I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 116

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Chapter 116

 

“Haah….”

 

A slightly sharp breath flows out.

 

How long has it been since I exerted this much power.

 

While restraining the rift, I slowly increase the amount of Kia.

 

“Bixby.”

 

That name, which doesn’t suit This World, is one I gave about 10 years ago.

 

Twelve-year-old me, now everything except the original story’s content has become hazy.

 

At least back then, I remembered the Previous World much better.

 

I extended the hand that had been toward Helios in the direction of the rift.

 

The Kia that had intertwined like branches, like vines to prevent the rift from growing larger, received my additional Kia and expanded.

 

The mint light grows even brighter.

 

“Huh….”

 

The more I look at it, the more cold sweat flows. I realize it through instinctive senses.

 

‘That crazy Warden bastard. Sending my Disciple to a place where something like that exists?’

 

That thing can’t even be compared to something that’s been aged for 7 years.

 

…It’s been aged for at least 10 years.

 

If it bursts, it might devastate this North on a terrifying scale.

 

Rift Elimination requires tremendous concentration, but the more that thing’s enormous true nature is revealed, the more I have no choice but to concentrate.

 

Just then.

 

Swooosh!

 

What noticed something touching my nerve clusters must have been the instinct honed through long periods of crisis.

 

I quickly extended my hand.

 

“Ugh….”

 

I let out something that could have been breathing or groaning for the first time in a very long while.

 

What I barely caught was a dagger that had flown toward Helios.

 

And one covered with ominous Kia at that.

 

If this had flown toward Helios, it would have blown away his barrier and inflicted fatal wounds.

 

‘There was someone remaining.’

 

I felt Sergeant Steven moving.

 

Without delay, I drew up even more power.

 

Helios also seemed to realize his crisis, as I felt him fidgeting.

 

How truly upright he is. Rustling around trying to move with that body. Sarcasm almost popped out.

 

Having released Kia, I can’t help but be more sensitive than usual.

 

“Master, I can protect my own body.”

 

“I know.”

 

I bit my lips tightly.

 

“But even so, I want to protect you. Is that not allowed?”

 

I ignored Helios’s words that came again. Whatever it was, it sounded pleasant enough to listen to.

 

I’ll go for a quick decisive strike.

 

As I drew up even more Kia, the light that had now covered the rift changed shape.

 

It was a giant palm.

 

Not just one, but two.

 

I brought my hands together as if in prayer.

 

Clap!

 

The moment I clapped, the rift was trapped between the giant palms. A struggle of strength began.

 

Perhaps because it was an old one, it was quite formidable.

 

Really, if it hadn’t been me, this wouldn’t have been dealt with – I could feel it to that extent.

 

‘Mama, even after you died, you still make me work this hard.’

 

You should know that I’m a good child. Don’t you think so?

 

I gritted my teeth.

 

I could taste something metallic. The taste of blood that I hadn’t felt in such a long time.

 

Screech!

 

The rift gradually grew smaller.

 

The tense struggle of strength slowly tilted to one side.

 

The scales had already tipped. Now this would become an unstoppable flow.

 

However, I didn’t jump to conclusions and applied even more force.

 

Screeeech! Shrieeeek!

 

An old rift is no different from a living disaster. It has no will, but it has something like human survival instinct.

 

Just look at how it’s making those chilling sounds that resemble screams.

 

That thing doesn’t want to die.

 

But.

 

‘There’s also a precious little one here who mustn’t die.’

 

Unlike my detached thoughts, my body screamed for the first time in a while.

 

I considered even this a stimulus I hadn’t felt in a long time and ignored the pain that made my blood vessels stand on end.

 

Something trickled down the corner of my mouth, but I ignored it and drew out my remaining strength.

 

Now!

 

Clap! Along with the sound of clapping, a tremendous sound echoed in reality as well.

 

Boom!

 

An explosion occurred, but it was smaller in scale than expected. The explosion happened within the giant palm.

 

The residential house that had been directly below the rift collapsed.

 

‘It’s finished.’

 

The rift had disappeared.

 

I had succeeded in eliminating it, but it was only because it was me that I succeeded.

 

There was no joy, no happiness, no sense of achievement.

