I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 57

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Chapter 57

Brett wasn’t the only one who was exhausted.

The basement stretched on endlessly, and Ged’s Group was rapidly wearing down from the continuous battles.

Of course, Helios’s poor condition wasn’t solely due to the insects.

They were nearing the end of the basement.

That fact came choking at his throat like an invisible rope binding him.

No, actually Helios knew.

He knew that Mint was included among the reasons his mental state was deteriorating.

“Not really… I’m not curious about it?”

He had known.

He knew that this kind of answer would come to his question.

How could he not know that utterly indifferent personality?

Something he realized in proportion to the time spent with Master. She bestowed affection that was riddled with ignorance and cruelty.

“Ahaha, but Boss is the only one who Boss plays around with, right?”

He knew that everything done to him was a specialness that only he could enjoy.

He also knew it was a blessing that couldn’t be enjoyed in this hellish place.

However, he always felt anxious that all of this was goodwill without substance.

Why? For what reason was she being so good to him?

Was it like this because he happened to become her assigned prisoner?

Was it simply because Master was the type of person who would randomly choose someone and be good to them as work, following a manual that no one else followed? Was it because he was the one she met through an exquisite coincidence?

Then if another prisoner had been in his place, would she have bestowed the same treatment on them?

Probably.

Since she was someone equally indifferent to everyone.

The thought that someone else, not him, might have enjoyed the goodwill and affection he had experienced in this position.

Just thinking about it made him feel like his insides were twisting.

Thoom!

Helios covered his face with his hand.

On the ground lay a giant stag beetle that had fallen.

“Wow, look at those horns. This is the first time I’ve seen one this big.”

“If someone who liked insects were here, it would’ve been heaven. Right, sis?”

“Tsk, how wonderful that would be. Would a mosquito grown 30 times bigger look good to you?”

“Haha, you never know. How many perverts are there in the Prison Cell? Hahaha.”

After defeating the cricket once, Helios and Ged’s Group got the hang of it and no longer wandered around much.

Even while thinking of other things, he instinctively defeated enemies as intended, proving his growth.

Separately from this, Helios’s condition grew even worse.

To make matters worse, they had reached the end of the basement.

Memories he didn’t particularly want to recall came crashing over him like a tidal wave.

“What’s that, a giant door?”

At the end of the basement stood a giant door.

“Is it a door we can exit through?”

“Normally, structurally speaking, wouldn’t it be an exit?”

Both Ged’s words and Haira’s speculation were wrong. That thing was…

“Boss, do you happen to know this place?”

“…Yeah.”

Helios answered while swallowing hard.

His throat kept getting dry.

His damp forehead was probably due to cold sweat.

“Inside, there will be a huge space. And in that place… there will be a Boss.”

“Gasp, the giant spider or centipede you mentioned earlier?”

“…Hahaha. Would it be okay if I fainted here for a moment?”

“Stop talking nonsense and get ready.”

“I’ll open the door.”

Helios grabbed the door handle without even waiting for an answer.

Ged, who usually took charge of first entry as the party’s shield, was pushed aside with a confused “Hey.”

‘Were his hands damp?’

The hand that briefly touched and released his seemed damp, but Ged figured Helios must have sweated a lot from the repeated battles.

He didn’t think much of Helios’s unusual behavior either.

Because Haira, Seth, and even Ged himself had all been the same when facing their own ‘fears.’

Helios finally opened the door with his mouth tightly shut.

Creeeeak.

Somehow, this space even vividly recreated the sound of opening the door.

Just like when he first opened this door 10 years ago.

Yes, it was something that happened 10 years ago.

“Father called for me?”

His father, who was usually so cold and stern that one might wonder if he even knew of his existence, had called for him for the first time.

To the secret space in the house.

That day too, the young son who had been training to near death for Kia Awakening ran down to the underground with a joyful heart despite limping.

Father called me to the underground! Could he finally be acknowledging me?

I hope he’ll call my name!

And when the door opened, what he saw was…

“You came.”

Shaaaaack!

They were giant centipedes and spiders.

“These are the result of long research.”

“Ah, Father…?”

Insects dozens of times larger than a child’s body screeched threateningly.

Originally silent creatures, but modification through Kia had turned them into monsters.

Along with countless other dead insects and bugs scattered about.

“Get stung by this poison. Then you too…!”

It left an unforgettable trauma on the young child.

Helios slowly turned his eyes away.

He faced the ‘terror’ recreated once again.

“What the hell is that…? It’s too big!”

“B-Boss. Is that really the boss?”

Helios’s feet were precariously positioned just outside their range.

He knew because he understood at what distance those things would attack.

“It must be. One of those two is the boss… Ha.”

The moment the basement appeared, he had already prepared himself.

That those monsters that had given him the greatest psychological shock of his childhood would appear again.

But.

Brett pointed to one spot.

“…Haha, everyone look over there. There’s a person again this time?”

“What, who’s that person?”

This he hadn’t expected.

Helios’s body stiffened rigidly.

A person standing with their back turned.

Only a silhouette was visible in the shadows, but how could he not know?

It was his own family member he knew best.

It was his Father.

“Obviously. That’s the boss, not those giant bugs.”

When a leisurely yet clear voice suddenly struck his ears, Helios snapped back to his senses and turned his head.

His eyes met with Mint, who had somehow appeared beside him.

Mint clicked her tongue inwardly.

‘He’s not in his right mind.’

It was quite precarious.

Wasn’t he swinging his spear while lost in thought when taking down those bugs he so despised?

Sure enough, his pupils were dilated.

What was curious was that Helios, upon making eye contact with her, gradually returned to his normal, usual expression.

“…Master, why does that person look like a boss?”

“What do you mean by boss.”

“Ah, the stro-strongest one?”

“Right.”

Seth, who had been reading the situation on behalf of Helios, quickly answered.

“The answer is right there.”

Helios bit his lips tightly.

It was an unexpected situation, but he couldn’t resent it or just stay put.

“You guys handle the centipede side.”

The direction he pointed to while looking at Ged’s Group was exactly the centipede side.

“That side will be better than the spider.”

Saying this, he shared the characteristics of the centipede that he remembered.

“Then what about Boss?”

“I’ll handle the boss.”

So far on the floors, only one boss appeared at a time. Meaning it had never appeared simultaneously with sub-boss level monsters.

No matter how much their skills had improved, Ged’s Group alone couldn’t handle both the spider and centipede.

“Then what about that spider?”

Haira pointed this out. Helios’s eyes turned to one place.

“Master.”

“Mm?”

An extremely low and polite voice flowed from him. It was an enchantingly beautiful tone.

“Please take care of it.”

Mint blinked slowly.

With the same expressionless face that held nothing, as always.

“It would be good if you could handle at least one.”

“Why?”

“You know best, don’t you. That we can’t handle all three.”

Helios tilted his head.

The face that had been suffering just moments ago was completely gone.

“You said you wouldn’t let us die. Protect us.”

He stubbornly insisted shamelessly. No, he was being coquettish.

“Well.”

Mint chuckled.

“This shameless little shit.”

The judgment that he had returned to normal was a mistake.

His light purple eyes were trembling thinly and mercilessly.

Filled with survival instinct and desperation.

Yet he made arrogant demands.

He was precarious, with nothing but guts.

Mint’s thoughts didn’t last long.

“When the Disciple asks so politely, I should oblige.”

Mint lightly tapped Helios’s shoulder as she brushed past him.

Two sub-bosses, and now a Boss was with them too? A complete failure in difficulty adjustment. It was probably because of Mint herself.

The moment she stepped within the beast’s boundary, a black mass shot toward Mint.

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