I Became the Demon King of Lust

The fight between Blaze and Tammy went just the way that one would expect it to go.

It was a completely one sided fight.

However, Tammy did hold back to a certain extent that Blaze was able to do a few things and pick up a few things from the way that she manipulated her flames.

But it was also a large blow to his pride since it seemed more like a teaching spar rather than an actual fight in the tournament.

Still, there was no other way since Tammy completely outclassed Blaze.

She was already stronger than him in the first place since she was one of the favourites to win this tournament.

Then there was the fact that she had obtained the Inferno Gem, which just made her even stronger. With this Inferno Gem, she was leagues above who she used to be before coming to this tournament.

When it was over, at least it didn't seem like there were any hard feelings between them as they still shook hands.

At the same time, I could see that I didn't need to worry about Blaze since Kaito and Qin Yue Ru were going to comfort him.

However, it was funny seeing the two of them trying to cheer him up.

Kaito acted more like a lover than just a friend to Blaze with how he tried cheering him up that it made Qin Yue Ru reveal a very strange look. It was almost as if she was envious of the relationship between the two.

A small part of the expression on her face almost made it seem like she had been planning on taking advantage of this situation to put the moves on Blaze to see if they could get closer.

All I could do was cheer her on.

Or at least that was what I thought until Tammy suddenly came to our waiting room as well.

She didn't do this yesterday, but she suddenly came in front of me and said, "I won."

I didn't know what to say when she did this, but it looked like she was expecting something from me.

So after looking at her in a daze for a bit, I said, "Congratulations."

She seemed a bit disappointed at first, but then she said with a nod, "Just watch, I'll win tomorrow too."

I gave a nod to show that I wasn't doubting this.

At this point, it really seemed like Tammy would be the favourite to win this with the power that she demonstrated.

Even I didn't feel confident in fighting those flames with her after seeing how powerful they were.

Still, I didn't mind since I had already done enough in this tournament.

Perhaps I should just forfeit if I were to be matched with her.

But that didn't seem to be the case.

The other two matches weren't as exciting, but they were still matches in the round of eight, so they received a lot of attention. The ones that passed in those two rounds were Julius and Ares.

Ares, that was a name that seemed familiar, but it took me a while to remember.

Well, it actually took Alex reminding me to remember who this was.

This was one of the names that had been on the phone that Alex gave me.

He was also one of those that had been favoured to win this entire tournament, but since there were people that stood out more than him in each of the rounds, I had completely forgotten about him. But it seemed that Ares had been slowly making his way up and had even reached the final four.

This kind of ability couldn't be looked down on.

It was just that his skills with the draw really weren't good.

His luck was so bad that it had matched him with Tammy.

Since he was matched with Tammy, it meant that the one that I was matched with was Julius.

After he had made his draw, the two of us didn't even need to draw to know who we were facing.

Once that happened, Julius looked over at me with a smile.

It was strange seeing this smile since it almost reminded me of how Long Shui Ling had been acting this morning.

But that shouldn't be the case, right?

Why would Julius surrender when there was no reason for him to surrender.

Long Shui Ling at least did it because she wanted me to stand out, but Julius shouldn't feel the same way.

Still, I couldn't help feeling very strange because of the smile that he looked at me with.

As if to counter this feeling, I walked over to him in front of everyone and raised my hand out towards him while saying, "Let's have a good match tomorrow."

The moment that I did this, everyone looked at the two of us.

No one disliked a story like this.

Two competitors acting as rivals as they prepared for their fight, this was the kind of thing that they expected to see in a tournament like this. Your journey continues at empire

But to my surprise, Julius just said, "Why are you acting this way? I thought that we were close enough to be brothers already."

After saying this, he moved closer to me and wrapped his arm around my shoulder, really acting as if we were as close as brothers.

I could see the flashing of cameras around us as this happened.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

While there were those that enjoyed a rival story, there were also those that enjoyed a story of rivals becoming friends. Especially when they were from two large organizations that had power like Elementia and the Rothschild Family.

There would certainly be plenty more content to push out from them being friends than them having a fair fight as rivals.

I could already imagine what some of the headlines will be after this tournament.

But it wasn't as if I could just throw off that arm that was on my shoulder since I did want to be friends with Julius.

So all I could do was nod with a smile on my face.

It seemed that he had countered my trap with a trap of his own.