I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 79

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Chapter 79

A small girl appeared before his eyes. It was definitely that monster Little One.

…It was definitely Little One, but she looked enormous, as if he had become an ant looking up at her.

“You saw it, right? I can bury you.”

It was obvious.

“It’d be even better if I bury you up to your neck. That would be more certain.”

With the impact, the man’s vision went black. He had fainted.

Mint stretched her arms wide.

After moving in ‘Garret’s’ body, moving in a fourteen-year-old’s body felt subtly unnatural.

It was probably a delicate sensation only she could feel.

“What are you doing.”

Mint turned her head.

“…”

Helios had stopped without following her.

His pale violet eyes fixed on Mint.

“To Master, do my words… sound like hypocrisy?”

“Not particularly.”

Mint’s voice was calm. It wasn’t mischievously teasing like usual.

“How many prisoners do you think have been locked up here since this prison was built?”

It would probably be an enormous number.

“Among all those numbers, wasn’t there a single person who thought like you?”

Even among those Mint knew, there had been one.

A woman who became king while keeping her beliefs, then forced anyone she liked to call her Mama.

“Live doing what you want to do. No one else is going to live your life for you anyway.”

Mint turned around and walked away.

She could hear footsteps following her at a slight distance.

The sound of feet sinking into sand was cheerful, somewhat agitated.

“Haa, haa…”

He had overlooked it. Yes, he had overlooked it.

Helios ground his teeth.

Master was still Master.

Would she really change just because she entered the body of a young girl?

“18 minutes. You’re 3 minutes over.”

“…Haa. Haa.”

One hour before this moment when he was breathing frantically.

It had started like this.

After Mint had directly eliminated the first prisoners they encountered, she said she would leave all the rest to Helios.

“Don’t worry. Would I let you die?”

It seemed like she would kill me.

Whether from exhaustion. Or getting hit by the Blind Blade!

“Hey. Master isn’t lacking. I’ll give you a handicap. Yeah. I should give you one.”

I was curious if that handicap really existed.

Of the prisoners that appeared one after another, about half ran away as soon as they saw Mint. Mint deliberately blocked the path of such prisoners and said.

“Want to fight him, win, and run away? Or fight me and die?”

“I-I’ll fight!”

Really, the sight of grown adults cowering before a young girl. It was surreal and at the same time.

She was no different from a thug…!

And here was the reason why what Mint provided couldn’t be called a ‘handicap’.

The prisoners did their absolute best against Helios to avoid dying at Mint’s hands.

Helios was truly having a hellish time!

There was only one reason he didn’t die.

It was because Mint skillfully deflected attacks that seemed truly fatal.

“Ha, haa. Damn it. Why does Master…”

“Yeah. Why.”

“…You even have Healing Kia.”

“Are you finally feeling respect?”

That was right. When the fight ended, Mint would use Healing Kia, which she had never used even once before, to heal Helios.

She kept him alive time and again regardless of his wishes!

About this, Mint said ‘This is what you call infinite power’ and received a murderous glare.

“If you’re going to kill me, just kill me cleanly… XX.”

Helios muttered while lying on the ground, breathing roughly. The 20th Floor? 30th Floor? They seemed ridiculously easy now.

Even the Floor of Terror filled with bugs was becoming a forgotten memory.

Mint really drove him like a fish in water. As if she were someone who would die if she didn’t train others.

‘Not just people…’

Busily roaming around this island, Mint messed with every plant and animal she could get her hands on.

“It’s okay. It’s okay. This is all experience too.”

“It’s not okay!”

Kiyaaaak!

“That’s right, that’s right. It says it likes you.”

“I’m going to kill you!”

This was the reason why Helios, who looked perfectly fine, was lying flat.

It wasn’t that my body was tired.

Even if I was exhausted, my body would soon be fresh and green again, but my mind was completely drained. I felt like dying.

“…Were you not a master, but a demon?”

“You’re the one who gave me that name. ‘Hell,’ right?”

Hell – it was the story of taking the first part of his name as a nickname.

“I never agreed to that.”

Helios muttered as if chewing on the words.

