I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 75

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Chapter 75

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“Don’t skip training. I’ll be checking.”

A hint of mischief. But always with that detached face that seemed to step back as if it wasn’t serious.

Her eyelashes, quite long for a man, closed.

To Helios, all of this seemed to move slowly, as if time had been split frantically.

Truly, his master even fainted without a sound. Yes, she collapsed silently like falling snow.

Only after catching her did Helios realize.

…Her body was far too light.

Had the person who had been facing him all this time been this light?

When her eyes were open, she seemed heavy as a mountain and high as the sky, so he couldn’t tell.

The face that had been expressionlessly teasing him was now truly expressionless with eyes closed.

“…Always so selfish like this.”

Watching his master collapse silently, Helios was shocked.

Someday, if someday you disappear or return to your original duties.

Will you disappear silently like this then too? It seemed like you would.

Helios clenched his fist tightly while holding Mint.

‘…I must become stronger.’

To rise up. To meet his master who is a guard with dignity, he would need to at least escape his prisoner status.

Go outside, return to the Duke’s house, overthrow his father and clear his false accusations.

If only he could reclaim his rightful place.

“Ha…”

Having thought this far, Helios let out a small groan.

It was so far away it made him dizzy.

Today again, he bit his lips tightly until blood formed, without her knowing.

Actually, when Mint confessed about fainting and spoke mischievously.

Behind her, as always, he saw the figure of a woman. Long straight hair. Though he couldn’t see the color, it now sometimes fluttered.

As if he could smell her fragrance with just a little more, the presence of this vision was becoming clearer.

Did she say she might have nightmares when she fainted?

Helios’s face was consumed with immature, passionate anger.

If so.

I want to share your nightmares too.

Around his body, Blue Unique Kia moved. His Kia responded to his earnest wish.

Chapter 7. Because It’s a Dream, Because It’s Reality

‘I knew this would happen.’

When I opened my eyes, as expected. It was a prison.

Well, since coming to this world, this place was all my world had been.

So it was only natural that I’d want to escape from it.

I looked down at my hands.

‘Small.’

I swallowed a curse inwardly.

In the past, when I entered here at twelve years old, I grew very slowly bit by bit due to poor nutrition.

I was the type who suddenly grew all at once around seventeen years old.

Just looking at my body, it was hard to tell my age.

‘I have to stay here for more than a day.’

A faint fatigue was already washing over me.

I slowly looked around my surroundings.

‘It’s the Tower.’

I was inside the Tower.

Moreover, judging by the level of the prisoners who were slowly moving away from me, I could roughly guess which floor this was.

“The 70th Floor?”

The moment I spoke, a childish voice pierced my ears. Now I could roughly grasp how old I was.

About fourteen years old. Yes, I thought it would be around this age.

I clicked my tongue.

Around me, countless prisoners were lying collapsed.

These were people who had taken the survival test.

And their opponent was…

“Well~ hoho. You’re a bit late.”

It would have been me.

At the familiar voice, I slowly turned my head to see a tall figure standing beside me.

A middle-aged face. Long arms and legs. A moderately muscular build.

“Kid, long time no see.”

But I knew that once combat began, this person displayed stronger physical abilities than anyone else.

I frowned.

“Hello, I heard you made it all the way up here in 2 years? That’s impressive.”

Before I could react to anything, my mouth moved on its own.

“What do you mean long time no see, it’s not like it’s been long. Between you and me.”

An indifferent and sharp tone.

Yes, my second year since coming here. Around this time, I was irritated by everything.

I was on edge.

I was angry. And I wanted to destroy everything.

“I know who you are now.”

Probably the lines that fourteen-year-old me had said when I saw this person were coming out automatically, just as they were.

“You’re the master of the 100th Floor, right?”

The middle-aged woman with silver hair in front of me, whose hair had turned white unlike Helios’s, laughed refreshingly.

“Oh my, Child. I already told you. Not ‘you,’ but what should you call me?”

“Shut up.”

“Yes, yes. You got it roughly right since it’s two syllables. It’s ‘Mama.'”

