I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 177

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Chapter 177

Helios’s hands were neither cold nor hot. No, they seemed a little cool.

Mint knew it was because her own body had gradually grown warmer.

It was a pleasantly cool feeling.

However, this thought was brief as she felt the temperature slowly rising.

Mint glanced down for a moment and realized. The face resting against her chest was warm.

‘His ears… turned red.’

If she called him cute here, would he sulk?

Searching her memory, she recalled how Helios had always been disgusted by such words even in the cell.

Had he told her not to treat him like a child?

‘Where would you find such a big child?’

In reality, Mint had never once failed to treat Helios as an adult.

Who would brush lips with a child?

Looking at it this way, wasn’t it Helios himself who had treated himself like a child?

Mint let out a small laugh at this extremely rational yet surely infuriating thought that would make Helios frown and get angry if he knew.

Helios’s movements stopped.

Helios lifted his head from between her pulled-up clothes. Persistent marks had already been left on Mint’s skin.

His deep, intense violet gaze stared at her blankly, even containing something alluring.

Mint suppressed her laughter at his dazed expression.

“…What is so amusing?”

A suppressed voice flowed from him. It sounded like a voice barely holding back desire.

He could just ignore her laughter and continue what he was doing.

Mint gently stroked the man’s hair. It was incredibly soft, just like in prison.

No, it was a little softer.

‘He doesn’t seem to be injured anywhere.’

While Helios was absorbed in Mint’s scent, Mint also examined Helios thoroughly.

Though he was wrapped in clothes, he didn’t seem uncomfortable.

If she undressed him, would there be scars somewhere? If there were scars, should she ask if whoever made those scars was still alive?

Lost in thought for a moment, Mint fidgeted with Helios’s ear.

The more she touched it, the redder and hotter his ear became.

“…Stimulating me won’t end well.”

Helios grabbed her wrist and kissed the thin veins on the inside of her wrist.

When his breath touched her, Mint felt a tingling sensation down her spine. It wasn’t bad. No, it was good.

Good enough to make her want more, more.

“What happens if I stimulate you?”

“…”

“You won’t tell me, but you want to leave marks. Our disciple is stubborn.”

“Do you dislike that?”

“No way.”

Mint cupped Helios’s cheek. The corners of her mouth curved up in satisfaction.

“This is something I’ve longed for too.”

Though part of me thought this moment might never come.

Mint quietly swallowed her inner thoughts.

If Haira had seen this, she would have marveled that Mint had finally learned how to read the mood.

“First, do what I told you to do properly.”

“…Please wait. Master, don’t you know how to read the mood?”

This too was met with a sharp retort. Even this made Mint chuckle with longing and joy.

“I really do love your formal speech.”

“…”

“Your tone is formal, yet your gaze is so challenging and rebellious. I quite like it.”

“…Master’s tastes are quite perverted too.”

“And you’re the pervert who confines and ties people up?”

Helios didn’t answer. Instead, his cheeks turned an even deeper shade of red.

Whether it was shame, embarrassment, or excitement.

She couldn’t tell, but it was a magnificent sight.

Mint hummed briefly before grabbing his collar and pulling him closer.

“Come on, hurry up and engrave it. I’ve even offered my body, so you better do it properly.”

“…So please stop with that coaxing tone.”

“I’ve never treated you like a child. Who would do this kind of thing with a child?”

“…”

Helios’s neck turned an even deeper red. Every time that camellia-like crimson adorned his pale skin, Mint felt a satisfied fullness.

This has really become mine.

She felt like she could touch him all day without getting tired of it.

Helios slowly closed his eyes and opened them again.

“…That’s right.”

He smiled briefly, then made an expression as if he might cry.

“It’s no longer a dream or an illusion.”

“…”

“And I no longer have to fear that Master will leave.”

“…”

“Even if this were a dream I’m having while dead and eternally asleep, I could accept it.”

“Who gave you permission to die?”

Mint took Helios’s hand and placed it on her chest.

Mint’s voice lowered. At the same time, her tone was extremely calm and composed.

