I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 155

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Chapter 155

 

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When I opened my eyes, I saw Paul of the present again.

 

“So what happened? What was it about? Why did you call the Cleanup Team? Did you massacre some smugglers or something?”

 

Over the past year, Paul had become quite the chatterbox.

 

Perhaps because he was a cousin I’d lived with like siblings, I often saw traces of Mama in him.

 

Unlike Mama though, he was just annoying.

 

“What massacre in the city? Do I look like someone who’d get dragged to Niflheim? It was just something that happened…”

 

I yawned widely.

 

“It wasn’t a big deal.”

 

Right, it wasn’t a big deal.

 

The meeting with Marquis Limnades was just a small incident. And something insignificant that would pass by.

 

Or so I thought.

 

A few days later.

 

“Um, there’s a visitor. Guild Master?”

 

Until the person who appeared as a VIP guest at the Information Guild I belonged to—specifically at the secretive Central Headquarters—sat down right in front of me.

 

I never thought about a reunion at all.

 

‘A visitor?’

 

This Information Guild’s Central Headquarters was difficult to find. After I became the Guild Master of this place, I had also personally involved myself with the barrier.

 

“Kyaaah! The new Guild Master is a demon!”

 

“Kill me, I can’t maintain the barrier anymore! Ju-just kill me!”

 

“…Guild Master, what did you do to make those gentle kids act like that?”

 

“Just a little training?”

 

“…Huk, a, a little?”

 

“I want to quit, I’m quitting!”

 

Since I disliked leaving traces, I didn’t set up the barrier myself, but just gave the staff members a little kind training.

 

‘Thanks to that, they became useful.’

 

I originally thought I had no talent for teaching people.

 

But it seems the tips I gave to Helios and of course Ged’s Group didn’t go anywhere.

 

Anyway, as much as it became harder to find, I made the places corresponding to branch offices exposed and easy to approach.

 

They handle over 90% of requests. But there are always troublesome people in the world.

 

10 percent of people persistently found this Central Headquarters.

 

The visitor who came looking for me, the Guild Master, must also be no ordinary person.

 

But for that person to be my biological older brother.

 

It’s not particularly welcome news.

 

“Welcome, what brings you here? You can tell me about any requests you have.”

 

I feigned ignorance and sat down, pretending to be just someone who worked here.

 

Paul looked at me with an uncomfortable expression, then quietly left at my gesture, awkwardly rubbing his neck.

 

‘Must have made a show of force, I suppose?’

 

There were no traces of battle, but I could sense traces of Kia.

 

The man sitting across from me stared at me for a long while.

 

“What brings you to our guild?”

 

“….”

 

“Marquis Limnades. Without even hiding your face.”

 

The man flinched slightly.

 

Through my Information Guild activities, I inevitably came to know information about certain individuals.

 

One of them was the man before me, Marquis Limnades.

 

The Limnades Marquis House was a prestigious family. A place that had loyally served the Imperial Court for generations, producing powerful Kia Users.

 

Particularly, they consistently produced ability users with unique characteristics that helped maintain and defend the capital, enjoying power for a long time.

 

‘The sword and gun that protects the capital.’

 

Ironically, it was also a family that had championed justice and held the position of Metropolitan Police Chief for generations, responsible for all public safety in the capital.

 

What a laughable matter.

 

‘Would a righteous person, the head of such a family, sell his daughter cheap as a murderer?’

 

Justice can go freeze to death.

 

Seeing him in bright light, the first thing that caught my eye was his deep green hair.

 

Certainly, looking at it this way, the saturation was completely different from my hair color. It was the color of fresh green leaves.

 

The man wearing glasses still looked younger than the age I knew him to be.

 

Just looking at his face made me feel even more like I was looking in a mirror.

 

“Customer, could you please tell me about your request?”

 

“Minte.”

 

My biological older brother, Marquis Limnades, widened his eyes behind his glasses and spoke with a tense expression.

 

“…It is Minte, right?”

 

I heard a name that I hadn’t heard in truly a long time, a name that no one called anymore, one that even I thought had gathered dust.

 

My name that no one used.

 

I didn’t waver.

 

With the perfect face of a stranger, I tilted my head.

 

“…I’m sorry, customer. Have you mistaken me for someone else?”

 

I put on the mask of an innocent young lady and smiled brightly.

