I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 77

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Chapter 77

“…That body too, was it also part of the punishment?”

“That’s right.”

Helios believed Mint’s words without any doubt. Of course, there were some suspicious parts.

But Mint’s words sounded reasonable.

Otherwise, there would be no reason for her, who had been a guard, to suddenly appear as a prisoner.

“Then when does the punishment end?”

Mint felt truly strange for the first time in a long while. And for good reason – the disciple before her had a face that trusted her without a shred of doubt.

Faithfully, to a puzzling degree.

He believed her made-up story because he didn’t know any better.

Knowledge about Mental Realm Kia is rare. Mint took advantage of this fact to deceive Helios.

“…About a day and a few hours by outside time standards?”

But really, would she be able to avoid having the truth discovered during this time?

The face he’s seeing is her real face. If he remembers it even after getting out.

‘This is troublesome.’

She could erase memories, but she couldn’t tamper with the mind.

Since she had decided to avoid using Mental Realm Kia as much as possible.

Moreover, such vivid memories couldn’t be resolved with suggestion like last time.

The Warden’s voice echoing “absolutely don’t get caught” seemed to reverberate.

‘This is all because of that bastard Hades and his fucking mess.’

Mint calmly finished organizing her thoughts. Let’s think about the situation at hand first.

It wasn’t too late to sort things out step by step, methodically.

“What are you thinking about so hard?”

“Whether hitting that round back of your head would knock you out. That kind of thought.”

“Of course it would… don’t even think about hitting me.”

“Ah, you caught me.”

“Don’t act so half-heartedly when you have no intention of fooling me.”

“Oh my. It’s scary how well you know your Master.”

“…”

Helios didn’t look at her with his usual disgusted expression.

Only then did Mint realize once again that she was currently in her childhood form.

After all, there’s bound to be a difference between what an adult man of the same gender does and what a young girl does.

“…You’re a man too, aren’t you?”

“What do you mean by that?”

Helios bristled.

“It’s nothing special. More importantly, how do I look to you right now?”

Currently, as the guard had announced, all the prisoners who had been on the 70th Floor were forcibly waiting to undergo a new trial.

To escape this space, a confrontation with ‘Mama’ was necessary, but.

Since Mama had already disappeared, I thought it was over.

Once ‘Mama’ disappears, it’s quite difficult to see her again. This had happened before.

‘Can’t be helped.’

Now I just had to kill time. While giving Helios as little information as possible.

“What do you mean how do I look?”

“Exactly what I said. What do I look like right now?”

Mint spread both hands wide.

“I didn’t have time to look in a mirror as soon as I got here. So I don’t know.”

“…A young, girl.”

“Right, that’s what I’d expect. And?”

Helios was momentarily at a loss for words.

…What more was he supposed to say here?

If he had to describe it.

…Pretty?

It wasn’t because his beloved Master was inside there.

The girl’s face was like the dolls held in the hands of the Young Ladies his age that Helios had glimpsed in passing during his childhood.

Large eyes and thick eyelashes.

Though the color of her lips and complexion weren’t good, it rather made the atmosphere more profound.

“You’re, you’re pretty.”

“Hmm? Ah, is this your type?”

“No!”

Helios grabbed Mint’s shoulders. He was startled by how small and frail they were, but held back.

“I have a different type.”

“…? I see.”

Helios felt self-loathing.

Why couldn’t he say that Master was his type! But he didn’t know Master’s real face!

Inside him, a statue with dove wings and a mural demon with bat wings fought against each other.

“…And your hair is straight.”

“Yeah.”

Of all things, straight hair.

“Your hair color is jet black. Your eyes too, yes, jet black.”

“…”

“What’s wrong?”

“…Jet black?”

At Mint’s questioning, Helios nodded with puzzlement.

‘That can’t be right?’

Mint grabbed her own hair and looked down at it.

No matter how she looked at it, it was the same mint color that resembled her name, a blue-green. Her eyes would also be a pinkish red.

‘Perhaps, Helios entering here.’

