I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 214

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Chapter 214

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“…So you’re saying your regret is not seeing your friend’s face in the rift?”

A while later, Oppa came to visit me and had bandages wrapped around one of his hands.

He had definitely arrived before me and even had a whole month, yet I couldn’t understand why he was still wearing bandages.

“Uh, children shouldn’t try to know. You’ll get hurt.”

“…Did you perhaps injure your head?”

To my question, Pontos just evaded answering, saying there was a reason. I couldn’t understand why his ears were turning red.

Pontos kept nagging about how I had done the crazy thing of taking down a rift by myself.

As I responded to this and that, the story about Jiho naturally came up.

Though unexpected, it didn’t matter.

It was definitely Jiho I met unconsciously when I fainted in the rift.

However, I couldn’t know whether my unconscious had reconstructed the Jiho I remembered, or if it was really Jiho.

“…Since you’re going back and forth, it seems like something you experienced in a dream, but let’s organize this once.”

“I’m listening.”

“What’s bothering you is not seeing your friend’s face and not being very affectionate, right? Now then. I don’t know about the former, but the latter doesn’t seem worth worrying about.”

“Why?”

“You said they told you to be happy. If it’s a friend who would say such things to someone with a personality like my younger sister’s. They seem like a remarkable person of character, so they probably wouldn’t mind your reaction.”

“You seem to have made me out to be a character failure in an instant. But I quite like the conclusion.”

“This elder brother has decided to only speak facts from now on.”

For some reason, Pontos seemed much more at ease after dying and coming back to life.

As if he had put down a burden.

This was the first thing he said upon facing me.

“…Mother, really. I should be the one protecting you. If I’m being protected by my younger sister, how can I save face?”

Since he said this while covered in tears, it wasn’t very convincing.

However, I intended to keep the promise I made with the Marchioness Limnades for as long as I could.

“You shouldn’t make promises carelessly.”

Pontos left.

I wanted to leave too.

But since there was no one here to tell me it was okay to go back, I was still keeping my place.

‘When I said I was waiting for confinement, Oppa made another strange expression.’

I recalled Pontos’s words.

“If you’re going to do that, just get married instead! What confinement, when you want to live together. This would be legal confinement!”

“That’s a novel interpretation.”

But I liked it.

Should the wedding ring have a bigger stone than the ring I prepared last time?

“I agree with that statement.”

I heard a familiar voice. Unusually, I hadn’t sensed the approaching presence.

“You shouldn’t make promises carelessly, Master.”

Hah, hah. A man breathing heavily stood before me.

How could I, who am more sensitive to presence than anyone, not notice until he came this close?

No.

‘It’s not that I didn’t notice his approach…’

It was too natural. As if this presence was like my own presence…

Could that be possible?

Even when we slept together at Helios’s Mansion, I clearly sensed his presence.

“So that means you must keep the promise you made with me.”

I didn’t know why he was breathing heavily, but I could guess.

Hades who came earlier had ordered him to do something. Helios wasn’t one to obediently listen to orders.

He must have caused some incident to hold his feet down.

“Sorry, but I’ll talk about something sudden first.”

…I tilted my head. Without even greeting?

“By any chance, would it be okay if the country we live in together doesn’t have to be the Empire?”

“…I don’t really mind.”

“That’s good. I think I’ll be killing this country’s Emperor soon.”

So he’s going to kill That Guy Hades. I don’t really mind that either.

Is this usually how conversations flow when reuniting after a month?

Helios isn’t in a position to criticize me for lacking romance.

“First, when I said I would get married, you agreed to tell me information.”

“What are you doing right now?”

“And when I said let’s travel, you called it a honeymoon.”

“I don’t remember accepting.”

“…Since I remember it as acceptance, it’s acceptance.”

I looked at Helios’s flushed face and let out a soft laugh.

He’s like a green apple.

Is this something to say while turning red?

“So what is this about?”

“…I recited the promises Master made with me. There would be more if I went further back, but let’s stop at this much for now.”

For some reason, the face I met after a long time, after a whole month of reunion, had a slightly tense expression.

Anxiety was dangling from that prickly face.

“Helios. This Master is still lacking in common sense, but usually at times like this, shouldn’t you first ask if I’m okay? Or say it’s been a while, or show concern?”

“That’s extremely sensible talk and somewhat touching, but I already knew you were healthy anyway.”

“….”

“I shared my life force with you, so why don’t you know?”

