Almekia Kingdom
66. Opal - Wishperer

After Jasper's devastating battle against Jade in the previous match, my match had to be postponed by several hours. The match arena was completely shattered apart due to the explosion from the gear that Jasper had piloted earlier.

Flakes and fragments of the gear body were scattered in all corners of the arena. Metals, iron plates and spare parts were charred and left from the wreckage of the exploding gear. So it forced the tournament organizers to do a little bit of repair and cleaning of the arena before starting the next game.

Thankfully, I was relieved to know that Jasper survived and was not seriously injured. It was fortunate that he survived after fighting the incredibly brutal Jade and did not hesitate to kill it. Fortunately Jasper was able to decide to give up and end their fight at the right moment. Not to keep fighting and even endanger his own life.

I was a little surprised and proud to know Jasper's emotional development. Jasper was an innocent prince who until a few months ago knew nothing. Only the safe and comfortable life of the palace did he know. I don't know how hard life is outside the palace.

Now he can suddenly make the right decision by ignoring all his prestige, self-esteem and ego. Something that was certainly not easy for someone with a status like her. A prince who can get all his wishes easily. A person who is always educated to uphold self-esteem.

And now? For his safety, for the sake of defending his life Jasper was willing to say the word surrender. Realize that nothing is more important than his life.

One of Ruby's bodyguards asked me to follow her around the room. Maybe he'll take me to the waiting room of a participant directly connected to the hangar gear arena.

"I'm leaving first" I said to Platina, who had been held in this room with me.

Platina nodded and gave her smile lightly to me. The smile I need as a spirit of body and soul.

"Yes, good luck, Brother Opal." Platina replied as she grabbed and held my hand briefly before letting go. I patted the top of my girl's head before leaving her.

I followed the bodyguard slowly down the packed tournament hall. There are already a wide variety of people watching, chatting, chatting or betting for this tournament. The bodyguard took me to one of the rooms in the deepest part of the building. Open one of the doors and welcome me to enter.

I found a room with sofas along its walls, tables filled with food and drinks were also available. A large screen was attached to one side of its wall to display a live broadcast of the circumstances in the match arena.

From the room I was held in earlier there was also a similar screen but smaller in size. It was from that screen that Platina and I were able to know and observe the course of the match from the other participants of the tournament.

I took two glasses of cold soda on the table, I took a sip and I finished a glass. I also took a piece of wheat bread, meat and some other dishes to a plate, to fill my stomach. From this morning until noon Ruby did not give us any food and drink in the storage room. Maybe he forgot us because he was too busy to take care of the tournament.

When I was bitten and enjoyed my bread, there was a bit of guilt on Platina who possessed me. My girl was also just as hungry and thirsty as me from earlier. But until now he had not even touched the food at all, he must have been very hungry and thirsty at the moment.

I took a seat on one of the sofas in the corner of the room to eat my food. It's not that I'm unfaithful or unwilling to share the suffering with Platinum on this issue. But soon I will have to fight with the gear and of course I need a lot of power to be able to exert energy during the fight. Energy that I will not be able to give to the maximum if I am hungry.

It's free that romantic and solidarity stifles hunger together. It's not the time for that now. Now I have to be realistic, eat a lot, replenish my body's energy reserves.

While eating the dishes on my plate, I spread my gaze throughout the room. There are only a few people in this room. Two tournament organizers guard the door towards the hangar gear, they are also the ones who will be in charge of calling the names of participants when it is time to compete.

Then in the middle of the room I could see Jade busy struggling with a small sharp dagger and a piece of wood in her hand. Sitting and busy himself with a cigarette and a bottle of booze on his desk. I don't know what he's working on, sculpting? he looked very serious about his work.

In another corner of the room a little far from where I was sitting I could see two more people in the waiting room. One of them lay asleep on the sofa with his arms covering his face and the other sitting on the sofa next to him. The two men wore long, dark-colored capes that covered their faces and bodies. So I can't see their faces.

Who are these guys? If you look at the list of tournament participants, it seems like one of them is another representative of Ruby besides me. Other tournament participants who were obtained through the selection path such as Zircon, Jasper, and Saphir are not here. So you can be sure this waiting room is special only for representatives of Ruby and Jade only.

"Opal?" Greet someone to me.

I was so shocked when I suddenly felt someone calling me, I really felt it was more like I wasn't listening.

Maybe not one of the two of them?

I refocused my gaze towards the two people at the end of the room. One of the people wearing a cape in a sitting position raised his glass slightly. Then twirled the glass in his hand before drinking some of its contents. Is he really Amethys?

"Sister?" My answer opened my mind wider.

I spread out my range of thoughts so that my brother can enter my mind to speak more smoothly. My brother also studied wishrer science just like me. Although limited because we are not a pure wishrer type, this ability turned out to be very useful especially for emergency situations like now. To communicate in two directions without being noticed by others.

"How did you get to be here? With who?" I asked him with astonishment.

"I'm here with Diamond..." Brother Amethys then explained to me about Ruby's letter to Diamond. About the contents of the letter that claimed to have captured me and Platina, as well as about Ruby asking Diamond to fight in the tournament as her representative as one of the conditions for the redemption of captives. To save me and Platina.

"I was expecting there would be something bad when Ruby took some Platina hair." My suspicions are proven right now.

"It looks like Ruby's a pretty sneaky girl." Amethys' sister commented on Ruby.

'So the other candidate for Ruby's husband is Diamond?' The more horrified I imagined the careless behavior of Ruby who could force me and Diamond to fight in this tournament. Fight for himself.

"Platina how's she doing?" Asked Kak Amethys then with a bit of worry.

"Tina is fine. He is being held captive in another room in the building. So I'm gonna go to this fucking tournament" I replied.

Then I remembered the Diamond Palace which was still very weak when we left the palace. Is he healed? Couldn't it be that a wound as severe as that could heal so quickly? Especially with the blood of Solaris in his body that is very hard to cure.

"How's Diamond? Can he fight with gear?" I can't imagine Diamond having to fight Jade in the next game.

Jade will not hesitate to kill him. In his usual circumstances I'm sure Diamond can compensate for maybe even defeating Jade, but with his current state...

"He's asleep, he seems a little tired." My brother's answer made me once again observe the figure on the sofa earlier.

Surely that stature is Diamond's stature, no longer wrong. "He is still in healing time. He won't be able to last too long in the gear fight" my brother continued in a very worried tone.

"Ruby is Obsidian's uncle's daughter. At the very least I, Diamond or Zircon must win this tournament to be able to get close to him and ask him where Uncle Obsidian is." I'm telling you the results of my investigation about Ruby, Jade, and my meeting with Zircon.

"I don't like that flirtatious, selfish girl." Said my brother in a annoyed tone. I laughed in my heart, but my brother was also jealous.

It was only natural that she was like that, considering the winner of the tournament would marry Ruby. Which woman tries to willing her lover to suddenly have to fight a life bet but then have to marry another girl once she wins the fight?

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