“Because there was only the dead, and the living. But most times, the dead had seemed to live, as the living wanted to take its place.”
CHAPTER LI: A Battle Against the Evil Nymph; This Is Either We Win or We Will Vanish Forever (Part I)
THERE WAS THAT time before when I was told to give up on a game even though I had not been defeated yet. It was what they called an advance surrender. You must surrender before admitting defeat, because people used to live like that. They hated accepting they lost. Or maybe, it was just a smarter way to do it. No genius would want to uselessly finish a game even though they had already seen what was coming — unless it was for the purpose of humiliating someone.
I have heard enough about it before. And
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