Only They Knew: The Arbiter's Postmortem

"Cough, cough—cough!"

He had said too much in one breath and looked like he was about to die, coughing uncontrollably for a long while.

Thankfully, the Arbiter had withdrawn that lethal light, allowing his Gluttony ability to rapidly repair him. Otherwise, how could he possibly still be able to speak?

The four God-tier figures above all looked toward him. Joy was the most shaken, and suddenly her body trembled.

She recalled the condition Sin had added at the last minute when the Arbiter explained the rules at the beginning of the game.

—As long as the game's result had been confirmed, one could choose not to explain the reason for victory.

Since the reason for his victory was the greatest weapon allowing him, a human, to defeat the strong while weak, it was perfectly reasonable that he did not want to tell anyone.

But didn't that mean... he had already figured out how to win before the game had even begun?

And it had actually played out according to his script.

But that was utterly unreasonable. That was not something anyone could accomplish!

This game's format was incredibly peculiar—word chains. Changing even a single word could make everything completely different.

Not to mention that Haglingmo was something that did not exist on Blue Star, something he could not possibly have known about.

And before the game began, he could not possibly have anticipated that Xie Antong and she would suddenly appear and join his game.

This was a game with countless variables, completely impossible to predict! Yet...

So this was the weapon of the mind you spoke of before... and that was why you didn't want anyone to know how you won?

Joy spoke with some difficulty. Her expression was unusually grave, and she even felt a measure of wariness