Wisdom said an unfamiliar word that he hadn’t said out loud for a long time.

“Cousin?”

“Yes. He’s the son of my dad’s older brother.”

“I wasn’t asking because I don’t know what the word means. It’s just…”

“I know,” the player Jang-Wan, Choi Seo-Yoon, said. “It’s quite ironic for a coincidence.”

Wisdom nodded.

“Then there might be something to that.”

“What do you mean there’s something?”

“At first I thought all the players were picked randomly. But then I thought it was strange because Nebula and Hegemonia were both here. Even though they’re the first and second ranking players, that doesn’t mean they have a higher chance of being picked out of all the players. And apparently, Nebula happened to think the other way around.”

“The other way around?”

Wisdom moved his finger in a clockwise direction, but only half way around the circle.

“Before he met us, he thought the players summoned here were those who ranked from 1st to 27th.”

Jang-Wan bluntly said, “I knew it. He only ever thinks about himself.”

“Do you wish for me to agree with that?”

“...No, whatever.”

Wisdom’s head began to rotate round and round.

“Anyway, if it’s not completely random, but also not according to a particular rule, there’s a high chance that there’s another reason we are here. And based on...