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Chapter 318: Red Thread's Orphanage
Chapter 318: Red Thread's Orphanage
Chapter 318: Red Thread's Orphanage
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'Why did he choose me?' Kol wondered. 'It should've been better to reduce our numbers. What is this human trash planning?'
"Alright, roll your marbles!" Adelram shouted.
Kol and Adam tossed their marbles at the same time. They came into contact at the middle of the table.
"5," Adam said with a serious gaze.
Kol looked at his marble, and scoffed. "9..."
CRACK!
Kol's marble cracked for the second time.
Everyone in the match now had only one life left, but Adam still had his skip left!
'Close, really close!' Adam took a deep breath. 'I realized something. These warlords can't use Future Sight.'
He could tell that their Kiryoku wasn't on the same level as him. A level below him. However, it could still allow them to use Future Sight.
It would've been easy for them to cheat on this match.
That's why, back in the New World, those with Future Sight were banned from participating in any Killer Marble matches!
It was so incredibly hard to tell whether someone was using Future Sight. The warlords couldn't tell that he was using it either!
'I don't care that I am cheating. They're nothing but bullies, and in the end, it is my survival in the line. I'll do everything in my power to survive!'
"Let's continue with the match." Adelram said with a smile. "It is getting quite interesting." They all rolled their marbles to the center of the table, where they collided.
"1," Adelram scratched the back of his head.
"20!" Kol grinned.
"13," Gabriel shrugged his shoulders.
"7..." Adam frowned.
Pandora giggled. "Kol with two attacks. This will be interesting."
Kol turned to Adam and seemed to be staring right into his soul.
'This human trash has one skip left. There's a few choices for him. He could gamble and try to get me killed in the first attack or use skip.
'However, there's a second attack, where I cannot get killed. A logical decision would try to get me killed.
'If I die on the first round, I can't do my second attack either.
'That's why I believe he won't use skip!'
The rest of the warlords had the same thought process.
"I'll attack you!" Kol pointed at Adam.
"Skip," Adam said with a cold look.
"?!" The warlords looked stunned.
'Why would he do that?' Kol's eyes shook. 'Is he stupid? I still have a second attack, and if I lose this, I won't get killed, so why...'
It didn't make any sense to him!
Because of the skip, the "designed" numbers inside the marbles changed. It wasn't going to be the same as they were going to be during the first attack.
Adam crossed his legs. "Do your worst."
"Hmph!" Kol rolled his marble to the center of the table.
Adam tossed his marble to the center as well.
"7!" Kol shouted.
"18," Adam said. "I guess I survived, lucky me."
'What?!' Kol's eyes shook.
'This doesn't make any sense.' Adelram thought to himself. 'He could've gambled and got Kol killed.'
The warlords couldn't understand it.
They knew that Adam wasn't a fool. Even though he was human, they did respect his intelligence and cunning. That's why this made them very confused.
Adam took his marble, and rubbed it against his temple.
'Whew...'
He used Future Sight again.
In the first attack, without skip, he would've lost!
Luckily for him, the Future Sight saw that he was going to be victorious in the second round.
It made him slightly frustrated that his luck wasn't good enough for the first attack to get rid of Kol, but he didn't mind.
At least he wasn't dead!
"Let's continue..." Adelram said, and everyone rolled their marbles to the center of the table.
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Red Thread, Orphanage.
As the night turned darker, the lights were about to be killed off for tonight, but then, a door opened, and the First Sister walked into the bedroom with her head hanging low.
"You're back!" The Fourth Sister jumped to her feet in excitement. "How did the mission
go?"
The First Brother looked away from his book, and his eyes shook as he saw the First Sister tearing up while she made her way to her bed.
"What happened?" he asked.
She plopped down on her bed, put her face in the pillow, and sobbed quietly.
Every brother and sister looked over, shocked. They had never seen her so vulnerable before.
It made them wonder what the hell happened!
"What happened?" The First Brother asked seriously.
"I-I..." The First Sister looked to him with teary eyes. "I got zeroed!"
"What?!" Everyone exclaimed.
"Tell everything that happened!" The First Brother said with a furious expression.
...
With the moonlight filtering through the window, Alistair rubbed his forehead as he finished some of his paperwork.
He wasn't spending his nights at his antique shop anymore, as he already got attacked there once, but instead, he was spending his time at his second home.
The Orphanage.
It was his as he purchased it, and he was responsible for everyone.
Knock, knock!
Suddenly, loud knocking came from the door.
"Come in." Alistair frowned and put his glasses down on the desk.
The door slammed open, and the First Brother entered with a furious expression. The rest of the sisters and brothers were peeking outside the office, clearly curious about the
conversation that was about to happen.
"What're you all doing?" Alistair asked. "Shouldn't you all be at the bed?"
"Where the hell did you actually send her?!" The First Brother slammed his hands on the desk.
"I want answers!"
"What're you talking about?" Alistair asked and pointed at him with a cold look. "Mind your
tone with me, young man."
"The First Sister!" He shouted. "That mission... she died, y'know!"
"What?!" Alistair jumped to his feet, and he looked out of the door.
There, he saw vulnerable-looking First Sister, her head hanging low in embarrassment. She
was one of the most important powerhouses of the Children of Fair faction.
Now she went and died!
"What the hell happened?" Alistair asked angrily.
She opened her mouth and recalled everything that happened. Everything without leaving a
single detail out.
"That's..." Alistair's eyes shook. "King Moriarty. He tricked us!"