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 wearing black suits

towards their surroundings as none

was evident that they

-Clank!

skyscraper entrance, a youth wearing an ironed designer T-shirt and 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

as if he was a

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

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

where would you like

phone,

you

Smiling, the driver said

from the Luxious guild is currently staying in

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

is there, hmm...That is indeed interesting, alright, let's

trace of amusement

bastard why he shouldn't have messed

the driver nodded his head and turned his focus back

-Voom

car silently sped

...

-Tak!

forward, Smallsnake glanced at me and

the identity of one of the people you asked me to make a facemask

-Tak!

one of my pawns,

"Spot on"

-Tak!

the chessboard, and pondering for a second, Smallsnake moved

get the gist of the situation

-Tak!

him, nor showing any sign of shock, I raised my

what did you

-Tak!

pawn down, Smallsnake looked

two heirs. This way, both guilds will have an excuse to fight each other...But although the plan sounds solid, it's

-Tak!

my pawn down,

I am indeed trying to create

at me and

Than what

Smiling, I didn't respond.

-Tak!

I moved it upwards in an L

"You'll see soon"

...

location, Nolan alongside his five guards exited

So did the driver.

-Vuam! -Vuam! -Vuam!

music coming from the nightclub reverberated throughout the whole

"Please excuse me"

enter the nightclub, a bulky individual

"Please provide an ID"

"He-"

was about to protest, raising his hands, Nolan shook his head

"Here"

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

Nolan, I apologize for not recognizing you

okay no

card back and made

finally, after a couple of seconds, he managed to spot a youth sitting in the

the youth, Nolan smirked as he looked

you here

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

"Nolan!"

long time

sparks appeared between their eyes. Soon the air around the nightclub started

only known each other

continuously targeted each other. Always trying to look for trouble

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

time they met, they were each with a friend who had some enmity with the

were their friend's enemies, they

for their friends, the two stood on the

then, their conflicts have

a gold-graded guild,

clear winner between them, they were

had always been trying to look trouble for one

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

to redeem yourself for