"Only an invitation?"
Ren Yu keenly caught the key point of the conversation.
"Yes. Bishop only instructed me to make sure you were invited into the game. He did not mention anyone else."
"However." Rita glanced at Ren Yu before adding,
"If the Anti-Entropy Alliance Leader and Miss Wadeline came as well, Bishop would not mind playing a few rounds with her."
"Whether she came or not, I don't know either." Ren Yu shook his head.
Rita neither denied nor confirmed it, merely smiling.
No one would believe Ren Yu's words.
So many people from Anti-Entropy had come, yet their Alliance Leader had not?
They simply had not noticed her.
As he was pondering this, a voice came through Rita's earpiece again. Rita gave a slight bow. "Then, I shall see you tomorrow evening."
Tomorrow happened to be the finals of the King of Gamblers Competition, as well as the day the ship was due to arrive in Singapore.
With that, Rita truly left, leaving only the bewildered Kiana and Ren Yu behind.
Kiana had long since been unable to hold herself back. She complained, "Assistant Teacher, what were you talking about just now? How come I didn't hear a single word?"
"You didn't hear it?"
"What do you mean?" Ren Yu asked.
"At first, I could still hear a sentence or two, but then the sound suddenly disappeared. All that was left was you and that maid moving your lips."
Ren Yu turned and looked at Sie questioningly.
But she, too, nodded lightly.
In other words, the conversation between him and Rita had been blocked?
To keep Kiana from hearing it?
After thinking it over, Ren Yu decided not to tell her the truth and made up an excuse on the spot.
"Oh, it was nothing. She came to