The Author's POV

Chapter 516

"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."

over thirty matches left before he gained his 'freedom,' but to avoid making it appear

Even then.

"Why this early?"

hitting 100,

there must be

didn't wait for long

far from breaking

"...Huh?"

direction of my other-self. Pricking my ears with my fingers to make

you say? Can you repeat

"No."

self

I shrugged my shoulders.

"...Whatever."

I had

I took

it makes more sense

were both Dukes themselves, if Edward broke through, his strength would reach a similar level to theirs. This in itself was a threat to

the bottom of my chin, I

we created all that chaos before coming here was because we wanted to attract the attention of some of the upper

glanced at my other self whose only reply was a brief

But that was enough.

the case, it makes more sense for the current

the territory based on the fact that the current Duke seemed

two of them been together, Edward's rank up

of someone of similar strength

no way he would just sit by and watch something like this unfold. He

the midst of my pondering, I had

of Edward, why not just kill him directly instead of making someone else

to ask? Have you forgotten which clan we're

was met with another question. Glancing at him

"Nevermind."

Right...

was the pride clan. Of course, their pride

'Stupid.'

I

"Alright."

the other

of what I'm supposed

in my direction, he disappeared

actions, I tapped my bracelet and took out a piece of paper and a pen. Grasping the body of

already knew what I wanted

"...and done."

dipped out of my mouth as I put

in

"This should be enough."

satisfied with what I had put in that

they didn't

To Tok—!

with no response. Fortunately, I did not

His croaky, brittle voice echoed in the

"What do you want?"

pay respect

"Ha?"

Demon's face changed a little. In spite of this, he grumbled in a quiet

'This might be fun...'

whisper of his

decided to follow through with my plans anyway. As long as I managed to meet Edward, then everything

"Follow me."

"Okay."

the door behind me, I

***

at the ceiling of his room,

long has it been

were out of focus, and his emotions

spent in this hell hole were

But.

little bit

up muttering as he clenched his hands into

was

only a little more struggle he had to endure before

little bit

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