It was certainly interesting. The situation had become another degree more complicated.
The scene the Clown had created was undoubtedly malicious.
It wasn't hard to see that Crystal and Amber—whether they were two wills or two backups of the same will—had a peculiar relationship.
But turning them into prime material for a wager still took a certain degree of insight.
What's more, the Clown had gone a step further by bringing Akasha, a troublesome character, into the mix.
She was both Crystal's "friend" and the Spider Silk Queen who occupied her friend's will. Their relationship had always been rather complicated.
He remembered that the last time he'd casually discussed the matter, Lady Crystal had nearly attacked him.
The same was true of this incident. Faced with the temptation of "freedom," one of them had wanted to take the risk of confirming Akasha's disappearance first.
The other had joined the team of masterminds and was making rapid progress, with a bright future ahead of her, yet had left an enigmatic egg on a former friend.
Akasha's attitude toward Crystal seemed just as complicated.
And the trouble with her sense of "self" was an old issue by now.
Was she Akasha or the Spider Silk Queen? The last time he'd asked her, she hadn't answered with much conviction.
Bringing a character like that into a confrontation between Crystal and Amber was a stroke of genius.
And now, in a situation this tangled, he had to guess who Akasha would help, not who would win.
"That really is a good idea. By the way, were you the one who brought Akasha into the team?"
Fu Qian didn't skimp on the praise. As the conversation went on, the villainy in the air was clearly escalating, and nobody cared about academic ethics.
"No. At most,