190.Chapter 190 – Mr. Loren’s Serial Misfortunes
Chapter 190: Mr. Loren’s Serial Misfortunes
Inside the cold and bone-chilling prison, two cells apart, a brief silence fell between Ranch and Adams.
All that could be heard in the gloom was the sporadic sound of water droplets freezing and the distant murmur of the wind blowing across the narrow walkway.
“What have I got to lie to you about?”
Ranch’s voice seemed disappointed.
He was just frozen so hard that even his wrists were stiff and his exit from the Shadow World was rather slow.
“……”
Adams, while knowing full well that Ranch was telling a lie, wondered for a moment if he had misunderstood Ranch.
His acting was so real that it sounded like he was disappointed at not being trusted.
But it could also be that he was feeling something because his plan hadn’t worked, using that emotion to catalyze his already strong line work.
“Ranch, I know that the best thing you can do is to use strategy and psychological warfare, so there’s no such thing as despicable or not, I’m only talking about victory and defeat with you today, and you’re only going to look stupid and ridiculous if you continue to trick me with this trick of swindling.”
After a while of thinking, Adams was convinced and said coldly.
He will not condemn Ranch what, after all, this betting rules and regulations of both sides have long been said, soldiers are not deceitful, victory is the truth.
As long as the next whatever Ranch said, not into Ranch’s logic can be.
This was also Ranqi’s greatest weakness.
If his opponent doesn’t communicate with him effectively, none of his shenanigans will work.
As long as this principle was carried out to the end, in this bet, he would win and Ranch would lose!
Rancic in the next cell didn’t reply to his words.
He just slowly walked back into the depths of the cell and threw all the hoarded supplies out from between the bars.
Hearing the crisp crash, Adams looked out in some confusion.
He could see the supplies on the diagonal side of the building through the bars, and Ranch looked like he really didn’t want to play anymore, shedding all of his resources!
“What are you doing?”
Adams asked in surprise.
“Lest I should be said to have swindled you, I’m really going away, and people should have more trust in each other.”
With that said, any sound from within Ranch’s prison abruptly disappeared.
“……”
Adams gazed across the bars at the supplies on the floor, lost in thought.
Could it be that he had really misunderstood Ranch?
If Ranch really meant well.
And one’s own small-mindedness never trusts him.
Wouldn’t that make you look like you have no guts?
……
At this time on the Jera Memorial Square.
The stone floor was rippling in the rain, but this did not affect people’s enthusiasm, and the open-air giant screen on the plaza even attracted many passing students to stop and watch.
People held colorful umbrellas in their hands, forming a small flower bush, and the rainwater slipped from the tips of the umbrellas and hit the ground, making a clear sound of “drip drip drip”.
The sound was almost drowned out by the boisterous discussions in the square.
“This Pi Yang’s, snubbing Adams again!”
“Don’t ever believe it, Adams!”
For some reason, it was instead the students of Ichorite Academy who began to fuel Adams.
Ranch was obviously playing psychology again.
Now this ditching of supplies was certainly a big gamble, trying to speed up the game in order to reach the ultimate disorientation.
First there was the possibility of tricking his opponent into having a pang of conscience and simply quitting the Shadow World.
Secondly, it would also allow the opponent to misjudge the abundance of their own resources.
Because there were already quite a few people who were familiar with Ranch who had guessed-
Ranch must have a way to take back the supplies in the corridor again later!
This scene of Ichorite students giving Adams a shout-out instead made the few Arolan students who were watching in the plaza a bit less likely to do so.
Wasn’t this the home of the Ichorite Academy?
On the open-air giant screen.
The more Adams in his jail cell thought about it, the more torn he became.
His conscience did ache with the fear that he had misunderstood Ranch.
It didn’t take long for Adams’ brow to stretch again, and a sneer curled the corners of his mouth.
“Ranch, there’s no need to pretend, no matter how much you shake my mind or what kind of schemes you have, I won’t believe half of your words again until this Shadow World is over!”
Adams once again followed through with his will, his voice unmistakably firm as he shouted to Ranch next door!
The more Ranch communicated with him the more he seemed haunted.
Ranch’s trap could be bypassed by eliminating emotion and thinking rationally.
Ranchi will only ever play mind games with you!
……
However next.
The Jera Memorial Plaza, which had just been raining arguments and crowds, seemed to have been cut off from sound by some invisible force at a certain moment.
The sound of raindrops that had originally hit the umbrellas and the ground, the students’ jokes and laughter, all disappeared, leaving only an intense silence.
Everyone failed to make a sound easily as they stared at each other with incredulous eyes at the open-air giant screen.
There didn’t seem to be anything different around them except for the continuous rain.
It was only in the viewer’s perspective of the screen–
Ranchi had literally disappeared.
This means that Ranch exits the Shadow World.
He’s conceded defeat.
“Ranch is he crazy?!”
“What’s he going to tell Dean Loren!”
The plaza was instantly in chaos.
