I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 46

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Chapter 46

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Due to the Warden’s nagging, I couldn’t completely block the tsunami of love calls rushing toward Helios.

Helios seemed to understand in his own way and didn’t say much.

The problem was that while he could reject the love calls himself, and I could secretly handle the more forceful approaches well.

The situation I had been expecting finally exploded.

Thwack!

“Haah…”

As I said, scouting here was about a hundred million light years away from normal scouting.

If faction A wanted Helios, then rival faction B, who didn’t want A’s power to grow stronger, tried to stop them even if it meant destroying Helios.

And that guy lying over there was a member of faction B.

‘Weak enough to fall to Helios’s hands though.’

But there were still people left.

Helios’s eyes seemed to gleam dangerously. Oh boy, this was getting serious.

While watching Helios fight, and secretly dealing with those trying to mess with Kia on the side.

I recalled Seth’s words.

‘Guard Captain.’

That bastard had returned.

An opponent I absolutely couldn’t encounter, troublesome and someone I didn’t want to face.

Not because he was strong, but because he was like a centipede. A human with the nature to drag anyone down to hell by entangling them no matter who they were.

‘No wonder it’s been quiet lately. Was he away for a while?’

Well, if this guy had been making a fuss looking for me, the Warden would have contacted me.

‘Should I lay low for a while?’

Thwack!

I stopped thinking as I watched a prisoner flying toward me.

It was already too late for ‘Garret’ to live normally. Since I had disappeared without a trace as Mint anyway, I should be satisfied with this.

‘He’s taking down three intermediate level guys.’

Helios approached after the fight ended. I stood up, dusting off my clothes.

“Let’s go. 33rd Floor.”

“…Nothing else to say?”

“What?”

“…”

Helios pressed his lips tightly together.

I briefly took in the prisoners sprawled behind him, the onlookers, and then his handsome face again.

“Next time, aim for vital points in one go. Prolonged fights only work against you.”

“…”

“What.”

“Never mind.”

Helios swept back his sweat-soaked hair and walked past me.

“Maybe he wanted praise?”

The one who spoke to me was Haira, who had been waiting to go to the Tower together.

“Praise? What did he do well?”

“…He won, didn’t he?”

“It was a fight he was obviously going to win.”

Haira blinked.

“You believed in him?”

Does it need to be that grandiose?

“That guy wasn’t even at a level to touch him in the first place. Why would belief come into it?”

“Then what if it was an opponent at a level that could touch Helios?”

“Then it would be good experience, right?”

“…What if it was someone strong enough to kill him instantly?”

“I’d have to get rid of them.”

Haira’s eyes stared intently at me.

Due to the many unintentional conversations we’d had, I knew that Haira had come here for fraud.

For a fraudster to end up in This Place, the scale of their crimes must have been no joke.

Haira smiled a good-natured smile.

A face accustomed to acting more prickly than anyone, yet also accustomed to smiling like a good person.

“You know, you really have no expressions, don’t you? Smiling. Expressionless. It’s the first time I’ve seen someone with just those two.”

Hmm, I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do about that, but I heard it.

“So you’ve been really hard to read all this time. But I can see it faintly now.”

“…”

“I’m human too, so I do recognize kindness. I want Helios to do well. At least it’s fortunate that it’s not one-sided feelings. Though I’m not sure if it’s really fortunate.”

“Summarize it.”

“Have you ever felt that Helios has been strange lately?”

“That’s not a summary.”

“In situations like earlier, try doing this. You’ll see something good.”

Haira whispered something with a good-natured face.

Whether the Warden succeeded in negotiating with the current Boss.

The difficulty of the 32nd Floor became much easier than the 30th Floor.

Of course, it wasn’t by a large margin, but it was enough for Helios’s party to handle now.

‘Of course, variables do appear, whether because of me or not. But I can take care of those.’

There’s a saying.

If you endlessly make someone who’s really good at math do multiplication tables, it becomes so easy that they get complacent. And eventually make one mistake.

What I too overlooked while being relaxed was.

