I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 187

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Chapter 187

I blinked my eyes slowly.

I felt a chill.

The same chill I felt when I nearly died in the prison I went to for the first time in my life, or when I was recklessly thrown into the Tower.

Who would have known I’d feel this from my lover.

Of course, it was different in nature from the chill I felt from the threat of death. But it was similar, that was true.

Did I dislike it?

‘…As if.’

Rather, it was close to my taste. My disciple, who had even broken out of prison through his long obsession, was certainly different from what I had seen three years ago.

As Haira said, his essence hadn’t changed. However, it was undoubtedly I who had given him changes that could influence that essence.

Every time he casually mentioned confinement like this.

‘I definitely thought I preferred clean and moral aspects.’

Knowing how much a single stain I had dropped had dirtied the pure white paper, I even felt a kind of thrill.

Normal people would say I was insane.

But my disciple before me said it was fine to have such a dangerous existence.

Even though I had warned him several times that if I went mad like him, I wouldn’t be someone to end things so moderately.

He said it was fine.

I would live well even if I lived alone.

But being held tightly in that large body last night, I had this thought.

Living together wouldn’t be bad either.

“Child, you know what? You always express things as ‘not bad’ instead of saying ‘good’… You’re such an old soul for someone so young, really.”

At Mama’s voice brushing through my mind, I smiled inwardly.

You’re right, Mama.

Still keeping Helios’s hand against my lips, I smiled mischievously.

“Try it once.”

“…”

“I’m suddenly curious about how much patience I have too?”

I bit down hard on Helios’s finger provocatively, then gently caressed it with my own.

Helios couldn’t take his eyes off his moistened finger.

“And, if it’s you, I’d be fine being confined for life.”

At that moment, I couldn’t continue speaking.

Because Helios pounced on me fiercely.

“Hah…”

“Master, haa, you really drive people…crazy.”

What followed was the beginning of a short yet long wager.

Until we arrived at the Imperial Palace.

* * *

‘Should I have brought another set of clothes?’

Mint seriously pondered this.

Her clothes were wrinkled all over. The slightly torn parts made her wonder lightly whether it was okay to enter the Imperial Palace wearing this.

Helios was in a somewhat better situation… though to say that, Mint decided to find her nonexistent conscience.

Because she had discovered the clothing she had torn herself.

“Master definitely has a hobby of tearing clothes. I’ll remember that.”

“Well, I won’t deny it.”

Mint shrugged her shoulders.

“For reference, I also learned this after meeting you.”

Mint’s slender fingers tapped her own chest. My preference, that is.

Then, Helios’s furrowed brows subtly returned to their proper place.

They had to stop because they arrived at the Imperial Palace faster than expected. Actually, if they hadn’t come here, they could have stayed together at the mansion all day today.

Master would have been all his.

Though he had moved at Mint’s request, Helios still found it disagreeable.

Sometimes Helios was confused.

Precisely, after connecting hearts with Mint and even placing the brand.

Did he want to completely confine and control Master?

Or like before, like in prison, did he want to do what Master commanded, see her faint smile, and worship and love her passionately like a devotee?

“I guess everything that makes you up is my type.”

At words like these that Mint casually threw out.

He felt confused because he couldn’t understand himself. What was certain was that either way, enormous obsession and greed were rooted like foundations.

The important thing was that his thirst would probably never be satisfied in his lifetime.

The loss he experienced once would make him ruminate every time. The emptiness he had experienced since childhood might appeal to her for the affection he lacked every time.

To act optimistically saying everything would be fine, Master was too dangerous a person to let his guard down around.

Helios’s only reins were the ‘brand’. The mark that she had permitted and he had placed, showing she was his.

Helios slowly calmed his excitement.

Though Mint said it was okay.

He still didn’t want to hurt her.

This feeling of wanting to swallow her whole even if he devoured her – could it really be expressed only with the words pure and beautiful love?

