Almekia Kingdom
59. Opal - Reunion

Some time later Ruby left us both in the room. Not to forget he assigned four of his men to continue to guard and supervise all our movements.

It seemed like Ruby was preoccupied with various kinds of tournament affairs. From the development of the situation I observed Ruby and her team taking care of everything about the tournament. It could even be said that he was the one who organized this tournament.

We use the free time we have to find as much information as possible. From the papers and documents that Ruby just left on the table in this room, even occasionally I asked our four bodyguards. Standard questions that they could have answered without suspecting me.

Then I can conclude that tournaments like this are regularly held in BloodyHell every year. To choose the great fighters and gear masters who will be part of the distinguished people here. For this year there is a little extra special prize for the winner which will be Ruby's brother if a woman and will marry her if the winner is a man.

Hundreds of people who have registered to participate in this year's tournament and have obtained 11 people who qualified from the preliminary round. The preliminary round had apparently been implemented a few days ago with the battle royal system.

And from today will be carried out further rounds, with a 1-on-1 gear duel. I as Ruby said earlier will be a participant who participated in fighting in this tournament without me being able to avoid. Become a representative of Ruby.

I became more and more curious about who this Ruby was. How could he have so many men? How could he have held a tournament of this size? How could he have such a big influence here? A huge influence that could even make hundreds of men want to marry her even with the gamble of life.

She is a beautiful and charming girl. But I thought it was impossible just because of his physical advantages, the men were crazy about him. There must be another reason for him.

If you remember Ruby's young age, I'd expect her to be the same age as me, around her early 20s. There was no way she was the leader in this Bloody Hell city, or perhaps she was the daughter of the leader herself?

"Ruby what's his last name?" I asked one of Ruby's men. Standard questions.

"Nightray," he answered indifferently and briefly. I don't mind my question.

"Ruby Nightray's? She's Obsidian Nightray's daughter?" I asked in disbelief and the person I asked just nodded lightly lazily in response.

How could Ruby be the daughter of Uncle Obsidian, the person we had been looking for all this time? That means our goal is getting closer. This is where I just regretted my stupidity for not asking Ruby's last name before. I should've asked her from the beginning so we could extract some information from her.

After knowing this fact, it made me interested in this tournament. Winning the tournament would have made it easier for us to approach Ruby and meet her father. It's getting stronger my reasons for entering this tournament.

"I'm sorry I want to go to the toilet." My love to Ruby's men who take care of me.

He just frowned and looked at his friends without answering, looking doubtful.

"It's almost out. Or should I wet the bed here?" I pushed a little.

And finally they let me. Two men escorted me to the bathroom and two others stayed in the room to look after Platina. I smiled in my heart, it turned out that my acting was pretty good too hehe. Talent is also an artist like this.

Actually I just want to get out of our containment room, want to look around the outside, want to learn about our current situation and location.

Hundreds of people filled the room, busy chatting with people next to him or just standing quietly watching the situation and looking at the screen.

I stopped my steps for a moment in front of the big screen displaying the announcement. I read what it says there. The names of the tournament participants who managed to escape the preliminary round. How shocked I was when I found familiar-sounding names written there, Zircon, Jasper and Saphir.

Fool, why are they even using their real names? And again why would Zircon let Jasper and Saphir take part in this dangerous tournament? Beyond all my worries there was actually a sense of relief in knowing that the three of them were still alive today. The important thing is that the three of them survived all the way to this Bloody Hell city.

"Let's go" one of Ruby's men was impatient. I walked back to the toilet.

And when they got there, they even followed me into the toilet. I walked over to one of the sinks available there, I took the water in my hand and washed it in my face. I wet my whole face and some hair, ah it feels so fresh.

How shocked I was when from the reflection of the glass in front of me I could see a very familiar figure, Zircon. He came out of one of the toilet cubicles, headed to the sink next to me. My best friend lit a faucet and washed his hands in silence.

I can see he reacted a little to my presence. But then he continued to wash his hands, as if he didn't know me. This is the acting that is most mastered by him, pretended to not know someone. I think almost every day he does. So yeah, it's natural at the moment.

I gave up some of my inner strength to reach out to her mind, I tried to be a little telepathic to her. Well little-little I can this science even though I'm not a pure wishrer.

Just like a healer, a wishrer is also a natural talent. Some of us can learn this science very limitedly. The number of messages we can send is very small and also the distance between the sender of the message and the recipient cannot be too far away.

"Zircon.." I called him over telepathically.

Zircon remained silent without reacting but I knew he could listen to me. As I thought, of course, he could not reply because he might not learn the science of whisperer which is often ignored because it is considered unimportant.

Most people focus more on martial arts alone than supporting sciences such as healers and wishrers.

My two guards have started to get nervous seeing me too long in the sink. I moved from there to avoid their suspicion. I entered one of the narrow toilet rooms to work on my needs. The two of them did not enter because the toilet cubicle was of course too narrow for more than one person.

"Zircon, me and Platina are fine. I'll be taking part in the tournament as Ruby's representative. They took Platina, made her Sandra so I could join the tournament." I sent Zircon as short and dense a message as I could. I hope he can hear it clearly.

After finishing my toilet ritual, I came out of the room and went back to the sink to wash my hands. Zircon is no longer there. It's good that he understood my message. Well he was already cool from his son, it would not be difficult for him to act silent a thousand languages and pretend not to know me like that.

And my only hope is one, hopefully we don't have to face each other as opponents.

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