I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 132

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Chapter 132

 

A leisurely voice responded to Helios’s sharp question of what she was doing.

 

“Oh my. What’s with the formal speech?”

 

The one who had attacked him was none other than Master.

 

“It’s training, training. This is all a gift for our disciple that will become nourishment for your body and soul.”

 

“Gift my ass…”

 

Helios, who was about to say something, pressed his lips tightly shut. The interjection was unfortunately the same.

 

The “Oh my” that Mama had been saying until just now and the words Master had been uttering expressionlessly all this time were similar down to their tone and intonation.

 

Having seen Master’s foundation, her roots, at this point he lost the will to say anything more.

 

He couldn’t even act prickly as usual.

 

“Haah…”

 

“Hmm, what’s with the sigh, my disciple?”

 

“…”

 

“Must have been quite difficult, that thing made with Mental Realm Kia?”

 

Considering that the appearance of the ‘Girl’ he had seen in the Mental Kia Space was quite different from Master now…

 

Helios couldn’t even dare to feel jealous about Mama’s existence.

 

And he never would in the future either.

 

How could he compete with a mother so deeply rooted? Helios repeatedly rubbed his face with a complicated expression.

 

It was ridiculous.

 

Master herself, the actual person involved, was so leisurely and calm. No, what kind of time had he witnessed?

 

She probably didn’t even know that he had met the person she had longed for, causing her to lose her chance.

 

‘No, even if she found out…’

 

Now he knew Master.

 

Even if she learned that he had met ‘Mama,’ and that because of this, Master could no longer see Mama.

 

Master would remain calm and composed.

 

As always.

 

“Really? I see.”

 

While saying things like that.

 

It felt like he was experiencing all the emotions that Master should be feeling.

 

Things that Master would either ignore or fail to feel even if she did experience them.

 

The sound of Mama’s laughter, who had been giggling together with him until just moments ago, seemed to ring in his ears.

 

As if she was teasing him, saying ‘It’s going to be tough, you little one.’

 

Come to think of it, even though they were seeing each other for the first time, she was truly a warm-hearted person.

 

Unsuited for this prison. Not fitting the image of a boss.

 

Could such a person really exist?

 

Perhaps that’s why even Master had ended up giving her heart to such a person.

 

It took him a little time to calm his churning heart.

 

“Welcome back, Helios.”

 

A moment later, he couldn’t find words as he looked at Master leaning against a wall.

 

As if there had been a massive battle, everything was a mess – the walls, ground floor, and ceiling alike.

 

The surroundings were a mess of blood and green alien masses.

 

Broken bricks. Amid the debris. Master was leisurely leaning against the broken wall, sitting there.

 

She even gave advice to Helios as he approached.

 

“Ah, don’t step carelessly. Avoid it. That’s deadly poison.”

 

“…Are you injured?”

 

“Yeah. That’s right. It hurt, you know.”

 

Only when he got close did he realize.

 

On Master’s cheek as she muttered slowly, there was an unfamiliar wound.

 

‘That Master is injured?’

 

Strictly speaking, this wasn’t the first time he’d seen Master injured.

 

He had seen her get scratched while saving him, and seen her get hurt while closing a rift in the first special examination.

 

But this wasn’t some massive natural disaster that humans couldn’t handle.

 

The fact that a human had injured her felt strangely unreal.

 

It felt absurd to the point of being unreasonable.

 

“Who did this?”

 

While he was trapped in the Mental Kia Space, Master had her own battle.

 

But there was someone who would touch Master, who is currently a ‘Guard’? When everyone keeps quiet about it?

 

“A bad villain?”

 

“…”

 

“Who did this to you?”

 

He couldn’t tell if she had left it untreated despite being able to heal herself, or if she had used so much kia that she couldn’t heal.

 

At least this was the first time he’d seen Master injured to this extent, unless she was facing a rift.

 

“What on earth happened?”

 

“A reunion with an old colleague?”

 

“What…?”

 

“It’s okay. It’s okay. This master defeated the bad villain who used underhanded tricks.”

 

“…”

 

Those alien green masses scattered on the ground floor – she said they were deadly poison?

 

Yet Master was languidly smiling while covered in those masses.

 

“Only you were dragged into the Mental Kia Space, was it livable there?”

 

“…”

 

“As long as you overcome it, it’s perfect for growth. That thing.”

 

Helios, who had been staring intently at Master, slowly opened his mouth.

 

“…It wasn’t difficult.”

 

Right, it wasn’t difficult. He had simply followed and watched all the memories and events that occurred, regardless of his will.

 

“…But.”

