I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 129

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Chapter 129

 

‘What the…!’

 

It was even larger than what Master had eliminated in the first special examination.

 

Though Helios didn’t know it, that was a rift that had failed to be eliminated and gone on a rampage, devouring other rifts.

 

It was the worst form of rift.

 

Helios’s shock didn’t end there. He watched as the person who had just been standing in front of that rift reached out their hand toward it and disappeared.

 

“Mama!!”

 

It happened in an instant.

 

Helios turned his head in bewilderment.

 

“Damn it, let go, let me go! Fuck! Let go!!”

 

For the first time, he saw his master’s face horribly contorted.

 

…Truly, her appearance and expression were so wretched that he felt he never wanted to see her like this.

 

And the massive rift, having devoured that small person, began to gradually, slowly subside.

 

Someone near Helios was talking. One of those wearing a guard uniform had a familiar voice.

 

Though wearing a hooded cloak, it was Sergeant Steven. The other was wearing a completely different uniform from the guards.

 

From the medals hanging all over him and hearing someone call him ‘Warden,’ he figured it out.

 

“The rift seems like it will disappear.”

 

“Tsk, so the only answer really was the Boss?”

 

The Warden clicked his tongue.

 

“What a waste.”

 

Even to Helios, it seemed the rift would disappear if left alone.

 

“Marla was a good card.”

 

An emotionless voice.

 

A voice sharp enough to tear through pierced the silence.

 

“She’s alive. She’s alive, you bastards!”

 

“…”

 

“Mama is alive. I’ll go save her!”

 

“…”

 

“That person is mine!”

 

Through the crowd, he could see Master being held back by the guards.

 

She was desperate yet at the same time like a wounded beast.

 

If Helios hadn’t witnessed the time between Mama and the girl just moments before, it would have been anger difficult to understand.

 

Master’s rage was that difficult to easily adapt to.

 

“Hey, calm down. If you step forward, the rift that was disappearing might go on a rampage again!”

 

“Yeah, do you want us all to die together?”

 

“Listen to the guards, you damn little brat!”

 

The prisoners all grumbled with sharp expressions toward Master who was being subdued.

 

Even lying face down with mud covering her face, the girl emitted a fierce edge with an aura that was far from dead.

 

“Damn it! Don’t be ridiculous. When everyone was about to die, Mama was the only one who stepped up. She could have survived without getting involved, but she’s the one who came forward to save all you pieces of trash! You got that, you vermin?”

 

“….”

 

“Ahem….”

 

“You bastards aren’t even human. I won’t tell you what to do. Let go. I’d rather die myself than let these damn bastards have their way!”

 

Watching the shouting girl, Helios briefly recalled something Mint had said in passing while climbing the 70th Floor area.

 

“Sacrifice is a damn awful thing, Disciple. It’s something no one will acknowledge or remember.”

 

Helios realized that this person called Mama had sacrificed herself even though she alone could have survived.

 

“She’s still alive and we just need to get her out, I said I’ll go!”

 

“Hey, you’re weaker than the Boss too, so how are you going to get her out? What if it explodes again while you’re extracting her? Who’s going to stop it?”

 

“Haven’t you seen rifts disappear once or twice? I can get her out from there. You know because you’re a guard!”

 

“Tsk, even a high-grade prisoner is still just a kid. You think that’s the same as an ordinary rift?”

 

“Damn it, you guard bastards are all the same. Justice my ass. All you do is watch people sacrifice themselves.”

 

“….”

 

“Weak? Let go, I can do anything, constraints or whatever.”

 

That was the moment. Helios saw the eyes of the guards restraining his master become hazy.

 

Taking advantage of that opening, the girl sprang up from her position.

 

“Catch her! Grab her right now!”

 

“Catch her!”

 

“Leave the rift alone!”

 

Though he didn’t know the exact circumstances, Helios realized he was standing in the midst of ugly selfishness.

 

That his master, who had been less interested in humans than anyone else, was fighting alone and pathetically here.

