Life at the Top

“Have you seen whalers at sea?”

Fabian patted Conrad’s shoulder and continued meaningfully, “Whalers first find the whale, then follow it until it grows tired. They attack the moment it gets distracted.

“Whalers only get one chance to attack, because the moment they fail, an irked whale will capsize the entire boat and flee into the deep waters.

“We’re like whalers. The moment we attack, we aim to kill.

“I know of the processes and plans that you’ve used against Jasper before. You made the mistake of being too careful with all sorts of buildup and traps, but they all proved to be useless. Rather, you’ve only caused him to be wary of you.

“Hence, there are only two steps to my attack. The first, I hit his confidence hard. Then, I’ll follow it with the ultimate move right after. After all that, it’ll be time for us to taste the fruits of victory.”

Conrad fell deep in thought when he heard Fabian.

After a long while, he nodded. “Perhaps you’re right.”

“Then I look forward to working with you, hahaha.”

…

Waterhoof City, at the beach.

Jasper frowned as he aimlessly walked along the landscape route with Henry following beside him blankly.

The latter would glance at Jasper from time to time, yet, Henry did not disturb him when he saw that the other was still thinking.

used to Jasper’s occasional strange expressions, since the man always managed to find a lead within a messy haystack

Fabian leave Harbor City recently?”

“I don’t think so.”

the first time I’ve seen you so cautious about someone. Does he

or person easily from how the latter always acted.

I look like

are capable people. If I can’t understand that, then death is right around the

have met Fabian, but do

supporter, he asked cooperatively,

“A venomous snake.”

narrowed his eyes

rarely attacking. However, the

proper preparations, I’ll likely die from just one bite. To be frank with you, I really don’t want to be

laughed out loud. “You got that right. This man really is a venomous snake that will go to any lengths to get what

flow of Harpoon River. “We already know that Fabian’s contacting my past enemies and they’re going to team up to

or even who exactly Fabian has contacted. We have too little

We can’t make our move until we’ve

that we are forced to take

and spoke up whilst standing

we can do about that. After all, they know everything about us, but we know nothing of them. It’s not like we can run over to Harbor City to ask them

Jasper’s suggestion. “I don’t see