I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 51

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Chapter 51

The moment Ged’s calm question came out, a violent coughing sound was heard from beside him.

“Cough! Cough, cough!”

It was Helios.

Physiological tears had formed in his eyes as he choked and coughed.

His face and under his eyes had naturally turned red, and watching him reminded me of the kiss that happened on that floor.

Come to think of it, he had that same red face when we were going back and forth (?).

The three teardrops beneath his eyes.

The dots that seemed to move closer together each time he blinked created an alluring effect.

I touched the wound on my dry lips and then lowered my hand.

I chuckled softly.

“A big mosquito bit me.”

“Huh, Boss was a mosquito?”

“Wasn’t Boss human?”

Haira tilted her head as if finding it strange and asked. At the same time, she looked back and forth between me and Helios with curious eyes.

“Ah, or maybe she transformed into a giant mosquito in the middle…?!”

Seth, who had already faced his greatest fear before, said with a pale face.

“Huh, Boss, were you okay? It must have been… disgusting…”

I shrugged without answering.

I glanced at Helios’s broad back as he turned away from me.

“Well.”

A faint smile naturally lingered on my lips.

“It was cute though.”

“Cough! Cough cough cough!”

Once again, fake coughing flowed from Helios’s direction.

It was a slightly rougher cough than before.

The coughing continued for a long time.

With an intense determination to absolutely not look at me.

While subtly covering his ears that had turned red.

Chapter 6. Could it be… OO?

Mint had been feeling a mysterious atmosphere lately.

‘The Tower is quite unsettled.’

The Garden that served as the Recreation Area was actually good for observing the movements of the Prisoners within the Prison.

She was always busy taking Helios and Ged’s Group to secluded places.

But Mint had been taking time to observe those gathered in the Garden.

The Garden was a space where prisoners of all ranks gathered. That meant the hierarchy was visible to the eye.

Of course, prisoners with the highest ranks had more days when they didn’t come out than days when they did.

But the moderately strong or reasonably powerful ones strutted around here, so it wasn’t difficult to grasp the overall atmosphere of the Prison.

‘There’s another one here.’

And currently, the atmosphere in the Prison was clearly strange.

‘Another one. A terrified bastard.’

Mint couldn’t take her eyes off the trembling Prisoner.

Recently, she had often seen Prisoners looking so terrified in the Garden.

When did it start…

Right, it was from when she heard from her Mentor Sergeant Steven that the Boss of the Tower had changed.

One by one. They seemed to tremble and cower as if being chased by something, and then many began showing fearful behavior.

That wasn’t all.

‘And another one disappeared.’

It was frequent for Prisoners who were extremely terrified to disappear from the next day onward.

Thinking something was strange, she had been keeping track of such Prisoners.

You never know what might happen.

And sure enough… they really had vanished without a trace. It was too strange to simply say they weren’t coming to the Garden.

‘Given their ranks.’

From what she could tell, those who were afraid were all Prisoners of Intermediate/2nd rank or higher.

There were those who were reasonably strong in This Place, or even Intermediate/1st rank who could be called strong. And even up to Advanced/3rd rank.

Rather, Prisoners at similar levels to Helios and Ged’s Group were quiet.

Meaning there were no bastards showing strange behavior.

Why was that?

‘Well, I can roughly guess.’

Those who disappeared were most likely dead.

So-called ‘elimination’.

It was something that had been decided from the moment the relatively moderate Boss who had risen after Mint herself was replaced by someone else.

‘However, if they really are dead… isn’t the pace too fast?’

That was right. The timing of when things started happening and the speed at which Prisoners were disappearing was fast.

She felt a faint curiosity about just what kind of crazy bastard had become the Boss.

But Mint cleanly put aside her curiosity. It was no longer a story that concerned her.

Unless Helios entered a Floor where he could be considered a strong person.

This Place was crawling with crazy bastards who loved massacre.

Probably one of those types had become the master of the 100th Floor.

