I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 54

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Chapter 54

Helios felt his heart drop with a thud. He squeezed his eyes shut and opened them, swallowing down the dizziness.

Mint was raising Helios to become the boss at the summit.

So if he were to fall, she hoped it would be after seizing the throne, only after that.

‘If he really becomes the boss, there wouldn’t be any reason to fall anyway.’

Helios’s face turned bright red without fail. Mint thought he was angry again.

But Helios felt an unbearable heat.

After countless times of revisiting and re-examining his memories from the 33rd Floor, he reached a conclusion. He was certain.

His master was a woman.

And the silhouette he had been seeing was probably her true form.

He should say something, but his mouth wouldn’t open.

“…M-Master sure talks well while touching me every day.”

“I’m an exception.”

“This incident was Master’s fault, if you think about it. You said you’d always be by my side, but didn’t you leave?”

Only after saying it did Helios realize how utterly childish these words were.

How was this different from a baby’s whining?

His face heated up a little more. Still, he had no intention of taking back what he’d said.

Mint let out a small laugh.

“Yes, I was wrong. Baby.”

“…Don’t call me that.”

Helios said through gritted teeth. But the faint smile wouldn’t leave Mint’s face.

How does he turn red every single time? Curious about his cheeks, she reached out to caress them.

Even while angry, Helios somehow didn’t shake off Mint’s hand.

Why was he angry? She wanted to know a little more, but Mint didn’t ask.

Suddenly, Sergeant Steven’s words came to mind.

“A lot of people are dead. It’s going to be a massacre soon.”

The sergeant had said that since the boss changed, fights outside the Tower had become frequent and more intense.

“I’ll take it back.”

Mint withdrew her hand from Helios. Helios felt a strange thirst but didn’t show it.

No, that was his intention, but his gaze was regretfully following the withdrawn hand.

“You can fight from now on.”

Helios’s pale violet eyes widened slightly.

‘When his eyes get bigger, I can see the mole better.’

Quietly noting this newly realized fact, Mint continued.

“But if you’re going to fight, fight properly.”

With these words, Mint’s foot swept Helios’s legs.

However, Mint’s foot only struck empty air.

Helios had distanced himself from her, and before she knew it, he was holding a Kia-made spear in one hand.

‘His reflexes are beast-level.’

Helios was a Material Kia ability user. Yet he boasted reflexes and agility that rivaled those of Musculoskeletal Kia ability users.

It meant he was naturally gifted.

And the one who had cultivated that was none other than Mint.

‘A spear…’

Just moments ago, Helios had beaten his opponent with that Kia-made spear in his hand.

“How disappointing that you’d avoid Master’s loving caress.”

“No one calls a murderous kick a caress.”

“How disappointing.”

Mint smiled slyly.

Clang!

The next moment, the weapons in Mint’s and Helios’s hands clashed.

‘A spear?’

Mint also held the same type of weapon in her hand.

The spear wasn’t a weapon Mint used.

“Even if everyone in the world says no, you should say I’m right.”

Helios discovered something strange and spine-chilling in Mint’s gaze.

Sometimes he felt that Mint’s eyes weren’t quite those of a living person.

Because they held something detached about them.

But now, something indescribable rippled in her pupils.

Clang!

The exchange continued.

Having barely managed to block, he let out a stunned groan.

“Wh-what’s the reason for suddenly attacking?”

“How funny, Baby.”

The tension between their crossed spears was his illusion.

With just a slight twist of Mint’s wrist, the initiative was stolen from him!

“When have I ever hit you for a reason?”

“…!”

When he came to his senses, Helios was collapsed on the floor. He instinctively rolled to the side to avoid something.

“Haa, haa.”

Right next to the lying Helios’s face, a spear embedded itself.

Rustle. His severed hair fluttered down slowly like down feathers.

“…Are you trying to kill me?”

She threw it knowing he would dodge. Mint was nonchalant.

“I’ll say it again – if you’re going to fight, fight properly.”

Helios’s eyes slowly rolled upward. It was clearly an attack that could have pierced his eye if he’d been careless.

His Master, who had embedded the spear in the floor while looking down at him, was smiling.

Then she spat it out.

“Helios, spears don’t suit you.”

“…What?”

He was dumbfounded.

So this sudden attack was just to inform him of that fact?

And at a moment when he could have been stabbed in the eye if he had dodged wrong.

While pinning him down! What was with that mischievously smiling demonic face!

Of course, he knew Mint wouldn’t seriously injure him.

But Helios had long lost trust due to Mint’s eccentric behavior.

Helios ground his teeth once more.

‘I must be crazy.’

He must be insane. Why were his preferences like this…!

“I always feel this way, but can’t you speak normally? You could have told me earlier!”

“Hey, then you wouldn’t feel it.”

“Feel what?”

“You have to almost die to realize, ‘Ah! If I keep holding this, I’ll die.'”

“…You told me that with an attack that could have blinded me?”

“Yep.”

“…”

When Helios stared with eyes full of bewilderment and disbelief, Mint brought one hand to her cheek with an expressionless face.

“Master gets embarrassed when you look at me like that.”

“Argh…!”

Whoosh, Mint deliberately made a sound as she lightly moved away.

Helios kicked at where Mint had been and immediately used the recoil to spring to his feet.

His fuming appearance was no different from usual. No, he thought so, but.

“Master, you’re a pervert!”

Oh my.

Mint tilted her head at words she hadn’t heard before.

“That’s quite a fresh reaction.”

Mint strode over and leaned her head toward Helios.

She felt a bit wronged.

“There are so many perverts in this prison. Why are you saying that to me.”

“…Are you even speaking words?”

At this moment, Helios wanted to land just one hit, forget his pounding heart and everything else.

Weapons. The problem was weapons that didn’t suit him?

Would it kill her to tell him nicely?

He had even used spears all the way to the 30th Floor.

Of course, he was deeply impressed by Mint’s sword strikes and used a sword on the 30th Floor.

But he felt it was inferior to the spear he had been learning from the beginning.

‘Weapons.’

My Master was never kind, not even once. Even though she could easily offer plausible words and affection.

Just one exchange.

If only my hand could reach her, just once.

Mint’s eyes widened slightly.

Soon she whistled.

Thud, as she kicked off and rose into the air, wind could be felt at the same time.

An attack that would have blown off her head if she had remained standing passed by.

‘Wow, he really does copy what he’s seen once.’

Her sword strike that she had shown when cutting the snake. Helios had copied it just from seeing it.

Though it was clumsy, that alone was remarkable. It was an ability that far surpassed Helios’s skill at the time.

A spear was already in Helios’s hand.

“So, are you trying to say that a sword suits me better than a spear?”

“Who knows.”

Mint shrugged her shoulders while floating in mid-air.

The conversation didn’t continue. Because Helios attacked again.

It was when Mint lightly dodged and leisurely turned an aerial somersault.

‘Oh?’

Whoosh!

Mint bent her waist backward as flexibly as if doing gymnastics.

The attack aimed at her upper body was quite fierce.

The moment she bent her waist back, Helios smiled.

The blue-tinted spear shattered into pieces, and from between them appeared a solid sword that held an even deeper blue light.

‘I can’t dodge in this state.’

With her waist bent backward, she couldn’t avoid the sword coming for her.

Mint had no choice but to grab the sword with both hands and shatter it.

Clang!

Though the sword made like the real thing was broken by bare hands, Helios wasn’t discouraged.

“The weapons I use don’t necessarily have to be just one, right?”

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