“You can’t die now without my permission.”

Who gave you permission to die on your own?

Mint had given herself with the intention of going together even if she went to Hell. She was sincere.

It was no longer possible to distinguish who was caught in the grip of terrible obsession.

I could feel Helios flinch, but more than that, it was to let him hear my heartbeat.

“You don’t need to worry about anything, just focus on the branding.”

Helios’s eyes widened for a moment, then he quietly laughed.

“A brand that makes Master my possession, you mean.”

It was a pure and beautiful smile, free of his usual prickliness.

“…I suppose so.”

Blue light bloomed from Helios’s fingertips. The deep blue color was mysterious, like both ocean and sky.

Soon, Helios’s Kia remaining inside Mint responded. Mint no longer suppressed what belonged to Helios.

The Kia manifested outside became blue cloth that wrapped around Mint’s wrist.

Helios recalled a scene from long ago in the prison, when Mint and Hades were together.

Along with the feeling of secretly watching it with his special ability.

“…The neck would be better.”

Watching the man reach out to Mint as if she were his own, Helios felt unprecedented jealousy and envy.

Even though Mint had brutally laid him on the ground, he had seen it.

That mysterious bond he couldn’t dare interfere with. Though whether that could even be called a bond was questionable.

It was from that moment he became aware of his possessive desire for Master to look only at that one, whether positive or negative.

I want you to look only at me.

Until the day those eyes of yours close forever.

Helios slowly moved up along Mint’s skin and stopped at her neck.

Below her lips, her pulse was beating thump, thump, thump at a steady rhythm.

“…Never give even a piece of your skin to anyone else again.”

“Anyone listening would think I’ve given it before.”

Mint muttered.

“Master must feel so wronged.”

“Pour your affection and anger only on me.”

“…Even anger?”

Mint smiled slightly.

“Wouldn’t it be enough to just cherish you? I’m confident in that.”

Her shoulders trembled and gentle vibrations were transmitted to Helios as well. It was a peaceful vibration.

“…Master’s way of cherishing has peculiar aspects that differ from others.”

“And you love me just as I am.”

“…”

Instead of answering, Helios pressed his lips to Mint’s neck. After persistently nibbling for a moment, Helios bared his fangs.

‘…To bite until it bleeds and inject Kia.’

In truth, it was a process that felt somewhat uncomfortable for him.

Soon he acted as Mint had taught him. He was an excellent disciple and student, both in the past and present.

Mint felt the Kia entering her, trying to control her at will.

Instead of rejecting it, she accepted it as it was. The feeling of eternal subordination wasn’t too bad.

She defined it as taking root rather than subordination.

Yes, this would be closer to companionship.

There was one thing Mint hadn’t told him.

The side effects of when Helios branded her like this.

If he died, she would probably die with him. Conversely, if she died, he wouldn’t necessarily die.

Mint briefly felt that her love was similar to what Mama had given her.

It couldn’t be helped.

Until coming to This Place and seeing Helios, that was the only love she had seen and felt her entire life.

“Are you satisfied now?”

When everything was over, a blue cloth was wrapped around Mint’s neck.

Helios’s eyes sank even lower. Had she said she loved him? The pleasure those words gave consumed his entire body.

His violet eyes darkened deeply. Eyes brimming with possessiveness couldn’t look away from Mint.

He unconsciously licked his lips.

“…May I bite you once more?”

Mint answered with a smile. After another round of deeper intimacy passed, Helios let out a sigh tinged with languid satisfaction.

Mint was touching Helios’s skin when she pulled her hand away.

Her hand touched the Kia cord tied around her neck.

As Mint caressed this cloth, she smiled comfortably for the first time.

“It’s exactly your color.”

Upright, knowing no other color, endlessly blue.

“Now my collar is yours, Disciple.”

Helios was overcome with emotion and gripped Mint’s hand tightly. Mint smiled and pressed down firmly on one spot with her knee.

It was Helios’s thigh. She pressed the area firmly and whispered softly.

“It seems the brand wasn’t the only urgent thing.”

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