 

“If you wait, I’ll call the Guild Master for you.”

 

“I already heard that you’re the Guild Master here before coming.”

 

Of course he knew that.

 

Hadn’t Paul called me ‘Guild Master’ with that uncomfortable expression?

 

I pondered for a moment.

 

‘Tch, is it too late to shamelessly pretend otherwise?’

 

It seemed he came knowing everything already.

 

I think of other methods.

 

Subdue by force. Use Mental Realm Kia. There’s also the option of letting him go like this and finding out how he came to know my information.

 

But my instincts, honed from seeing countless prisoners, were screaming.

 

Those are the eyes of someone who knows everything.

 

They were also the persistent eyes of someone who would never give up.

 

‘Damn.’

 

I looked at the ceiling for a moment, then immediately changed my posture. Composure and detachment settled over my expression.

 

A subtle expression crossed the Marquis’s face as he watched my transformation.

 

“How did you find out and come here?”

 

Marquis Limnades’s eyes widened.

 

Then his eyes began shaking violently.

 

“…It really is you.”

 

He was face to face with his younger sister who had gone to Niflheim at age twelve on charges of serial murder.

 

Moreover, the man before his eyes was someone who had even served as Metropolitan Police Chief. Though he had quit, he was still doing work chasing criminals.

 

So if he knew my identity, it wouldn’t be strange for him to try to put me back in prison.

 

‘How did he find out.’

 

I focused on this part.

 

If Marquis Limnades had figured out my identity, there was no law saying there couldn’t be others among different people.

 

I still had no intention of leaving this place.

 

‘Should I strike him down, pretend to fall, and completely erase his memory?’

 

I continue my thoughts leisurely.

 

No, first I should find out how that man recognized me. It would be better to start with that.

 

“…I don’t know what to say first.”

 

It was a strange thing to say.

 

“What words could we possibly need between us?”

 

It was a meeting between abandoned family and an abandoned child. The child had grown up, and wasn’t even the same person as the child from the moment of abandonment.

 

In fact, even the word ‘us’ was laughable. We had lived apart for 13 years. Weren’t we strangers at this point?

 

“First, though it’s awkward for me to say this since I came to find you, I can’t stay long. I’m currently under surveillance.”

 

Surveillance? Who would dare surveil someone of Marquis rank?

 

There weren’t many figures of that caliber.

 

Either a Duke, or the Imperial Family.

 

“The political situation has been strange lately. Duke Alpeion has returned too… I’ll have to meet with him soon.”

 

I flinched very briefly.

 

The man seemed to just be rambling to organize his thoughts, but I felt momentarily bound by a single word.

 

This was only for an instant, and by the time the man raised his head, I had returned to calm.

 

“Please understand if my questions are disorganized. I have many things I want to ask right now. But I really want to ask this one thing.”

 

“…”

 

“By any chance, did you ever meet Duke Alpeion in prison?”

 

At his gentle voice, I merely stared at the man.

 

The man shook his head before I could even answer.

 

“No, forget it. I’m sorry for asking something strange from the start of our conversation. What I wanted to say was, ha, it wasn’t this kind of thing…”

 

Watching the man who stared at the ground floor and empty air for quite a while, I casually threw out these words to the marquis.

 

“Did you come here to apologize now, after abandoning me?”

 

What the real ‘Minte’ might have thought at the moment she was abandoned, I wouldn’t know.

 

Since when I opened my eyes, I was in the courtroom.

 

“Or maybe, since a prisoner sentenced to life is shamelessly here with a different face. Ah, are you trying to personally capture and lock me up?”

 

I wasn’t angry. Therefore, my voice was calm.

 

However, Marquis Limnades turned pale as if he had seen a ghost.

 

“Th, that’s not it!”

 

Watching someone with a face similar to mine fluster about wasn’t very pleasant.

 

“I, Minte. I…”

 

Though I’m someone who relatively considers various possibilities. I couldn’t have imagined that my ‘brother’ who hesitated for so long would say something like this.

 

“Please come back to Marquis Limnades House.”

 

It was an unexpected statement.

 

My eyes were calm.

 

At the same time, I acknowledged that I myself was severely ill.

 

From the moment Marquis Limnades said this, I naturally thought of someone who would be living far away in a high place.

 

Duke Alpeion, Helios came to mind first.

 

“I know you’re innocent.”

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