The monstrous three and the wild card (part 2)

Seeing Arthur's grim expression, Zein smirked.

"Did I perhaps rub salt on the wound?", he said as he drank the contents of his cup.

Arthur gritted his teeth before he ignored Zein and focused his attention back at the platform.

The other Half Emperors had different reactions, some remained silent while some laughed at Arthur's misfortune, there was a reason as to why Arthur hated Zein from the bottom of his heart.

He "killed" Arthur's confidence in an old partner he had, in other words one of his many night stands turned out to be Arthur's girlfriend, back when they were younger of course.

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Gerome felt a searing pain on his shoulder, he bitted his lips to contain the scream and tried to kick Michael to force him to let go, but his kick missed.

Michael simply left the dagger on Gerome's shoulder and took a step backwards before he drew out another dagger from his belt.