I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 151

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Chapter 151

 

It was an illness.

 

There was an official announcement. Of course, it wasn’t made known to all prisoners.

 

It was information only shared with the top floor prisoners.

 

The former King of Prisoners ‘Mint’ had fallen ill, and to treat this illness, she made a deal with the Prison Executive Board to obtain medicine in exchange for becoming an internal surveillance agent.

 

However, despite going that far, her illness had recently worsened beyond help and she died.

 

It was truly a futile fact.

 

And it was unbelievable.

 

That endlessly strong person died from a mere illness?

 

This wasn’t Seth’s suspicion alone. His colleagues felt the same way.

 

Deril, who had watched Mint longer, and her subordinates also refused to accept it.

 

However, they had no choice but to accept it after finally facing ‘Mint’s’ corpse.

 

It was because ‘Deril,’ who had watched Mint for a very long time, was the first to break down.

 

“I had a grudge to settle with you, why! Why did you… return like this…!”

 

The sobbing appearance wasn’t an act.

 

It was as good as certified that the corpse was real.

 

That day, Seth saw ‘Garret’s’ true appearance for the first time.

 

‘…There’s not a single resemblance anywhere.’

 

Seth was stunned.

 

Gender, build, face. A person with no familiar features whatsoever.

 

They said this person was ‘Garret’ who had led them.

 

It wasn’t that he wasn’t sad.

 

Confusion and sadness mixed together and intensified. He couldn’t tell what he was crying for.

 

This place was for mourning ‘Mint.’

 

Then where was the Garret they had followed? Wasn’t he ultimately someone who never existed in this world?

 

What was unexpected was that Helios didn’t break down when he saw Mint’s coffin that day.

 

Someone cried, someone resented. Someone was indignant with unforgotten hatred.

 

While the survivors mourned.

 

Helios just looked down at the coffin without doing anything.

 

After that, Mint’s death became an established fact.

 

During the month that passed, people accepted the truth in their own ways, whether they cherished Mint, forgot her, or resented her.

 

They accepted the facts.

 

Helios didn’t break down. Instead, he became broken.

 

“I told you to leave.”

 

Seth looked at Helios glaring at him fiercely and lowered his head.

 

They could no longer be colleagues.

 

He had clearly become the King of Prisoners. There were things to say, but he couldn’t say them.

 

There would be no point in speaking to someone who wouldn’t listen to anything.

 

What was remarkable was that Helios still acted within limits that wouldn’t let the prison fall into chaos.

 

Though it seemed like he had delegated full authority to Deril, if you looked closely, he definitely handled the big and small matters within the prison.

 

He just didn’t take care of himself.

 

Ged’s group, including himself, had already tried countless times to help Helios live a normal life, but had failed.

 

“Leave him be. How much must his heart ache from losing someone he loved? And he was deceived about so many things too.”

 

Haira said this.

 

Since Haira, who was the quickest and most accurate at understanding human psychology among them, said this, waiting would be the right thing to do.

 

But Haira had doubts. Seth had similar ones too.

 

Was that really… the appearance of someone grieving over a dead person?

 

Helios, left alone, did nothing.

 

Helios, who had been sitting endlessly motionless like a statue, slowly raised his head.

 

“I like it when you cry.”

 

“It’s pretty.”

 

Helios’s eyes were full of traces where tears had dried.

 

It had been enough time for him to realize. Even if he cried, got angry, or resented.

 

You won’t come. Right?

 

“Dead, they said…”

 

It was ridiculous nonsense.

 

No, more precisely, if he hadn’t known her Kia. He might have believed it too.

 

That damned elaborately crafted corpse.

 

Inside Helios’s body was her Kia that she had embedded.

 

That’s why he could know.

 

That someone with such pure and immense Kia couldn’t die from illness.

 

He could know it instinctively.

 

So, she had left.

 

He didn’t know where she had gone.

 

The promise, it had truly been meaningless.

