Both Sides Brawled, Fighting to Their Hearts' Content

When Ji Yan realized something was wrong, he looked up at the Initial Player in the center of the table.

The boy tilted his adorable, vacant-looking face and flashed Ji Yan a brilliant smile. "It's starting~"

The next second, he flickered like a projection. At the instant he vanished, a figure passed through him and charged straight at Ji Yan.

It was M!!

Ji Yan's expression changed. He swiftly grabbed a dinner plate from the table and smashed it into the man's face.

Bang—

Ceramic shards exploded everywhere. M raised an arm to block them, his eyes vicious as he gripped a fork and thrust it toward Ji Yan's throat.

Ji Yan ducked, but the cold fork stabbed into the back of his shoulder, tearing three bloody gashes through his flesh. Scalding blood sprayed out as Ji Yan gritted his teeth and rolled beneath the table.

Pain!

For the first time, Ji Yan felt pain—pain so intense that his entire body trembled!

Listening to the commotion outside, Ji Yan clenched his teeth, braced against the table, and heaved it over.

The overturned table forced the three White Chess Players back a few steps, temporarily creating distance. Ji Yan turned to Xu Xin and saw blood streaming from her shoulder as well. The fabric over it had been torn open, the vivid red against her pale skin painfully glaring.

Blood dripped onto the floor and vanished with eerie speed.

Or rather—

It was more like the floor was rapidly... drinking it dry?

Ji Yan's gaze swept across the dining table, searching for anything he could use as a weapon, but all the knives and forks had been taken by the other side.

They had known from the start that this was how the game would be played!

They had obtained information