I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 37

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Chapter 37

From the moment Ramona became Boss until now, countless prisoners had already died. They were prisoners who had been staying around the 80th and 90th Floors.

The previous Boss who was chosen after Mint disappeared had reportedly barely saved his life after fleeing, but rumors were rampant that he had become disabled.

It was a course of action that contrasted sharply with Mint, who had never killed a single person as Boss.

Drip drip.

With a face full of interest, Deril watched the poison dripping from Ramona.

“Boss hasn’t returned yet, right? How boring.”

“…”

“I hope she comes back and kills me. It would be thrilling.”

“Crazy bitch.”

“What’s wrong.”

Ramona smiled wickedly.

“We’re all crazy anyway.”

Deril realized.

“Play with me.”

Ramona’s cruel ‘games’ wouldn’t stop until Mint appeared again.

“I never liked your face from the beginning.”

“Oh my, how rough.”

Now it was either they all die or Mint appears.

It was only one of the two.

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“Listen, since no one’s talking about it, I’m bravely speaking up as The Man…”

Ged gulped. He had no choice.

“…Boss, are you human?”

The giant snake that had been spewing terrifyingly dangerous poison right before their eyes. Judging by the speed at which the ground was melting.

If they had attacked it, they would have melted away without even bones remaining.

But that snake was lying there collapsed with its mouth wide open. Just looking at those sharp teeth made his heart sink.

Mint had defeated that snake.

And she hadn’t even used much effort.

“…This doesn’t feel right in my hands.”

When Mint extended her hand, a sword appeared at her fingertips. It was a strangely shaped sword with a golden glow, lacking the Guard section and pommel of a typical sword.

“Can’t be helped.”

This single statement was enough.

The moment Mint swung her sword without hesitation.

The giant snake collapsed.

For Ged, whose five senses had improved thanks to Mint’s training and who had clearly heard Mint’s muttering, it was nothing short of amazing.

He could understand it too.

No matter how many times they challenged it, as long as that snake appeared, passing would be impossible.

“There’s nothing strange about it, right? She was already a strong person to begin with, so she doesn’t look any more monstrous now.”

She was a monster from the start. Ged’s group nodded at Haira’s cynical words.

“Haha, there’s nothing wrong with what Haira said!”

While Brett grinned as usual, only Helios was staring blankly at Mint.

For the past few days, Helios and Mint had been sleeping in the same bed.

For Helios, it was beyond his control.

Because at night, Mint would grab his collar and drag him over as if it were natural.

“Where are you going?”

“…”

“Your place is here.”

Of course he had resisted, tried cursing, and even swung his fists, but it was all useless against the overwhelming difference in strength.

It was so bad that Helios felt the desperate desire to become stronger for the second time in his life.

“See, you sleep well.”

Yes, the problem was that he slept very well. So well that it seemed like a lie that he had lost sleep over That Guy’s hair for a while.

However, one problem led to another problem.

When he opened his eyes in the morning, he would see Mint’s peacefully sleeping face.

“Did you sleep well?”

Sometimes she would be awake, staring intently at Helios.

Everything was a first for him. Feeling someone’s body heat, having someone greet him warmly in the morning.

The fact that her expression was extremely dry and emotionless didn’t matter to him.

Sometimes when Helios couldn’t bear the embarrassment and got angry, asking why she was staring at a sleeping person, she would say this:

“Because you look like a pretty boy.”

Because of the time he had spent with Mint, he now knew that this was Mint’s way of saying he was “handsome.”

Knowing this made him want to get away even more.

And his Master, who had looked up at him with the most gentle face every morning.

Was standing over there.

Though she clearly had a small build, her back looked as large as the giant Tower.

Helios swallowed hard.

Soon he would have to doubt his own eyes.

Behind that back standing like a giant, strangely enough, once again.

The silhouette of a woman with long straight hair seemed to overlap.

Helios covered his mouth with the back of his hand.

“…Am I really going crazy.”

This time he saw not just the hair but even the body’s silhouette.

Helios couldn’t take his eyes off the woman’s slender hands.

When they came outside the Tower, Helios and Ged’s Group soon realized without difficulty that they were the only ones who had passed this time.

In fact, if it hadn’t been for Mint, Helios and Ged’s Group would have certainly died and failed.

“Ugh, you know what. I tried to challenge it like a man, you know? But that snake wasn’t ordinary shit!”

“Ah, right. It was spitting red poison. Isn’t that crazy? Tsk, I really feel like I’m going insane. Ha, how do we go back in again…”

Ged was in conversation with a prisoner who appeared to be his colleague. Helios could hear the conversation too.

“Haah… The guy who was with me just now really lost his mind.”

“…Red poison?”

“What, why do you look so dazed? Ah, well. I’m not in my right mind either.”

The prisoner talking with Ged had bulging eyes with bloodshot whites.

He looked extremely exhausted.

Ged felt something strange for a moment.

‘The snake that appeared in our zone definitely… spat black poison?’

Another prisoner joined the conversation. This time it was also about red poison.

They seemed to be trying to erase the despair and horror through conversation somehow.

‘Red poison.’

Helios heard it clearly too.

Could it be that only in their zone appeared a snake that used different poison?

Why?

His eyes met with Mint’s.

Helios thought that Mint must have heard the story he heard as well.

Mint smiled faintly and brought her index finger to her lips.

Shh.

The meaning was clear.

“…About the 29th Floor just now.”

So Helios brought up a different topic instead of the snake.

“Come to think of it, could that floor have been cleared by other methods too?”

“How?”

Helios pondered for a moment.

“The voices.”

“…”

“Weren’t the words the White Scarecrows said hints?”

“Wow, Disciple calls those things scarecrows? How generous.”

“That’s not what I want to talk about.”

“There’s a bad one among us!”

The white entities that looked like humans kept shouting something endlessly.

When he thought about it, they were asking to find something different among themselves.

Then if he had just found that one different thing and killed only that…

When he thought this far, someone’s hand tapped Helios’s back. It was Mint.

Mint, whose gaze met his, whispered with her lips.

— That’s correct.

Soon after, a voice reached his ears.

It had a slightly different resonance than usual.

— You understood it properly. There are floors that give quizzes like that. Though that’s talking about floors higher than here.

“…Floors?”

Then did that mean it was a difficulty level that couldn’t originally be seen on the 29th Floor?

— If you had solved it that way, it would have been much easier. No snakes would have appeared either.

“Then, that…”

— Of course I knew. But it wouldn’t be fun if I told you everything, would it? When will our Baby grow up.

“Haa…”

That damn Baby.

Though anger rose at her leisurely voice, he suppressed his irritation by just rubbing his face.

Honestly, was this the first or second time something like this happened?

His talent lay in growth potential, so he showed remarkable adaptability.

He was in the process of accepting irrationality with his whole body under his eccentric Master.

Helios quickly asked about something else.

“Originally… did you use swords too?”

The sight of Mint using a sword was extremely impressive to him.

Moreover, the trajectory of that sword was beautiful… though he couldn’t bring himself to say it, it was the truth.

— Sometimes. I did use them. But I don’t really like them.

Mint looked into the air for a moment.

“Why?”

— Oh my, since when have you been so interested in me?

“…Are you being sarcastic?”

— Sir Garret doesn’t know such things.

“…Don’t talk like a child with that expression. It’s just creepy.”

When Helios showed a disgusted expression, Mint shrugged her shoulders. How prickly.

— Swords are something that dead people liked?

The calm voice created a different resonance than usual.

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