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.

way to explain

thought as he kept denying the reality that

someone whose rank was weaker than his to

Impossible!

was suppressed, he was still a Duke-ranked

A Duke-ranked demon!

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

was how things were

Drip. Drip.

as he heard the sound of his own blood dripping toward the ground, he started to question this

'How is this possible?'

only memory was moving one step before feeling a sharp pain on

to cover his wound, Duke

"…!"

moment on, he could see all the stares coming from the participants above. They stared at him with obvious

But that wasn't all.

they also displayed

Duke only

he really weaker than that

is playing around,

as the whispers grew, so did the noise, and their voices were heard by the Duke whose face

How

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

was

raised his head to stare at his opponent,

'Huh?'

eyes met, the Duke suddenly felt a chill run down his body as he subconsciously

observation, who became noisier as the performance

see that? The

the Duke actually

"…This is pathetic."

and more voices inside of his head with each passing

the voices against him, Duke Azenoch's focus was somewhere

at his trembling

'A…am I scared?'

sensation he felt when he looked

fluke? ..Or was he just

again at White Reaper, the sensation he felt

'…A fluke.'

thought

Yes.

to be

someone that wasn't even Duke rank

Impossible.

because of all the voices around

simply no

"Huuu…"

noise coming from the arena, he slowly started to

will

step forward and his vision warped. Reappearing in front of

his movements

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

sank as White Reaper managed to avoid the attack by moving his head back by a narrow margin. Even so, he did manage to graze him just a little

Swoosh-!

from below, the Duke twisted his body. He too was able to

his head and proceeded to sweep

Bang-!

His leg was connected.

disappointment, his leg came into contact with his arm which was raised to block

his teeth and

"Huh?"

shift his body, the Duke suddenly found a hand grasping his foot.

Duke's mind as he watched the hand reach out for

a strange angle and swung his other foot toward his opponent's

sure

Reaper's expression, as his lips slowly curled

'Fuck!'

realized he had been baited into doing

Bang-!

Duke suddenly felt a hand grasp his other leg. Suddenly, he found himself being thrown up in the air before being thrown down

Bang-!

the Duke

he

"Again."

his words meant, his body had once again been flung toward

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