Chapter 205: Chapter 205: Strange Mind Game, Competition Over!

"What? Worried? Me?"

Xie Antong’s mind didn’t quite register it at first, then she gave a bitter laugh and said:

"What would I be worried about him for? Like it’s my place to worry about him."

"You deciding to focus your main force on him—he might actually want to thank you for it."

Xie Antong’s last shred of reason told her: the side effects had definitely kicked in.

A self-destructive impulse made her feel like giving up, so she just sat down in the other party’s domain without any defenses—just resting like that.

To delay the symptoms a bit, she started talking non-stop, trying to drown out the voices in her own head.

But this sudden shift—from dangerous combat just moments ago to now giving up completely—happened to hit Chiyo Eine’s biggest mental weak point.

This has to be a trap, right?!

"You know him well?"

"Know him?" Xie Antong’s eyes went momentarily blank.

"At this point, the whole world probably wants to know him. But no one actually does. All anyone can do is guess based on past data."

"From your perspective, it was always going to center around him anyway. The Sun’s condition makes him barely mobile—it’s clearly not sustainable. Maybe give it a bit more time and he’ll fall apart on his own....."

"If you want to win, you’ll have to gather all your strength and see if you can take him down."

Chiyo Eine had been thinking the same. She nodded, her expression growing complicated.

In her sight, that woman in the helmet suddenly tilted her head back and lay down!

Right in the middle of the Black Water field. Right on this wide-open battlefield. She actually just laid down?!

Chiyo Eine: ......

This woman’s mind is too sinister... when she saw I wasn’t taking the bait, she just kept showing more weaknesses.

Xie Antong lay flat on the ground, staring up at the darkness overhead, trying her best not to cry.

Tch... crying at a time like this would be way too embarrassing!

"Heh... when everything is revealed—all the conspiracies, strategies, decryptions, and competition—it all comes down to one decisive battle in the end....."

"I really am just too weak. So much for omniscient, all-powerful... what a joke......"

Hearing her muttering from a distance, Chiyo Eine was completely speechless.

Why was this woman—who had tangled with her so fiercely—now calling herself useless over and over again……

Then what did that make Chiyo?

Do all Huaguo folks insult others in such roundabout ways?

Staring at the nearby Xie Antong, Chiyo Eine's expression turned complicated. Finally, she asked something that Xie Antong never could have expected.

"What’s your cooperation model with Sin? Do you like him?"

Xie Antong: ?

She instantly sat up from the Black Water, staring at Chiyo Eine.

"Who do you say I like? What’s going on in your head? We’re not even in any kind of cooperation! He framed me from the very beginning."

Then, her gaze gradually turned dazed.

"If anything, I should hate him......"

Thinking back to the two times they’d met—the gut-punch of his words after the first game, and then the second time when he beat her...

The only emotions he ever triggered in her were fear, tension, and wariness.

When Xie Antong said she didn’t like him, Chiyo Eine quietly let out a breath of relief in her heart.

She continued,

"But it’s obvious your dynamic is different."

"Out of the three of you, it’s clear you two are the ones on the same team. It’s like you’ve known each other from the beginning."

"That whole Perfect Completion standoff between Sun and him—it’s obvious you sided with him more than Sun."

"Also, claiming you two aren’t cooperating is a stretch. When you parted, you gave him an Earpiece to share locations. Nobody gave a d*mn about Sun......"

Xie Antong stared blankly, sitting in place, her brain going offline again.

She was already emotionally unstable from wave after wave of feelings—now she was spiraling into an identity crisis.

After finally escaping her boring family, entering high school, that one slightly strange boy had stood out to her.

Now, after this Chosen’s Game started, even though she didn’t know him, she found herself watching the world’s strongest more than anyone.

It even felt like her connection with Lu Ce had faded!

In that moment, she totally forgot about the fact that being in the game all the time made communication impossible—and that Lu Ce was deliberately avoiding her. She started gaslighting herself.

She tilted her head back and lay down again, slowly closing her eyes.

So that guy was right about me... way back in the first game......

Heh......

Whatever. So tired. Can this Black Water just drown me or something......

Chiyo Eine had no idea what was up with her, but she knew what she had to do now—end this battle!

More than ninety Players had been eliminated for various reasons! Even Reno’s elimination announcement came through quickly—so Chiyo Eine decided not to wait.

If she waited any longer, her stamina wouldn’t hold.

All targets unified—Sin!

And at that moment, Lu Ce was already slaughtering at full power and speed.

After receiving Xie Antong’s final intel, Lu Ce—though almost devoid of reason—relied on Greed’s instinct and madness to know what to do.

He kept expanding outward from his location. The hotspots Xie Antong had pointed out were ones he’d already locked down earlier—he was eliminating them at maximum efficiency!

Maybe it was Xie Antong’s words that worked—he didn’t even have time to farm Pain Points. His priority was weakening enemy power as much as possible.

Now, his kill count had already exceeded that of the far-off Merciless Scorching Sun.

And in his senses, many Entities incapable of entering a state of madness were running around the city, spreading something.

Under Chiyo Eine’s final command, all Divine Creations had locked onto one target. No more hesitation—they all turned their heads in one direction!

And Lu Ce felt it!

A twisted, terrifying grin split across his Blue-painted face, and his laughter echoed across Tokyo’s night sky.

Pointing toward the distant Sun, he burst out laughing:

"I knew it, I knew it!"

"Guess I’ve got great people skills—even that friend is willing to help me. I suppose this is payback for sparing their life?

Our competition is over."