I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 191

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Chapter 191

He looked at the gun pointed at him with a momentarily surprised expression, then tilted his head.

If he had any memories about me, he would know that brainwashing or Psychic-type Kia Ability wouldn’t work on me.

So he was just staying still.

“Oh, remembering something and seeing it directly are quite different. Is that the gun you’re so proud of, miss? It’s really precise.”

“Of course. It can drill precise air holes in heads too. Want to try it?”

“….”

His red eyes glanced toward me briefly, then he slowly raised both hands.

“I’ll pass. I have no intention of fighting. Rather than fighting a monster, it’s more profitable to do other efficient things.”

Hades spoke while obediently keeping his hands raised.

Seeing his compliant appearance, I thought he was definitely like this before.

A very long time ago in childhood, when we first met.

“I admit the method was wrong. I wasn’t trying to test you, but that’s how it turned out. But miss, I didn’t do anything except call you here, right?”

“Threatening with a letter isn’t doing anything?”

“You could have ignored it, couldn’t you?”

“I knew what kind of tricks you might pull.”

“Oh my, were you afraid of me?”

“The personality of eliminating obstacles to your goals first and asking questions later – you and I were similar in that regard.”

“….”

The implication that I would erase him here if necessary seemed to register effectively, as Hades’s smile half-disappeared.

“…Goals. So your goal is also my Boss?”

I didn’t answer, but he wouldn’t be unaware that silence was an answer in itself.

I had no particular intention of hiding it either.

“Miss, as I said, I want to become Emperor, and at the same time, I want to secure my safety by eliminating the Brother who tried to kill me from this world. In other words, we can be in the same boat until the moment we eliminate that ‘Boss.'”

“….”

“You don’t trust me, right? Same here. A newborn bastard – that wasn’t wrong. To me, you’re a person who only existed in memories. That’s why I can say this even more.”

Even at the mockery directed at him, he smiled cheerfully.

Originally, he was someone who knew how to swallow and hide coldly suppressed anger.

“Let’s shake hands.”

He extended his hand.

“What makes you think I’d trust you?”

“What do you want?”

I stared at him intently.

The moment I flicked my hand away, Hades’s eyes rolled very slightly. That much disruption was enough.

Crash!

My Kia extending from beneath his feet slammed him straight into the ground.

“Ouch, that must hurt.”

An insincere mutter echoed through the space.

“I won’t apologize.”

“….”

“Your Kia was already crawling all over this space.”

“….”

“The Kia you were ready to attack me with if things went wrong. Right?”

Did nothing? Sure you didn’t. When you were ready to either trap me here or try to kill me if push came to shove.

The Kia amplification devices scattered all over the ground were proof. They were all infused with Hades’ Kia.

“Cough, hmm… How unfair. I only set these up because of Boss, you know?”

“Nice excuse.”

“Sigh, Mental Kia Users are so fragile and delicate. You must not know much about it.”

“Stop beating around the bush.”

I looked down at the fallen bastard with one hand loosely placed on my hip.

“So, cooperation.”

My Kia was wrapped around him like vines, making him unable to move. Only his eyes were gleaming.

The moment our eyes met, he instantly hid his hostility.

“But… how far can you go?”

I formed Kia in my hand and brought it close to his heart.

“You could make a promise with your life on the line, couldn’t you?”

He said he had forgotten his love and obsession toward me.

If that’s true, then predicting him would be easy.

For a human driven purely by reason, rationality, and selfishness, the most important thing is.

“…Haha.”

His life.

“How unexpected.”

A moment later, Hades said while brushing off his clothes.

Still a germaphobe, he looked down at his clothes with disgust.

“I never thought you would also make the promise together.”

I answered calmly.

“If I hadn’t, you would have schemed something troublesome behind my back. Better to cooperate properly.”

“….”

The act of carving Kia into the heart was made mutually.

Until we capture the ‘Crown Prince,’ seriously injure him, or bring him to death, we would not interfere with each other or target each other’s lives.

The moment this simple pact was broken, our hearts would burst.

Of course, I knew a way to nullify even an oath made on the heart.

But he didn’t need to know that.

Each person has a space that suits their nature. Just as the prison with its chaos and disorder suited me.

This capital and Imperial Palace was Hades’ space, who could be called the strongest among Mental Kia Users.

It’s not that I couldn’t handle him, but it would take time.

That wouldn’t do. My goal was already set in stone.

Thanks to Helios.

I want to resolve all grudges and be confined alone with just Helios.

‘…I’ll still have to do social activities though, right? I’m still a Duke after all.’

Though I don’t know if Helios would accept that.

“I’m going.”

I turned my back without any lingering attachment.

Since he was the one who would contact me, there was nothing more to see.

Then I suddenly turned my head.

“Hey. Even if you become Emperor, the method to prevent the previous personality from returning. You’re certain about it, right?”

“Probably?”

‘Hades’ shrugged his shoulders.

From the way he wasn’t telling me exactly, there seemed to be a reason.

The more evasively that bastard spoke, the more it meant he had a solid plan inside.

‘Then is there nothing more to say?’

“Why are you asking that?”

“Ah.”

I shrugged my shoulders slightly.

“I remembered a story I could never tell ‘Hades Pailuto’.”

Something I felt anew when I reunited with Helios.

Or maybe it was something I could understand because I met Helios again and even held Mama’s funeral, which had been one of my long-cherished wishes.

“Hades.”

And something I could say because it had nothing to do with the current ‘Hades’.

“He made a grave for Marla.”

That ‘Hades’ over there would have the memory too. Since he says the personality is different, he’s just no longer the same person.

“When I think about it, in the chaos before the past rift, you were the only one who took my side, even if you mocked me.”

I didn’t acknowledge it then.

That Hades made it possible for me to enter the rift. That he bought me time.

Even if I went back to that time, to the moment I faced the rift in the prison, I wouldn’t acknowledge it.

“That woman would need at least a grave.”

Even so, the image of him making a gravestone, saying he deliberately brought the prettiest stone, remained in my memory.

Alone, while everyone else hushed up Mama’s death.

I didn’t acknowledge it as a cemetery, so I never went there again after that one time.

I wasn’t grateful then.

“I hate you. This is a fact that will never change.”

“…”

“But now I acknowledge it, that what I felt toward you wasn’t always just hatred.”

If twisted feelings could be called love, then you would have been the first to love me.

Though it’s a meaningless fact to me.

“The one who made me acknowledge these things is Helios, so you can never be him.”

If I had said this to Hades, it wouldn’t have worked at all.

Nevertheless, the reason I said this to that ‘Hades’ was also to let him know that I would never take Hades’ side.

The ‘Hades’ who had been staring at me intently soon burst into giggles.

His laughter echoed throughout the space.

“Wow, you’re really vicious.”

Hah, the ‘Hades’ who exhaled soon after waved his hand.

“See you again.”

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