I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 235

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Side Story Episode 21

“….”

Helios’s mouth fell slightly open. I knew this expression well.

It was the expression he made when he was at a loss for words, and when his thoughts were complicated.

He opened and closed his mouth. How many times did it twitch? He reached out his hand and covered my face.

It wasn’t a romantic caress of my cheek. He literally covered my face with his large hand.

“Mmph… What are you doing?”

I was slightly pushed back and felt bewildered. Though I wasn’t actually that flustered.

“…This won’t do.”

Then Helios spoke in a low voice.

‘Hmm, if I said I wanted to provoke him more because I liked hearing this voice… that wouldn’t be good, would it?’

I answered nonchalantly.

“What won’t do?”

“You must know what I mean.”

I tried to remove Helios’s hand. But this impudent disciple of mine put some force into his hand, didn’t he?

“We’ve only known each other for two days.”

“So?”

“We can’t… sleep together!”

“We really can’t do such things? That’s disappointing.”

“Damn it, you understood what I meant!”

I giggled while my face was still covered by Helios.

When I playfully blew air out, I could feel his palm flinch.

“How disappointing.”

When I said this, Helios had nothing more to say.

“Your body is honest, but your mouth isn’t honest enough, Duke.”

“…You can’t say things like that either.”

I heard a groaning sound come from Helios.

Certainly, if my disciple hadn’t met me, he would have been such a perfectly upright person.

This is good in its own way though?

“Hah, I admit that I’m attracted to you. After acting like this… it wouldn’t make sense not to admit it.”

Look at that. What an honest and upright person he is.

I stayed still.

However he interpreted this silence, he continued speaking calmly.

“However, even if I’m attracted, we should take our time step by step…”

Suddenly, I had this thought.

‘This is how it would have been if we had met outside.’

If we had met somewhere other than prison, if we had met when neither of us was a criminal, Helios would have acted like this.

‘Would we have even been able to meet each other if we weren’t prisoners?’

Both being nobles, there would have been opportunities. But would such an honest and upright man have taken a liking to me?

‘Even if I had lived as a noble, my true nature wouldn’t have gone anywhere.’

I wonder if I acted well?

Helios slowly withdrew his hand.

His face was calm and composed, with no trace of the earlier flush and confusion.

It was somewhat regrettable.

I tilted my head slightly.

My disciple was clearly drawn to me even in his state of lost memories.

Didn’t he say so himself?

A mischievous feeling raised its head.

“So you’re saying it’s not possible.”

“…Yes, that’s.”

“I understand.”

I nodded with my head tilted at an angle.

“From my perspective, those were words that took tremendous courage to say, but I’ve heard your rejection clearly.”

It was a blatant lie, but I spoke it calmly.

“…!”

His slightly flustered eyes wavered.

I admired his handsome face and then continued.

“It can’t be helped. It would be rude to cling to someone who dislikes me.”

Then I deliberately leaned back slightly.

“Since learning that you’ve lost your memory, I seem to have tried hard until today.”

I deliberately lowered my eyes as if in despair.

Then I withdrew the hand that had been resting on his body.

“What are you doing?”

“It’s nothing much. It seems the Duke doesn’t remember me and has no intention of making an effort.”

When I glanced up, I could see Helios raising his eyebrows slightly as if displeased.

I swallowed my laughter and continued.

“I’m thinking I should meet someone else from now on…”

Thud.

“Meet who?”

My hand was immediately seized. The distance that had opened became meaninglessly close again.

Without deliberately applying force, I placed my remaining hand on his chest and looked up.

As if I had been helplessly pulled in.

“You said you loved me, but was that feeling so light?”

“…”

“Just who are you planning to meet?”

Helios’s eyes were cold as ice. Somehow this bleakness was welcome, so I lowered my head.

Then I raised it again.

Our eyes met, and just as he was about to say something.

I grinned mischievously.

I aimed for the moment he hesitated.

“You must have misheard.”

“…What?”

“You definitely misheard. Who would I meet? Other than you, Duke.”

When I gently shook the hand he was holding by the wrist, Helios’s eyes also swayed gently like reeds.

From the expression that soon appeared on his face, he seemed to realize he had been teased.

“Haah… You really are something.”

He covered his face with his other hand and bent down. I shifted my position so he could lean on my shoulder.

He flinched but didn’t refuse.

I giggled out loud.

“Duke, you’re still fun to tease even after losing your memory.”

“…What the, no, never mind. Tease me or whatever you want, just stay in place.”

Helios wrapped his arm around my waist.

“…And don’t fall away either.”

I quite liked his voice that had turned ominous.

I glanced at the window. After looking at the pitch-black night sky for a while, I gently pushed him away.

“Where are you going?”

He looked displeased as I got down from his lap, then gently but firmly grabbed my arm.

“I should go to sleep, right?”

“Sleep? Then shouldn’t we go together?”

“Why?”

Before Helios could furrow his brow, I spoke as if I had just remembered.

“Ah, do we share a bedroom too?”

At my playful words, instead of frowning more, Helios suddenly stood up and lifted me up.

And then he headed straight to the bedroom.

“Duke, what about the documents you were looking at?”

“I can do them tomorrow.”

At his curt voice, I suppressed my laughter.

But despite my efforts, giggles still leaked out.

A little later, he and I were lying side by side wearing comfortable clothes. The only difference was that we were closely pressed together.

I looked up at him while being held in his arms.

“But you really won’t do it?”

“…I won’t.”

My disciple being ascetic in such a strange way.

His body is being so honest, so why won’t he do it? I wrinkled my nose slightly, still not understanding.

If he doesn’t want to, I respect that, but.

As someone who had lived in a prison where impulses and desires had dominated for a lifetime, it was honestly hard to adapt to.

Above all, hadn’t the previous Helios never known restraint in bed?

“The Duke before losing his memory was quite vigorous, you know.”

“…Cough! A tem-temple, what?”

“Should I say it again?”

“No need!”

Helios tightened his arms around me slightly.

“Just go to sleep!”

He really wasn’t going to do it. Even though his lower half was greeting me.

When I pointed this out to him, Helios jumped up while still lying down. He even stammered as he told me not to say such strange things.

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