 

He felt powerless. The tragic scene made him feel bitter. He saw a girl who couldn’t cry, and when the girl finally became detached, he wanted to grab her back.

 

“It must have been hard.”

 

Even though he knew it was a past event that had already passed beyond his reach.

 

“Oh my, was it very hard?”

 

“….”

 

Master, who was in a position somewhere between lying down and sitting up, tilted her head just like that.

 

For a moment, an observing gaze swept from Helios’s head to his toes.

 

‘Strange. By now, curses should be flying my way.’

 

The appearance of the returned Helios was somehow different. She could see things that only she would notice.

 

“I’ll ask just one thing.”

 

Meanwhile, countless scenes flashed through Helios’s mind, along with Mama’s face wearing a similar smile.

 

He swallowed back many of the words he had wanted to say.

 

One of them remained in his memory.

 

Master had told him. There was an easy way to become strong.

 

But it was a method where you might not even know what you had lost.

 

The price paid for becoming stronger.

 

“Do you happen to know ‘Jiho’?”

 

Helios pronounced it carefully to avoid mistakes. As a result, he delivered the pronunciation he wanted.

 

And.

 

Master’s neat eyebrows curved slightly. A nonchalant, leisurely voice flowed out.

 

“Jiho? What’s that? A place name? Ah, a person?”

 

“….”

 

He fell silent.

 

With his hand hidden behind his back, he slowly clenched his fist and then released it.

 

…I could never use it.

 

If it was a method that cost the most precious thing as payment, Helios would never use it until the day he died.

 

It was obvious what he would lose.

 

Master, who was right before his eyes.

 

Even if he devoted everything in his life, he could never erase this Master from his existence.

 

Never.

 

That’s why he felt a bit distant.

 

Even though he understood Master’s feelings, who had forgotten the most precious person to save Mama, he couldn’t truly comprehend it.

 

“Hmm, you’re acting strange today?”

 

Master chuckled while resting her chin on her hand.

 

Helios took in every detail with such intensity that he seemed ready to devour even the corners of her lips.

 

‘He’s going to bore holes through me. Really going to bore holes.’

 

Helios had returned.

 

By the time he returned, the battle that had taken place here had long since ended.

 

But the appearance of her returned Disciple was quite strange.

 

Setting aside the fact that she’s staring at my face with blind intensity as if she wants to devour it.

 

No matter how little she understood the common sense that separates normal from abnormal.

 

Even to Mint’s eyes, Helios was different from usual.

 

‘What kind of mental cultivation did he go do to come back like this.’

 

Kia is greatly influenced by mental strength.

 

Currently, Helios’s Kia was sharply honed.

 

Until now, though he had grown, there was a feeling of being all over the place. It couldn’t be helped.

 

Rapid and fast growth doesn’t give time to organize things. This disadvantage was also a situation that had to be accepted.

 

But the Disciple who had disappeared for a while and reappeared came back with refined energy that others would need at least a year of cultivation to obtain.

 

‘A prodigy is extraordinary at whatever they do.’

 

No matter how much Mint was the one who provided the limousine bus, that passenger was a human who utilized the bus’s advantages to the extreme.

 

Any Kia ability user in the world, upon hearing of Helios’s growth rate, would tell him to stop talking nonsense.

 

How much would it be…

 

Mint looked down at her hands covered in poison.

 

Attribute series. Poison ability user.

 

“Oh my. Goodness… You seem familiar with my poison?”

 

“…”

 

The greatest advantage of poison was that people experiencing it for the first time would helplessly succumb to it.

 

That’s why poison-type ability users have the highest win rate in their first fight against an opponent.

 

Because they die before detoxification.

 

However, the disadvantage of poison is that the more contact one has with it, the more familiar or capable of detoxification they become.

 

Of course, Ramona was someone who had reached the pinnacle of poison types, a fighter who changed precise Kia arrays each time to compete with new poisons and new combinations.

 

But it was useless against Mint.

 

“Ahaha. Someone who not only endures but adapts to my poison. Unless they’re a prisoner from the 91st Floor or above, I only know one such person.”

 

Mint realized while fighting.

 

The power allocated to ‘Garret’ couldn’t handle this opponent. She had expected this much.

 

So she was planning to fight even if it meant using part of her power to change her Unique Kia color.

 

‘What is this power?’

 

Ramona was excessively strong.

 

Power that had become at least five times, no, nearly ten times stronger than what Mint remembered.

 

There was no way she could have become this strong in such a short time. If that were possible, the Tower’s hierarchy below her would have already changed when she was there.

 

Mint realized it.

 

She felt a familiar Kia from behind Ramona.

 

That was the Tower’s Kia.

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