I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 50

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Chapter 50

“Are you okay?”

At the dry voice, Helios slowly raised his gaze while still coughing.

Fortunately, the coughing gradually subsided.

“…What, what was that gun?”

Guns existed in this world too. But because Kia was widespread, they were only decent weapons for ordinary people.

It was an era where melee weapons were more favored by Kia users.

“My love?”

“What does that… *cough*…”

“My most cherished weapon.”

“Have you been hiding your power all this time?”

“I never hid it. There just wasn’t any occasion to reveal it.”

Mint chose an answer that was only half true.

“You were excellent too. Even in your dazed state, you managed to create and thrust a spear.”

That was right. Helios had launched an attack on the Boss even while being choked.

Considering the enormous level difference with the Boss, it was remarkable.

He was truly growing at a frightening pace.

“…Still, I have a long way to go.”

Helios lowered his gaze. His shoulders drooped, and even the corners of his eyes turned down. It was cute.

To Mint, he looked like a puppy that had been hit somewhere and came home.

“Maybe he wants praise?”

Remembering what Haira had said, she tried giving praise, but the results weren’t very good.

Mint pondered.

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

Without hesitation, Mint approached Helios and knelt down on one knee in front of him.

“What are you trying to…!”

Helios froze stiff.

Because Mint had pulled him into an embrace. Her dry hands patted his back.

It was clearly a perfunctory touch.

Thump thump. Helios’s heart inevitably began beating wildly.

“I said you did well, didn’t I? Why can’t you recognize your Master’s praise as praise?”

“…”

“You just need to say ‘Yes, Master’ and feel proud.”

Among the High-Grade Prisoners, there was one twisted by an inferiority complex.

At first, he was born into a family with too excellent a Father and was always frustrated.

In the end, consumed by his inferiority complex, he had killed his family and countless humans, which brought him to This Place.

When faced with such an insurmountable mountain, some people’s will breaks.

Mint hoped Helios wouldn’t become such a person.

“…I’ll ask just one thing.”

Helios bit his lips tightly in Mint’s embrace.

There was actually something else he truly wanted to ask, but the words wouldn’t come out.

“Go to Hell.”

Mint had just used Green Light Kia, which he’d never seen before.

Even while being choked and unable to breathe, Helios saw it clearly.

The female silhouette that was always visible around his Master.

Amazingly, as soon as the green light appeared, the female silhouette smoothly entered and merged with Mint’s body.

At that moment, his breath caught not because of the hand gripping his throat, but for a different reason.

He could instinctively understand.

Why that silhouette had merged with his Master’s body.

Because they were the same person.

Helios’s mouth went completely dry.

Master.

…Are you, by any chance, a woman?

Actually, gender didn’t matter anymore. As long as it was Mint, that was enough.

But looking at the silhouette with long hair and somehow different facial features.

He had that thought. Was she hiding not just her gender but also her appearance?

So he wanted to ask. Are you a woman?

Can’t you show me?

But what finally flowed from his lips were completely different words.

“…Do you think I can reach the Summit, Master?”

“Yes.”

Helios felt relieved by the firm answer.

“Can I become as strong as you, Master?”

“That depends on what you do.”

Even the half-hearted answer sounded sweet in this moment. Helios resolved to become strong no matter what happened.

Meanwhile, Mint, who had been comforting Helios, raised her arm and looked at it briefly.

Clank.

The sound of chains reached her ears.

She hadn’t misheard. For a very brief moment, a Red Chain appeared on Mint’s left arm before disappearing faster than it had appeared.

Her eyes darkened with a gloomy light.

‘Tsk.’

Mint clicked her tongue inwardly.

She had tried not to use it, but ended up using her Unique Kia.

And….

I was caught by ‘That Guy’.

* * *

At the same time.

Large hands gripped a quill pen and moved as if dancing. The cursive writing flowing from the pen tip was incomparably elegant.

Even the Imperial Palace scribes would shed tears of admiration at such graceful and perfect noble penmanship.

But the guard standing before the desk couldn’t see any of it.

“….”