 

He understood.

 

“Catch her right now! We can’t let everything fall apart!”

 

“That’s an order, catch her!”

 

Though his master looked younger than he remembered, she truly fought brilliantly, almost blindingly so.

 

The sight of her dodging and advancing while prisoners and guards alike all attacked her alone was even sublime.

 

Clang!

 

“I’m going to the rift!”

 

“Absolutely not!”

 

For just a moment amid the chaotic exchange of Kia attacks, Helios felt like his eyes met the girl’s.

 

Whoosh.

 

Blue light flowed out from him.

 

That light enveloped the girl and naturally penetrated into the beautiful blue-green glow she possessed.

 

‘With my current power, it’s absolutely impossible.’

 

Helios felt it. This isn’t my thought.

 

‘I can’t save Mama.’

 

Then whose is it?

 

It belongs to the girl.

 

‘Think calmly. Getting excited won’t solve anything.’

 

It was a very strange sensation, not hearing thoughts but feeling as if she could see them.

 

‘I have to save Mama. I won’t allow her to die on her own.’

 

It seemed her other ability was once again providing her with another bizarre experience.

 

Even so, she fell helplessly into it.

 

‘Let’s use constraints. What else can I sacrifice?’

 

Again, she said again. Helios felt an indescribable vastness in that word.

 

“…Jiho.”

 

The girl spoke quietly. Connected to the girl, Helios could easily hear that small voice.

 

“I’ll forget Jiho.”

 

If he hadn’t seen the earlier conversation between Mama and the girl, he would have simply wondered what kind of being that was.

 

He might have simply felt jealous.

 

Helios gauged the age of the girl who had been very young when he first saw her.

 

He dared to estimate just how long she had been in this prison.

 

Shortly after, enormous power exploded from the girl’s body, which had been desperately blocking incoming attacks.

 

Kuuuung!

 

It was incomparably greater power than before.

 

“Get away right now!”

 

“What, what is this power?!”

 

The constraint she had imposed on herself had been accepted.

 

“An easy and fast way to become strong? There is one. But Master doesn’t recommend it~”

 

“Why not? Isn’t a simple method what everyone desires?”

 

“You should fear forgetting, fear losing things, Disciple. That method might make you unaware of what you’ve lost?”

 

“I don’t understand.”

 

In the second special examination, Helios had to cross the line between life and death several times.

 

While training such a Helios, his Master would often smile.

 

Why was that serene face now flashing before his eyes?

 

‘There’s still a chance. I can save Mama.’

 

The girl was filled with only one blind thought: to save Mama.

 

Moreover, she adapted to her dramatically increased power with remarkable skill.

 

He knew his Master’s abilities better than anyone.

 

If someone already outstanding had transcended their limits through sacrifice, how strong would they have become?

 

And the girl finally approached the rift, but two people, no, five people blocked her path.

 

“Move aside.”

 

“Hmm, that won’t do, Roommate.”

 

“…Kid, I’m sorry. I’m really sorry.”

 

A woman with pink bobbed hair and another woman with even shorter hair.

 

The girl quietly murmured ‘Ramona, Deril.’

 

“Child. We can’t all die. Let them die as they please. Why are you only concerned about that person?”

 

“….”

 

“…Ms. Ramona. Ms. Deril. Is this your answer?”

 

The anger gradually faded from the girl’s face.

 

“At least you all… Ms. Ramona, Ms. Deril. And everyone behind you. You all shouldn’t be doing this.”

 

“….”

 

“Is this how you treat the Master who helped you survive, who made you who you are today?”

 

The two women standing at the front flinched at her doll-like face.

 

“Fucking bastards.”

 

Mint extended her hand. Kia gathered and manifested, creating two pistols.

 

That wasn’t all. The familiar sight of discs that Helios knew well.

 

However, discs equipped with weapons that looked more powerful than the existing ones decorated the sky and air in countless numbers.

 

“Yeah, let’s all die together. You sons of bitches.”

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