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"

...

below a tall skyscraper, five individuals

as none

evident that they were

-Clank!

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 youth's

he was

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

wearing white gloves, the driver of the

master, where would you like to

his phone, Nolan

you have any

Smiling, the driver said

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

eyes off of his phone, a smile appeared

is indeed interesting, alright, let's

a trace of amusement

he shouldn't have

the driver nodded his head and turned his focus back on the

-Voom

the car silently sped into the

...

-Tak!

a pawn forward, Smallsnake

that the identity of one of the people you

-Tak!

one of my pawns, I nodded my

"Spot on"

-Tak!

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

of get the gist of

-Tak!

sign of shock, I raised my

did you

-Tak!

down, Smallsnake looked at

to instigate a conflict between the two guild by creating conflict between the two heirs. This way, both guilds will have an excuse to fight each other...But although the

-Tak!

pawn down,

trying to create a conflict between the two of them, but

glanced at me and

what

Smiling, I didn't respond.

-Tak!

knight, I moved it upwards in an L

"You'll see soon"

...

at the location, Nolan alongside

So did the driver.

-Vuam! -Vuam! -Vuam!

coming from the nightclub reverberated throughout the whole surroundings,

"Please excuse me"

as they were about to enter the nightclub,

"Please provide an ID"

"He-"

raising his hands, Nolan shook his head and took out an

"Here"

Nolan smiled politely. A couple of seconds after, coming back from having

Mr. Nolan, I apologize for

okay

and made his

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

smirked as he looked down on

seeing you

brows looked in Nolan's direction. Recognizing him, clenching

"Nolan!"

time no

sparks appeared between their eyes. Soon

known

targeted each other. Always trying to look for trouble for

In fact, the reason why they fought in

was simply because at the time they met, they were each with

they were their friend's enemies,

on the opposite

their conflicts

were both respectively heirs to a gold-graded guild,

until there was a clear winner between them, they were always destined to fight

first meeting, they had always been trying to look trouble for one another until the

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

redeem yourself for your last