Inside the tunnel leading to the arena, a soft and groggy voice echoed.
"Are you ready?"
The voice came from SilverMoon, who was checking on me.
Her face had become quite sunken since the last time I had seen her, and she also didn't seem to be in the right state of mind. She was clearly still unable to cope with the loss of SilverStar.
She was essentially a dead woman walking.
The only reason she was here was to see my fight against Edward. The man that took her husband's life.
As I stepped away from her, I could hear the crowd's loud cheers behind me.
Without turning around, I replied.
"You don't have to worry about that. I will win the fight."
I wasn't lying about this.
I wasn't going to lose the fight.
In the wake of my meeting with Edward, it was now my turn to face him. There was already a palpable excitement in the crowd's cheers, which were getting louder by the minute.
The atmosphere around me was boiling.
In the meantime, SilverMoon, who was standing beside me, also sensed the weird atmosphere and took a step back.
"Okay. I've already helped you the best way I could. I hope you can keep your promise."
"You can count on that."
It was at that moment.
Clank—
The gates of the arena started to slowly open up revealing the vast arena in the distance. The crowd cheers intensified, and my shoulders relaxed.
'Here goes nothing.'
Taking a deep breath, I took a step into the arena.
***
'I don't know how to feel about this…'
Despite the passive face he wore, Edward's thoughts were complicated as he stood in the middle of the arena.
Having spoken with him yesterday, he understood what the outcome of today's match would be.
His inevitable loss.
But there were two problems with this.
One, he had to lose believably. Everything they had been working on would go up in smoke if he lost in an obvious manner.
But for this part, he wasn't too worried.
'Considering his strength, he does indeed have a chance of beating me. Especially if he has that device…'
His eyes paused on the bracelet in his hand. Ren would have an easier time winning if he had a device to turn off his suppressor.
Even than.
what worried
the
worried him was how trustworthy
in his
probably saved me from losing to
he did in the arena and demon realm, he had
revealed who he was,
the strength he displayed really
this was a point of concern
can a person change in such little
different from the person he had once met in the
someone
I don't
spread across Edward's face as he
He was going to lose, either way, so he may as
simply didn't
Clank.
that moment, the gates on the other side of the arena
accompanied
finally
calm echo of his footsteps filled the entire arena as he
everyone's gaze as he
footsteps soon stopped in front of Edward, and their eyes
around him, whether it was the crowd or the noise coming from them, immediately disappeared as soon as he closed his
moment, in his mind, there was only an image of
as no other sound entered his ears. He could also feel the presence of someone else, but he made sure to pay no mind to it. It was probably
spear as he
a deep breath, he slowly took a
eyes met, Ren similarly took
erupted
a good job at making it look like
as he focused all of his mana toward
[You may fight!]
that moment that the
quick to take action. The moment he heard the demoness's voice, he took a step forward and mercilessly thrust his
small tsunami erupted, before quickly heading
Click
he stabbed his spear, he heard a subtle clicking sound
'Fast.'
Ren's sword already reaching out for
at that moment that Edward realized that his attack wouldn't make it before Ren's
"Khh..."
torso and moved
Clank—
ring echoed throughout the whole arena as Ren's
weapons, circular pressurized wind gales were released. Spreading out
Ren did something completely out of
spear, Ren's back arched and he
'What in the...'
Ren was going to
"Hm!?"
his arm, he felt something hard press against his arm. It
did that
on his arm, finally breaking through the ring and placing his arm
Bang—
fist, Edward was pushed
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