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"

...

black sedan, parked below a tall skyscraper, five individuals

towards their surroundings as none

was evident that they were

-Clank!

wearing an ironed designer T-shirt and black pants headed straight for the black sedan. As he walked down the stairs towards the sedan,

if he was a

his head towards the guards, the youth opened the door of the car and entered. Following his

driver of the car turned around and politely

master, where would you like

his phone,

do you have

Smiling, the driver said

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

the information, taking his eyes off of his phone, a smile appeared on Nolan's

indeed interesting, alright,

trace of amusement

that bastard why he shouldn't have messed with

the driver nodded his head and

-Voom

silently sped into the

...

-Tak!

a pawn forward, Smallsnake

disguised yourself as a driver? Is that the identity of one of the people you asked

-Tak!

another one of my pawns, I nodded

"Spot on"

-Tak!

a second, Smallsnake moved a pawn and

sort of get the

-Tak!

glancing at him, nor showing any sign of shock, I raised my brow

did

-Tak!

another pawn down, Smallsnake

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 plan

-Tak!

my pawn down, I

entirely wrong about the fact that I am indeed trying to create a conflict between the two of them, but that isn't my

at

Than what is

Smiling, I didn't respond.

-Tak!

the knight, I moved it upwards in

"You'll see soon"

...

the location, Nolan alongside his five guards exited the

So did the driver.

-Vuam! -Vuam! -Vuam!

music coming from the nightclub reverberated throughout the

"Please excuse me"

about to enter the nightclub, a bulky individual stopped them

"Please provide an ID"

"He-"

protest, raising his hands, Nolan shook his head and took out an ID from

"Here"

to the guard, Nolan smiled politely. A couple of seconds after, coming back from having checked the card, the

apologize for not recognizing you

It's okay no

took the card back and made

couple of seconds, he managed to spot a youth

smirked as he looked down on

seeing you here

a fairly handsome youth with fair skin and sharp brows looked in Nolan's direction. Recognizing him, clenching his teeth he

"Nolan!"

time no see

their

Jacob had only known each other for about

continuously targeted each other. Always trying

conflicts didn't particularly start big. In fact, the reason why they fought

because at the time they met, they

since they were their friend's enemies, they were

the two stood on the opposite side of each

then, their conflicts

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

them, they were always destined to fight

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

more robust and taller than Nolan's,

here to redeem yourself for your last