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"

...

in line, outside of a black sedan, parked below a tall

looked towards their surroundings as none dare to speak

that

-Clank!

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

as if he was a lone untouchable

the car and entered. Following his entrance, from all sides,

wearing white gloves, the driver of the car turned around

master, where would

phone,

sure, do you have

Smiling, the driver said

Jacob from the Luxious guild is currently staying in the Olar bar in Paltor

information, taking his eyes off of his phone, a smile

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

of amusement appeared in

he

head and turned his focus

-Voom

the car silently sped into

...

-Tak!

Smallsnake glanced

you disguised yourself as a driver? Is that the identity of one of the people you asked me to make a facemask

-Tak!

another one of my pawns,

"Spot on"

-Tak!

pondering for a second, Smallsnake moved

the gist of the

-Tak!

nor showing any sign of shock, I

what did you

-Tak!

Smallsnake looked

plan is 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 plan sounds solid,

-Tak!

down, I smiled at

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

Smallsnake glanced at me

what

Smiling, I didn't respond.

-Tak!

the knight, I moved it upwards

"You'll see soon"

...

drive, arriving at the location, Nolan alongside his five

So did the driver.

-Vuam! -Vuam! -Vuam!

the nightclub reverberated throughout

"Please excuse me"

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

"Please provide an ID"

"He-"

the guards was about to protest, raising his hands, Nolan

"Here"

of seconds after, coming back from having checked the card, the guard flusteredly

apologize

okay

took the card back and made

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

up to the youth, Nolan smirked as

seeing you here

with fair skin and sharp brows looked in

"Nolan!"

time

at each other, sparks appeared between their eyes. Soon the air around the nightclub started becoming

only known each other

targeted each other. Always trying to

the reason why they

simply because at the time they met,

friend's enemies, they were

stood on the opposite side of each other. And thus they

their conflicts

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

between them, they

trying to look trouble for one another until the other gave up or admitted

up, Jacob's figure which was more robust and

came here to redeem yourself for your last