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
him was how trustworthy he
met him once in his life, and
saved me from losing to SilverStar, I still
did in the arena and
revealed who he was, Edward would've probably
he
point of concern
much can a person
from the person he
someone
but I don't really have
bitter smile spread across Edward's face as
could only play along with whatever he was planning. He was going to lose, either way,
didn't have a
Clank.
gates on the other side of the arena
emotions was accompanied by white hair
Reaper, or Ren, finally came out to
footsteps filled the entire arena as he walked
as he walked in Edward's direction. Heavy tension descended down
Reaper's footsteps soon stopped in front of Edward, and their eyes met. Staring back into them, Edward slowly closed his
crowd or the noise coming from them, immediately disappeared as soon as he
in his mind, there was only an image of Ren standing
ears. He could also feel the presence of someone else, but he made sure to
spear as he tightly grasped it with both hands; all the mana inside of him bursting out
breath, he slowly took a stance
Ren's. While their eyes met, Ren similarly took a stance
surge of powerful mana erupted from
do a good job at making it look like I put up a
thought to himself as he focused all of his mana toward
[You may fight!]
that the
heard the demoness's voice, he took a step forward and mercilessly thrust
spear, a blood-red wave resembling a small tsunami erupted, before quickly heading in Ren's
Click
spear, he heard a subtle clicking
'Fast.'
he found Ren's sword already reaching
his attack wouldn't make it before Ren's sword would
"Khh..."
twisted his torso and moved the
Clank—
throughout the whole arena as Ren's sword
of contact between the two weapons, circular pressurized wind gales were released. Spreading out throughout
did
arched and he punched out toward Edward's direction
'What in the...'
was clear that Ren's actions confused Edward, who had originally thought that Ren was going to fight him with a sword,
"Hm!?"
move his arm, he felt something hard press against his arm. It was a small translucent
that
as he grit his teeth and exerted more force on his arm, finally breaking through the
Bang—
Edward
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