 

I looked down at my palms that were burning hot and covered with burns.

 

“I feel alive for the first time in a while.”

 

As I muttered, I felt a burning gaze.

 

“….”

 

Right beside me, a spectator who had watched all of this from the front row seat was glaring at me with a grumbling expression.

 

I smiled with a drained face.

 

What are you so dissatisfied about?

 

I still needed to catch my breath before speaking.

 

“I didn’t faint though.”

 

This is the difference between you and me. As I added playfully, a hand reached out.

 

Large hands grabbed both my wrists. Hands that held me weakly, unable to grip tightly.

 

Moreover, they were trembling.

 

“…It must hurt.”

 

I stared quietly at Helios, who had his head hung low.

 

Something was dripping onto the burns. Since it wasn’t raining, this must be tears.

 

I’m the one in pain, so why are you crying?

 

You really are strange.

 

“It doesn’t particularly hurt, so why are you crying, Helios?”

 

I must be fond of that strangeness of yours.

 

Such strangeness I had only seen in Mama.

 

“…I’m not crying.”

 

At some point, I began to regard it as more special than what I saw in Mama.

 

He bit his lips tightly and spoke slowly, like breathing.

 

“I said, I could be, of help.”

 

“Did you?”

 

“….”

 

I wanted to pat Helios comfortingly, but blood and fluid would get on him because of the burns.

 

“Stop crying. Your Master right now can’t embrace you with open arms.”

 

I felt strength enter Helios’s hands that were holding my wrists.

 

Whether it was because he was also drained, or because he couldn’t bring himself to use force. It didn’t particularly hurt.

 

Soon I didn’t resist the force that pulled me without causing pain. When I closed and opened my eyes, I was embraced in broad arms.

 

How big you really are.

 

Like a large, firm blanket.

 

The cheap blankets given to prisoners are always cold.

 

“…It should be okay for me to hold you, right? Since Master can’t.”

 

Helios hugged me tightly and buried his face in my shoulder.

 

My mouth moved on its own.

 

“Oh my, what should I do? I can’t even pat your back.”

 

Because I had exhausted my Kia, it was difficult to heal my hands too.

 

Helios, who had buried his face in my neck, whispered slowly.

 

“I heard everything. The words ‘I feel alive for the first time in a while.’ Master, do you perhaps… only realize you’re alive through pain?”

 

“Oh my… that’s a philosophical question. Soon you’ll be asking what life is.”

 

“Master.”

 

To ask such complex things of a criminal. You truly haven’t been tainted yet. I feel proud of this.

 

“You said you wanted to see my true self?”

 

Instead of answering, I leisurely muttered something else.

 

“Become the boss.”

 

“….”

 

I like your righteousness, but in the end, I can’t live like you.

 

“Then I’ll show you. Promise me.”

 

“….”

 

Instead of answering, Helios hugged me tightly once. A moment later, I heard words like ‘I understand. I promise.’ whispered in my ear.

 

I let out a small chuckle.

 

While being held by Helios, I slowly turned my head.

 

In fact, the exhausted Helios probably didn’t notice.

 

What I had been sensing from the moment I eliminated the rift.

 

‘The dagger that flew toward Helios.’

 

It was an all too familiar shape and Kia. Black and red Kia.

 

Something filled with ominousness.

 

Among those I knew, there was only one person who possessed such Kia.

 

And….

 

The pursuers who followed us wherever we went as if they knew. The insane wealth that employed elite assassins.

 

At the end of my gaze, someone was grinning.

 

With eyes that weren’t smiling at all.

 

‘Haha….’

 

The man opens his mouth and laughs soundlessly.

 

A pale face slightly shrouded in shadow, gloomy red eyes staring at me as if burning.

 

It was Hades.

 

More precisely, an illusion in his form.

 

However, the real body would have seen all of this from the prison cell.

 

I narrowed my eyes while holding Helios tightly.

 

So it was you.

 

Just as I knew everything, he would have known too.

 

A face too beautiful to be called a villain curves his eyes seductively.

 

Blood-red lips whispered like a song.

 

‘Miss.’

 

Even at this distance, I could read his lip movements.

 

‘Found you.’

 

That he knew ‘Garret’ was ‘Mint’.

 

He was certain.

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