I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 204

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Chapter 204

“…What kind of worries are you solving so tremendously.”

Seth muttered in a sullen voice, but soon laughed awkwardly as if he found it absurd.

“And then you tell me something even more serious. But, hyung… you don’t really want to die together with Boss, do you?”

At the question that came up once more, I shrugged my shoulders.

“Not particularly. Sometimes I think about it. Dying together wouldn’t be bad either, but I’d like Helios to live even just one day longer than me.”

I came to a conclusion.

“Because I don’t want to see her die.”

Seth, who had been staring at me intently, turned his gaze away. He scratched his cheek.

“I’ve always been curious about what hyung thinks about. But now that I’ve heard it…”

“Do you wish you hadn’t heard it?”

“No, it’s not that. It just feels like something I shouldn’t have heard. It’s something Boss should hear, isn’t it.”

“…”

I smiled.

“Why is it that when hyung says you’re happy, I get this feeling like something is about to disappear. Do you look lonely?”

“I don’t know why you’re asking me that. Isn’t that a misunderstanding?”

What nonsense is this. Though I’m not well-acquainted with loneliness, isn’t it an emotion I can’t feel when Helios is by my side.

Unless it’s the fear of losing her.

“Um, hyung.”

Thinking our conversation was roughly finished, I floated my feet lightly.

I think I’ve done my duty to the colleague that Helios cherishes.

“…Can I keep calling you hyung from now on?”

I stared at Seth intently and smiled faintly.

“As you wish.”

I looked at the sky.

I remember the final chapter from the original work.

It was the last crisis I remember, and if we just get past that, there shouldn’t be any greater crisis in Helios’s life.

And I think.

If we’re still together even after getting past the final chapter, I won’t have to worry about such things anymore either.

“But wouldn’t Sister be better than hyung?”

* * *

When I returned after finishing my brief consultation with Seth. I faced my lover again, who was staring with wide eyes.

‘I figured she wouldn’t be sleeping.’

She was even lying leisurely on the bed, welcoming me. Except for the fact that her face was full of dissatisfaction.

“You’ve returned.”

Her appearance with only her lower half covered by the blanket. Every time she breathed, her well-built muscles moved subtly. She definitely had a bewitching quality that made one hold their breath and watch.

“Did you enjoy the breeze?”

His twisted tone was filled with anger and hostility.

“You know who you met.”

There’s no way Helios wouldn’t know the presence I felt. In fact, if it had been a real stranger, I now know he wouldn’t have let me go.

I was even satisfied by the possessiveness I glimpsed in his eyes directed at me.

“Your colleague wanted to die, so why didn’t you take care of it?”

As soon as I finished speaking, a blue string appeared between Helios and me.

Its swaying appearance looked like a tropical fish swimming in an aquarium.

Helios naturally pulled on the string.

As I walked along, drawn by the string, his hand caught my chin. In the blink of an eye, he trapped me in his arms.

“So Master graciously took care of it yourself?”

“…I want to ask you the same thing. Why didn’t you take care of it?”

“Well.”

Helios muttered quietly.

“…I was thinking of taking action.”

“But I solved it instead?”

“…”

No answer.

“I was planning to watch for a moment and then follow. I absolutely had no intention of leaving you two alone.”

Helios reached out and touched my neck. On the back of the neck where Helios was touching, there’s a faint scar.

To be precise, it’s a scar at the subtle point where the neck and back meet.

I remembered it after Helios told me about it.

It was a wound I got not long after entering the prison.

Helios seemed to like that scar.

“…Because it’s a place no one else can see.”

“Because you have to undress to see it?”

When was it? Was it from the moment you said you were the first to discover that scar?

“I was curious.”

“…”

“If I let Master loose in this night, in this darkness. Would you still not disappear?”

“…For someone who claims to have tested it, you’re making quite a pained expression.”

“It was painful.”

Helios lowered his head. He rested his head on my shoulder and breathed slowly.

When I placed my hand on his back, I could feel the rising and falling movement.

“Until I heard Master’s voice.”

When Helios lifted his head, a blue string was held in his hand.

“Or we could die together on the same day at the same time. Then we’d never be separated.”

“…”

“Did you know? That I was listening.”

I blinked slowly.

“Well, to some extent?”

I hadn’t noticed from the beginning.

As my conversation with Seth continued, I felt a tingling sensation on my wrist. I realized it as the Kia flowing from the blue string gradually grew stronger.

“It doesn’t seem like something I should be hearing. It’s something Boss should hear.”

That Helios was listening to this conversation.

“This kind of ability is certainly a first for me.”

To think such things are possible using a string as a medium… Did Kia Exchange create a new ability too?

“That doesn’t really matter. I have much more I want to say – will you listen?”

“….”

“For instance.”

Helios traced the inside of his wrist, then slowly pressed down firmly. Thump thump. It was where his pulse beat.

“The impression that Master had the same thoughts as me.”

Helios’s hand slowly traveled up his body, stopping at his neck.

Again, it was where his pulse beat.

“Do you know this? A heartbeat doesn’t lie.”

Thump thump thump.

Now that I heard it, it seemed that way.

“I don’t understand why Master thinks only you would feel that way.”

“….”

His face came close enough that I could feel his breath. Helios smiled with a dangerous expression.

“I want to die with you too.”

“….”

“Sometimes I have dangerous fantasies too.”

“….”

“Don’t you understand even after being kidnapped by me?”

Well. I still think the limits you imagine and the limits I imagine are different.

Unlike you, who kidnapped me but couldn’t lay a finger on my body, in the same situation, I would have used every means at my disposal to bind you to me.

When faced with an actual situation, there would be differences in the evil acts we commit.

Even so.

“So don’t think you’re the only one who feels that way. Talk to me.”

“….”

“Don’t make innocent subordinates suffer, unless you want to see how far I’ll go when driven mad with jealousy.”

“My, how scary.”

The reason I just laugh it off.

It’s probably for the same reason that, as you said, my heartbeat is honest only with you.

So even if there’s just one thing I haven’t told you.

Please forgive me just this once.

* * *

“Far from being murderous, it only feels good.”

Helios felt a strange sensation.

“I guess I really do love you.”

His Master, his lover, had offered him her most vulnerable flesh while confessing her love.

…Yet he found it so strange that he felt anxiety.

He couldn’t bring himself to speak.

Because he couldn’t understand why he felt anxious.

* * *

A few days later.

The Nobles of the Noble Assembly were suffering these days.

It was natural.

The aftermath of Pontos’s sudden declaration about the ‘Serial Killer’s’ identity theory from a few days ago still hadn’t subsided as it swept over them.

Who exactly among those present at that meeting was that terrifying ‘Serial Killer’?

And red eyes, no less?

Of all people, it was the Crown Prince, who was trusted not only by his own faction but by almost all Nobles, who had revealed the clue about the Serial Killer.

Naturally, sharp conflicts emerged among the Nobles.

It was a conflict between those who followed the Crown Prince and those who followed Hades, the 2nd Prince.

‘Thanks to all that, I had to use so much Brainwashing that it wasn’t even in my nature.’

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