The Author's POV

My eyes were glued to Edward's body, which was lying on the ground. In my ears, the noise from the crowd was drowned out.

During that moment, I had all my attention focused on Edward.

It wasn't until I saw his chest move that I finally relaxed.

He was still alive.

As he lay on the ground with his eyes wide open, staring at the red sky of the arena, his body was anything but fine.

Taking a deep breath and inwardly praying, I put the device back in my dimensional space and closed my eyes.

'I hope Amanda does not find out about this…'

If she found out I beat up her father...

Shivers ran down my spine.

'...Yeah, let's hope that does not happen.'

What Demon King?

She would probably finish me before that happened.

Well, I didn't think she would go that far, but I still didn't care to find out what would happen.

Keeping this secret under the grave was a sacred duty.

"Haa..."

I exhaled, and slowly opened my eyes.

As I opened my eyes again, I felt everyone's gaze pause on me. A pin-drop silence filled the arena grounds as none of the spectators spoke.

I then glanced toward the right. Nevertheless, I was surprised to find that the demoness had not appeared yet.

She was usually punctual.

'Where is she?'

I wondered to myself as I glanced around the place. It didn't take long for her to appear, as her figure appeared next to me shortly thereafter.

'Ah, there she is.'

Her eyes alternated between Edward and me as she hung open-mouthed. Eventually, she began to announce the match's result. The look on her face never changed as she spoke.

It was still filled with shock.

[…and the winner of the match is White Reaper, officially dethroning the Blood Prince from his Overlord position, and thereby becoming the new Overlord!]

It wasn't long before her words deeply echoed throughout the whole arena.

During a brief pause, the crowd and spectators digested the information before erupting into cheers.

The stadium started shaking as the cheers grew louder.

It was that loud.

My attention briefly focused on Edward's direction before I turned around and moved toward the metallic gates in the distance.

'My job is done, I should get prepared for the big event that is coming soon...'

It was about time I returned home.

***

"Not bad…"

Duke Azenoch's face was tinged with a faint curl as he watched White Reaper's figure slowly exit the arena.

The more he looked at him, the more pleased he became as he mumbled softly.

"He did not make the same mistake as the other one."

Recalling what had happened with SilverStar, the Duke shook his head with evident disappointment.

He was a good seedling. An obedient one.

unfortunate that he had failed

he hadn't been

this one isn't

above, Duke Azonech's lips opened enough to reveal

glance,

was merely

he had asked, Duke Azonech had already come to the conclusion that

to

deepened as he

"...A pity."

under

willingly choose to kill yourself

he could escape after seeing what he

the fact that he could have lived a few more years, he became

terrible mistake on his

true pity that I have to

he proceeded to

for him to reap his

***

time don't you

back to my room, the first thing that greeted me was

I didn't answer. It wasn't that I didn't want to, but the place was

one of my movements was being closely monitored, and given that I couldn't speak to him inside of my mind,

of my circumstances, he continued

the other matches that you've experienced. You

sight, I subtly

'I know.'

Of course, I knew.

skilled as Edward, he was actually coming at me

fact that he wasn't going to be honest with

had most likely planned on killing me during the fight. As if the Duke

the biggest humiliation in his

skills are more than enough to fight against the Duke had he been suppressed. With everything that I've taught you over the past four months, this should

mid-sentence, and silence enveloped the

didn't need him to finish his sentence to understand what he was trying

was then that he

if that's the case, you stand no chance at beating him. Your only choice is to lend me your

direction,

thoughts were quite

still don't trust

over the course of four months, he had

for the sake of doing

this point as

He also knew this.

was only a

still unclear about his real

king and get rid of his curse? But what exactly was this curse

perhaps the fact that time would repeatedly loop

I wasn't sure.

him, he would always

His silence seemed forced.

felt as though someone or something was stopping him from saying

they perhaps the weird chains? This was most

all of these unanswered questions aside, I still didn't feel comfortable with the idea of him taking

much. It'll be just like when you

those words, I cocked my

know you were the one controlling

to understand my thoughts, he

allowed me to control your body not too long ago, when we were in that dungeon. What difference does it make now?... Are you really that confident in defeating a Duke-ranked demon that could potentially use his power at any second without warning

stared deeply into my eyes, he paused for

you something. Regardless of how many times you want to die, or how many times you

ice-cold eyes looked down

I'm not interested in taking your body. But, it

pointed his

best interest if you

***

Clank. Clank. Clank.

being pulled inside a small cell, creating

"Ukhh.."

state, Edward glanced toward the other side of the cell and saw a figure standing there. Blinking a couple of times to get a better look at the figure hiding beneath the shadows of the