I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 198

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Chapter 198

Pontos’s face became strange.

“An attack? A serial killer… don’t tell me.”

“The person Oppa is thinking of and the one I’m thinking of are probably the same.”

Pontos couldn’t believe it. No, he believed now that the Crown Prince was a serial killer.

His younger sister wasn’t a child who spoke nonsense.

But the Crown Prince would suddenly attack either him or his younger sister? That was hard to believe.

And for good reason – the serial killer currently rampaging in the capital was also famous for the eccentric behavior of sending warning letters.

“…If we’re the targets, where’s the warning letter?”

“Chief, you’re so naive. Something like that can just be quietly disposed of, can’t it?”

That was true too.

“The Crown Prince has already sent his greetings my way. He probably didn’t do it knowing who I was. The bomb terror was quite a nice greeting.”

“…”

“Just from that, I could tell that side doesn’t view Limnades very favorably, you know?”

Pontos grabbed his chin and fell into thought for a moment.

“…Or maybe he looked down on us.”

Like a cat batting around a living mouse as a toy.

Loyal dog – that sounds nice, loyal dog, but isn’t it really about being treated like a dog by the Imperial Court?

Pontos also knew that several nobles mocked them like this behind their backs.

His dead father had been someone who enjoyed the power the Imperial Court provided as backing, despite all that.

But he was different.

“I’ll need to be careful.”

“There’s no need for that.”

Mint tapped her chest lightly.

“What do you think I came here for? I’ve prepared everything.”

More precisely, she must have come after making preparations.

“…What kind of preparations do you mean?”

Mint began to explain briefly.

“First, we need a large barrier. At least… big enough to surround this entire mansion?”

Pontos frowned slightly.

Though not as large as the Imperial Palace, the mansion was enormous, befitting the great power they had wielded.

First, finding someone who could cast a barrier over such a wide area would be difficult.

And maintaining such a vast barrier after casting it would also be quite a task.

Was there such a person in the world…?

Pontos, who had been thinking this far, realized.

…There’s one right here.

If it was his younger sister standing before him, wouldn’t it be possible? She must have brought it up because it was possible.

“Your gaze is directed at me, but the barrier won’t be cast by me, but by this person. My disciple will cast it.”

“…The Duke?”

Pontos also knew about Helios’s achievements. Hadn’t he accomplished tremendous feats in a short time like a horse with its tail on fire as soon as he inherited the Duke title?

However, among those achievements, Pontos had never heard that Helios had cast a barrier.

“He’s already done it before though?”

“What?”

Pontos listened to Mint’s explanation and made an expression of disbelief.

“So the reason he rushed out that time was because of the barrier. And then he got kidnapped right after?”

“Ah, no wonder you didn’t know. Oppa’s summons probably only patrol inside the mansion?”

“….”

To be precise, it wasn’t that Helios cast it himself, but rather borrowed the power of a barrier device and used Helios’s tremendous amount of Kia to cast a massive barrier.

“What are you planning to use such a massive barrier for?”

“Observation.”

“Observation?”

“If you know your enemy and know yourself, you can fight a hundred battles and win a hundred times.”

Even at his younger sister’s cryptic answer, Pontos quietly nodded. While Pontos was contemplating what more to ask.

Faster than that, Helios buried his face in Mint’s neck.

“Come to think of it, there’s something I forgot to mention.”

Helios’s voice rumbled in her ear. Instead of answering, Mint lightly grabbed and released his knee.

“…Three days ago in the meeting, I mentioned that we’re considering the 2nd Prince as a successor to the throne.”

Pontos forgot what he was about to say and opened his mouth.

…What did he do?

“Duke, what are you talking about?”

“….”

“I was at that meeting too.”

“Ah, that’s right. But it was a conversation in the corridor.”

Pontos slightly furrowed his brow.

Currently, most nobles supported the Crown Prince.

The deceased Empress’s faction supported the 2nd Prince, but their power couldn’t be said to be comparable to the Crown Prince’s.

Of course, it was remarkable that they had built up this much in recent years from a time when they had almost no foundation.

To that extent, the Crown Prince’s position was solid and firm, and he was in a respected position for his characteristic wisdom and benevolence.

