Chapter 218: Beyond Expectations × and × Within Them
When Hasuto walked out of the room, Joey's clone followed him out under the cover of Mirage.
Dealing with Hasuto would have been all too easy for Joey's clone. Even though Hasuto had awakened Nen, the gap in their strength was simply immeasurable.
But Joey's goal was to drive Hasuto into Room 10, so the best method he could think of was to use kitchen knives to cut off Hasuto's escape routes.
He had learned this approach from Palm!
Hasuto's counterattack was within Joey's expectations. He could even have denied Hasuto the chance to draw his gun.
But he deliberately staggered his timing, letting Hasuto's gunshots draw more attention for him.
That would better expose the problem in Room 10.
Everything went just as Joey had calculated. With throwing knives blocking his path forward, Hasuto had no choice but to slam into the sealed door of Room 10.
As he struck the door, the guard soldiers stationed outside the Prince's Rooms ahead turned their eyes toward him. The doors of two Prince's Rooms even opened, and personal guards emerged.
Those two Prince's Rooms were precisely the areas occupied by the Ninth Prince and the Sixth Prince.
Hasuto could feel the pressure behind him, and he could not help shouting, "Help!"
Meanwhile, Joey's clone, disguised as Bellerente, acted as though he were completely controlled, calling out in a fairly loud voice, "I was asked to do this."
Everything looked familiar to the people who had emerged from the two areas.
Not long ago, an attack just like this had taken place in this very corridor, and the attacker that time had been one of the First Prince's personal guards.
That incident had also seemed connected to Room 12.
Although the man who