Come to think of it…

‘It seems like the difficulty of the Floors that were adjusted this time varies depending on a person’s Ability.’

After facing the Boss with ‘Mama’s’ face on the 33rd Floor, Mint was certain.

The Tower’s Trial that had changed this time.

The fact that the difficulty was adjusted according to the Ability of whoever entered the Floor.

That meant all Floors would become more difficult from now on.

Because of Mint’s very existence.

Mint just accepted it and moved on.

‘This will be good for training.’

After all, it wouldn’t be her suffering, but Helios and Ged’s group who would struggle.

Thinking thoughts that would have made Helios and Ged’s group glare at her or tear up if they had heard, she slowed her pace.

She paused.

Actually, the strange things Mint had discovered weren’t just the prison’s chaotic atmosphere and the terror-stricken prisoners.

Helios.

Helios had been acting strange lately.

It started when they left the 33rd floor.

‘Today we’re going to the 38th floor.’

They had already cleared the 35th, 36th, and 37th floors.

Floors that were easy for Mint but not at all easy for Ged’s group and Helios.

Of course, there were no problems since Mint had eliminated in advance any bosses or entities they couldn’t handle.

Since she only dealt with exactly those things, it must have been difficult for them. But they got through it anyway.

‘Time for the next floor again.’

Where Mint had stopped, there was a broken glass window.

The warden of this place either didn’t fix broken glass windows at all unless they were in spaces for the guards, or fixed them very slowly.

‘Garret’s’ reflection appeared in the half-broken glass.

Since the 33rd floor, Helios hadn’t made eye contact with her. No, to be precise.

He couldn’t look at her properly.

For the stoic and indifferent Mint, this was something she only noticed belatedly.

At first, she thought it might be anger.

‘He could react that way after being forced to kiss a man.’

Though he eventually accepted it, the situation was quite forceful, wasn’t it?

If they didn’t kiss, they couldn’t escape from that place.

Though she didn’t know how it suddenly came to mind, it was a setup that would appear in an adult novel she had seen long ago in Korea.

In a space devoid of common sense, common sense disappeared so quickly, yet knowledge would occasionally surface like this.

So Mint fully understood his anger. This tower made them do annoying, disgusting, and frightening things without a care.

Though it wasn’t exactly compensation, she had also shown her own kind of goodwill.

“…What?”

“Hit me.”

“….”

“If you avoid me, we can’t train. What you’re doing now is because we had to touch lips….”

“Aaaah! D-don’t say it!”

“…? Well, whatever. Anyway, you’re angry because of ‘that,’ right?”

Only when she said this could Mint finally face Helios properly.

He had a dazed expression.

Of course, naturally, Mint couldn’t read the complex emotions written on his face.

She just thought it was because of surprise.

“…Angry? Me?”

“Yeah.”

Helios had a bewildered expression.

Rather, a few seconds later, with a reddened face, he asked when he had ever been angry. He even got angry asking it.

‘If that’s not anger, then what is it.’

He was truly a disciple who didn’t know himself.

Because even when saying ‘I’ve never been angry,’ he wasn’t looking at Mint’s face.

Was he like a sulking child? Or rather, he looked more like an angry face.

As expected, Mint couldn’t tell whether this was anger or some other emotion.

However, it was a bit irritating.

If it continued like this, training would become difficult.

This was why Mint grabbed the chin of Helios, who had been sitting there exhausted, and forced him to look at her.

“Why won’t you look at me?”

“…”

Of course, from Helios’s perspective, it was enough to drive him crazy and make him jump. But there was no way Mint could know that.

“Stop, stop staring at me!”

Helios tried to run away, but Mint was faster.

Trying to run away from training – the attempt was good.

Or maybe he was being clever?

‘Trying to skip training?’

When she said this, Helios huffed and puffed, saying that wasn’t it.

Helios had his own reasons, but he couldn’t tell Mint.

When he stood in front of Mint, his mouth stayed tightly shut as if it had become a clam, refusing to open.

Seeing this, Mint was convinced. He must have been displeased after all.

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