[DROP] Supreme World'S System (Supreme World System)
Chapter 161 ~ This Old Man Knows Me

The state of Makishima is quite sad, after the commentator announced the winner, I healed Makishima back to how it was.

I don't know if she suffered mental trauma or not, but I left the arena with people who made a fuss.

After all, the torture I did really showed the Hero's helplessness and despair.

The Emperor of the Empire did not come, but some Imperial families like the prince and his daughter came to watch, especially the upper class nobles.

They discussed my origins, and discussed whether I was an opponent or a friend.

Even though I was made an opponent, they had to pay a heavy price. So they agreed not to offend me as much as possible.

Then a thought flashed, "Has Zack killed Duke Igy?"

It seems like the 'pig' I killed was a top-tier noble. Well, I don't really care, anyway.

It was his own fault for being interested in Dyne—I mean Viona.

I went back to the waiting room.

Unlike before, the waiting room this time is personal.

The participants are getting thinned, so it is no wonder to keep the morale of gladiator—I mean tournament participants to get a pretty special treatment.

I sat still while closing my eyes, and used my enhanced sense of hearing to hear the commotion that caught my attention among the spectators.

Suddenly a conversation caught my attention.

"Hoho, what is this? Isn't he Mygard Ally?"

Ally seems to have watched my match with her followers in the VIP seats.

Let's listen to their conversation.

"I didn't think Mr. Zack was so strong." (Regard)

I remember a man named Regard who fainted from fighting bandits. But he was quite brave and loyal, he dared to sacrifice for the sake of his master.

I'll appreciate it.

By the way, he seems to like his master, Ally.

"Right, not even the Hero Lord could be defeated unscathed. The difference is too far." (Vintage)

And next to her is Vintage, she is a pretty strong veteran knight.

From what I can see from her status description, she's a little jealous of Regard who can serve and look after Ally. But he has no special feelings for Ally.

It's just that he felt disbelieved by Regard who was an orphan being able to serve a top-tier noble like Ally.

Putting aside personal feelings, he still performed his duty well. He would not make personal feelings affect his performance and loyalty as a knight.

Ally who witnessed the cruelty and torture still seems to be unfamiliar.

Prove it was his trembling body.

Previously he had fallen in love or perhaps been amazed at saving his life.

But because of the match earlier, he had a contradiction in his heart.

On one hand he likes me, but on the other as a religious person, he does not allow such cruel behavior.

Well, I don't really care, anyway.

By the way, Zeus' technique for memory removal is pretty good.

Usually I use hypnosis and suggestion to the target to eliminate the memory.

The downside is that hypnosis cannot be used in people who have strong psychology, meaning having logical thinking that opposes fantasy and delusion. Oh and also, hypnosis cannot be used on a target that has a focus on something.

And again, hypnotic techniques still allow you to be able to recover memories, so it's quite risky.

Zeus used electrical waves to erase memories permanently and temporarily.

Very good technique, but quite difficult to use. I don't know how others will use it, maybe for them it's an impossible thing to do.

It was one of the things I talked about with Zeus at the inn at night.

So far I've never slept, I've never been sleepy anyway.

Even if I sleep, I won't enjoy it.

But now, in this world hypnotic techniques work differently.

With skill, I can manipulate people based on the level of control of Magic Energy. As long as the target is not Magic protected, I can easily use hypnotic techniques.

In this world too I can hypnotize to erase memories, and bury them deep in the subconscious until they never exist.

Okay, a couple hours passed.

Now into the second match today.

Usually each match will be held twice a day for each participant. But from tomorrow, the match will be held twice a day.

Maybe now it has entered the section where there are 25 people left. One lucky person seems to be able to head to the next round that will be held tomorrow.

Someone came to my waiting room in fear just to tell me about my next match.

I was thinking of being the lucky guy who drove straight to the next round but it wasn't how it looked.

I walked out and passed through the dark hallway to the arena.

In the arena, commentators have spoken and signaled for me to climb into the arena.

The crowd cheers became boisterous as I went up.

Hm? Whatisthis?

Why are they so excited?

The audience seemed to be looking forward to extreme scenes of violence, huh

Fucking psychopaths.

How can this country stand when everyone is a psychopath?

Well, let. Let's see my opponent.

"On the west side, people who struggle on the threshold but always win at the end of time, let's give an applause to .. Eksu participants!"

The commentator seemed very excited.

Is he a psychopath too?

Then, the middle-aged man went up to the arena in quite a broken outfit.

Hm? I didn't see anything special about this old man, but I felt something strange.

The moment I looked with the Mystery Appraisal was also nothing strange. The status is quite high, but nothing special.

But, what the hell with this strange feeling?

The old man opened his mouth and spoke, "Hey, boy, how are you?"

This old man .. he called me a boy!

"Well, fine I guess."

"Is that so? Then why do you look like a psychopath? Tormenting defenseless opponents, ish, ish, ish. Your mental state may be broken."

The old man shook his head in surprise.

It seems like he knew of my previous match.

But why doesn't he look scared?

His status and stats were lower than Makishima's, and there were no outstanding skills.

Does he have any martial techniques?

Interesting, let's see how this old man's ability is.

I said, "Old man, you seem to have the ability. Not feeling the slightest fear after knowing what happened in the previous match. What abilities do you have?"

The old man said, "Hey, what 'old man? Don't call me 'old brother'. Ahem, yeah, forget it. It's been your nature from long ago, yeah."

The old man was furious and looked dazed when he finally remembered something, then cleared his throat.

I was a meticulous person, this old man said something strange as if he had known me.

'That's been your nature for a long time, yeah.'

That's what the old man said. Does he know me?

It should not be, my appearance has a considerable difference compared to me when traveling first, including when I was living as Murata Manabe.

There might be some people who are aware of our characteristics, if he has a special attachment to me.

But, I don't feel like I've ever seen this old man. I myself can even remember each incident with details, well, arguably I have the ability of Perfect Memories.

I wanted to ask about that while replying not to call me boy, but he surprised me with the next sentence.

The old man chuckled with an authentic laugh and said as if knowing what I was about to say, "Hehehe, alright, I won't call you 'spoken' either. But, should I call you Zack or .. Crhono Zero?"

My face that was always calm and flat, instantly underwent a change. My eyes opened wider and my mouth opened.

He knows me!

Who is this old man!?

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