"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."
but to avoid making it appear rigged, he was purposely set to lose
Even then.
"Why this early?"
before hitting 100,
must be another
I didn't wait for long to know the
far from breaking
"...Huh?"
snapped in the direction of my other-self. Pricking my ears with my fingers to make sure I didn't
you say? Can you repeat
"No."
my other self just shook his
I shrugged my shoulders.
"...Whatever."
only asked because I wasn't sure I had heard wrongly. That didn't
forehead, I took a deep
it makes more
strength would reach a similar level to theirs. This in
my chin, I
we created all that chaos before coming here was because we wanted to attract the attention of some of the upper
whose only reply was
But that was enough.
more sense for the current
on the fact that the current Duke seemed
them been together, Edward's rank up
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 that but
he would just sit by and watch something like this
midst of my pondering, I had a
of Edward, why not just
to ask? Have you forgotten which clan
question. Glancing at him for a
"Nevermind."
Right...
their pride wouldn't
'Stupid.'
as I clapped
"Alright."
look at myself from the other side, I stretched
of what
he disappeared from his spot without saying
of paper
next few minutes flew by since I already knew what I wanted
"...and done."
tongue dipped out of my mouth as
a couple of things in the small dimensional space the size of
"This should be enough."
I had put in that I looked for
they didn't
To Tok—!
I was met with no response. Fortunately, I did not have to wait
gaze. His croaky, brittle voice
"What do you want?"
to pay respect to the
"Ha?"
little. In spite of this, he
'This might be fun...'
pick up the whisper of
hearing him speak, I decided to follow through with my plans anyway. As long
"Follow me."
"Okay."
the door behind me,
***
the ceiling of his room, Edward muttered
long has
focus, and his
spent in this hell hole were taking
But.
little bit
hands into a
was
little more struggle he had to endure before
little bit
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