“Huh? The dart pin went toward you! I guess it’s your turn this time…!”

The point was that I was also included among the targets for selecting fears.

‘Oh my.’

Everyone’s gaze turned toward me.

Especially Helios’s gaze seemed like it would burst into flames, burning so intensely.

“You’re going to bore holes through my face, guys.”

“Ah, sorry, Boss. But, we’re just curious, you know.”

“Haha. Right! What could Boss possibly be afraid of?”

Well, I wonder if I’ll live up to their expectations. Actually, I’m not really sure what I’m afraid of either.

Above all, fear is something hidden deep in a person’s unconscious.

This Floor’s level won’t be able to peer deeply into my mental world.

“Sorry about this, guys.”

“Huh?”

“This Floor is going to get much harder.”

A voice came from thin air.

― Fairy tale! It’s a fairy tale!

― Fairy tale!

Fairy tale?

The dartboard giggled.

― There’s a hidden gift!

The voice in the air gradually grew quieter, and the space rippled and changed.

“Huh? W-wait…!”

“My body…!”

“What do we do?!”

The difference from the previous Floor was that Helios and Ged’s Group’s bodies were gradually becoming transparent.

“Don’t worry. It’s not dangerous.”

I had expected this and raised my hand.

“You’re being moved.”

“What?!”

I watched Helios’s disappearing form. He had a surprised expression.

“See you in a bit.”

Somehow, thinking about them disappearing made me feel just a little regretful.

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When I closed my eyes and opened them again, I was in an unfamiliar place.

I had also been moved somewhere, just like Helios and Ged’s Group.

‘Where is this place?’

Inside a forest.

The 32nd Floor location was also a forest, but the difference was that it was day instead of night?

When I looked up, I could see a large castle not far away.

‘The 32nd Floor was the forest where Haira was abandoned, and the 31st Floor directly reflected the crime scene that Ged committed.’

To be precise, I witnessed the process of war criminal Ged being framed in vivid detail. Who would have thought there was another wronged person here besides Helios.

What I felt while facing Ged’s fear was that this floor vividly recreated even the extras.

‘Besides, this time the target is me, so the difficulty must have increased a bit more.’

The bosses’ difficulty seemed to be proportional to the combat power possessed by the owner of the fear.

…By the way, this should be a place that recreated my fear, but I have no idea where this is.

As my bewilderment grew, a voice came from the air.

― Once upon a time, in a certain kingdom, there lived a princess with snow-white skin and black hair.

‘Huh?’

I blinked my eyes.

― The King gave the princess, who was born in winter and was like white snow, the name ‘Snow White’.

It was a familiar explanation. An old memory I had forgotten, one I hadn’t tried to recall.

‘Snow White?’

I remembered Dart shouting ‘fairy tale’.

‘This is really out of nowhere. Why a fairy tale all of a sudden?’

Seeing how the horror novel Seth read was recreated, it wouldn’t be strange for a fairy tale I read to be recreated either.

But what does this have to do with fear?

“Ah…”

There was a memory that flashed by.

“I really hate fairy tales.”

I had hated fairy tales since before I possessed this body, when I was in Korea.

As expected, this floor’s level couldn’t look deeply into my mental world, so it seems to have only picked up something superficial.

If that’s the case, this floor became very.

‘Sweet as honey.’

I decided to think of it as a bonus stage. This would be a floor where Helios could rest comfortably too.

Even while I was thinking, the voice in the air was diligently broadcasting the fairy tale.

Before I knew it, the content being explained was near the end of the fairy tale.

― Oh no! The princess has collapsed after eating the poison apple! Fortunately, a prince on a white horse from a neighboring country is passing by nearby.

“How fortunate. I don’t have to watch it from the beginning.”

While watching comfortably, I unconsciously looked at my own outfit.

‘What is this uniform?’

Unexpectedly, I was wearing a blue uniform. It had a noble design different from the guard uniform.

Moreover, when it appeared I don’t know, but next to me was a pure white horse.

A horse?

Don’t tell me.

“Ugh. Am I the prince?”

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