"Luckily, that was how I finally learned the truth about your ability!"
Rita, radiating an icy chill, pointed at Mo Yi with one hand and said,
"The last time, you stopped time and moved me beneath the stairs, didn't you, Mo Yi?!"
She had not been able to figure it out before, and the incomprehensible unknown had bred a suffocating terror. Now that she knew the answer, much of Rita's fear had dissipated. Of course, she still needed to verify it herself and stand before Mo Yi once more, facing him again, before she could truly overcome the fear left behind by the past.
Mo Yi: "..."
He had not expected her to discover the truth because of that.
But it did not matter.
"Oh ho, even if your guess is correct, so what?"
Mo Yi looked down at Rita beneath the stairs and smiled.
"Do you want another match with me, Teacher Rita?"
Mo Yi: True invincibility was when you knew exactly what was going on, yet still could not beat your opponent.
"Of course. But this time, I'm not acting in my own name."
As she spoke, Rita took something from her clothes. It was a golden puzzle piece bearing the pattern of an eye.
If Mo Yi was not mistaken, that was the symbol of a Millennium Item from the King of Games setting. Combined with the shape of the fragment, the answer was obvious: the Millennium Puzzle!
At that moment, Mo Yi roughly understood what was happening. So she was an opponent sent by True Kiana.
True Kiana had previously said she would prepare some items to prove the identities of her subordinates. Gathering them all would count as passing the test, and they would guide them to her location. He had not expected the item