Mint recalled the new ability that Helios had confessed to.

Seeing the Unseen.

So if that means seeing this world within Mental Realm Kia that others could never see.

‘Is it because that ability is weak… that he can’t see my true appearance?’

It’s a hypothesis that seems to fit while having holes in it. But for now, there’s no other way to explain this situation.

“Fine, let’s wrap it up like that. Let’s think positively.”

It seems to his eyes I appear to have black hair and black eyes.

It was a coincidence.

Her in Korea, ‘Pakha’ also had black hair and black eyes.

This thought passed by fleetingly.

“Perfect.”

Helios, who had been staring at Mint’s face, felt a familiar unease.

That mischievously smiling expression.

The face was different, but it was an expression he knew well. And when this happened, Master always.

“Shall we do some training?”

Said something crazy.

“Where?”

Mint smiled brightly. A smile that looked fresh because of her child-like appearance.

“Where else. On the 70th Floor.”

The guards were gesturing.

* * *

Is the Tower strictly managed?

The answer to this would be ‘no’.

To be precise, they were diligent about ensuring prisoners didn’t remain in the Tower, preventing them from using the Tower as a refuge by clearing them out.

But conversely, entering was lax.

This Tower existed for nothing other than punishing prisoners.

Unless someone was quite insane, no one would enter of their own accord.

And going to a floor that doesn’t match their grade at all?

The prisoners here were mostly those who cherished their own bodies dearly. No matter how much they wouldn’t die, no one wanted to become a cripple.

“Hey, hurry up and get in!”

So the guards let them in without any suspicion, exactly as the group waiting outside the Tower.

“Haah…”

And they failed to notice the prisoner who came from the future(?) here.

The fact that he was only Intermediate/3rd Grade at best.

Was outside their interest.

“It’s fine, it’s fine. You won’t die.”

Question again. Can a prisoner skip floors and challenge higher floors if they want?

Impossible.

As mentioned, this Tower exists to give prisoners terrible trials before they can measure their own grade.

The only person who could have made this possible would be Helios, who entered from the 20th Floor under the pretext of punishment.

‘When I think about it this way, he’s special in many ways.’

Maybe there’s a reason he’s the Male Lead.

“…Master was the one who said it’s important to know one’s place.”

“Really? That Garret who said those words must have died. He was reborn today.”

“…”

Helios had always thought his Master was somewhat detached, and sometimes half-crazy.

But never had that thought felt as intense as it did now.

A bastard obsessed with training!

Helios ground his teeth.

Taking advantage of being punished to experience the 70th Floor?

If this wasn’t crazy, then what was? Of course, he didn’t entirely hate it, but it was natural for concern to come first.

‘What I definitely wanted was…’

He looked at the unconscious Mint and wished.

That he wanted to share in your nightmares too.

If being here was the price for that.

It must be related to the ability he had awakened.

The ability that let him see her true silhouette behind his Master.

The problem was that Helios himself couldn’t grasp any clues about that ability.

“What should I call you?”

“What?”

They were standing in the middle of the 70th Floor. He could feel the prisoners glancing at them warily.

Helios wasn’t unaware of it.

She looked quite young to be in this prison. No, perhaps she looked like the youngest in the prison’s history.

The appearance of someone weak.

Yet rather than underestimating her, the prisoners showed fear as they glanced at the girl.

What kind of person had this girl, whom his Master had entered, been in this prison?

That thought occurred to him belatedly.

“I can’t call you Master here, can I?”

Mint chuckled.

“Why, don’t I look worthy of being called Master?”

“That’s not it.”

Helios, who had been harboring the grand dream that he might hear his Master’s real name if he suggested making up an alias, rubbed the back of his neck.

“That woman earlier called you Little One. Do you know each other?”

“Of course. She was the former former former Boss of this prison. No wait. Former former former former former Boss?”

“Can’t you just say 5 generations ago?”

Mint shrugged.

“Call me Garret. If you don’t like it, should I steal our disciple’s name instead?”

“…”

“How about ‘Hel’?”

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