I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 162
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Chapter 162
An intentional accident, he says.
Who could have known that Helios would come with such a frontal assault?
No, wait.
Come to think of it, my disciple always had a reckless side.
After I assigned colleagues to him, he took fewer solo risks due to his sense of responsibility and camaraderie.
But when gambling within the group, he always took on the dangerous roles.
‘Did that displease me?’
Or was I proud watching him voluntarily take risks and grow rapidly?
By the way, what was our elder brother doing that allowed Helios to come knocking on our door?
I thought this, but it wasn’t Marquis Limnades’ fault.
“…Duke, what is the meaning of this?”
What could he do against someone who suppresses with Kia?
Moreover, the opponent was currently a rising star, one of the Empire’s strongest Kia users.
I brushed off my wrists.
‘Should I just reveal everything and greet Helios?’
After thinking this, I changed my mind.
I couldn’t know what Helios might harbor toward me.
Whether it was hatred, vengeance, or something else entirely…
This was always the problem.
Human emotions were a very difficult puzzle for me.
The prison where violence and oppression controlled everything and the outside world operated by similar yet different rules.
Since coming out into the world, I had to suffer through irrational actions driven by emotions several times.
At the same time, I came to seek only certainties.
When facing Helios, when honestly confessing everything to him.
The probability that he would help me fulfill Mama’s last words.
Or the probability that he would seek revenge against me.
The probability that he would confine and punish me.
In situations where neither side was certain, I couldn’t face him.
‘But I can’t just knock the child down to the ground like before, can I?’
More than anything, if I knocked him down, I’m not sure what indecent things I might do next.
He must have gotten even prettier over these three years.
The door creaks as if it’s about to open soon.
I quietly brushed off my hands.
Right, so this is how you’re going to play it.
My disciple.
The corners of my mouth curved into a subtle arc.
Let’s give it a try, shall we.
* * *
Marquis Limnades frowned as deeply as he could.
Logically speaking, to brutishly suppress with force the head of a noble house of similar rank, or even slightly superior status, was unthinkable.
It was an act that disrespected his house.
However, both Marquis Limnades and his knights were all pressed down by Helios’s Kia, unable to do anything.
‘Has he gone mad?’
The Marquis, Pontos, gritted his teeth.
But soon his expression became strange.
“Young Lady, are you alright?”
At the same time, Helios opened the door without hesitation.
“Please forgive my rudeness.”
Creak.
Perhaps because he used too much force, the door opened with a strained sound.
“…”
Helios’s eyes met with a woman trembling on the carriage floor.
A slender frame. Pure white silver hair. It was a different shade of gray-silver hair from his own.
And green eyes.
Not a single feature was the same as Mint’s.
Helios’s blue eyes wandered around the carriage.
“…Marquis Limnades’ Daughter?”
The woman didn’t answer and trembled violently.
Soon, Helios’s mysteriously enchanting eyes narrowed slightly.
The woman before him appeared thin and delicate in every visible aspect.
Nowhere could he see that proud silhouette that seemed slender yet unbreakable.
The gaze looking at him was filled with fear.
A frightened face.
It was a face that Master, who knew nothing of emotions, could never have fabricated.
Helios stared at her intently.
At the same time.
Mint was sitting in place, watching the entire situation.
— Oppa, listen without getting flustered.
The moment she finished making her decision, she made her body invisible to hide, then secretly spoke to Marquis Limnades.
— I’m going to create an illusion.
The ‘woman’ that Helios was looking at was precisely the illusion that Mint had created.
An illusion with very realistic scent and touch. At this level, it was questionable whether this should even be called an illusion.
There was no way for her to avoid him here anyway. So Mint chose the path of hiding a tree in the forest.
Creating an illusion more real than reality and hiding her own body.
As expected, Helios, who opened the carriage, had his attention captured by the frail ‘Marquis’s daughter’ collapsed on the floor.
Mint focused on using Kia for the first time in a while. Then she suddenly turned her head.
Then she unconsciously froze.
Her disciple stood there wearing a neat uniform.
Had his frame grown even larger during those three years?
His matured face boasted a beauty that could enchant even demons, just like a passage from the original work she had once seen.
“Ta-da, now you’re a prince too.”
It suited him far more splendidly than the uniform she had put on him during their kiss on the floor where the tower’s fairy tale ‘Snow White’ was perfectly recreated.
‘…He’s pretty.’
Mint looked at his eyes that had become even whiter while simultaneously growing sharper, as if containing all the world’s pickiness in one place, then opened her mouth.
‘Hello.’
It was a greeting that wouldn’t reach him.
She didn’t hope for it to reach him either.
Mint was simply curious.
If you truly suspected that the ‘illegitimate child of the marquis family’ was the master who abandoned you long ago.
What exactly are you harboring toward me?
“Ah, um, sor, sorry…”
The marquis’s young lady created through illusion put on a very timid act as if to show off.
Helios looked at such a young lady for a moment, then opened his mouth.
“Master.”
That was when it happened.
Along with that deep call, Mint felt intense pain in her wrist.
‘Kia is…’
Kia was rampaging. It was desperately trying to reveal its presence.
Mint forcibly suppressed Helios’s Kia that was rampaging within her.
‘…Just what kind of training did he do for three years.’
It was growth that would naturally make one click their tongue.
Certainly the man she had last parted with wasn’t comparable to her level. Yet somehow he had caught up this much.
At that moment, Helios’s eyes turned precisely toward where Mint was sitting.
…Was I caught?
His gaze immediately shifted away.
Helios slowly looked around the carriage, then stepped back.
“Ha… Damn it.”
His frowning face was the same as when he used to frown beside her after hearing something he shouldn’t have heard.
“Not again?”
Mint felt a momentary tightening sensation in her chest.
She tilted her head.
What should this be called, Mama?
Helios ran his hand over his face. Soon a sound of frustration could be heard.
“…I will never let you go.”
Mint felt a tingling sensation down her spine.
Was this hatred, or perhaps regret, or simply an obsession with something he couldn’t have?
Either way, Mint realized she had taken hold of a piece of Helios’s life.
I hope you hate me. So that you’ll never forget me forever.
Things she had quietly repeated for three years.
The emotion she was feeling now was definitely exhilaration.
‘Mama, I really am not normal, am I?’
Just as she muttered inwardly to someone who couldn’t hear her.
The illusion of Marquis Limnades’ Daughter, who had been trembling and gasping for breath, slowly closed her eyes.
It was what Mint had intended.
Thud.
The woman collapsed on the carriage floor. Helios watched the Young Lady without doing anything.
“Lite!”
Taking advantage of the loosened pressure, Marquis Limnades rushed over and quickly lifted his Younger Sister into his arms.
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