“Wow.”

Mint briefly exclaimed in admiration.

Since entering this novel, Mint had discovered several things that didn’t change regardless of the situation.

One of them was personality.

Just as with Helios and Hades, the Deflon she knew would also have the same personality as the one she knew from the written word.

“You did that in the corridor, in front of the Crown Prince too?”

“Yes, I believe so.”

“My goodness.”

Mint nodded her head.

‘He must be furious.’

Having spent over ten years as a prisoner, there were certain types among serial killers.

Deflon was a serial killer who felt ecstasy in murder based on his outstanding intellect and lack of emotion and cruelty as a psychopath. Lastly, he was a serial killer consumed by his own sense of superiority.

At the same time, someone so thoroughly consumed by arrogance wouldn’t just stand by and watch what happened before him.

‘He’ll think of it as a challenge.’

Hades had warned that Deflon’s information network was not to be underestimated.

It was obvious where the enraged Deflon would vent his anger.

He was a clever and sinister opponent, a strategist who attacked his opponent’s weaknesses rather than confronting them directly.

‘If he investigated various things, he wouldn’t be unaware of my relationship either.’

I had given him one more reason to attack Limnades.

Having thought this far, Mint smiled slyly.

“How kind.”

Mint gently stroked Helios’s hair.

“Thanks to that, Limnades will be magnificently attacked.”

“…Is that a magnificent thing?”

Another Limnades besides her retorted with an incredulous voice.

Pontos’s feelings were complicated.

Anyway, if Mint was right and the Crown Prince really came here.

‘I can’t just sit still.’

Why had he risen to the position of police chief at such a young age.

He would show directly that it wasn’t merely the power of his noble house.

“Ah, Oppa. Don’t go out. Oppa is very excellent and pretty bait.”

…Until his younger sister said this.

* * *

Deep dawn.

I sat quietly in a room with no lights on.

It wasn’t completely dark.

When I turned my head, blue moonlight was pouring down completely.

‘I wonder if Helios is doing well?’

I thought of my lovely lover who would be somewhere in the garden and smiled wickedly.

‘Even thinking about it again, that provocation was the best.’

Helios wouldn’t have known, but those supportive words would have been the most stimulating to Deflon.

In the novel, they praised him with nonsensical words like psychopath and whatnot.

The Deflon I felt was, in a word, a madman consumed by narcissism.

The problem would be that the strongest sword was in the hands of someone who was like a child with underdeveloped selfishness.

In other words, that guy was full of troublesome abilities.

Even so, he knew how to exercise self-control during the day. Why? Because he knew that in this dark night, at dawn, he could freely reveal his true nature and preferences.

‘I wonder if Oppa is playing his role well.’

The moment I thought this far, I stood up from my seat.

The corners of my mouth naturally lifted.

“Aha?”

A presence wandering around the garden.

It was such a faint presence that you wouldn’t notice unless you listened carefully.

But it didn’t work on me, who had already spread Kia throughout the entire grounds including the mansion.

‘Ah, so that’s where you are?’

Today, or tomorrow. Or perhaps the day after.

That’s what I had been thinking. But it seemed Helios had helped reduce unnecessary time waste.

The narcissistic madman who felt displeasure had come looking for me on his own feet.

I lightly bounced my feet in the empty air. Then on the third bounce, I stomped down hard.

The next moment, I was no longer in the reception room.

I landed silently on the ground from empty air.

Grass was everywhere. It was a somewhat neglected garden.

Had they said it hadn’t been properly maintained since Mother fell ill? Thanks to that, there were plenty of places to hide.

No one was there.

However, this was only the scene visible to ordinary people’s eyes.

I lightly bounced once more. At the same time, my foot kicked off a tree and cut through the air.

Crash!

My foot, which should have only cut through empty air, collided with something. I pulled up my lips.

“A night visitor has arrived.”

Then I should welcome them properly.

Where the dust settled, stood a man in black clothing that hadn’t been there before.

A dagger in one hand. Wheat-colored blonde hair. And lastly, blood-red eyes different from his original eye color.

This bastard was the one called ‘Murderer Jack’ in the marketplace.

Another form of Deflon, one of the male protagonists from the book.

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