I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 141

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Chapter 141

 

“You’re back?”

 

When Helios returned to the cell after washing up, instead of lying down to greet him as usual, Mint was sitting on the edge of the bed.

 

Mint welcomed the entering Helios no differently than usual.

 

A peaceful expression. A room that seemed no different from any other day.

 

‘What is it?’

 

Helios felt a strange sense of unease.

 

The source of the unease was the furniture. Something was off.

 

There wasn’t just one bed.

 

There were two.

 

The two of them sleeping together had become as natural as breathing.

 

However, since the prison had roll calls in the morning and before bedtime, Mint would naturally push the beds together only after roll call was over.

 

Therefore, there should only be one bed in this room right now.

 

Or if there were two, one should be large enough for two people to sleep comfortably.

 

Did she forget?

 

Helios shook his head inwardly.

 

That Master would never do such a thing.

 

“Come sit down.”

 

Regardless, Mint was relaxed. She even tapped the spot next to her with a barely visible smile.

 

He could have walked over and sat down as if entranced. But instead, Helios stubbornly remained standing and asked.

 

This wasn’t something he could just brush off.

 

“Why are there two beds?”

 

Are you planning to push them together now?

 

Mint answered without changing her expression in the slightest.

 

“Because it’s not necessary anymore.”

 

Helios flinched.

 

At the same time, Helios’s eyebrows shot up toward the sky.

 

No.

 

He shouldn’t just get angry here without thinking.

 

Anger would only be turned against him by Master. Hadn’t it been time to learn that by now?

 

He suppressed his surging emotions as much as possible and chose his words carefully.

 

However, Master’s words came faster than Helios’s.

 

A voice tinged with slight laughter cut through their silence.

 

“You already sleep well without me now, don’t you?”

 

For a moment, Helios couldn’t say anything at all.

 

…Because it was true.

 

He had already become able to sleep well without Mint. It had even been quite a while since then.

 

Even so, he didn’t want Mint to find out. He thought she hadn’t found out.

 

How did she know?

 

It wasn’t even surprising anymore.

 

His Master sometimes seemed to know everything about him to the point where he wondered if she could read minds.

 

Having thought this far, Helios chuckled inwardly.

 

‘Reading minds.’

 

It was ridiculous.

 

If she really could read them, she wouldn’t have been unaware of his original feelings.

 

She wouldn’t have misunderstood that he still hated himself because of what he said during their first meeting.

 

Though it was all in the past now, there had been more than a few times when he wished she could read his mind.

 

“That’s not true.”

 

“….”

 

“What grounds do you have for saying that?”

 

However, Helios hadn’t been idle either.

 

He had learned through all the time he had spent becoming the Master of the 95th Floor.

 

“I still need it. I have to sleep with Master.”

 

Helios crossed his arms and shamelessly insisted.

 

He thought he would imitate his Master.

 

Despite thinking this, he couldn’t help his face and neck turning slightly red.

 

He was someone who couldn’t become as shameless as his Master. It was a difference in nature.

 

However, if Haira had seen this, she would have thought differently.

 

Haira would have said bluntly, ‘You two are becoming similar even without trying.’

 

“The tournament is tomorrow, are you going to prevent me from getting a good night’s sleep?”

 

At least Helios, though he had reddened, asked more calmly than he thought he was being.

 

Mint looked at Helios for a long while before chuckling.

 

“That’s right.”

 

She shrugged her shoulders.

 

“Our Disciple can’t be unable to sleep. Sleep is so important for Kia replenishment.”

 

“….”

 

“If you put it that way, I should give in. Of course.”

 

“…Don’t be sarcastic.”

 

“I’m not being sarcastic though?”

 

“….”

 

“Really.”

 

With one gesture from Mint, the bed became one as always.

 

Helios frowned but felt relieved inside.

 

He thought it was just a passing joke.

 

His Master being mischievous was nothing new.

 

But why was it?

 

Helios felt his heart sink for a moment. As if he had missed something.

