I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 49

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Chapter 49

Everyone was surprised, thinking that person was the boss of this floor.

That was understandable, since the mannequin-like entities on the 29th Floor did speak, but their voices were bizarre, like sounds coming from an old gramophone.

Their tone was immature, like a child shouting.

Even the dartboard’s voice had an unpleasant quality that didn’t seem human.

But that person spoke with a perfect human voice.

“….”

Helios was staring at Mint alone. He thought Mint’s condition was unusual.

A person with no expression except for smiling. Yet something was subtly different.

It had been that way since the Boss started speaking.

Soon the Boss, who had been facing away from Helios and Ged’s Group, turned around while removing the hood of their cloak.

The party was surprised for different reasons.

The Boss’s face was the most human-like among all the human imitations they had seen so far.

“Wow, that’s really a, a person.”

“Haira, is the Boss using an illusion ability again this time?”

Haira slowly shook her head.

“No, that doesn’t seem like a mutant using illusion… And I know that person.”

As someone who had played the role of the ‘mirror,’ it was a familiar face to Haira.

“That person is the ‘Queen’ of this fairy tale. The New Queen…!”

“Huh, th, then. Is she like the Serial Killer from the 30th Floor?”

Haira turned toward Helios.

The direction of attack was always decided by him, their leader. However, Helios wasn’t interested in the Boss’s identity.

No, his gaze was so captivated by one place that he couldn’t pay attention to anything else.

‘What?’

Haira, following Helios’s gaze, froze in place.

Mint, who was at the end of his gaze.

Mint was making an expression Haira had never seen before.

Anger.

Yes, that was anger. Just looking at it sent chills down her spine.

“Excuse me, haven’t you seen our child? I’m looking for my child.”

It was strange. The Queen that Haira had seen looked just like an ordinary noble, but her current appearance was different from what she had seen earlier.

It was the face of an ordinary woman. Perhaps in her late thirties or around forty. She had a kind-looking impression, and there was an unusual trident-shaped scar on her forehead.

The Boss looked at the party and smiled sadly.

So chillingly human-like, so realistic.

“If you see my baby, will you let me know?”

“….”

“Tell them that ‘Mama’ is looking for them.”

With those words, tremendous malice and black Kia poured out from the Boss.

Tsk. Helios heard the sound of a tongue clicking. He and Ged’s Group were blown backward.

“Ugh…!”

When they came to their senses, they were collapsed in a place far away.

And in front of them, a familiar golden disc was floating gently.

“Ugh, is it Boss again?”

“No, more than that, wh-what was that just now?”

“Haha… My throat still feels chilly.”

It was an enormous power they had never felt before. The entire party could instinctively tell.

The fact that this was not something that should come out of this floor.

“As expected, is it because Boss became the target?”

“Most likely.”

Helios bit his lips tightly. Even if he wanted to help, he couldn’t.

That fact filled him with a sense of helplessness.

Especially in the place where he had just felt the greatest happiness of his life.

“It’s my first time too, so bear with that.”

Helios clenched his fists tightly.

He knew the gap was clear, but he too wanted to be helpful to his Master at least once.

Mint wouldn’t admit it herself, but she was generous.

She was the one who gave endlessly, and Helios only received.

He was anxious. Because it was a relationship that would end just like that if Mint suddenly quit or disappeared one day.

Would she get angry if he stepped forward here?

No, let’s talk when we get outside the Tower. That he wants more training. To become stronger…

“Boss!”

“Helios! To your side!”

Helios, who had been lost in thought while gazing endlessly at Mint who was far away, finally felt it.

It was already too late, Boss was standing next to him.

Boss grins as if her mouth would tear.

Looking at the hand approaching right in front of his nose, Helios felt a sense of defeat.

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“‘Mama’ is looking for you.”

Mint was bewildered. She was dumbfounded.

‘I thought this was just a floor to pass through.’

Who would have thought the person she least wanted to see would be manifested before her eyes.

Kia from the 33rd Floor of the Tower must have created this while stealing a glimpse of her mental world.

Because that person before her eyes could never be an object of fear for Mint.

“Where could our baby be?”

As Mint had expected, the Boss was composed with skills matching her level.

However, the Tower had only seen Mint’s abilities while wearing ‘Garret’s’ mask, and since Mint was hiding her true power, it was manageable enough.

The problem was that the balance of power was a bit precarious.

‘Can I fight while perfectly protecting them?’

She had blown Helios and Ged’s Group back, but even that distance was cutting it close.

‘At this point, I’m getting curious about this Boss’s face too.’

She was reaching the point where she wanted to see the stupid face that set this insane difficulty.

The Boss before her eyes was someone Mint knew well. It was the person who had been the Tower’s Boss when Mint was young.

The owner of the 100th Floor from two generations before she became Boss.

“Child, child…”

Of course, this wasn’t someone who used to speak so mindlessly.

Only the face had been replicated; Kia of this Floor couldn’t properly peek into her mind, so it couldn’t even conceive her personality.

The problem would be the military force that could handle the Golden Disc she summoned without issue.

‘What should I do…’

Should she use all the power available while wearing Garret’s shell like this?

It would be troublesome if her true form was revealed in the process.

While thinking this on one hand, Mint moved her body skillfully.

What she found strange happened as her fist struck the Boss’s face.

‘What the.’

The moment her fist connected properly, the Boss split into two. Mint was dumbfounded.

‘What kind of 33rd Floor Boss uses Clone Technique?’

Entities appearing in the Tower using Special Abilities only happened from at least the 50th Floor.

Mint gritted her teeth.

One of the Bosses had already started toward Helios.

She tried to drive all the Golden Discs toward the Boss she was facing and run after it.

But the Boss’s power held Mint back.

Mint, who was already feeling anger, was gradually reaching her limit.

It had been irritating from the start that a Boss wearing ‘Mama’s’ mask appeared without permission.

But when the Boss that ran toward Helios finally appeared gripping Helios’s neck in one hand.

“Child, child. Mama has been looking for you…”

The thread snapped.

“Bullshit.”

Mint let out a cold laugh.

In Mint’s hands, not the golden light she used as Garret, but green light began to gather.

It was mint-colored light, the same as her hair color – a blue-green light.

“The real ‘Mama’ is laughing mockingly from Hell.”

What happened from now on was unavoidable. She couldn’t face a Boss with similar power while protecting Helios from death.

Her eyes met with Helios, whose consciousness seemed to be fading as his neck was gripped.

Helios seemed to be saying something with his eyes, but she couldn’t understand it.

“Child, child… Let’s go together…”

“Making something disgusting in there.”

Green light gathered in Mint’s hand, forming a single shape.

It was a rifle.

Mint skillfully gripped the gun and aimed at the Boss.

Raise the gun. Hold the gun.

Aim, zero in with the gun sight.

“Mama thinks it’s a wonderful weapon. Should I tell you?”

Steady the breathing.

Identify the target without twisting or jerking the gun.

Bang!

In standing shooting stance, Mint’s gun spewed green smoke.

Just one shot.

It was just one shot, but the 33rd Floor’s Boss evaporated without a trace.

Smoke that hadn’t yet disappeared from the gun rose like traces of a real gun.

“Go to Hell.”

Mint watched without batting an eye as the Boss disappeared, gun still in one hand.

Until the Boss, who bore the form of someone who was both her benefactor and someone who had died on his own, completely vanished.

The gun smoothly disappeared from Mint’s hand.

The Golden Disc she had sent ahead to Ged’s Group would have covered their eyes.

And what remained was.

“Cough cough!”

Only Helios, who had fallen to the ground and was coughing roughly.

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