I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 126

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Chapter 126

 

I wasn’t particularly surprised.

 

‘No wonder the difficulty was so damn arbitrary.’

 

If this was the Boss’s nature, it made sense.

 

I just hadn’t paid attention, but perhaps if I had been a bit more careful, I could have figured it out.

 

Among the remaining High-Grade Prisoners, someone who would use abnormal methods to seize the position of Boss.

 

And then after becoming Boss, someone who would start a massacre.

 

Someone who would manipulate the difficulty at will.

 

Among the various candidates, Ramona would certainly be one of them.

 

“Don’t feel too wronged.”

 

Hehe, her eyes with long eyelashes curved as she smiled, still resembling a fox.

 

She was someone who would flush excessively as if drunk when she smiled.

 

“I’m also reluctant to kill an interesting human.”

 

I was still being suppressed by the Cloud-like Kia. No, I deliberately didn’t resist as I stared at Ramona.

 

“Are you the new King of Prisoners?”

 

“Hmm, acting like a proper Guard. Look how calm you are? I like you even more. That’s right. I’m the King.”

 

Ramona was, so to speak, a snake-like woman. Someone who doesn’t swallow prey in one bite.

 

She enjoyed playing around with it like this.

 

“So you’re the one who didn’t rise to Boss through normal methods.”

 

“….”

 

After a moment of silence, Ramona stepped closer and reached out her hand.

 

“The Guard even knows interesting things? That’s right. The one who became it through abnormal methods is me.”

 

“….”

 

Ramona’s hand grabbed my chin and lifted it up.

 

“I like the impudent type, but unfortunately for you.”

 

Those gleaming eyes were ones I had grown accustomed to seeing.

 

Without avoiding her Kia-filled gaze, I continued speaking slowly.

 

“This space isn’t the 90th Floor’s Trial?”

 

“Hmm, quite the inquisitive personality. Would you be curious about that when you’re about to die? Well, I’ll tell you. That’s right.”

 

Her fingers with long nails tapped my cheek. Beautiful, well-manicured nails.

 

“This is still the 90th Floor. And the Trial is ongoing. It’s just that with the Tower’s permission… the Trial content has changed.”

 

“Is that possible?”

 

“What can’t be done? The Tower permits it, and I accepted it.”

 

I realized she had revived the slavery system that I had eliminated.

 

“In other words, if that Prisoner who fell into the Mental Kia Space successfully escapes, and the Guard manages to defeat me, then this Floor would be cleared like any other Floor.”

 

Ramona explained with gleeful laughter.

 

Even long ago when the Prison was in chaos, she was someone who actively enjoyed the slavery system.

 

What she enjoyed most back then was making the Low-level Prisoners who became slaves file her nails into beautiful shapes.

 

“The Tower has broken its biggest principle of not changing the trial themes for each floor section… Is this even possible?”

 

There was one reason why Ramona loved giving explanations.

 

Because she enjoyed watching her listeners fall into endless despair.

 

“What does that matter? Can’t you tell it’s possible when you see it right before your eyes? Poor Guard.”

 

“….”

 

“Really, why did you have to be so unnecessarily meddlesome? You’re going to die anyway.”

 

Ramona didn’t come here because of me, because of ‘Garret.’

 

Which means.

 

“After you kill me, you’re going to kill the prisoner here too?”

 

For a moment, Ramona’s eyes lingered on me for a long time. As if gauging something.

 

Soon, as if she understood, ecstasy and delight flashed across her burned face.

 

It was the face she made when she discovered a weakness.

 

“Yeah. Killing him in front of you wouldn’t be bad either, would it? A guard who cherishes a prisoner. That’s so interesting!”

 

“….”

 

Her voice went up a tone.

 

“Ah, why didn’t I pay more attention? If I had spent a little less time looking for the Boss… No, that was important business. If it weren’t for the deal, I would have watched more!”

 

Her lips were loose. She wasn’t normally loose-lipped, but she was being loose…

 

It must have become loose because it was natural for me to die here.

 

“Kyaha, I told you the Boss is the best.”

 

“I get it, so stop clinging and get lost.”

