I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 28

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Chapter 28

It was a very small voice that only Helios could hear. Helios’s hand was still trembling as the price for resisting the force.

Moreover, while holding onto me, his gaze remained unwavering.

“Wow, you’re going to hit me?”

“….”

Helios soon let go of my hand and slowly stood up from his seat.

“That won’t happen.”

He avoided my gaze with a voice that had returned to normal.

“Right.”

The day Helios would hit me would never come. By the time Helios reaches the top, I won’t be here.

“You can get up.”

I gestured toward Ged’s group who were hesitantly getting up.

* * *

“You guys, come here.”

Ged’s group approached Mint slowly, half-believing and half-doubting.

There was another small commotion in the middle when Mint got tired of waiting and pushed people away with her disc.

But they sat obediently in front of Mint.

“Stay still.”

“…Master, what are you doing?”

“What do you think? I’m appraising your colleague candidates.”

Helios watched what Mint was doing. She was staring intently at Haira and Brett.

Her gaze was so intense it seemed like it would pierce right through a person.

He felt a little displeased.

Didn’t she always look at him like this?

Thinking this, Helios suddenly flinched.

What am I thinking right now?

About someone who shares the same room?

Crazy. Being in prison must have messed with my mind.

Helios, who had been tapping his cheek with his fist, soon noticed that Mint was behaving a little differently from how she looked at him.

‘Light?’

A strange golden light definitely flickered briefly in Mint’s eyes.

“Hmm….”

“What’s wrong?”

At Helios’s question, Mint only shook her head slightly.

With her calm expressionless face, Helios briefly recalled Mint from a moment ago.

― Don’t be surprised. This is just me transmitting my memory to you.

The moment Haira used her ability, Helios heard a voice echoing through his mind.

Soon he received a very quick transmission of the events Haira had experienced and their explanations.

After that, Mint’s appearance as she crushed Ged’s Group with force was truly chilling—he felt absolutely nothing from her.

Yes, her face was emotionless with the momentum of someone about to kill at any moment.

As if she was simply carrying out a duty.

Moreover, she had such a benevolent face that the strangeness from the disconnect was doubled.

‘And yet…’

It wasn’t unpleasant or uncomfortable.

Rather, thinking that she had gotten angry because she considered it an attack on him.

‘I’ve gone too far.’

While he was thinking this, Mint straightened her back.

“Tsk…”

She clicked her tongue, not caring that Helios was looking at her with confusion.

Mint was feeling a small sense of admiration and amazement.

‘Amazing.’

The people Helios had chosen as colleagues.

Ah, of course it was a combination of her testing him slightly to see Helios’s reaction and the righteous Male Lead not being able to overlook their predicament.

But the people he had chosen were, in a word, ‘amazing.’

Unlike the brief glimpse she had taken before, the more closely she looked, the more she could understand everything.

What was amusing was that their abilities were all alike.

‘Perfect for using for the Male Lead’s benefit.’

How fitting, this too was luck.

Befitting the protagonist of the world, each choice he made consisted of materials that would give him the best results.

Surely the Male Lead had chosen them out of compassion and responsibility.

‘Is this why stories always have the righteous hero winning?’

But Helios was definitely the protagonist who turns dark in a tragic story, so justice doesn’t apply to him.

Ah. Is he ultimately a righteous person because he’s getting revenge on bad people?

“I’m telling you in advance, I’m not very merciful.”

“Th-that’s fine!”

“Me too!”

“Haha. It would be an honor if someone like you would just accept us. I’ll keep calling you Boss from now on.”

“…”

Haira looked at Mint and bowed deeply. It was an apology.

But Mint had already forgotten about it.

In fact, she hadn’t particularly felt anger either. What she felt was just slight displeasure?

“I’m telling you in advance…”

The displeasure of someone arbitrarily touching a person she was controlling.

“The person you should follow as Boss isn’t me, but him over there.”

When Mint pointed to Helios, everyone naturally turned their gaze to him.

Helios looked bewildered.

A moment later, they were positioned side by side in the Open Ground. Helios stood on the left, and Ged’s Group stood on the right.

Mint was sitting leisurely against a tree stump when Ged approached and cautiously glanced at her.

“Um, Boss…”

When Mint looked up, he flinched but spoke earnestly.

“Should we call you Master now too?”

“No, I don’t like that.”

“Huh? Why not?”

“Because I have no intention of becoming your master.”

“…”

“Don’t call me Master, just call me what you used to.”

“Yes, Boss…!”

“Only he can call me Master.”

“Ah…”

Ged and his companions felt a strange emotion for a moment, but it was fleeting.

“Oh, and Haira, don’t try to provoke Helios to stimulate me like you did earlier.”

“Yes, I understand. But what’s the relationship between you two? Just master and disciple? Does a guard teach a prisoner?”

“Something like that. I only have Helios.”

He’s absolutely necessary if I want to get out. Mint said indifferently.

“If you mess with him again, I won’t let it slide.”

“Yes…”

This was the last chance. So it had to be treasured.

“Since there’s only one, I have to treasure it. His life.”

“…”

After Mint finished speaking, everyone naturally turned toward Helios.

For some reason, Helios felt like his ears might turn red even though he hadn’t done anything wrong.

“…If you experience it firsthand, you’ll understand, but my Master lacks common sense.”

“What? Why are you suddenly making me out to be someone with no sense or anything?”

“Isn’t it because Master makes people misunderstand what you say!”

“What did I do?”

Helios opened his mouth, then immediately rubbed his face.

Haira looked back and forth between the two, quickly reading the power dynamics.

‘…One of them hasn’t realized it yet?’

Of course, she was completely wrong.

“Anyway… Let’s start with treatment first. I’m telling you in advance, the first reason I accepted you all was Helios’s will.”

“…”

“The second reason is because of him.”

Mint pointed at one person. The chosen (?) person was none other than Seth.

Seth, who had been silent except when the whole group was speaking, was startled.

“M-me?”

Seth pointed at himself in bewilderment. His name was Seth Galligan.

Just looking at his crimes, he was no different from any notorious villain.

He was someone who had been involved in a national-scale drug case and came here after taking all the blame in place of the organization’s boss.

However, he was rather timid, having done nothing but manufacturing under abuse his entire life.

“Yeah, you have healing ability, don’t you? Try healing all these guys.”

And he was startled to hear something from Mint that he’d never heard before in his life.

“What? H-hyung. Me having h-healing ability? This is the first I’m hearing of it…!”

Even among Kia ability users, those with healing and recovery abilities were rare.

No wonder such people were considered sacred and collected and managed by temples.

They were generally called priests and healers.

But healing ability for someone who only made drugs?

“Oh, you didn’t know yet?”

“M-my ability is e-elemental telekinesis… and a very weak one at that.”

Seth thought that the reason he had been able to survive so far was all because he had met his colleague Ged.

Seth grabbed his long hair and whimpered.

With his youthful face and pale skin, he looked like a rather pretty boy or young man.

“Oh, you can’t use it. That’s fine.”

“Huh?”

Helios, who was watching, felt a familiar sense of foreboding.

“There’s nothing impossible in this world. I’ll make everything possible for you.”

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A few days later.

Truly, there was nothing impossible in this world.

Everything was possible—people just hadn’t found the right method.

This saying might not hold true elsewhere, but in this prison, it was close to the truth.

So, as a result, I made Seth awaken his healing ability.

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