helios looked at her with hazy eyes, suddenly.

 

Overwhelmed by something that surged up and couldn’t be contained.

 

Trickle.

 

A single tear rolled down his cheek.

 

Someone clicked their tongue.

 

“…Master.”

 

I have to say it. I must.

 

“I like you.”

 

I love you, Master.

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