Someone He Held Dear In His Heart

Ever since Claude experienced Thirteen's barbed tongue, he always paid attention to the teenage boy's movements, having recognized the young man as a future threat for his family.

Unfortunately, he couldn't silence him just yet since the latter still had a role to play in the upcoming Cygni Invasion.

"You'll get your just desserts someday," Claude muttered before making a gesture for one of his subordinates to execute the mission he had assigned to him earlier.

Currently, they were tasked to make sure that everything would go smoothly. Of course, this tournament would not be as simple as the tournament in the previous years.

While the Ashford Clan didn't plan to kill anyone, that didn't mean that there could be no "accidents" during the phase of the elimination rounds.

Of course, whether these accidents were real accidents, or not, no one would ever know until it happened.

The Ashford Clan's ambition had now shifted from Pangea to Solterra.