From all the signs he had listed, Kain could confirm that Faith was one step ahead of him. He had extended invitations to Tolimus and Pegasus to form an alliance, using the exact deductions and conditions Kain himself had formulated.
In other words, Kain's perfect winning strategy had been ruined.
On the surface, Faith pretended that "Kain is still caught up in the spy game, so I'll maintain it to keep Kain locked in that cage." But secretly, he was executing a different winning strategy.
If Kain still thought that Faith's trump card was the spy Elna planted in his team, he would surely lose.
Though Kain had already escaped this cage and was playing a fair game of chess against Faith.
Indeed, even though his winning strategy had been ruined, in the shadows of the arena's architecture, Kain smiled, as if the current situation was exactly what he wanted.
Everything... was within his calculations.
"Captain, we've received alliance invitations from two teams now, this is..."
