I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 194

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Chapter 194

Preference?

Why is he bringing up preferences here?

I raised my hand and grasped the string with my other hand.

I can actually touch it with my hands.

I suddenly looked up and extended my hand toward Pontos.

“Oppa, try touching this.”

“What?”

Pontos was horrified.

“D-don’t force me into your preferences!”

“What preferences? This is a string made from Kia.”

“…You enjoy it even using Kia? That’s really information I didn’t want to know!”

I tilted my head.

Soon, Kia emerged from beneath Pontos’s feet and tried to grab him, but.

Haaaaaak!

A pure white cat suddenly appeared and hissed, causing my Kia to be repelled.

“Agile, isn’t it?”

While Pontos’s summon repelled my Kia, Oppa stood behind the sofa in a defensive stance.

“I’m always prepared since I never know when I might be attacked.”

He had an incredulous expression.

“…Why did you suddenly attack?”

“No, you were acting up. I was telling you to calm down.”

“…Solving things with violence, no. Never mind. The root cause is definitely that damn prison. I should blow up Niflheim.”

Pontos said he had no intention of causing a scene in someone else’s house, and extended his hand with a resigned expression. He’d do as I wished.

And when Pontos’s hand touched the blue string, the string passed right through his hand.

Pontos’s eyes widened slightly.

“It passes through.”

“…What exactly is this thing?”

“Helios’s Kia?”

When I touch it, it has substance, but other people’s hands pass through it.

‘Could others touch it too if certain conditions are met?’

Could I use it in combat too?

I fiddled with the string for quite a while. Has Helios woken up? Even if he realizes I’m not beside him, he should be able to know my location through this string.

If I use Kia’s properties in reverse, could I summon Helios from anywhere too?

‘That would be nice, wouldn’t it?’

“…I don’t really understand, but I can tell you’re touching it quite affectionately.”

Pontos muttered something incomprehensible and sat back down.

I also sat across from him, slowly erasing my smile as I opened my mouth.

Now it’s time to stop fooling around and have a very serious conversation.

“When I went to see the 2nd Prince recently, there was one story I heard.”

That Guy ‘Hades’ wasn’t entirely useless. Rather, as if trying to prove his worth, he leaked some information to me.

“When I got caught up in the explosion incident at the jewelry store, there was a separate culprit who caused the explosion.”

The day I went to buy Helios’s engagement ring, an explosion suddenly occurred at the jewelry store where I was.

Anyone could see it was an artificial explosion involving Kia.

‘At the time I momentarily thought it might be Helios, but I couldn’t sense Helios’s traces anywhere.’

Besides, if he had done it himself, my Disciple would have brazenly confessed it to me directly.

In fact, when I asked about it later, he said he didn’t know anything about it. He even showed anger.

Since there were other incidents after that, it just got swept under the rug.

‘Hades’ told me the truth about the incident I had forgotten.

“The culprit is the Crown Prince.”

“….”

“As Oppa knows, he’s also the True Culprit who put me in Prison.”

Pontos’s expression hardened.

Pontos wasn’t unaware either, but he would know well that there was nothing he could do since the opponent was the Imperial Palace.

“…Wait a minute. Wait, Minte. What did you say? What True Culprit?”

Huh, wasn’t that it?

“You’re saying it was the Crown Prince’s side, not the 2nd Prince?”

“Yeah. Didn’t you know?”

Since Helios also knew, I naturally thought Pontos would know too.

“There’s the story about the Imperial Badge in the case records. The 2nd Prince had a perfect alibi.”

“That’s because the 2nd Prince’s side knew the fact that there were two badges….”

“He had two badges?”

“Yes. The Empress apparently passed it down before she died. Besides, wasn’t the 2nd Prince’s Ability Mental Realm Kia? Though it wasn’t known at the time.”

Certainly, if that’s the case. It could be confusing. Hades’s Ability was perfectly capable of causing serial Murder.

“It’s the Crown Prince’s side.”

“…Is there a reason you’re certain?”

“If I just say it’s intuition Here, you won’t believe me?”

“No, that’s not it.”

Pontos shook his head with a serious face.

“I believe whatever you say.”

Suddenly, bright eyes looked at me as if he had become a loyal Puppy.

It doesn’t particularly matter if you don’t believe me.

‘I had evidence to present anyway.’

I shrugged my shoulders.

“I know the 2nd Prince a bit. That Guy is the type to hide Murder when he’s determined, not a pleasure killer who displays corpses for show.”

Looking at the case records, the method of serial Murder was quite brutal. The culprit used to carve alphabets into the corpses.

This kind of cruelty was greatly considered when I received a life sentence at trial.

“What was your reason for thinking it wasn’t the Crown Prince? Oppa’s side must have had reasons too.”

“Well, honestly both were suspects. Given the compatibility of abilities, I thought the 2nd Prince was more likely.”

“….”

“There’s also the matter of public image. There was the perspective that surely the next Imperial heir wouldn’t commit such crimes.”

Pontos glanced at me briefly.

“Right, it seems there wasn’t a lack of prejudice.”

“Originally, a madman is… a madman because he doesn’t care about such things.”

I spoke calmly with my arms crossed.

“And he was skilled at deceiving others’ eyes while committing crimes. Truly a cunning madman.”

“…Right. He’s the most popular member of the Imperial Family.”

Pontos rubbed his chin.

“Perhaps currently he’s an Imperial Family member with a better reputation than even the Emperor. They say people believe without doubt that he’ll become a wise ruler like no other in the world.”

“I know. Gentlemanly, kind and caring yet wise….”

I folded my fingers one by one as I listed the praises I had heard.

Stories from the investigation reports, and from banquets I attended as the ‘Illegitimate Child’.

As Pontos’s face became even more distorted, a shadow fell beside him. Looking up, he could see Helios, red all the way to his neck.

Ah, his mood seems to have improved a bit.

‘Should I call him simple?’

“What a maddening combination.”

Pontos muttered this and shook his head back and forth.

“I have no intention of taking my younger sister away, so Duke, why don’t you sit down for now?”

* * *

Deep night.

The man frantically ran through the alley.

‘Run, I have to run…!’

However, his desperate thoughts soon dulled with pain. His body was collapsing. The ground was cold.

Gasping and wheezing, breathing his last breath of life, the man slowly looked up at the sky.

Beast-like eyes looking down at him from the darkness. But soon those eyes folded gently and tenderly as if they belonged to an angel descended from heaven.

“Try running more.”

Dry words fell with warmth.

“How boring.”

In his final moment, the man wished.

That the murderer who killed him would please fall into the most painful hell.

Clatter.

The blood-stained dagger fell to the ground. The murderer looked down at his ‘work’.

Hmm, as expected, it’s not satisfying.

This cannot become a ‘work’. It will just remain a corpse.

“…I need something different after all.”

The murderer slowly turned his head. He thought of a massive mansion that would be in this direction.

“The Daughter of Limnades, whom you framed, will return soon. Keep that in mind. Don’t do any more useless things.”

Yes, something interesting is here in the capital.

To think that the girl he had broken long ago was still alive and not dead. The murderer’s eyes glowed low and bright in the darkness.

You would be perfect for my comeback work.

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