"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."
had over thirty matches left before he gained his 'freedom,' but to avoid
Even then.
"Why this early?"
100, I was fairly confident that nobody would
there must be another
wait for long
breaking through
"...Huh?"
snapped in the direction of my other-self. Pricking my ears with my fingers to make sure I
say? Can you repeat
"No."
my other self
I shrugged my shoulders.
"...Whatever."
I had heard wrongly. That didn't seem
I took a
makes
reach a
my chin, I pondered out
was because we wanted
whose
But that was enough.
more sense for the current
the territory based on the fact that the current Duke seemed to
them been together, Edward's
city was now under the watchful eye of only one Duke-ranked demon, the appearance of someone of similar strength would put it at risk. Not only
and watch something like this
midst of my pondering, I had a sudden
afraid of Edward, why not just kill him directly
to ask? Have you forgotten which
another question. Glancing at him
"Nevermind."
Right...
course, their pride wouldn't allow them
'Stupid.'
I clapped
"Alright."
look at myself from the other side,
an idea of
direction, he disappeared from his spot
bracelet and took out a piece of paper and a pen. Grasping
I already knew what I
"...and done."
out of my mouth as I
things in the small dimensional space
"This should be enough."
I was satisfied with what I had put in that I
god they didn't
To Tok—!
did not have to wait for long as the door soon opened and a
His croaky, brittle voice echoed in the air as
"What do you want?"
like to pay respect
"Ha?"
Demon's face changed a little. In spite of this, he grumbled in a quiet whisper
'This might be fun...'
able to pick up the whisper of his
slightly apprehensive after hearing him speak, I decided to follow through with my plans
"Follow me."
"Okay."
door behind me, I followed the
***
at the ceiling of his room, Edward
long has
focus, and his emotions
spent in this hell hole were taking a
But.
little bit
muttering as he clenched his hands into a
end was
had to
little
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