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 fence
worried him was how trustworthy
him once in his life,
probably saved me from losing to SilverStar, I still don't trust him
be blamed for this. Having spent as much time as he did in the arena and demon realm, he had long lost the ability to trust anyone
who he was, Edward
he displayed really
was a point
how much can a person change in such
person
he really someone he could
I don't really have a
face as he thought of
that he could only play along with whatever he was planning. He was going
simply didn't have a
Clank.
moment, the gates on the other side of the arena opened and a familiar figure
accompanied by white hair
or Ren, finally came out
his footsteps filled the entire arena as he walked toward
immediate pause in everyone's gaze as he walked in Edward's
in front of Edward, and their eyes met. Staring
or the noise coming from them,
in his mind, there was only
on studying his opponent opposite him as no other sound entered his ears. He could
blood-red spear materialized in his hands. A powerful red glow enveloped the spear as he tightly grasped it with both
a deep breath, he slowly took a stance
eyes met, Ren similarly took a stance and placed his right
powerful mana erupted from
up losing, I should do a good job at making it look
to himself as he focused all of his mana toward the tip of
[You may fight!]
was at that moment that the demoness's
he heard the demoness's voice, he took a
spear, a blood-red wave resembling a small tsunami erupted, before quickly heading in
Click
he heard a subtle clicking
'Fast.'
found Ren's
his attack wouldn't make it
"Khh..."
his teeth, Edward twisted his torso and moved the spear shaft
Clank—
arena as
the two weapons, circular pressurized wind gales were released.
then that Ren did something completely
Edward's spear, Ren's back arched and he punched out toward Edward's direction using
'What in the...'
to fight him with a sword, but despite his surprise, he reacted quickly by raising
"Hm!?"
arm, he felt something hard
did that get
teeth and exerted more force on his arm, finally breaking through the
Bang—
making contact with Ren's fist, Edward was pushed a couple of steps
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