“Shut up, what do you mean roughly?”

“My goodness, don’t waste that pretty face. It’s unpleasant for me to look at.”

“….”

I coldly swatted away the hand that reached toward my head. Thinking about it, at this time, the soul inside was not a child at all.

I must have been irritated by this woman who kept appearing and treating me like a child.

Crash! Lightning struck down from the dry ceiling. It was probably lightning filled with my fourteen-year-old fury.

‘Ah, I preferred using elemental-type back then, didn’t I?’

“Ouch, that stings. Ow, ow.”

“Hey. Guards, you’re watching, right? Why are you letting an irregular prisoner into a floor that’s not even your jurisdiction!”

The woman who had been pretending to be hurt, ‘Mama,’ smiled brightly.

“Ho ho ho, I’m a ‘King’ so I can go anywhere I want. Long long.”

“….”

“Oh my, where are you going?”

My body was suddenly lifted into the air. An invisible force had captured me.

“You’re hanging upside down~ I’ll let you down if you call me Mama.”

The Mama in front of me was an ability user who used two types: Material Type and Musculoskeletal System.

“I’m going to kill you. Got it? Beep―! Beep beep―! Beep beep beep―!”

“Kyaa, how fierce.”

Right. This was the kind of relationship we had until the 70th Floor. Let me say it again, I was quite fierce back then.

I struggled while caught by telekinesis. Then I drooped down like a broken doll and stared ahead.

‘Ah, I can move.’

I had thought I might be trapped in this young body and mind, unable to do anything, but that didn’t seem to be the case.

“Could you put me down?”

“Hmm?”

Mama tilted her head nonchalantly at my suddenly calm and relaxed demeanor.

“I said I’ll let you go if you call me that~”

“Don’t do that, just put me down. You wouldn’t want to be called that for the first time in a place crowded with so many people either.”

“….”

“If you don’t put me down, I’ll come down myself.”

Eight years have passed since this time, and now I skillfully handle abilities of all types.

And the person who made me who I am today. The person who laid the foundation was this Mama in front of me.

She was my master and my family.

As I easily broke free from the telekinesis and came down, I felt a chilling presence near my throat.

When I raised my head, Mama’s hand blade was aimed at me like a sword.

It wasn’t just a hand blade.

Kia had materialized and rippled neatly like sword aura.

“…Who are you?”

“….”

“This is the first time I’m hearing that our Little One has a split personality. Is it Brainwashing after all?”

During the time when Mama reigned as Boss, there was a Mental Kia Group that gave Mama headaches.

They were a bunch who enjoyed pleasure by brainwashing countless people to make them fight each other, sow discord, or sometimes commission assassinations.

“No. My eyes haven’t gone crazy, have they?”

I lightly moved my head back and forth to loosen up.

If I had to guess, there would probably be a limit to the time I could move as ‘myself’.

‘Then, what if I eliminate the cause of this nightmare.’

I didn’t particularly want to stay here for a whole day.

‘Anyway, only traces of being hit by his Kia will remain, so I just need to kill time appropriately in the room.’

Actually, this isn’t the first time I’ve been hit by Hades’ Mental Realm Kia.

I know very well what will happen after this.

The past I will experience for a full day.

When I get hit by his Kia and have nightmares, time in this space flows by in an instant.

Whether I’ll be sixteen or eighteen when I close and open my eyes is anyone’s guess.

“Come at me.”

I dusted myself off and straightened my posture.

This is actually similar to the Trial themed around ‘fear’ on the 30th Floor Range.

The people before my eyes are elaborate and well-made, but they’re not real.

So, there’s no need to repeat the same thing.

“Whether I subdue you or knock you down. Then I’ll wake up from the dream.”

“Oh my.”

Mama, who had been lost in thought for a moment, smiled slyly.

“You’re not saying you’ll kill me?”

“….”

Beneath her leisurely yet cunning tone, a clear light flickered in her smiling eyes like she was intoxicated.

“But what is this thing called a dream?”

For an elaborately made fake to have such similar thought patterns.

The Disc moved with a whoosh.

Crash!

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