I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 173

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Chapter 173

Helios’s eyes widened.

Countless emotions flashed through his beautiful violet eyes.

Things I couldn’t understand one by one.

I had never felt betrayal so teeth-grindingly painful, nor the hurt and sorrow of abandonment.

The closest thing would be when my fellow prisoners blocked my way after I threw Mama into the rift and stood by watching.

In my entire life in this world, there was only one person I had given my affection to – Mama.

No, with you before my eyes, that makes two.

And you have won over my first, though you don’t seem to know that fact yet.

Our faces were very close.

“Now, what punishment are you going to give me?”

Our breaths collided and our noses touched.

Tension mixed into our breathing.

Before I could open my lips again, the sensation of my nape being yanked came first. Our lips touched again.

My vision blurred.

When I closed and opened my eyes, our positions had changed. I was now lying down looking up at Helios.

But I couldn’t maintain the awareness of looking, because he came at me frantically.

Our lips collided again and again.

Helios came at me thirstily, like a desert wanderer craving an oasis.

I felt his hand slip between my clothes and caress around my waist.

Certainly when he was ‘Garret’, his hand was relentlessly targeting places he had never even touched before.

As if he was confirming something.

Whether this time, you are really you.

I didn’t reject his roughly colliding lips, body, or even his hands – not a single thing. Instead, I quietly stroked Helios’s back and neck.

“Haah…”

When our lips finally parted, a long breath burst out – I couldn’t tell whose it was.

When I slowly opened my eyes, I saw a man who had turned bright red.

Ragged breathing. Cheeks flushed like camellias.

Completely disheveled hair and clothes.

I felt the sensation of love once again.

For the first time in my life, I felt it from you.

I raised my hand to caress his cheek, then tried to touch his lips where my traces remained.

From our fierce collision, blood was flowing from where his fangs had scraped.

The moment my fingertip touched his lips.

Smack!

Helios roughly slapped my hand away. When I looked up…

There was a sharp glare from his flushed face.

Why?

“You… you’re always like this.”

I blinked, not understanding what he meant.

“Always, constantly. Everything is so easy for you.”

It was the same thing he’d said when we faced each other at the Open Ground. I didn’t respond.

Because it wasn’t wrong.

The three years you claim were difficult felt short to me.

“Are you planning to give me some time today and leave tomorrow? Or perhaps the day after? Or will we have together… maybe a week?”

The hand that had been persistently gripping my waist slowly traveled up along my body and brushed my shoulder.

The hand stopped at my neck.

My pulse throbbed where his fingertips touched.

Looking up at Helios’s face, he didn’t look at all like someone who had imprisoned another person.

Though he was pretending to be cold, why did he look so fragile?

“What, even imprisoning me isn’t enough to satisfy you?”

“You’re the one who made it impossible to trust, even when given freedom, Master.”

Helios gripped my neck as if to strangle me, though he put no strength into his hands at all.

If he applied just a little pressure here, my breath would be completely cut off.

“When I saw how perfectly you hid your identity in front of me, how could I trust you?”

“…”

Helios’s face twisted as if in anguish. Even so, it was a beautiful face.

“Rather, like this…”

“Do you want to kill me?”

His hand flinched. An incomprehensible shock flashed across his face.

“Or do you want to make me into some kind of living specimen? Should I tell you how?”

“You are…”

“Yes, your Master is.”

I briefly thought about Mama’s funeral. If I became unable to move like this, holding a funeral would be difficult.

“I came in without lifting a finger because I didn’t want you to get hurt. What more was lacking?”

“…”

“What should I do for you to trust me?”

“…”

“Will you say even this is shameless?”

I placed my hand over his hand that gripped my neck.

Helios flinched and immediately pulled his hand away.

Helios looked even more confused than when I first met him in the Prison. Back then, at least his survival instinct was certain.

Now he looked like someone who had fallen into a swamp and lost their way.

I had seen Prisoners trapped in the maze inside the Tower with faces like that.

A face that couldn’t find an answer.

Helios stepped back and stood up from his seat.

“Forever, you will never be able to escape from This Place forever.”

Helios muttered as if chewing the words, without looking at me. It sounded less like a sentence or warning and more like something he was repeating to himself.

He swept his face with a complicated expression.

“…How wonderful it would be if I could live as simply and conveniently as Master, doing whatever feels comfortable.”

“….”

“You probably will never understand for the rest of your life. My feelings of being abandoned, and even my current feelings.”

That’s probably true.

I’ve never been in such a situation, and even if I were in the same position, I can’t say with confidence that I would react the same way.

But you said you liked me the way I am.

And I have no intention of letting you go.

“Helios, I thought I taught you how to clearly state what you want.”

“….”

“Was it insufficient?”

So what is it that you want? Will you pour out your resentment on my body through torture? Will you take revenge on me?

Or will you possess me with those desire-filled eyes?

I wished he would just choose one.

“….”

Helios stared at me quietly for a long time, then turned his back.

It was clearly a room with four walls and no door, but when Helios approached a certain spot, a door materialized and opened.

‘A barrier.’

It was a barrier that recognized people.

With Helios’s retreating figure as the last thing I saw, I was left alone in the room.

I stared at the wall where Helios had disappeared for a long time.

As if doing so would make my disciple return.

A sigh escaped.

“This isn’t easy.”

What does My Disciple want?

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Several days passed.

During this time, Helios did not appear.

Meals were simply brought punctually when it was time. The ones bringing the meals were maids or attendants with their faces completely covered.

‘Am I not even allowed to see people’s faces?’

Fortunately, with my level of skill, I could roughly tell the passage of time even without seeing sunlight.

Or perhaps they hoped I would go mad just staring at walls.

Unfortunately for them, I had been confined in Niflheim’s Solitary Cell for a month before, so that would be difficult.

When another day had passed, this time a familiar face appeared carrying a meal.

“It’s been a while.”

Except for slightly wavy hair, it was a familiar face that had barely changed.

It was Haira.

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