55 Chapter 54.

"Little girls, it's time to hit the showers."

Those were the terrifying words that suddenly came out from the cop. When I looked over I saw a malicious and devious smile on his face like this was what he lived for. It was like his existence was just for the sake of saying this one short line. Why do you look so satisfied? Did you always want to say that line?

"Man, that felt good. I love seeing the despair in the inmates eyes when I tell them that."

The old man looked at me seriously like a great battle was about to unfold and said, "disciple… it's every man for themselves."

Don't you have some awe inspiring words to say to encourage your disciple before the battle in the shower room?!

You can at least try a bit, right?

Whatever, why should I be afraid? There is only one person actually stronger than me here anyways. If anything, I should be the one asking if they dropped the soap. It anyone dares drop that soap, I will make them cower in fear at the thought of wasting valuable soap.

We followed behind the cop who had his gun pointed constantly at my minion, Kuro Dong, who was staring daggers at the cops nether region while licking his lips.

Mister cop, I understand. Trust me, I do. This guy is the last guy I wish came to prison with me.

When the line of criminals made it to the shower rooms we all stripped down and went towards a shower head each. There was nothing blocking off our views from each other, but there were only two bars of soap. It looks like we would all have to share these two bars. Seeing this, my heart sunk.

I looked towards the cop and he had sparkling eyes, his smile looked more sinister than ever. He looked like he was expecting a great scene to unfold.

How did this guy even become a cop?

While we were showering, the two bars of soap was quickly making its way down the line of naked men. It was like a terrifying hot potato that nobody wanted to hold onto for too long.

However, the idea of using something these other men rubbed on their groin disgusted me a little and I was reluctant to even touch the thing.

When the man beside me finished up with the soap he was about to happily pass the soap over to me but… he dropped it. Is that what you thought I would say? There is no way something so cliche would happen, right? That soap on the ground right now is just a figment of my imagination.

It is definitely still in his hands. When I looked up at his face I could see the terror and fear in his eyes.

Realizing what had happened I took action immediately to avoid any accidents from happening. I wore a friendly smile on my face and said before anyone else had the chance, "you dropped the soap. Are you going to pick that up?"

The man began trembling with fear in his eyes when he looked at me like I killed his whole family. Buddy… I'm just trying to save the soap and not waste it.

What? Do you expect me to pick it up? Hell no buddy. You dropped it, the big black man behind you is your responsibility, not mine.

It was at this moment Kuro Dong who stood behind the trembling man said lovingly, "little darling, aren't you going to pick up the soap?"

Even I trembled in terror when I heard that voice of his.

I'll omit what happened afterwards. In the end, I realized I didn't even need to bend over to pick it up. I grabbed it between my toes and tossed it over to the old man who was standing to my left ignoring the inhumane acts that were committed towards that poor man who first dropped the soap.

The old man skillfully grabbed it with both hands and said, "are you trying to sabotage me you wretched disciple?! I thought I was about to die!"

Tch. He caught it in the end and passed it off with no problems.

"Ah! Wah! Yah! Hah! Help me! Please! No more!"

I heard nothing from behind me. That was just someone singing. Yes, someone singing. It has nothing to do with me.

After a while the screams of horror and despair, I mean singing died down. Kuro Dong came up behind me and said, "crown prince, this isn't good for your hygiene, you didn't use soap."

"I don't need it."

"Here crown prince, this is some soap I managed to break off from it before anyone else used it. I anticipated something like this may happen."

Hearing that I decided it wouldn't be so bad if no one had used the thing yet.

I extended my hand out arrogantly towards him without sparing him a glance and prompted him to place it in my hands. Something outside of my expectations happened. Kuro Dong dropped the soap such that it slightly hit the edge of my palm. The soap then slowly began to fall to the ground.

In this instant it was like time had come to a stand still and I opened my eyes wide and stared at the slowly falling soap.

You dare?! You really dare?! You traitor! This is mutiny against the crown! Are you trying to lead a rebellion?

As I watched the soap fall and looked towards Kuro Dong who wore a devilish smile with the deranged eyes of an animal, I knew if I let it fall I was doomed.

I could hear this cocky big black man begin to say as if in slow motion like he thought it was already over, "croooowwwwnnnnn priiiinnnncccccce, youuuuuu drooooooopppppeeeeeddddd…"

At this point I lifted my leg and with reflexes that defied the heavens cradled the soap that was about to land on the ground on my foot and kicked it back up into the air. I was about to decisively grab it, but Kuro Dong reacted quickly and moved to slap the soap away from my hands. He was taller and I kicked the soap a bit too high due to my flustered state.

