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."

thirty matches left before he gained his 'freedom,' but to avoid

Even then.

"Why this early?"

how many matches he lost before hitting 100, I was fairly confident that nobody would

must be

for long to

far from breaking through

"...Huh?"

ears with my fingers

did you say?

"No."

my other self just

I shrugged my shoulders.

"...Whatever."

because I wasn't sure I had heard wrongly. That didn't seem to be the

forehead, I

it makes more

demons overlooking the place were both Dukes themselves, if Edward broke through, his strength would reach

the bottom of my chin, I

created all that chaos before coming here was because we wanted to attract the

glanced at my other self whose

But that was enough.

case, it makes more sense for the current Duke to be

on the fact that the current

of them been together, Edward's rank up wouldn't

was now under the watchful eye of only one Duke-ranked demon, the appearance of someone of similar

would just sit by and watch something like this unfold. He was planning on having Edward killed

midst of my pondering, I had a

are so afraid of Edward, why not just

even need to ask? Have you forgotten which clan we're

question. Glancing at him for a

"Nevermind."

Right...

the pride clan. Of course, their pride wouldn't allow

'Stupid.'

I clapped

"Alright."

myself from the other side, I stretched my

already have an idea of what

my direction, he

a piece of paper and a pen. Grasping the body of

I already knew what I wanted

"...and done."

out of my mouth as I put the

in the small dimensional space the size of a small

"This should be enough."

I was satisfied with what I had put

they didn't

To Tok—!

was met with no response. Fortunately, I did not have to wait for long as the door soon opened and a demon appeared opposite

by the demon's cold gaze. His croaky, brittle

"What do you want?"

would like to pay respect to the

"Ha?"

little. In spite of this, he grumbled in a quiet whisper

'This might be fun...'

able to pick up the whisper of

him speak, I decided to follow through with my plans anyway. As long as I managed

"Follow me."

"Okay."

door behind me, I

***

staring at the ceiling of his

long has

eyes were out of focus,

four years he had spent in this hell hole were taking a toll

But.

a little

he clenched his hands into

was in

little more struggle he had to endure before

little bit

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