But as Mint said, since broken people had gathered together, if the two of them defined each other as normal, wouldn’t that be fine?

It would be okay going forward too.

Even though there were people in that Imperial Palace he didn’t particularly want to see.

“Ta-da.”

When Helios rubbed his face and opened his eyes again.

“Master has the all-purpose Kia.”

Mint had seamlessly changed both her and Helios’s clothes using Kia.

Like the day long ago when she had dressed him in a uniform at the Tower.

Was that the day of their first kiss?

Right in front of him, she was smiling softly. Even during her days as ‘Garret’, he had seen her smile faintly from time to time.

Helios felt that her current smile was different from back then.

So he thought that the deficiency and thirst he felt beside her wasn’t so bad either.

Mint had never been to the Imperial Palace.

No, to be precise, she had been there but it was ambiguous.

That was because the courtroom where Mint first opened her eyes was the Imperial Affiliated Court.

In any case, she had no experience visiting the main castle, so this was her first time seeing it.

Mint’s impression upon seeing the Imperial Palace was simple.

Large and gloomy.

Unlike other kingdoms, the Empire’s castle where they were located was pitch black, built from black stone.

It gave an overwhelming sense of intimidation to the imperial citizens viewing it from afar, but to Mint it just looked like a gloomy castle.

Well, weren’t most of the masters living here of that disposition anyway.

‘Perfect for gloomy people to live in.’

Come to think of it, it had similarities to Niflheim as well.

“We greet Duke Alpeion.”

An elderly attendant was waiting for the two people.

It was a modest welcoming party for Duke Alpeion, but neither Mint nor Helios minded.

If Hades who had summoned them had gathered crowds under the pretense of welcome, that would have been more disgusting.

‘So this is meant to be a quiet visit.’

The corridor they walked through was empty of people. Personnel had clearly been cleared out in advance.

The two soon stopped in front of a giant door. When the attendant muttered something, the door moved.

Compared to the door, the inner space wasn’t very large.

As soon as Mint entered, she sensed Kia.

— Master, I’ll tell you in advance.

The moment she stepped foot inside, Mint heard Helios’s voice echoing in her head.

So he’s even doing things like this now.

Mint was newly impressed. Even though it looked simple, transmitting one’s voice to a specific person was quite a difficult ability.

Moreover, since Helios was an ability user with such an enormous amount of Kia, delicate control could be more difficult than creating one giant room.

— I’m thinking of stepping in if things go wrong.

— What’s your standard for things going wrong?

Mint calmly responded to that voice.

— Well, I suppose all kinds of nonsense would fall under that category.

Having that refined voice echo in her head wasn’t bad at all.

Maybe next time she’d tell him to try it in the bedroom.

— You’ll forgive me, won’t you.

She liked the voice that spoke as if stating a fact yet carried faint anxiety at the end. Mint smiled faintly.

— Is there reason to just forgive you for something like that? I’m fine with whatever you do.

Helios fell silent for a moment.

Soon his voice arrived with a sigh.

― …If you knew what I was thinking just now, you’d call me a pervert again.

― Oh. What a coincidence. I was thinking perverted thoughts too.

― ….

The conversation went no further.

Because their steps had stopped at one place.

Mint slowly raised her head.

“Hello, miss?”

A man sitting fully in a large chair was resting his chin on his hand.

Jet-black hair. Red eyes.

Mint’s hair color gradually changed.

There was no need to stand there wasting Kia on transformation when facing someone who knew her identity.

Pale skin. He was still a man with an enchanting appearance as if a demon had manifested.

It was a face that matched his abilities.

“No. Is it Minte Limnades now?”

“….”

But instead of answering, Mint stared at Hades for a long while.

Soon her beautiful brow furrowed slightly.

How strange. To feel a sense of unease from Hades upon their reunion.

‘What the hell.’

Mint frowned.

Who the fuck is this bastard?

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