I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 178

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Chapter 178

“….”

Helios’s face turned bright red.

He knew his master was an unrestrained person, but right on this day when their hearts connected… to think it would be like this.

It wasn’t that he disliked it either.

But still…

Helios buried his face deep into Mint’s neck.

“…Like this, in such an unprepared state. It won’t do.”

“Why won’t it do.”

I’m fine with it. Why are you objecting?

Isn’t it enough if only I’m prepared?

“For women, I heard various preparations are necessary.”

Helios let out a hot sigh with a groan and rubbed his forehead against Mint’s neck.

“…I want to cherish and treasure you.”

Mint briefly felt that the meaning of “treasure” might be slightly different for her and Helios. But she decided to agree without complaint.

If my disciple is embarrassed, postponing it a little is nothing.

“Then, may I ask just one favor?”

Mint slowly looked up at the ceiling. For her, nothing took priority over Helios.

But if the branding with Helios had proceeded safely.

Pontos’s message lingered briefly in her mind before disappearing.

“I’ll go out for a moment and come back.”

Helios’s face, which had been languidly relaxed, turned sharp in an instant.

Helios’s hand gripped Mint’s shoulder tightly like claws.

He didn’t apply force, but Mint knew. Helios’s extremely sensitive state.

If he injected even a little Kia here, the flesh of her shoulder might tear off.

Of course, Helios might not do that… but originally, the strong sometimes use their power regardless of their own will.

Even so, Mint calmly offered her shoulder and instead reached out to cover Helios’s hand and squeeze it tight.

“It’s fine if you crush my shoulder first, but will you listen to what I have to say?”

“….”

“Or it’s fine if you break one of my legs first and then we talk.”

Even for her, with one broken leg, it would interfere with escaping.

Mint was saying such things with complete composure.

Helios’s distorted face filled with greater anger before soon subsiding with a sigh.

“…Yes, we have had far too little. conversation. Go ahead.”

Though he said “go ahead,” it was closer to “try it, if you dare.”

One couldn’t tell who was the master.

Perhaps insubordination also indicates a disciple’s growth. This isn’t bad either. There was a certain enjoyment in seeing such an arrogant expression that only maintained politeness in words.

Mint thought leisurely.

“It sounds somewhat overly challenging and fierce, but fine. I have a reason I absolutely must leave.”

“I’ll listen and judge how important that reason is.”

“Alright.”

Mint spoke calmly.

“My mother who gave birth to me is going to die soon.”

Mint spoke so matter-of-factly and quietly that Helios couldn’t understand the meaning of her words for several seconds.

Then he flinched.

Whatever the reason, Helios had no intention of listening to any of it.

It was natural.

Wasn’t this the Master he had finally obtained? Though he no longer planned to confine her forever, he intended to spend time here together, just the two of them, for a while at least.

Going nowhere and meeting no one… just the two of them alone.

After a brief silence, Helios asked in refined language.

For him, it was quite an effort.

“…Do you mean the Former Marchioness Limnades?”

“That’s right.”

“Master… have you forgiven the family that wrongfully imprisoned you?”

Look at this. Since she had said she preferred formal speech, Helios was using it diligently. She didn’t dislike that sight.

A smirk slipped out.

Helios raised one eyebrow in displeasure at whatever he thought of this.

Even that expression was quite lovely.

“There’s nothing to forgive. They didn’t do anything to me.”

“…”

“If you investigated my background, you’d know. My oppa and mother did nothing wrong.”

It was information discovered through the Information Guild. There was no way Helios, who was a Duke, couldn’t have found out.

“And you believe I’m innocent?”

“…The Former Marchioness Limnades and the Current Marquis protested the arrest until the end, crying out that their daughter and younger sister ‘Minte Limnades’ was innocent. I just thought those weren’t words that came out casually.”

“…”

“Master is certainly someone who would commit murder if necessary, but…”

In the darkness, Helios’s eyes glowed low like those of a beast.

“You weren’t someone who would commit pleasure killings like the known youngest serial killer in the Empire.”

“…Wow. You trust me that much?”

Of course, Mint wasn’t the youngest serial killer. The real ‘Mint’ hadn’t committed serial murders either.

She was just an innocent victim. Though it was admirable and curious how Helios had reasoned this out.

“Tell me more.”

Mint murmured while gently stroking under Helios’s chin.

Helios’s eyes narrowed, but he didn’t seem to dislike this skinship as he took her hand and pressed a long kiss to her fingertips.

“You’re leisurely about everything, composed. Sometimes you find things bothersome.”

“You observed well. And?”

“Actually, everything seemed bothersome to you. When we first met.”

“…”

“Speaking playfully and lightly about everything. Yet at the same time, you seemed uninterested in anything.”

Yes, back then she seemed uninterested even in herself. Only glimpses of some incomprehensible sense of duty showed through.

But at some point, that had changed.

“So, in my judgment, a person’s temperament doesn’t change easily, and even in childhood it wouldn’t have been much different.”

It was half correct.

Not Mint, but ‘Pakha’ had been old enough to understand words in childhood when she no longer wanted to go to the hospital and became a well-behaved child who did what her parents told her, even if just out of annoyance, keeping her mouth shut.

“What if a person changed during 10 years of being locked up.”

“I know that’s not the case.”

Somehow he looked certain.

“Because you were the same person even as a child.”

What was he seeing to be so certain?

As Mint, she would reasonably have doubts since she didn’t know that Helios had encountered Mama.

“No, you must have been even cuter as a child.”

“Oh, living this long and now I’m hearing my disciple call me cute too.”

Mint stood up from her seat. Helios didn’t stop her.

“Anyway, today might be the last time.”

“….”

“Would it be alright if I go?”

Helios bit his lips tightly. For him, childish emotions came first.

Had his master gained something precious without him knowing?

It was also the moment he realized his situation was different from his own, who no longer had family.

Had she not come to his side all this time because of family?

Though his mind was complicated, different words came from Helios’s mouth.

It was affirmation.

No, he was about to say that.

“Ah, and by the way.”

If only Mint hadn’t grabbed his hand and interlocked their fingers.

“If you don’t feel like it, shall we go together?”

Of course, Mint acted as if Helios’s answer wasn’t important, just like sometime in the past.

Her Kia rippled and enveloped both of them.

Helios’s eyes widened greatly.

“Master…!”

“Yes, yes, let’s go together.”

“That’s not it, Master, clothes! Damn it, your clothes…!”

“Ah.”

Of course, Mint had overlooked the fact that Helios had torn his clothes to shreds.

* * *

“…I did desperately wish for you to come.”

Night, Limnades Marquis Estate.

Marquis Limnades, Pontos, pressed firmly against his throbbing temples.

Having not slept for several days, the area under his eyes was bright red and swollen. Of course, there seemed to be other reasons besides lack of sleep.

Such as crying.

‘He was a crybaby.’

Mint thought quietly while kneeling.

“I never wanted my younger sister to appear half-naked in the middle of the night. Not at all.”

His tone was as if he wanted to devour something.

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