Chapter 194: The King's Return, The Final Battle

The city was a chessboard, and Oswald Yale, for the first time in years, was playing as the king. Not the figurehead to be protected, but the most powerful piece on the board. The casual, laid-back persona had been shed like a skin, leaving behind the cold, diamond-hard core of the man known only as 'Ace' in the world's darkest corners. His apartment, once a symbol of his quiet, new life, had transformed into the nerve center of a war. His voice, devoid of its usual teasing warmth, cut through...