The rain got heavier and heavier, and as the pouring rain hit the ground, forming splash after splash, the original silence was broken and replaced by various noisy sounds. They had never imagined that Ranch would play so big and then dryly point out the surrender!
Even if someone’s guess was that Ranch couldn’t win against Adams, they never imagined Ranch losing like this.
“That’s not right ……”
It wasn’t until a long period of clamor had passed that a student said hesitantly-
“Have you noticed, Adams this desperate look, he is now afraid that his heart is like steel, convinced that Ranchi is going to play psychological warfare with him to the end ……”
Many students looked up, only to see Adams in the picture still holding on hard in the dimly lit cold iron prison.
Every now and then a taunt was made towards the empty cell next door:
“Ranch, there’s no need to hold your voice, your acting is so clumsy!”
“Keep acting, it makes you look stupid.”
“Your psychological warfare can deal with the Sage of Destruction, but it can’t deal with me who will follow through on my beliefs.”
“……”
The students in the plaza fell silent once again.
Ranch lost easily, but Adams won magnificently.
He had been cheated so badly by Ranch.
Guess he’ll never come out until he’s stretched to the limit, Adams doesn’t believe in anything anymore.
This [Despair Piercing Cage] artificial shadow world would be tortured to death trying to make it to record breaking levels.
It was a challenge that surpassed the limit of human willpower.
After the challenge more or less, one would have to go to the hospital and lie down for a few days.
It’s hard to imagine what Adams’ mental state will be when he comes out and realizes that Ranch really did abandon the race early and he’s been fighting the air the whole time ……
“No, it’s not that simple ……”
Immediately another student who knew Ranch realized.
Adams was on the second level, they saw the third level, but Ranch’s plot was not that simple.
……
Learning and Education Building, seventh floor atrium.
This particular space was surrounded by towering glass walls, and despite the rain that was pouring down outside at the moment, a bright light was maintained throughout the space.
The world outside the windows became hazy as the rain continued to wash over the glass, making them blurry at times and clear at others.
The seniors of the Sage Academy in the atrium all sat quietly, their gazes focused on the huge magic screen on the wall.
When the screen showed Ranch disappearing from his prison, they all couldn’t believe that Ranch, who had high hopes from their Sage Academy, had just conceded defeat to Adams!
That is, until Ranch literally walked out from in front of the Void Gate at the Artificial Shadow World Activation Terminal, and he smiled with a look of shame, as if he had failed everyone’s high expectations because he had not learned his craft well.
But that smile made everyone understand.
This guy was definitely doing it on purpose!
Teacher Teresa jogged over to Ranchi’s side in immense surprise.
“Why did you just admit defeat, what should we do next ah? Tomorrow Dean Loren will be back!”
Teresa anxiously stopped Ranchi and asked.
How could she have never thought that Ranchi would lose so dryly?
Rancic, on the other hand, stopped with a calm expression.
“Do you think Dean Loren should go apologize to Knight Commander Juliana?”
He asked Teresa with a smile as he looked back at Adams, who was still languishing in prison on the screen.
That dark and desperate frosty prison was like hell and heaven apart compared to this seven-story atrium that stayed warm and bright even in the pouring rain, with Adams over there and Ranch over here.
“……”
Teresa looked at the screen and felt a lump in her throat.
It really didn’t matter if they won or lost this one.
Even if Ranch didn’t mention that bet.
He tortured Adams like this.
Dean Loren was afraid that he would have to go to Knight Commander Juliana to make amends in person.
Wait a minute.
Teresa lowered her head and pinched her fingers to calculate.
First Adams wins over Ranch as expected.
Then, if Dean Loren apologized for “Juliana’s students being tortured too much” ……
Knight Commander Juliana will receive a sincere apology from Dean Loren.
Ranch’s promise to Adams will be honored.
And then next.
According to the previous agreement between Ranch and Juliana – the third one is [If you can forgive him, he hopes that he can invite you to tour the royal capital and tell you many important things he wants to say from his heart].
Once Juliana accidentally forgave the sincere Loren.
Then the condition of “forgiving Loren” was fulfilled.
Ranch will then bring up this clause with Giuliana and demand that Giuliana honor her promise to date Loren.
Dean Loren would then be forced to fulfill a chain of conditions and start dating straight away!
The straight-laced Knight Commander Juliana would never renege on her debt.
It’s just a matter of what goes on in her mind as she goes on this date with a wraparound.
That’s hard to say.
Teresa had to admit that Ranch was a wizard, he could indeed give solutions to satisfy everyone’s demands, but he could also make it as hard as eating a fly every time.
The bastard had survived this long all because he was so good at what he did.
“Ughhh …… I have to take a vacation today, the family cat is sick and I have to take him to the doctor.”
Teresa said to herself and left with her hands in her pockets and her head down at a fast pace.
Slipped away slipped away.
She got off work early today and it was none of her business.
Hopefully Dean Loren would be okay when he came back tomorrow.
And the cat boss on the floor seemed to be coming around to understanding the status quo, caught up in the Cat Thinking Universe.
“??”
Its cat brain was a bit overloaded.
(End of chapter)