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"

...

line, outside of a black sedan, parked below a tall skyscraper, five individuals wearing

towards their surroundings as none dare to speak a word to each

was evident that they

-Clank!

black pants headed straight for the black sedan. As he walked down the stairs towards the sedan, the bodyguards couldn't help but notice an elegant yet prideful bearing coming out from the

was

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

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

where would

with his phone,

you have

Smiling, the driver said

the Luxious guild is currently staying in the Olar bar in Paltor street

eyes off of his

is indeed

of amusement appeared

he shouldn't

head and turned his focus back on

-Voom

car silently

...

-Tak!

forward, Smallsnake

the identity of one of

-Tak!

another one of my pawns, I

"Spot on"

-Tak!

for a second,

of get the

-Tak!

any sign of shock, I

did you

-Tak!

pawn down, Smallsnake looked at me

the two guild by creating conflict between the two heirs. This way, both guilds will have an excuse to

-Tak!

pawn down, I

you aren't entirely wrong about the fact that I am indeed trying to

Smallsnake glanced at

what is

Smiling, I didn't respond.

-Tak!

knight, I moved it upwards in

"You'll see soon"

...

location, Nolan alongside his five guards exited

So did the driver.

-Vuam! -Vuam! -Vuam!

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

"Please excuse me"

as they were about to enter the nightclub, a bulky individual stopped

"Please provide an ID"

"He-"

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

"Here"

A couple of seconds after, coming back from having checked the card,

apologize

okay

the card back and made his

couple of seconds, he managed to spot a youth

Nolan smirked as he looked down

you

up, a fairly handsome youth with fair skin and sharp brows looked in Nolan's direction. Recognizing

"Nolan!"

time no see

sparks appeared between their eyes.

only known each other for about

they had continuously targeted each other. Always trying to look for trouble for one

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

they met, they were each with a friend

were their friend's enemies, they were

the two stood on the opposite side of each other. And

ever since then, their conflicts have never

they were both respectively heirs to a gold-graded guild, their pride was naturally

between them, they were always destined to fight

first meeting, they had always been trying to look trouble for

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

redeem yourself for your last