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Blaine, who wanted to hit me the most, used a red mana blast to hit everyone around me. Not even the members of his alliance were spared from his attack.

"Hey! What are you doing!?? Didn\'t we have an agreement not to attack one another!??"

I had made myself intangible for a second and had dodged the attack. Blaine\'s attack wiped out three people, and the alliance between the five teams was about to crumble.

"But you\'re helping the team by harming them, aren\'t you?"

Blaine, the heartless person he is, made a mistake that even he hadn\'t noticed. He riled up the people of his alliance, and the attack on us stopped.

"The only thing that you\'re helping is yourself! A loser like you has no right to make us act like cannon fodder!"

Not only did they stop attacking me, but the frogman and his team went and shot some dark green liquid toward the hated devil.

I looked at my team, checking if they were alright. Nene wasn\'t harmed, but Jasmine, on the other hand, had been injured.

Since they\'re now fighting, why don\'t I let them fight? There\'s no harm in retreating.

"You shitty devil race! I should have never trusted you!"

Blaine and his team were now getting swarmed. I grabbed Nene and Jasmine out of the field. The people knew I had fled, but they didn\'t care. They just wanted to deal with Blaine and his team.

I took a glance at the other two teams that were fighting. Claire\'s team had won, but she was the only person left from her team.

"Are you both doing fine?"

"Not a scratch on me, Master~!"

"I could be doing better..."

From what Nene had said, she was doing fine. Jasmine was harmed, but the injuries she had taken were manageable.

The three of us were out of the fight, and I used my skill to observe them. Blaine had one of his team members wiped from the field while two others lost.

Currently, it is seven against two. Blaine himself was holding well against the other team. I wouldn\'t be surprised if he were the strongest person in this game, aside from me.

I could see why he was prideful. He probably never lost to anyone near his age. But now that he has joined this game, he has been taking L\'s left and right. No wonder why his emotional intelligence is equivalent to a donkey.

"Let\'s go back in. Jasmine, you stay. We don\'t want you to get hurt anymore."

"Sorry, but I can\'t do that. Even if I\'m useless, I should be able to grab the attention of others."

Jasmine was the type of person that would complain a lot to their boss. But she was reliable when she needed to be.

"Then let\'s go back once the fight reaches its climax."

"Master~! I love it when you do that to me~!"

"..."

[Third Person POV]

"Looks like you need to teach your disciple some common sense. He\'s bound to make enemies everywhere else."

Angus said as he was spectating the match. Blaine was the only one left in the battle, with four people left.

It wasn\'t looking so good for him. There were only so many people he could fight. He will lose the fight if this goes on.

"That won\'t be possible. She lacks as much common sense as her disciple."

"There\'s no way for her to teach something she doesn\'t have."

"No common sense, huh??? You have no right to say that! Don\'t you remember what happened a few years back, Midget?"

"That day when you played against a criminal and made a bet! You lost him and freed him. Remember him?"

"He then bombed your house! That\'s the funniest thing I have ever seen! HAHAHA!"

People were laughing at the story. What Amanda said was true. Linsey got too invested in a game and lost. Not only did she free the criminal she had captured, but she got her home bombed by freeing them.

"Oh yeah! I also remember something from a while back! Do you remember the last time you found a boyfriend?"

"Shut up!"

Just as Linsey was about to speak, Amanda screamed in anger. She recalled that memory was something that she last wanted to remember.

Angus decided to step in when Amanda was about to attack. Everyone who knew about that incident thought that Linsey took it too far.

"Amanda, cool down for a bit. And Linsey, don\'t provoke her anymore."

The place was silent because of the awkward mood. Not wanting to make this weird, everyone looked at the competition.

Amanda listened to Angus leave the room, trying to regain her calm.

Blaine would lose any time soon in a battle against four against one. Everyone watching could see this. He was on his last feet.

"DON\'T THINK YOU\'RE GOING TO TAKE ME DOWN WITHOUT LOSING!!!"

On the verge of losing, Blaine made his final move. Gathering all the mana he could get around his body, he attempted to self-destruct.

This party wasn\'t supposed to be that serious. So Agnus took everyone near Blaine and teleported them back to the party room.

He then knocked Blaine out cold. With him down, the mana that he got together had dispersed. The competitors that fought Blaine let out a sigh of relief. They felt the mana around Blaine about to explode.

Even if they were to band together, they knew they wouldn\'t have the power to stop it. The four people could have died if Agnus hadn\'t stopped Blaine from exploding.

There were now only two teams left. Charles\'s team had a team of three, and Claire\'s team was by herself.

Everyone knew that Linsey\'s team would win for today\'s party. But they were still curious about how Claire herself will tackle this situation.

"Linsey. It looks like your team won."

"Of course, they would. I wouldn\'t have picked them if they wouldn\'t."

"You should keep the boy safe. I feel that something big will happen to him in the near future."