First Move, and They Really Became Brothers

Only now did the Arbiter understand that from the very beginning, Sin had known it was impossible to defeat Knowledge in a game of knowledge. He had never fantasized about defeating a god.

But when a road was blocked, he would choose another path and keep going.

Before this game had even begun, his target had been the Arbiter. Perhaps he had coveted the Arbiter for even longer.

Perhaps ever since he had started calling the Arbiter his brother again and again before the gods?

The Arbiter had no physical form, yet at this moment, a chill seemed to run through every part of their consciousness. How had they become prey in the eyes of a human?

After all, although they possessed one of the greatest powers in the entire universe, in terms of personal will, they were practically like a newborn infant.

Now that they thought about it, everyone in this game had been assigned a fitting role by him.

When he had first played little games with Knowledge, he had constantly provoked them, making them raise the stakes while disrupting their judgment.

His methods of victory had all been beneath contempt. Knowledge would certainly refuse to accept it, perhaps even look down on him, believing that Sin merely had a bit of cleverness.

He needed someone powerful enough to hold Knowledge's attention, so that the game could continue even in his absence. That was why Xie Antong was here.

He needed another sufficiently powerful figure to serve as his imagined enemy in this game, so he had brought Despair in long ago, muddying the waters further.

He also needed a "presence to converse with," so that words openly spoken for the Arbiter to hear would be mistaken by others as being addressed to someone else. That was why