Realizing I stood no chance in this confrontation, my life flashed before my eyes. What the hell?! I'm not going to die, right? Why is this so exaggerated? It was then a certain scene played out within my mind.

Just a short while back, a certain master used a certain despicable move to utterly defeat me. It was like a sudden spur of enlightenment.

Proceeding with this sudden inspiration I realised it was a way to breakthrough this current bottleneck in my life. I could feel my cultivation base rotating rapidly and I extended out my right hand into a karate chop and jumped towards Kuro Dong's backside and prepared to dish out a strong chop to the back of his neck.

Kuro Dong was no amateur though and saw this coming and turned around to grab my right hand. While he was distracted with my right hand my left hand had already begun it's sneaky approach.

Two fingers struck out and landed directly in his eye sockets. When my two fingers retreated the hand that was tightly grasping mine released their hold and were brought to his face as he rolled on the ground covering his eyes while screaming out, "despicable crown prince! I was just planning to get a small poke from behind, that was all. It's not like you would have died. Who knew I would be the one to be poked. Damn it! If you're going to poke me, poke me in the right place!"

Ugh. No thank you.

Anyways I think I will call this move, "a thousand… no ten thousand years of pain."

In case you were wondering, the "a thousand… no" is actually part of the name. That was not a mistake on my part. Crown prince's don't make mistakes when giving names. A crown price's words are as good as gold after all.

In the end I managed to regain my footing and extended my hand out and calmly caught the soap that landed nicely in the palm of my hand.

When I had calmed down I came to the realization that I was now a 9th realm semi transcendent. What the hell? Was breaking through always this easy? Well, I guess in a way it was a life and death battle. I suppose it's natural to breakthrough in desperate times.

I quickly lathered myself in soap the soap that Kuro Dong, who was still letting his eyes recover, gave me.

The old man came over to me and said, "good job disciple, you have learned well from your master."

This old fart, as soon as the trouble has been averted he comes over spouting about being my master. I definitely need to teach him some life lessons later on. That will be for later though.

While I was cleaning myself properly I looked over to all the other criminals who were staring at me with wide open eyes.

I realized after that display of strength, it was time to make my move; so I said, "from now on, I am your leader. I am the king of this prison. If you have any problems talk to my minion rolling on the ground over there."

The men all shivered in fear when I mentioned that Kuro Black was my minion. They probably remembered the screams of despair… I mean beautiful singing from that other dead looking thing on the ground with tears in its eyes.

The shower room is truly a terrifying battlefield after all. However, it looks like I shall reign supreme and lead an easy life in this prison.

While I was busy having thoughts of my bright future as king of the prison, a loud explosion rang out from the wall beside us.

"Tch. All this effort for a stupid crown prince. I knew that stupid cop would backstab me in the end. He claimed he didn't even have a follower at the bank yesterday. What a scummy liar."

When I looked over and the dust settled, what came into my sight was my aide, Hosa Kan.

His apparel had completely changed from the mighty robes of the Celestial Empire. Presently he wore a strange black suit, a white dress shirt and black shades over his eyes.

He raised his shades with one hand, looked over at me and said cooly, "this is a prison break. Come with me if you want to leave… ah… I meant live."

He turned around cockily and walked away from the collapsed shower room wall.

As we were all naked still, we just stood there and didn't budge an inch. When I looked around at everyone and saw their reluctant eyes. It was clear these guys didn't want to leave this place at all.

I decided to ask them, "why are you guys not leaving? Don't you want to bust out?"

"Bust out? You go bust out! We want to stay here. We're not leaving for the scary outside world. Do you know how hard it is to get a stable job these days? If we stay here we're treated like kings. The only downside is the shower room, but if we ignore that, life here is great! Isn't that guy your buddy? Why don't you just follow him and leave? Take that black freak of nature with you too."

"Well…"

I completely understood their feelings, thus I took the most natural course of action. I ignored the collapsed broken wall like it didn't exist and walked over to the change room to get dressed. I decided to live on as the king of this prison. I will throw away my past as the crown prince and rule over this new world filled with criminals and prisoners.

Naturally, Kuro Dong followed suit and acted like there was no hole in the wall.