The Author's POV

[Caïssa - Headquarters]

"pheew" "pheew" "pheew"

Sitting on my desk, I blew on the bangs of my hair. As I was doing so, from time to time, I would check my phone.

"...Nothing yet huh?"

After 10 minutes of continuously checking my phone, I sighed.

'...it looks like things are progressing more slowly than I predicted'

"What are you doing?"

"Hmm? Smallsnake?"

Glancing towards Smallsnake who had just arrived, I leaned back on my chair and continued to blow on the bangs of my hair.

Noticing my attitude, Smallsnake didn't even bother to ask what I was doing.

"Has everything with the Luxious guild been sorted?"

Checking my watch, without glancing at Smallsnake I said

"...not yet, should be soon though"

"How soon?"

Thinking for a bit, I said "I'd say in about an hour or so?"

Raising his brow, Smallsnake couldn't help but ask "An hour?... then is everything that is happening outside all because of you?"

With my eyes half open, I briefly glanced at Smallsnake

"I guess you could say that"

Frowning, Smallsnake paused before he said

"...just what the hell did you do?"

"It's a bit of a long story..."

-Vuam!

Tapping on my phone, a huge chessboard appeared before me and Smallsnake.

"Fancy a game of chess while I recount? To be honest, I'm on the verge of passing out from boredom"

Glancing at the chessboard, Smallsnake sighed and sat in front of me.

"Chess? Regular rules?"

"Yup"

"Alright"

Nodding his head, Smallsnake stared at the chessboard before him. He was currently using the black pieces, thus he would have to start after I moved my piece.

"So, tell me what you did?"

"What I did?"

Staring at the chessboard for a brief moment, I looked at Smallsnake and smiled.

"I just moved the pieces one at a time..."

Frowning, Smallsnake couldn't help but shake his head.

"...I don't know what you mean by that, but you seriously have a chess complex"

"I do?...hmm, I guess you aren't wrong?"

Taken aback for a moment, I couldn't find any words to refute his statement.

Now that I thought about it, I really did, didn't I?

From the guild name and structure to the way I talked...I made a lot of chess references.

I guess I really did have some sort of chess complex...

-Tak!

Sighing, moving my pawn forward, I smiled.

"Let's begin"

...

of a black sedan, parked below a tall skyscraper, five individuals wearing black suits and

towards their surroundings as none

was evident that they

-Clank!

sedan. As he walked down the stairs towards the sedan, the bodyguards couldn't help but

if he was a lone untouchable

the door of the car and entered. Following his entrance, from all sides, the guards too

at the front, wearing white gloves, the driver of the car turned around and politely smiled

would you like

with his phone, Nolan

do you have any

Smiling, the driver said

to some sources, it seems that Jacob from the Luxious guild is currently staying in the Olar bar in

to the information, taking his eyes off of his phone, a smile appeared

is there, hmm...That is indeed interesting, alright,

head, a trace of

why he shouldn't have

his head and

-Voom

car silently sped into

...

-Tak!

Smallsnake glanced at me

as a driver? Is that the identity of one of the people

-Tak!

another one of my

"Spot on"

-Tak!

chessboard, and pondering for a second, Smallsnake moved a pawn

of get the gist of

-Tak!

showing any sign of shock,

did

-Tak!

pawn down, Smallsnake looked at

heirs. This way, both guilds will have an excuse to fight each other...But although

-Tak!

pawn down, I smiled at

that I am indeed trying to create a conflict between the two

Smallsnake glanced at

what

Smiling, I didn't respond.

-Tak!

it upwards in an

"You'll see soon"

...

a twenty-minute drive, arriving at the location, Nolan

So did the driver.

-Vuam! -Vuam! -Vuam!

the loud rumbling music coming from the nightclub reverberated throughout the whole surroundings, shaking the ground

"Please excuse me"

were about to enter the nightclub, a bulky individual

"Please provide an ID"

"He-"

as one of the guards was about to protest, raising his hands, Nolan shook his head and took out an ID from his

"Here"

A couple of seconds after, coming back from having

Mr. Nolan, I apologize for

okay no

the card back and made his way towards the

and right until finally, after a couple of seconds, he managed to spot a youth sitting in the corner of

Nolan smirked as he looked down

seeing you

and sharp brows looked in Nolan's direction.

"Nolan!"

long time no

the two stared at each other, sparks appeared between their eyes. Soon the air around the nightclub

known

each other. Always trying to look for trouble for

didn't particularly start big. In fact, the reason why they fought in the first place wasn't anything particularly

other was simply because at the time they met, they were

since they were their friend's enemies,

for their friends, the two stood on the opposite side of each other. And thus

ever since then, their conflicts have never

heirs to a gold-graded guild, their pride

a clear winner between them, they were

first meeting, they had always been trying to look trouble

up, Jacob's figure which was more robust and taller than Nolan's, looked down

here to redeem yourself for your last