Thanks to Mint’s help(?), the prisoners on this island had been considerably thinned out.

Some prisoners fought each other, others were caught and killed by plants containing corrupted Kia. There were also those who had been eliminated.

Not many survivors remained.

‘Excluding me and Helios… four? No, three now?’

Just now, one living person’s Kia had completely disappeared. It meant they had died or become incapacitated.

Mint was quite surprised.

I had deliberately pushed him hard, but…

He’s surviving this?

I thought there would be at least one instance where he’d collapse from exhaustion unable to get up, or fall into critical condition after being hit by the Blind Blade.

‘It’s a talent that would make even decent geniuses feel inadequate.’

What would it feel like to live with such talent?

Mint’s imagination was poor and couldn’t extend much further than that.

“Are you dead?”

Mint crouched down beside the collapsed Helios’s head and smiled softly.

In Helios’s eyes, Mint’s hair, which appeared jet black to him, flowed down like a waterfall and scattered.

The smile visible through the curtain-like flowing hair still felt full of life, making Helios feel strange.

‘…Master.’

In your true form, do you smile like that?

It was a question he couldn’t ask.

“I want to ask you something.”

“Go ahead, ask away.”

“…Move your hand. I’m not in the mood for wordplay.”

Mint chuckled and withdrew her small hand. She then moved it to rest her chin on it.

“What is it?”

“When I first opened my eyes, it was clearly the Tower as it was, not some other place like here… What happened?”

“It’s because the Boss appeared.”

“The master of the 100th Floor?”

“Yeah. That person is, how should I put it… right, like an ecological disruption species? When that person barges into any floor and uses their power, the Kia cast on that floor gets dispelled. Then the trial that was in progress goes to hell.”

It meant having to challenge it again like this time. An unwelcome situation for both those who passed and those who failed.

“What bad taste.”

“…Well.”

I couldn’t deny it. Mama definitely had selfish tendencies.

“Are you well acquainted with that person?”

“Roughly?”

“…How?”

“How do I know? We learn about past Bosses during Guard education. The history of the Tower, you could say.”

Helios frowned slightly. He seemed to have something to say, but only his lips twitched.

‘Another one.’

The presence that had been three was reduced to two. It meant another one had been eliminated.

The sounds of three people had been reduced to two. It meant another one had been eliminated.

“I want to ask something too. That newly awakened ability of yours. How exactly did you awaken it?”

“I want to ask you something too. That newly awakened ability of yours. How exactly did you awaken it?”

So Helios must have had a trigger too.

Helios pressed his lips tightly together.

So there must be a reason for Helios as well.

But what if Master left him because of this?

What I desperately wished for—is it okay to say it? It wouldn’t be bad to speak up and get it off my chest.

“I’m curious too~.”

An unfamiliar voice interjected between them. Helios jumped up in surprise.

It was the moment Helios made his decision and opened his mouth to speak.

The spear summoned in his hand sliced through the air.

A strange voice interjected between them. Helios jumped up in startled surprise.

“Wow, good reaction speed~.”

Helios looked around with a bewildered expression. Mint said.

The spear summoned in his hand sliced through the air.

When he directed his gaze downward.

“Wow, nice reaction time~.”

He saw a cat sitting leisurely.

No, was it really a cat?

“Down there, down.”

“Is this also an animal imbued with Kia?”

‘…and, Yangi?’

Helios got smacked in the face by a tail that flew at him.

Of course, that’s how it felt. In reality.

Wait, is that actually a cat?

It was fluffy, but he felt annoyed.

“Is this also an animal that contains kia?”

“This body is a Talking Cat!”

Mint shrugged her shoulders.

Helios got smacked in the face by the tail that flew toward him.

“…Someone?”

Soft!

“The owner of the 100th Floor you saw. It’s an animal that person summoned.”

It was soft, but I felt disgusted.

Only after brushing against it did I realize it was a cat’s tail. The tail had stretched out like a whip.

“This body is a talking cat!”

Mint shrugged her shoulders.

“It’s someone you know too.”

“…A person?”

It was an animal she was familiar with.

“The owner of the 100th floor that you saw. It’s an animal that person summoned.”

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