 

Before putting down the towel, he looked at his Master.

 

…It’s the same as before.

 

“What are you doing. Just sit down already.”

 

“Sit down? Not lie down?”

 

Even as he said this, Helios didn’t insist any further and sat down next to Mint.

 

Since the bed had become one again, there was no longer anything to complain about.

 

And he didn’t know that even this was what Mint had intended. Making him focus his attention on one thing.

 

It was a method Mint often used when she wanted to quietly change the subject.

 

“I told you to sit because there’s something to do, right?”

 

“So what’s the business.”

 

“Business between us? That’s too cold.”

 

“….”

 

Master told him to spread out his hand. Soon a relatively small hand came up over his outstretched hand.

 

He thought Master’s hand was a clean hand, but surprisingly when their palms touched, he could feel firm calluses.

 

“Even your hands are pretty. Is there any part of you that isn’t pretty?”

 

He tensed slightly at Master’s words.

 

…That was exactly what he wanted to say to Master.

 

Why doesn’t Master have any bad points, making things harder for me?

 

He quietly swallowed the words he couldn’t bring to his lips in the end.

 

Because even he thought they were too embarrassing to say. While he remained silent, not even knowing his ears had turned red.

 

Mint glanced once at his reddened ears.

 

“We talked about this before, right? The way for Kia ability users to become stronger easily and quickly.”

 

“You mean ‘Constraints’?”

 

Master nodded slightly.

 

Helios briefly recalled the memories he had seen in the Mental Realm Kia. He erased them. However, he kept the name ‘Jiho’ in his heart.

 

Hoping for a day when he could tell her directly.

 

No, when we reach the 100th Floor, I should tell her. That there was another precious existence that Master had sadly forgotten and lost.

 

He didn’t know who it was, but hearing the name, wasn’t it perhaps family or a friend?

 

Since she said she had never loved anyone romantically, neither same-sex nor opposite-sex. It wouldn’t be a lover. It shouldn’t be.

 

“Don’t tell me, you’re trying to make me set Constraints?”

 

“Really, don’t tell me. That method is easy and fast, but I might not even know what I’ve lost, right?”

 

“….”

 

“There’s one more method.”

 

As soon as Master finished speaking, a shimmer of light rose up.

 

“However, this requires one more person and is a bit complicated, so no one uses it. That’s why it’s an unknown method.”

 

“What are you doing?”

 

Naturally it was Kia. Even while asking, Helios couldn’t take his eyes off the mint-colored light.

 

He always thought so, but Master’s Unique Kia light was truly unusual and beautiful.

 

“I’m giving you Unique Kia. Among Kia, Unique Kia isn’t simple Kia but has high application abilities, attributes, and even density of Kia ability users.”

 

To put it simply, it’s like an ‘Elixir’. Just as eating it helps, absorbing it provides great help.

 

But there’s no fool who would give their most important Unique Kia to someone else.

 

Moreover, since Kia is an essential element for life maintenance for Kia Ability users, those who give it are even rarer.

 

“Plus, when Kia mixes, the receiver’s Kia might certainly become stronger, but who knows what side effects the giver might experience. It’s crazy, crazy. Good little ones shouldn’t follow suit, okay?”

 

“Why would I give that away. What a waste.”

 

Mama had said it was something that even the closest master-disciple relationships wouldn’t do outside.

 

Mama had performed such a crazy act on Mint and died.

 

And now.

 

Mint had also decided to carry out this crazy act.

 

He was already strong.

 

But.

 

Helios’s victory had to be more certain and overwhelming.

 

‘So you won’t get hurt even without me.’

 

Mint grabbed Helios’s hand.

 

She decided not to be as kind as Mama. Therefore, she had no intention of explaining side effects or anything to him.

 

Since she was giving it selfishly on her own whim.

 

“I’m going to give you my Kia.”

 

“What?”

 

Whooom. Mint-colored Kia enveloped the two of them.

 

“Just receive it properly.”

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