686 BROAD VIEW (1/2)
After Jovan left, Jimmy shut the door and locked it. He slowly and casually walked to the center of the meeting room where Lucky and others were sitting silently. Jimmy knew that they all were waiting for his arrival. So the room was completely in a silent state.
Jimmy looked at everyone and asked, ”What do you think, Grandfather?”
Ram thought for a moment and said, ”If this was happening in the Chaos World, then I would have definitely suspected this? But since we are in the Astral World, I don't know what to think about it?”
”Hmm! I agree with you.” ,Jimmy replied, ”I definitely feel something is off.”
”What is so off about it?” ,Lucky who didn't understand, asked in confusion, ”I don't find anything suspicious about this competition.”
”Remember every events that occurred with us since we entered the Solar City.” ,Jimmy started to explain, ”We entered the Solar City. Jovan was at the registration counter. We registered for the citizenship in the Solar City. Jovan was very strict with us that time which wasn't weird in any way. He brought us to our temporary house where we are still living at the moment. Everything was fine the first day. But the things started to change since the second day.”
Jimmy continued, ”I heard Jovan to be an ass licking person. He would always care about his political position. In order to gain higher seat, he would always lick the boots of his superiors. He makes friendship with those people who might be helpful for his future. He would neglect people and maintain cold attitude towards people who are not useful for him. I even heard a situation where Jovan once followed a person who was the son of someone who had the potential to become the City Lord. But that candidate who was supposed to be the next City Lord was assassinated before he could become the City Lord. And the son of that person couldn't become the next City Lord because of the political drama. Since that person has no longer any use for Jovan, Jovan started to neglect him. He even started to criticise him by saying that he was the son of a loser!”
Jimmy continued, ”If this is what Jovan's character is, then it is understandable if he tried to build friendship with us, when we had a higher political status. But do we have any political background in the Astral world?”
Lucky and others remained silent. Because the answer is obvious. There is no need for anyone to answer it.
Jimmy took a deep breath and continued, ”And after three months of our stay here, Jovan came once again as usual but leaked information to us about this competition. It wouldn't have been anything weird if next year would be the completion of hundred years of term and the time for the next competition. But it's been just thirty years since the completion of the previous tournament. There was still seventy more years left for the next term for the tournament. And yet this conduction of this tournament is too sudden. And the rules were slightly changed as well. Unlike the last time, this time, it became mandatory for each and every cultivator to participate. Why?”
”It was too much much of a coincidence.” ,Dick said.
”That's right. It's very big coincidence.” ,Jimmy said, ”But why should we believe in coincidence? I feel that someone is setting us up deliberately. Or to be more precise, they are trying to test our capabilities! Hence, they started this competition much earlier than the scheduled time.”