 

Ramona had come all the way here to kill Helios. Even going so far as to twist the Tower’s principles.

 

‘First thing I can speculate. Did she think the ‘opponent’ couldn’t kill Helios without going this far?’

 

There must be someone Ramona referred to as a ‘deal.’

 

Moreover, seeing how she spoke while ignoring the common knowledge everyone in the prison knew – that you revive even if you die in the Tower.

 

She intended to kill him with a method that could kill even in the Tower.

 

‘This is a method that a top-level prisoner like Ramona would know about.’

 

It probably wasn’t the Warden behind this, who had recently been urging with bloodshot eyes to somehow put Helios in the Boss position.

 

‘The Duke?’

 

Helios’s father. It wouldn’t be strange if he had exerted influence on the prison.

 

Or maybe she had teamed up with Hades.

 

‘If Ramona really became the Boss. The Upper Tower Floors would truly be a complete mess.’

 

The Kia she used was Attribute Type. Her specialty was poison.

 

A personality that was vicious, ruthless, and loved conspiracies.

 

When I was Boss, if I hadn’t consistently kept her as a roommate and suppressed her, she would have become a fine dictator or tyrant.

 

However.

 

Certainly her skills weren’t enough to be Boss.

 

Thinking of the man who became Boss right after me, he was definitely stronger than Ramona.

 

“Guard, are you done with questions now? Not asking more?”

 

That means Ramona either hid her power… or became stronger through some kind of ‘restriction’.

 

“Now you’re going to kill that prisoner you cherished?”

 

The moment Ramona pulled her hand away from me and started walking, blue kia flowed out from me.

 

The kia that stretched out like a whip wrapped around Ramona’s legs and pulled her down.

 

Bang!

 

“Ow ow ow. My goodness! How long has it been since I fell…”

 

Ramona lifted her head while lying face down. Her face was covered in blood from a nosebleed.

 

“You’re not just an ordinary guard, are you? Who did you make a deal with? Ah. I can guess.”

 

Kia is an intangible force used through consciousness and mind.

 

All humans have predetermined growth limits. The Ramona I saw with ‘Mind’s Eye’ was already a human who had completed growth to her limit.

 

Humans make the impossible possible, and kia ability users found ways to become stronger even when facing growth limits.

 

“Guard, you were the Warden’s lackey, weren’t you?”

 

Droplet-like things floated up in the air.

 

Unlike clean raindrops, they had the sticky color of a swamp.

 

Hissss.

 

With the sound, the rope binding Ramona’s legs began to burn away.

 

It was poison.

 

Awakened ones who reach their growth limit can become stronger through restrictions.

 

However, this is never easy.

 

It’s a method where kia ability users sacrifice something of themselves to become stronger.

 

What’s required at this time could be things necessary for living life, like limbs or parts of organs.

 

Or it could be family and friends, or whatever is most precious to that ability user.

 

Ramona had sacrificed something to become a stronger ability user.

 

I couldn’t abandon the assumption that perhaps that selfish woman had sacrificed others as offerings.

 

‘Now that I roughly understand the situation.’

 

I tensed my body all at once.

 

Whoosh!

 

Blue kia burst out from my body, scattering the cloud-like kia that had been binding me.

 

Ramona’s momentary surprise was brief, and she soon laughed out loud.

 

“Wow, interesting, this one. Interesting, Guard.”

 

Then and now, Ramona was obsessed with the strong.

 

Another roommate, ‘Deril’, always said like a habit, ‘We have the bond of living together.’

 

‘But after Ramona became the boss, Deril was probably the first to get it.’

 

One of the most meaningless things in this place was ‘affection’.

 

Even if Ramona knew I was Mint, if she had a purpose, her intention to kill Helios wouldn’t change.

 

“I just need to knock you down, right?”

 

Rather, she used to be displeased even when I looked at other prisoners.

 

She hid it behind laughter, but there was no way I wouldn’t know.

 

‘I just need to not lose.’

 

Fighting restrictions had been placed on me, but I’d never lived life easily enough to struggle over just one restriction like this.

 

If I just get through this situation, it’s the 91st Floor.

 

The summit is right before my eyes.

 

“Then I just need to win and get out of here.”

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