He could only wait anxiously, not knowing where those hands before his eyes might strike next.

Just then, the hand that had been tracing elegant arcs stopped completely.

“Ah.”

“It’s, it’s ready. C-Captain!”

“…Keep it down.”

Skin pale as white porcelain, a firm yet smooth curved jawline, and above it long lips that soon curved upward in a beautiful line.

“Aha.”

Beneath jet-black hair, reddish-brown eyes glinted darkly.

“Found you. My little miss.”

How truly amusing. He had searched outside like hunting mice, wondering where she had gone.

The darkest place is under the lamp?

“Who’s infiltrated the cell right now?”

“Huh? Huh? Ah…. Guy and Raysom, D-David and….”

The guard in front of the snake-like smiling man trembled violently. On the ground lay those who had once been colleagues, dead and bleeding.

He had to stay calm.

“There’s ‘Brett’ who’s monitoring the target.”

Otherwise he’d end up the same way.

At the guard’s words, The Man remained silent for a long while.

“Should I postpone Brett’s mission and give him standby orders?”

“No. For now.”

The Man went tap tap. drumming on the desk.

The rhythmic sound was like drops of blood falling.

No, with dead people already sprawled on the ground, he couldn’t help but think this way.

The guard endured the urge to squeeze his eyes shut.

As a guard who had been through everything, corpses weren’t frightening at all. Rather, working as a guard in Niflheim, he’d seen them sickeningly often.

However, that man was frightening because he could turn him into the same thing as those corpses.

“Continue the mission as planned, and let’s watch.”

The Man raised the corners of his mouth as if amused.

When he had briefly left his post, Mint had disappeared.

He had searched outside thoroughly, but couldn’t find any trace of Mint’s presence.

He couldn’t even find a trace of her existence, let alone her presence. As if she had vanished from this world.

That is, until this very moment when he felt the ‘signal’.

‘But…’

However, the man had no idea where in the Prison Mint could be.

He hadn’t heard any rumors about Mint reappearing in the Prison either.

“…Interesting.”

Then where are you.

I wonder where you could be?

My strong and useful young lady.

I’m withering away because I can’t see you.

* * *

When they had just emerged from the 33rd Floor, Ged’s Group let out groans and slumped down where they stood.

“I thought it would be a peaceful Floor for once, but it was a Floor that strikes fear even into men…”

“The 30th Floor Range isn’t called the 30th Floor Range for nothing…”

They weren’t seriously injured, but they looked mentally exhausted.

Of course, even if they had been injured, they would have healed completely the moment they came Outside the Tower.

They looked more tired than usual.

‘They were exposed to an incredible concentration of Kia, so it’s bound to be difficult.’

I knew the reason they were exhausted.

Just before using my Unique Kia inside the Tower, I spread the Disc I had sent toward Ged’s Group thinly to block their vision.

They must have been trapped in something like an Air Raid Shelter, only feeling the vibrations of tremendous power.

The power I had set to be usable as ‘Garret’ was quite formidable. But since a Boss as strong as Garret had appeared, the Kia waves doubled.

If I had drawn out my Unique Kia on top of that? The concentration of Kia in the air became even denser.

Oxygen is an essential substance for humans, but conversely, when its concentration becomes too high, it can lead humans to death.

Kia was similar.

‘Of course, I wouldn’t have let them die.’

Even though I had only drawn out my Unique Kia briefly, it would still have been overwhelming for them.

‘Still, they didn’t faint. They’ve gotten quite good.’

Perhaps because they were the Party chosen by the Male Lead who was born with all the world’s luck and talent, each one possessed extraordinary abilities.

First, Ged had awakened a new Ability under my Training, and Seth was an Ability user who could use two Kias, as well as a precious healer.

Speaking of precious, Haira’s Kia ‘Bewilderment’ couldn’t be left out either.

Brett’s potential was average, but his application skills were excellent.

Ged, who had been catching his breath, turned toward me. Then he blinked with an innocent face.

“Boss?”

“What.”

“I just noticed… Why are your lips so swollen?”

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