 

“Not after I become the Boss. When you return… you must answer.”

 

“Should I.”

 

Yes. Because you had no intention of returning, you made that promise without hesitation.

 

Every time. Like that every time.

 

Having made it a foregone conclusion that you would abandon me.

 

Every time.

 

Tears flowed down Helios’s gaunt cheeks.

 

“Should I break out of prison?”

 

He had finally become the Master of the 100th Floor.

 

Mint had said that if he became the King of Prisoners, a path to escape might open up.

 

Those words were true.

 

The King of Prisoners had the right to speak with the executive guards and even the Warden.

 

“Helios, you can now be released whenever you wish.”

 

“….”

 

“However, wait at least 3 years. After that, I’ll make it possible anytime.”

 

I suppose I should call you Prince Alpeion instead of Helios then?

 

On the first day he met the Warden, Ralph had said this with a sinister smile.

 

That his father would come looking for him again after 3 years.

 

It was something that no longer held any meaning for Helios.

 

Had Mint, had his master, known all this when she spoke?

 

‘She must have.’

 

Helios’s eyes gradually sank lower. It was close to dying black.

 

His gaze, rippling like a swamp, stared into empty air.

 

How could he wait 3 whole years?

 

After becoming king, he was able to find out.

 

The method to escape from this place—or rather, it would be more accurate to say he had grasped a clue.

 

Master, the disciple you raised is this capable.

 

Because you raised me that way.

 

To be useful.

 

So.

 

You must take responsibility for raising me, until the very end.

 

Let’s stay together until death.

 

“…Because we promised.”

 

I just need to see your face, don’t I?

 

Helios let out a hollow laugh.

 

“I also like playing hide-and-seek.”

 

Toward the invisible woman who had probably already headed somewhere far away.

 

“Master.”

 

Let’s meet again.

 

The man’s tears fell into the shadows. The dark color looked like black tears.

 

When we meet again, we probably won’t be able to escape each other forever.

 

Chapter 12. 3 Years Later

 

Two years had passed.

 

The capital city ‘Harpem’ of the Carkeia Empire was bustling with people as always.

 

The merchant Hans was moving in his usual manner—seemingly ordinary yet secretly.

 

Though he wore the guise of a merchant, he was actually an ace guild member of an Information Guild operating in the underground.

 

‘Tsk, look at that guy. Acting like a proper gentleman.’

 

He was tracking the movements of an adulterous husband at the request of a Noble Lady.

 

As it turned out, the husband’s adultery wasn’t the real problem.

 

Of course, it was true that he had set up a household with a commoner woman in the Courtesan District and was indulging in debauchery.

 

‘Wow, he even kills people?’

 

As it turned out, he had recently even killed someone.

 

He discovered this by chance. While following him at night, he saw the man burying something, so he waited and looked.

 

And there was the corpse of some child.

 

The husband wasn’t a Noble, but he was a prominent figure who had accumulated much money and fame through his Trading Company.

 

Moreover, since he was also a famous novelist, women were always around him.

 

‘Our Guild Master really has an incredible nose for money.’

 

Hans thought of his Guild Master as he walked.

 

Today, he planned to finally reveal himself to the husband and propose a deal.

 

The husband was a Kia User.

 

Though he had quite a useful ability, using it only for seducing others or murder made him undoubtedly a bad guy.

 

And Hans belonged to a group that exploited even such bad guys.

 

‘An alley? Why is he going that way?’

 

The husband seemed unusual today.

 

He looked anxious and flustered, then finally disappeared into a deserted alley.

 

Being a Kia User, his physical abilities were also better than ordinary people, so he moved quite fast.

 

Tsk, Hans clicked his tongue as he entered the alley where the husband had disappeared.

 

“Oh my.”

 

Hans hesitated.

 

“There was a guest here.”

 

A leisurely voice. A figure, probably a woman, completely covered in a robe was stepping on the husband’s back.

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