"He's going to be crucial for when we escape?"
My interest was immediately piqued when I heard his words.
In an attempt to quench my curiosity, I asked.
"Who exactly is he?"
But my other self simply shook his head.
"You will find out once you challenge him."
"Haaa..."
Closing my eyes, I let out a long sigh. As usual, he would always leave out the more important details for later.
What a terrible habit.
"...So I won't be fighting against the current emperor?"
"Not yet."
A narrow grin spread across my other self's face as he replied.
"If you were to fight him right now, you would only end up losing."
"Hmm...?"
Involuntarily, my brows furrowed as I tilted my head.
"You serious?"
"...Yeah."
Processing the information, my eyes closed.
'So another one who is stronger than me...'
Honestly, I was quite troubled by his apparent confidence in his prediction of my inevitable defeat against the present emperor.
It just didn't sit tight with me.
Was I just that competitive? Wasn't too sure.
"Huuu..."
With my eyes closed and letting out a short breath, I inquired about the current Emperor.
"For you to say what you said, the Emperor must be incredibly strong."
"...Sort of."
My other self replied.
In a tight brow furrow, I stared.
"Sort of? What do you mean?"
"He may be strong, but that isn't the reason why I am saying that you will lose against him if you two fought."
"...Continue."
Taking in more of what he was saying, my ears perked up. I had a feeling that his next words were going to be extremely important.
"The games are rigged. SilverStar, the current Emperor will be made the next Overlord in the next match."
"What?"
And I wasn't wrong as his follow up made my eyes shoot wide open.
"Hold on, what are you talking about? Doesn't Edward still have over thirty matches left before he gains freedom? Shouldn't he still be fine?"
"You're right."
My other self gave a short nod.
"But there are two main fundamental reasons for this action. The first reason you should already know."
"Yeah."
he gained his 'freedom,' but to avoid making it appear
Even then.
"Why this early?"
hitting 100, I was fairly confident that
there must
didn't wait for long to
not far from breaking through to the
"...Huh?"
my other-self. Pricking my ears with my fingers to make
did you say? Can you
"No."
my other self
I shrugged my shoulders.
"...Whatever."
asked because I wasn't sure I had heard wrongly. That didn't seem to be the
forehead, I took a
guess it makes more sense
his strength would reach a similar
bottom of my chin, I pondered
wanted to attract the attention of some
at my other self whose only reply was a
But that was enough.
the case, it makes more sense for
based on the
Edward's rank up
one Duke-ranked demon, the appearance of someone of similar strength would put it at risk. Not
by and watch something like this unfold. He was planning on having Edward killed
midst of my pondering,
of Edward, why not just kill him directly
need to ask? Have you forgotten which clan
with another question. Glancing at him
"Nevermind."
Right...
was the pride clan. Of course, their pride wouldn't allow them
'Stupid.'
I clapped
"Alright."
myself from the other
idea of
glance in my direction, he
paper and a pen. Grasping the body of the pen tightly,
flew by since I already
"...and done."
mouth as I put the
things in the small dimensional space
"This should be enough."
had
god they didn't search
To Tok—!
brief moment of time, I was met with no response. Fortunately, I did not have to wait for long as the door soon opened and a demon appeared opposite
croaky, brittle voice echoed
"What do you want?"
like to pay respect to
"Ha?"
of this, he grumbled in a
'This might be fun...'
up the whisper of his voice despite it
was slightly apprehensive after hearing him speak, I decided to follow through with my plans anyway. As long as I
"Follow me."
"Okay."
behind me,
***
staring at the ceiling of his room, Edward muttered
long has it been
out of focus, and
spent in this hell hole were taking a
But.
a little bit
as he clenched his hands into a fist and a powerful aura erupted from
was in
a little more struggle he had to
little bit
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