The Author's POV

'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.

the only way to

kept denying the reality that was presented before

whose rank was weaker than his to be

Impossible!

was suppressed, he was still a

A Duke-ranked demon!

stand at the apex of all worlds. A figure

least that was how things were supposed

Drip. Drip.

his own blood dripping toward the

'How is this possible?'

feeling a sharp pain on the

to cover his wound, Duke Azenoch

"…!"

could see all the stares coming from the participants

But that wasn't all.

themselves, they also displayed a clear sense of

Duke only

he really weaker

playing around,

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

up! How dare

lungs toward the crowd. But out of

was still

head to stare at his opponent, the Duke stared deeply into his

'Huh?'

Duke suddenly felt a chill run down his body as he subconsciously took a step

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

that? The Duke took

Duke actually

"…This is pathetic."

Duke heard more and more voices inside of his head with each passing second. All he could hear were voices

despite all of the voices against

at his trembling arms,

'A…am I scared?'

when he looked at him in

a fluke? ..Or was he just

White Reaper, the sensation he felt before vanished the moment his

'…A fluke.'

Duke thought to

Yes.

to be a

someone that wasn't even Duke rank scare

Impossible.

probably because of all the voices

was simply no

"Huuu…"

noise coming from the arena, he slowly started to

work, I will just take it

he took a step forward and his vision warped. Reappearing

his

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

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 bit as a red line traced alongside

Swoosh-!

hurl at him from below, the Duke twisted his body.

head and proceeded to sweep his leg in a whipping motion, hurtling it

Bang-!

His leg was connected.

with his arm

his teeth and

"Huh?"

suddenly found a hand grasping his foot. Without giving him a chance to react, an open palm came toward his

doom rose within the Duke's mind as

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

he performed this movement, he made sure to

expression, as his lips slowly curled into a grin and his left hand

'Fuck!'

baited

Bang-!

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

Bang-!

sand swept into the air as a crater formed beneath him. In addition, the Duke felt a great deal of pain running

was so powerful that he didn't even have time

"Again."

By the time he realized what his words