I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 16

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Chapter 16

“Pretty Newcomer? Come with me right now. This senior will introduce you to a nice place?”

Mint quietly looked at Grogi, then headed toward the Main Building visible in the distance.

The Tower’s trial was over. After returning to the Main Building and finishing the simple cleaning time, it would be dinner time.

Mint urged him on, but Helios couldn’t move.

‘What kind of power is this?’

Something was pressing down on him.

Telekinesis. It was a power Helios was experiencing for the first time.

“Prisoner Helios. If we delay here any longer, we’ll really be late.”

“…”

Just as Grogi was about to lose his patience and explode, Mint casually walked over and grabbed Helios’s arm.

‘What, what?’

Grogi was flustered.

Moving so calmly while being crushed by telekinesis?

From the 70th Floor of the Tower onward, a single moment of carelessness led directly to death.

He felt an approaching warning.

‘This, this is strange. What the hell is that guard…?’

It wasn’t a power that a mere Newcomer guard could withstand.

In the brief moment Grogi broke out in cold sweat, Mint was quietly making a judgment.

‘Doesn’t look like he’ll just let us go.’

Besides, acting so boldly in front of the Tower meant someone was backing him up.

That person was probably Sergeant Cain.

‘Didn’t the Warden tell me not to move too conspicuously.’

The only one whose face could be recognized was that Grogi over there.

As for the rest, judging by their power, they were about intermediate level.

High-Grade Prisoners usually created their own Family – their ‘Fam’ – so this wasn’t strange.

They were basically gangs and thugs who caused trouble within this prison.

Mint finished her judgment.

“Prisoner Helios, what are you doing not moving right now?”

Helios was startled. Strangely, from the moment Mint grabbed his wrist, his body felt lighter.

“…Right.”

He even thought he hoped Mint wouldn’t let go of his hand, then quickly came to his senses.

“Stop right there.”

Grogi glared with bloodshot eyes and stretched out his hand.

A tremendous force crushed down on the two of them.

“Tch, where does some insignificant guard get off interfering? Ugly thing!”

This was a place where sometimes prisoners existed who were stronger than guards.

Unfortunately, moments like this were the only times when the relationship between guards and prisoners was reversed.

However, Grogi was excessively tense.

What the hell is this sensation?

He became anxious, unable to tell where this ominous feeling was coming from.

“What are you doing, cut down that bastard right now! Get him out of my sight!”

“Yes, boss!”

Since Mint and Helios would both be crushed by Grogi’s telekinesis and unable to do anything, dealing with Mint should be as easy as eating cold stew.

That’s what he thought.

Mint casually dodged the approaching sword and fist.

“Sh-she moved…?”

Mint grabbed one of the approaching hands and twisted it.

“Aaaahhh!”

She had confirmed this in the Manual.

“Prisoner Grogi. Attacking a guard constitutes a serious crime.”

When prisoners sometimes disobey and rebel against guards’ orders—

“It’s a crime punishable by summary execution.”

Thud!

As if she had been waiting, she grabbed the arm of someone charging from behind and forcefully twisted their wrist.

“Die!”

The sword-wielding prisoner’s hand moved as directed and plunged into his comrade’s back.

“Aaaahhh!”

The prisoner with the sword in him collapsed to the ground.

“What, what, what the hell! Why isn’t it working!”

Grogi frantically pressed down on Mint with his telekinesis.

But Mint simply raised her hand to her shoulder being pressed by the telekinesis and shook it off with a few light taps.

“Prisoner Helios.”

Helios could only roll his eyes toward Mint. That was all he could do with the telekinesis crushing his body.

Step, step.

“Watch carefully.”

But Mint remained as calm as a fish released into water.

“Whether inside or outside the Tower, this isn’t a place bound by common sense. You will face countless trials ahead.”

“…”

“This is probably one of them.”

Grogi tried to shout something.

‘My, my voice won’t come out…!’

Even opening and closing his mouth was painful.

He couldn’t believe it.

He had climbed to the 80th Floor of the Tower.

