I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 209

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Chapter 209

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“But your younger sibling’s new personality is a bit reckless.”

I said while lightly moving my head from side to side as if stretching.

“Maybe he couldn’t think until the very end that you in the Imperial Palace were a clone.”

This might have been That Guy Hades’ arrangement. His new personality seemed rational and logical like his original nature, but.

The lack of thoroughness at the last moment might have been in preparation for when he would appear again later.

In fact, I was also contemplating while watching.

Thanks to ‘Mint’s’ ability, I felt like the Deflon side at the Imperial Palace was the main body, but.

On the other hand, I felt something strange.

A sense that I shouldn’t be certain.

Just in case, I was waiting and planning to rush in if I became convinced that the Imperial Palace side was real.

“I felt it while watching.”

And I sensed a presence from somewhere else. ‘Mint’s’ ability also reacted.

“Can you transfer the main body to one specific clone?”

Deflon slowly turned his head.

Our gazes met in empty air.

A gentle, soft smile spread across Deflon’s face.

“You’re the first to figure this out.”

The voice that flowed out was extremely polite. That guy narrowed his eyes while wearing the shell of the Crown Prince respected by everyone.

“And you were also the first person to notice the Clone Ability, weren’t you? How did you know?”

“…”

“Can I transfer the main body to one specific clone, you ask? Of course.”

The smile slowly faded. His dry face moved only his lips.

“I need to have at least one trump card too.”

Deflon’s appearance as he said this was not normal.

Blood was smeared all over his body, and injuries that were still bleeding were scattered everywhere.

Whatever mechanism that trump card ability had, he appeared unable to recover from the wounds he sustained fighting Helios.

“Duke Alpeion, who claimed to be your disciple, was quite fierce. You taught him how to use guns directly, didn’t you?”

“Of course. My disciple is quite capable.”

I walked slowly. That guy didn’t move.

In an instant, our hands crossed.

Blood splattered across my forehead. I reached out my hand while bearing the scratch.

Crash!

That guy had longer reach. Nevertheless, I grabbed his neck and slammed him into the ground.

Whoosh, mint-colored chains that rose from the ground bound his body.

“At least I can tell that you made my disciple such a mess that he couldn’t react.”

How truly satisfying.

“Ahh… I could tell from when I killed your clone.”

Gleaming eyes turned toward me.

Even as I instinctively gasped for breath, choking, those glass-like pupils reflected me.

“You’re the ‘same kind’ as me, aren’t you?”

“…Good grief, just like brothers indeed. Your tricks are pathetically cheap.”

This bastard and that bastard. Why do they all love saying we’re the same kind?

“Ahh, what a shame. Cough, Duke Alpeion that you cherish could have become my excellent dog…”

I know it well.

In the original work, Helios wouldn’t have been able to escape the brainwashing of loyalty to the Imperial family that had been passed down through his house for generations, just like now. There was no such content anywhere in the novel.

I never knew such a damned truth was hidden within the expressions that always described his poor compatibility with the Crown Prince.

“What to do? He’s already escaped that damn curse of mine.”

Being called the same kind as me also means having exceptional skill at identifying people’s weaknesses.

Because we’re the type who easily become cold and selfish even in the face of others’ suffering.

I put more strength into the hand gripping his throat.

“And you know what? It’s truly strange.”

As the novel approached its final chapters, it was as if all kinds of hardships and crises for Helios had been bundled together into human form.

Deflon before my eyes had used every means and method without discrimination to lead Helios’s life into the abyss.

Of course, the Female Lead was by his side, but Helios’s life falling into ruin remained unchanged.

It was a world made tediously miserable, created for such entertainment.

Helios’s righteousness was tested as if it existed to be defiled.

And so, seeing major events continue to occur identically even though the original’s trajectory had changed.

It was natural to think that as long as Deflon lived, Helios’s life could neither be smooth nor happy.

“As if I appeared and exist for your final end.”

I don’t believe in fatalism.

If I did, wouldn’t that mean my opening my eyes in that damn courtroom and going to prison was something that naturally had to happen?

But why did the wronged Girl who was quietly erased in the original work.

After I opened my eyes, gain tremendous power, become the king of the prison with tenacious venom.

And receive orders from the Warden that someone else might have received, becoming the one who met and took charge of Helios?

I still don’t believe in fatalism.

However, something I’d thought about for a long time.

When I learned that while I knew it was an ability I could use, if I used it, I would instinctively pay an irreversible price.

Why on earth should I know that I have an ability I can’t even use? That question came first.

I had no intention of sacrificing myself for someone like Mama did.

No, maybe for you, Mama. But how could I easily throw away my most precious life when I’d survived so tenaciously?

Even now, that thought remains unchanged.

To the point where I resent Mama for dying and leaving me behind, at least in this one thing.

Sacrifice has no value whatsoever.

“You wouldn’t easily offer your neck. So you must have something left, right?”

“Haha, cough, who knows? Why do you think that?”

“You’re the type who would give up your life for the things that made you worthless.”

If I had survived until now by desperately thinking only of my life. This guy was someone who valued his superiority like his own life.

A human who couldn’t bear to see his own value damaged.

“That’s right, first I want to kill my damn younger sibling, and in similar order, I want to send Duke Alpeion to the abyss.”

Among Kia, there are such abilities.

A curse-like power that exerts even greater force only after death.

“Let them all die.”

So this bastard couldn’t be killed easily either. It was the final dilemma.

The target of revenge, how to kill this bastard.

The answer was me.

“So, I didn’t want to know the reason in such a pathetic way.”

Kia flowed out from my body.

“…Where could such a gemstone have been? It would have been nice if I had known someone like you sooner.”

Gleaming eyes filled with anger turned toward me. He seemed to instinctively sense something strange.

“I’ll tell you this hoping your mood gets even shittier. The ability I’m using right now is the ability to turn you into a living corpse that can’t even die.”

“…What?”

“You’ll feel pain, but your Kia will be sealed. But your heart won’t beat. Like a zombie that only appears in horror novels. You’ll make good research material, won’t you?”

What’s so great about an ability that can’t even kill the opponent, just makes them suffer painfully?

Isn’t this a very good punishment for you who have lived your whole life intoxicated with superiority?

Deflon’s eyes widened.

“Ha, ha, haha. Hahahaha!”

The moment my Kia completely devoured Deflon, Deflon burst into mad laughter.

“Damn it, damn it all. Where did you appear from? Really, it’s annoying enough.”

Deflon, who had been bursting into mad laughter, suddenly stopped laughing.

“But it’s already too late.”

“…”

“I’ve been preparing since before you appeared. It was just a matter of time.”

I didn’t loosen the strength in the hand gripping his neck. Deflon definitely couldn’t escape and my ability had also manifested properly.

Nevertheless, for the first time in my life, no. Perhaps I had felt it once before – a tremendous chill dominated my body.

“Both you and I are liars.”

“…”

“And my last lie was that I had one more trump card.”

I slowly raised my head.

“The ability to summon rifts.”

“…”

“I’m telling you to feel as shitty as I do.”

A shadow so thick that it felt like the sky had momentarily darkened covered us.

“Hahahaha, if it’s a country I can’t rule, it’s better for it to disappear.”

What covered the sky was a massive ‘rift’.

“My goodness, this is the first time I’ve felt so shitty. To think Kia won’t come out anymore?”

“….”

“Just die, all of you.”

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