2025-08-16 01:21:20Chapter 59: "The Coward's Gambit — Offer Beyond the Gate of Blades"
"Are we seriously going to fight her?" Ryan muttered, dragging a hand through his tousled hair, his tone a twisted mixture of disbelief and resignation. His mouth curled into a crooked grin, a sliver of humor breaking through the tension. "Sphinx, I'm buying us time. Get Anubis ready. Teach him that thing — you know the one."Sphinx's ears twitched, her fur bristling slightly. Confused for a heartbeat, she tilted her head, but recognition clicked in her golden eyes. Ryan always had a plan — ridiculous, suicidal, or brilliant — and this smelled like one of those.The odds? Slim. The hope? Thinner. But sometimes, the best victories were etched from fragments of desperation.Ryan stepped forward, cracking his knuckles. “Don’t you know how to go easy on your juniors, Noelle?”Noelle's stare didn’t waver. Her long blade gleamed under the gray morning sun, Dioki lightly ripplin
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