He had even broken through the 82nd Floor recently, yet now he was crushed by force and couldn’t do anything!

Amazingly, the power pressing down on him was the same ability as his own—’telekinesis’…

‘Get away, get away!’

That frail-bodied guard approaching seemed as terrifying as a gatekeeper of hell drawing near.

Though he had survived countless battles and risen through the ranks, he had never once imagined such an end.

The expressionless guard was terrifying.

“…!!”

He tried desperately to struggle, but his body wouldn’t move at all.

Finally, Mint approached and raised her hand.

“Let me give you a little flick on the head.”

Helios held his breath.

What Mint showed next as her ‘one strike’ was absolutely not an attack that could be described as a little flick.

She simply swung her hand lightly, yet blood spurted from her opponent’s head.

What was even more chilling was that Mint showed no expression or reaction throughout all of this.

As if she was simply doing her job.

Mint’s military boots were stepping on the back of fallen Grogi’s hand.

Mint belatedly remembered something.

Among those filthy, disgusting bastards who couldn’t resist pretty things, there was one named ‘Grogi.’

He was a bastard who kidnapped anyone weaker and prettier than himself, regardless of gender, and tormented people to the ground.

Soon his screams echoed loudly across the open ground. Mint watched calmly.

“Elemental-types generally use their hands as a medium for their power, so they must be completely destroyed.”

The slow whisper was gentle instruction directed at Helios.

Helios’s mouth went completely dry.

Is this enough? Mint looked at the prisoners who were hesitating for a moment.

Her eyes narrowed like needles.

“Now then—”

Just as she was about to say let’s go back, a sword grazed past her cheek.

Mint turned her head, but there were only frozen prisoners.

‘Wh, who threw that!’

‘Which crazy bastard!!’

The prisoners who had been following Grogi remained frozen. With their boss collapsed like that, there was nothing they could do.

Yet someone had thrown a sword, and Mint’s cheek was wounded and bleeding.

“Ah, I was. Care.less.”

Mint muttered.

It was a stiff voice, as if reading from a book.

Then she slowly extended one hand.

“From now on, this will be ‘self-defense’ to protect the guard’s body.”

Something bluish formed in Mint’s hand.

Helios blinked when he saw that object.

“…A broom?”

Soon Helios witnessed an unbelievable sight—a broom beating people up on its own, something he couldn’t believe even while watching with his own eyes.

The broom truly displayed incredible prowess. Even when the conscious prisoners responded with Kia, none could match it.

Until the last person didn’t just fall but passed out completely.

The broom truly beat people up quite thoroughly.

Mint, who was watching this, was smiling.

“Did you see everything?”

“…What exactly?”

“Your ability, ‘Material Type’ Kia. The final form of this is creating an Ego Weapon like this.”

“…”

“A weapon that moves on its own.”

Helios swallowed his words.

“I myself am Other Type. I can use all powers just a little bit.”

…You said you can only use parts of all abilities.

Helios swallowed his breath, his excitement, and the faint emotion spreading through him that even he couldn’t identify, and fell silent.

“Cheek.”

That was about all he could manage to say.

Even though it was a very quiet sound, Mint seemed to hear it and raised her hand to place it on her cheek.

“Is it okay?”

Mint gently rubbed her cheek and smiled brightly.

“The fight was worthwhile too. I even got to receive my student’s concern.”

“…”

Helios frowned unpleasantly once again, and she thought he would say his usual words of rejection.

However, Helios moved his lips a few times, then slowly opened them.

“Right. I’d prefer my teacher not get hurt.”

“…”

Mint blinked.

He had called her ‘teacher’ and acknowledged her.

Mint looked at the man who was covering his mouth with the back of his hand while looking slightly diagonally instead of at her.

His neat and handsome eyebrows and face that remained radiant despite being a mess with sweat and dust.

Eventually her gaze moved.

Mint’s gaze lingered for a long time on his ears, which alone showed a red tint.

“Prisoner Helios. Judging by how your ears have turned red, it seems you have a fever.”

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