"Shadow Heaven One said it. He also said that if you hadn't colluded with Fool's Wharf, I would have left the Illusory Sea long ago. You forcibly kept me here because you wanted to use me to help you unify the Illusory Sea and fulfill your ambitions. Besides, whether you can unify the Illusory Sea is the key to their game. Because if I leave and the Illusory Sea is destroyed, you will lose this game as well."
The latter part was a possibility I had thought up on the spot. I was bluffing him.
But his expression changed. Still, he did not directly answer my question. Instead, he said, "No matter what, Mr. Jiang cannot simply leave. After all, so many people in the Illusory Sea are living lives, aren't they?"
What he said was exactly the same as Jiang Ziyan's reasoning.
It seemed he had also figured out my temperament.
He also knew how to make me willingly step into the game.
"You can actually order Fool's Wharf around? Or is Fool's Wharf also part of the estate?"
I frowned.
He said, "Fool's Wharf does have some connection to our estate, but it is absolutely not a part of it. Even you, as the estate's owner, could not make them listen to you. Do you think I could command them?"
"Oh? So Fool's Wharf and the estate are not on the same side?"
"The same side? Oh, no, Mr. Jiang, perhaps you have forgotten the most important point: the matter of the estate's owner. You are the estate's third owner, while the game you speak of is a game between the first two owners. And this kind of game is not a matter of guns against guns or cannons against cannons. They have turned the entire Illusory Sea