“…What?”

When I opened my eyes wide, Helios hesitated for a moment.

“…Haven’t you heard yet?”

After a brief pause, he looked down at me with a shameless expression.

“Then just listen. Didn’t you say you wanted to watch me, die together, and share every single movement? So I made it happen for you.”

After asking what nonsense he was talking about, I was able to hear the truth from that face full of complaints.

Even the Saint couldn’t save me when I was dying. When told that I lacked basic human life force, Helios stepped forward without hesitation.

“This worked out well. Now when Master’s body gets hurt, my body gets hurt too.”

There was a reason I couldn’t sense Helios’s presence. Of course. Now we were practically sharing parts of the same body.

I don’t think I’ve felt this bewildered very often.

“We’ll die on the same day at the same time.”

Helios cleared his throat.

“…Therefore, when we put all of this together. We.”

“Should get married.”

“…I was going to say it first, so reject that.”

“Let’s get married.”

“….”

“Honey, shall we get married?”

The more I continued speaking, the more his pure white face turned beautifully red all the way to his ears and nape.

Unable to bear it, Helios covered his face with his hands.

“…Why are you making me into an idiot who can’t even speak first? You’re really a master at making people feel self-loathing to the very end.”

“And you’re lovely today too.”

“…Did you learn something somewhere while you were sleeping?”

“I missed you.”

“….”

Ugh, Helios let out a frustrated breath, waved his hand in the air, then held something out to me.

“If that damn Emperor hadn’t interfered, I would have quickly found this and come to see Master first. I didn’t know you would wake up today of all days….”

What appeared before my eyes was a bouquet of flowers in full bloom. If there was something unique about it, it would be that the petals held a teal color I’d seen somewhere before.

“These are flowers that bloom very briefly only in places where rifts have naturally disappeared. However, in some regions… they call them mint because they have a scent similar to mint.”

“….”

“The color, name, and meaning all remind me of Master.”

Nothing remains where rifts disappear. For flowers to bloom in that place.

“Master is also like a miracle in my life. From now on… please remain as happiness.”

“….”

“By taking me as your husband.”

Considering his usually bold words and prickly demeanor, it was quite a shy and pure confession.

That’s why I liked it even more.

Because what’s contained in these flowers he offered so modestly would be his everything.

A small box was visible on top of the bouquet. Helios lifted the box.

Inside the opened box, a ring revealed itself.

“A ring, I was going to give you one.”

“…I’m glad I didn’t lose the initiative with the wedding ring.”

Helios laughed briefly as if deflated, then raised his head.

Helios’s eye level slowly lowered until it was low enough to look up at me.

The man with one knee bent extended his hand to me.

“Will you marry me?”

Of course I would accept. I liked everything – his slightly trembling hand, his face red all the way to his ears and neck.

Even though he already possessed my entire body and life. Even though he insisted on dying together and put his own life as a hostage in my hands.

How could I not like it?

“Once I get my hands on you, I won’t let go. Is that okay?”

“…Of course it’s okay.”

“It won’t be normal.”

“I’ve gone crazy too, so it’s okay.”

No, you might have gone crazy because of me.

But I decided not to think of that as a bad thing anymore.

I’m a selfish person who regretted not being able to bring you with me right before death.

With your permission, I will possess you completely, until death.

You named my greed love.

“I hope the ring doesn’t slip off.”

“I’ll take care of it.”

“Helios.”

I cupped Helios’s cheeks in my hands.

“…Would it be a bit awkward to do it in the temple?”

“…”

Helios hung his head low.

Just as I heard him grumble that I really had no sense of romance.

“…I’ll get us home as quickly as possible.”

“Ah, to confine me?”

Helios pulled my wrist.

“Yes. This time it will be for life.”

“That sounds good too.”

I was happily embraced.

Identical rings sparkled on our clasped hands.

“Should we try breaking the desk this time too?”

I was about to suggest going to Niflheim for our honeymoon, a place filled with memories.

But I quietly closed my mouth.

Tonight, and the next night.

And then the days that would follow when we wouldn’t come out of the room until the next day.

“When we get married, I want to visit two cemeteries.”

“There’s one more.”

“Where?”

“My parents’ cemetery.”

“That’s not bad.”

It seemed like it wouldn’t be bad for me, who couldn’t live an ordinary life, to live an ordinary life.

Even if our language and lives couldn’t be ordinary, I knew that our love alone was simply love.

【The End】

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