I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 97

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Chapter 97

“If you ever need me for your revenge plan, just say the word.”

Hades said this.

Go ahead and keep misunderstanding.

My goal, both in the past and now, is simply to get out of this prison cell.

“Haha, child. Revenge isn’t necessary. Just remember that. By any means necessary, I’m getting out…”

Saying revenge isn’t needed—why would I step forward for someone who died on their own?

I returned to my room.

“Oh, you weren’t sleeping?”

Despite the late hour, Helios was sitting on the bed without having fallen asleep.

He had one knee drawn up and hugged against himself, leaning his back against the wall. He looked just like a child who had been forcibly woken from sleep and was sulking.

Did he wake up because my body heat disappeared? I thought it was quite a troublesome constitution, but I didn’t dislike it.

I didn’t dislike having warm body heat next to me either. Besides, his large build and solid muscles made him perfect to lean against.

“…Because Master disappeared.”

“Oh my, unable to sleep because Master disappeared? Baby, this is really serious.”

I shrugged my shoulders and leisurely settled down next to Helios.

“What will you do without me now?”

I thought he would get riled up at the word “baby” as he always did.

But surprisingly.

“That’s right.”

“…”

“What would I do without you?”

Helios slowly lifted his face from his knees as he spoke.

His hair and clothes, which had always been neat even in this wretched prison, were completely disheveled.

It was natural since he had just woken up, but it gave me a strange feeling.

Even when Helios’s hand reached out and grabbed my wrist.

Even when I felt my body sliding down smoothly.

Even when I finally saw him looking down at me while pinning me down, I wasn’t particularly angry. It must be because of this hand that seemed deliberately stretched out to seduce.

Helios brought my hand to his cheek and closed his eyes.

‘Kia is unstable.’

Did he have another nightmare?

“What would you do without me?”

His eyelashes, which had been trembling as if anxious for some reason, found their place again and opened slowly.

“I’d have to die.”

He looked at me with piercing eyes and spoke clearly.

“Without Master.”

Though he said it shamelessly, it sounded less like a threat and more like the desperate cry of a hostage pleading with their captor.

When I was an ordinary prisoner, countless hostage situations occurred in prison, so it wasn’t hard to recall.

“What are you so anxious about.”

His eyes seemed to have regained their composure and were calm, but Helios’s kia was still trembling anxiously.

“I said I won’t let you die.”

I gently rubbed his cheek with my thumb as I spoke.

His skin had definitely been smooth and soft at the tower entrance, but now it was a bit rougher and more masculine.

Were these traces of the time I was buried? I tilted my head at the strange satisfaction that welled up.

Actually, I wasn’t particularly pleased with the current situation.

‘Wasn’t he supposed to stop having nightmares because I’m here?’

Sleeping with me, kissing me – he always slept soundly.

“Why can’t you sleep.”

I didn’t like that some nightmare, some other existence was shaking Helios up at this point.

If anyone’s going to shake him, it should be me.

What’s lacking that’s making him waver?

Since I knew it would be terribly controlling nonsense to voice, I uncharacteristically kept my mouth shut.

“Come on, sleep. Master is sleepy. Good children need to sleep early.”

“…”

This was definitely strange. The fact that there wasn’t even a hint of anger that should have flown my way by now.

I stretched out my other hand while lying down. Helios quietly looked down at me with his chin caught in my grip.

“What is it. What are you dissatisfied with?”

“…Nothing.”

“Your tone is already impudent, Disciple.”

“Is that so, Master?”

Helios showed the same stubbornness he displayed when facing enemies stronger than himself.

Then he firmly grasped my hand touching his cheek and quietly bit his lips.

After stubbornness comes childishness?

Before I could make that judgment, Helios asked.

“…Master, did you have a man?”

I blinked. Wasn’t that too sudden a question?

“What man?”

This prison is overflowing with humans of that gender. Doesn’t he know?

Helios glared at me, then bit his lips repeatedly as he continued speaking.

“A man in a romantic relationship, or a man equivalent to that.”

“…”

“Or a man who has unrequited love for you… or a man you have unrequited love for.”

Rarely, I felt even more confused. What kind of nonsense is this supposed to be.

‘Did someone force him to take some dangerous drug while I was gone.’

“Your sleep-talking is incredible.”

“This isn’t some tantrum. Does it look that way?”

“You do look a bit crazy.”

He flinched at her honest assessment. But he didn’t back down.

“To look crazy to Master… I must have really lost it.”

“Helios.”

He gritted his teeth but didn’t pull away. I patted the back of his neck gently, like calming an agitated animal.

“First, shouldn’t you ask if men are my type?”

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‘How strange.’

It wasn’t Helios but Mint who was speaking sensibly. Helios seemed to have similar thoughts as he flinched.

Actually, Helios had felt a moment of panic too. What he had suddenly seen inside the Tower. Master’s true appearance and the man who was with her.

The fact that his face was handsome made it even worse…

He was anxious.

Yes, he was burning with jealousy.

“I didn’t know ‘having no prejudice’ applied here. So you’ve been pairing me with every man this whole time? You’re more perverted than I thought.”

“…N-no, I haven’t!”

“You haven’t? Really?”

Helios couldn’t answer. He didn’t want to pretend it wasn’t true or brush it off as nothing at this point.

“Then what about a lover?”

“I don’t have one. I don’t like anyone, and I never have.”

She had noticed Helios’s strangeness through his unstable, fluctuating Kia.

However, as the conversation continued, rather than calming down, his Kia was raging even more.

Should she just grab him by the collar and crash their lips together? Would that put him to sleep?

Mint thought this while continuing to speak. Today seemed to be quite the day.

“But I know this much. Whatever I do, it definitely won’t be love.”

“…What do you mean by that?”

“Love is supposed to make your heart flutter, right?”

Mint smiled faintly.

A smile that was slightly mischievous and detached, like when they first met.

Mint removed her hand from Helios’s chin and moved it down to press firmly against his chest near his heart.

A person would die if stabbed here.

At the same time, she spoke as if all emotions, joy and sorrow, everything that could be lumped together and called ‘love’ could be contained here.

“What I would do is just lock that person in my heart.”

Though she used the heart as a metaphor, the confining space could be anywhere. As long as that person could breathe, eat, drink, and sleep well.

Mint’s index finger slowly traced down Helios’s chest near his heart. Enough to make Helios gasp and furrow his brow.

“Whether they scream, refuse, or feel disgust. I think I’d be satisfied just having them in my grasp. That’s the kind of person I am.”

Mint recalled something that had now become the past.

“Kyahaha. Boss. You’d go that far to keep Marla around? That’s insane. Do you think Marla would want that?”

“How strange. Everyone just watched Marla’s death happen. What’s so wrong with keeping this?”

She wanted to have it, to possess it. Though Mama had told her in the end that she wasn’t abnormal, Mint knew from others’ reactions that she was ‘not normal.’

“It would be obsession, not love. So I don’t really want to do it.”

Mint spoke with a smile constantly playing on her lips. The mischief was gone, but she emanated something untouchable.

Mint cherished Helios.

A being of dazzling worth who had somehow rolled into her hands. A talent that could become anything great with just polishing.

The desire to bring him to the Summit flawlessly and without a single blemish.

Yet she was constantly aware that growth ultimately required breaking and colliding alone.

He came into my hands. So I can do whatever I want with him, right?

She had leisurely suppressed that feeling under the name of Master.

“So, Helios. Don’t ask things like that. What if you misunderstand?”

Who knows what you might do with that as an excuse?

Mint grabbed his collar and pulled him close. It was time to sleep now. If they stayed up any later, the sun would rise.

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