The Author's POV

Chapter 531

'The chip inside of my head? …What is he talking about?'

I always used the chip inside of my head.

In the split second that 'Eyes of Chronos' was activated, I wouldn't have been able to think if it weren't for the chip.

Was there another function of the chip that I did not know about? ...If there was, I wasn't aware of it.

It was then that the other me spoke. My attention once again shifted.

'Pay attention one more time.'

With his words fading, the Duke's body stumbled backward.

This came as a result of the previous punch.

As he stabilized his body, there was no longer any look of shock on his face, and in its place was an impassive and unreadable expression.

In front of the silent audience, he attempted to keep a straight face.

His figure disappeared once more as he expanded his wings, casting a large shadow over the arena. This time, his movements were clearly different. It was a lot faster than before.

But…

Bang-!

The results were the same.

"Huaaakk!"

Casually elbowing the right side, the Duke's body reappeared. It was only a casual elbow, but it was that casual elbow that caused his eyes to widen and his stomach to cave in.

A glob of spittle flew towards my face, but my face remained unchanged.

'Did you manage to see?'

The echo of his voice reverberated throughout my mind.

Finding it difficult to digest what had happened, it took a while for me to answer back.

But I eventually did.

'…I have.'

While the answer was quite easy, it was the concept that I found difficult to grasp. Or even accept it as something that a human was remotely possible of achieving...

'Observe everything. From muscle movement to the direction that feet and bodies point, and eye movement. Connecting everything together...'

Lowering my hand, I pressed my thumb against the hilt of my sword.

The moment I did that, the Duke once again decided to move.

But…

Click-!

Shifting my body ever so slightly toward the right, a subtle clicking sound resonated throughout the arena.

Following the sound, the whole arena froze as the Duke's figure once again materialized in front of me.

A gaping hole appeared on the right side of his chest.

'...You will be able to predict their movements.'

Drip. Drip.

It was only the sound of blood dripping on the ground that echoed throughout the arena.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

Trying to comprehend what had happened, the Duke's head rose and fell repeatedly as he stared at his right chest.

Throughout the silence, my mouth opened.

"…What a pity."

***

A fluke.

A simple and miraculous fluke.

only way to

as he kept denying the reality

was weaker than his to be able

Impossible!

he was still

A Duke-ranked demon!

was supposed to stand at the apex of all worlds. A figure who had the ability to squash Counts with a simple wave

how things were

Drip. Drip.

his own blood dripping toward the ground, he started to question this

'How is this possible?'

feeling a sharp pain on the right side of

cover his wound,

"…!"

see all the stares coming from the participants above. They stared at him with obvious shock on

But that wasn't all.

whispering among themselves, they also

Duke only this

weaker than that

is playing

but as the whispers grew, so did the noise, and their voices were

How dare

to shout at the top of his lungs toward the crowd. But out of

situation was

head to stare at his opponent, the Duke stared

'Huh?'

a chill run down his body as

was no avoiding the audience's observation, who became noisier

you see that? The Duke

the Duke

"…This is pathetic."

Duke heard more and more voices inside of his head with each passing second.

all of the voices against him, Duke Azenoch's focus was

his trembling arms,

'A…am I scared?'

sensation he felt when he looked

it really a fluke? ..Or was

glanced once again at White Reaper, the sensation he felt before vanished the moment

'…A fluke.'

thought to

Yes.

to

wasn't even Duke rank

Impossible.

all the

was simply

"Huuu…"

Drowning out the noise coming from the arena, he slowly started to

Count rank doesn't work, I will just take

a step forward and his vision warped. Reappearing in front of White Reaper, he extended his hand and clawed his

his

split second, his hand was already nearing White Reaper's head. It was so close, just a couple

moving his head back by a narrow margin. Even so, he did manage to graze

Swoosh-!

the Duke twisted his body. He too

avoided the attack, he raised his head and proceeded to sweep

Bang-!

His leg was connected.

his leg came into contact with his

gritted his teeth

"Huh?"

as he was trying to shift his body, the Duke suddenly found a hand grasping his foot. Without giving him a chance to react, an open palm

sense of doom rose within the Duke's mind as he watched

his body as he twisted his body at a strange angle and swung his other foot toward his opponent's head with its

performed this movement, he made sure to keep his gaze focused on his

as his lips slowly curled into a grin and his left hand shot toward the side of

'Fuck!'

been baited

Bang-!

leg. Suddenly, he found himself being thrown up in

Bang-!

the Duke felt a great deal of pain running down his back as he struggled to open

powerful that he

"Again."

the time he realized what his words meant, his body

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