Inside the sea of consciousness.
"I told you… I would win this. No matter how many times you try to assert your own strength, I was always going to win…"
"After all, you are playing it alone… I have an entire team of friends behind me…"
Liam smiled with a smug look on his face as he moved the 'queen' chess piece forward on the board and placed it in a position where the opponent's king was directly checkmated.
Seeing this, the person sitting on the opposite chair slammed his hand on the table in anger as he lashed out at Liam!
"You are the greatest f*cking mistake of my life!!"
"If only you were better, I wouldn't have lost to that f*cker Ashtel!!!"
The person confronting Liam in a game of chess was none other than his own father, Neo Aldif, or more accurately, a remnant will of his that was still lingering in Liam's sea of consciousness until now.
"Once I genuinely used to believe that you cared about me… but after what you have done, I have no more respect for you…"
