I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 210

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Chapter 210

So that’s why I felt déjà vu. Yes, I’ve experienced this kind of chilling sensation before.

On the day I faced the rift that swallowed Mama.

I let out a hollow laugh.

“Tsk.”

I removed my hand from his neck.

Then I kicked his stomach hard.

“Kugh! Cough, cough! Haah!”

Deflon, who had already become an ordinary person’s body, couldn’t withstand the impact and rolled around.

I waved my hand. Mint-colored Kia wrapped around Deflon’s body and even blocked his mouth. I threw him into the garbage dump in that state.

I had taken measures so it wouldn’t be released even if I died.

“…Mama.”

I muttered while looking at the massive rift.

It was similar in size to what killed Mama, or perhaps even larger.

Moreover, it looked like it would burst at any moment, just like before.

‘…Definitely in the original story, Deflon didn’t have this kind of ability.’

Just like how Helios gained new abilities, was there such a possibility for Deflon too?

No. It’s too late now to question the reasons.

‘If I delay any longer, it’ll burst.’

If that thing bursts? The capital will be blown away just like when Deflon burst into maniacal laughter.

I let out a small laugh.

“Mama… You, did you feel like this?”

Had I unknowingly become intoxicated with knowing the original story?

Even if the world changed because of me, had I been arrogant thinking that major events would still unfold the same way, and the final chapter would be identical too?

It wasn’t the time to blame the Crown Prince’s arrogant noodle brain.

‘Let me keep the useless self-blame brief.’

Reality had approached right before my eyes.

Everyone in the capital would die.

Of course, Helios, who might be at the Imperial Palace and perhaps rushing toward me, would be the same.

I wouldn’t care if everyone in this world died.

But there’s one person I want to live.

‘For that to happen, I need to stop that thing.’

Honestly, I was annoyed.

It was unfair and absurd.

‘Damn. Even plays don’t sell this kind of melodrama.’

How could there be such a perfectly orchestrated ending?

How did I survive from that prison until now?

Besides, Helios is mine.

The worst I had imagined was using that ability to stop Deflon and having my lifespan shortened, or experiencing some inconvenience in living.

Not dying alone like this so unfairly.

“I really don’t believe in fate because it’s so damn shitty.”

I muttered as if I had returned to my childhood appearance, facing Mama.

This really sucks, Mama.

I should be able to stop it.

Like Mama, who died for me. Yes, who sacrificed herself.

I clicked my tongue.

My judgment was quick, and my emotions were easily sorted out.

I stepped into the rift without hesitation. Toward the mass that absorbed me as if it had been waiting.

When I opened my eyes, I was at the center of the rift.

‘There’s no point in getting sentimental now.’

To judge coldly, it wasn’t my life from the beginning.

It was a life spent struggling desperately to survive.

It’s regrettable that I couldn’t possess my lover until the end, the one I barely managed to obtain.

Someone better than me, who still can’t distinguish between love and possession…

—What nonsense.

“Just try forgetting me, your Master, until you die. If you forget, I’ll come find you even as a ghost.”

I slowly closed my eyes.

How long had it been since I gave it my all? And this would be the last time.

I clicked my tongue.

* * *

Mint truly realized what the pain of having her entire body torn apart felt like.

She couldn’t move even a single finger.

Come to think of it, although she had died in the Tower before, she had never felt this kind of pain.

If she was going to die anyway, she would have preferred to go without pain.

She didn’t believe in God, but if one existed, Mint herself didn’t seem to be a particularly beloved creation.

What could she do? Her end being like this.

What she simply felt once again was.

That Mama had died feeling this pain.

How could she smile while looking at me? She truly was an amazing person until the very end.

“Very occasionally, I do feel like I’ve returned to prison.”

It wasn’t arrogant babbling to Seth. Yes, there certainly were such days.

But Mint quickly forgot her emptiness when she looked at Helios sleeping together in bed.

Mint knew herself well.

She was truly someone with a stronger survival instinct than anyone else. With obsession and venom, even with stubbornness, she desperately clung to survival.

“In the end, you don’t want to die, do you?”

The words I had casually thrown at Seth came back to me.

That’s right. She wanted to live.

Why should I have to die?

I forced my eyes open. Something seemed wrong with my eyelids since they wouldn’t move. I squeezed out what little Kia remained to forcibly move my eyelids.

I can’t die.

If I die, who will take Helios away? That was the problem – who might take him.

Who would just leave that face alone?

Mint regretted it.

Just in case, if Helios died, Mint would die with him. But uncharacteristically, she had made it so that if Mint died, Helios wouldn’t die.

I should have just died together.

If Helios resented her, couldn’t she just accept it even in Hell?

‘This is crazy…’

She found it quite amusing that she was having such thoughts at the very end before death.

But it was sincere.

She was a selfish creature rotten to her very core. Hadn’t the good and righteous Male Lead said he liked this side of her?

If he gave his heart to me.

‘Then it’s mine forever.’

Anyway, thanks to opening her eyes, she could see the swirling Rift.

She knew the process of the Rift disappearing. All of Mint’s power had successfully led the Rift to destruction.

She was lying face down in the middle of the disappearing process.

So if she went straight in the direction opposite to that whirlpool, yes. If she reached that light, she could live.

Why was she just lying still when she could live?

‘Move.’

Move, damn it!

Mint used superhuman strength to put force into her arms and staggered to her feet.

Then she realized.

Her ankle was twisted at a strange angle.

What about other places?

Was this a human body or a rag?

Even if she wanted to click her tongue, even that tongue wasn’t intact.

Nevertheless, Mint walked, dragging her broken ankle.

The Tower had been helpful.

Even in this state, it had built up experience that allowed her to move forward.

Thud.

However, everything was her delusion.

She thought she was moving forward, but in reality, Mint had only advanced a mere three steps.

Mint gritted her teeth.

I’m going to live.

I’m going to live.

The body that betrayed his will slowly closed its eyes.

* * *

“You know what. Don’t you ever feel like just dying comfortably?”

Someone somewhere whispered teasingly in his ear. What they said was truly absurd.

His eyes wouldn’t open, but strangely, his mouth moved.

“What nonsense.”

Just a moment ago, he couldn’t move his lips and tongue. Had his tongue recovered?

“Why would I die. And where is there such a thing as a comfortable death.”

When it came to rifts, his teeth were grinding now.

“If you die in a rift, there’s no corpse left. If I die here, it’s just a dog’s death.”

I had already held a funeral without a corpse. That was shitty no matter how much time passed.

On the other hand, thinking that Helios would survive alone and feel that shittiness. It was unpleasant.

“It would be troublesome if My Disciple forgot me because I died.”

“Hmm, he didn’t seem like he’d forget you easily though?”

The voice that returned was youthful.

“Of course, being human, he might forget someday.”

Though the words were annoying, strangely I didn’t feel angry or hateful.

But I also couldn’t just let it pass indifferently like I would hearing the voice of someone other than Helios.

It was strange.

“Then you know what. If you had power left, would you use it to survive?”

“What are you. Who are you?”

“I’m your Last Power.”

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