"I..."
Zack straightened, his gaze nonchalant. Though Charles had found him, he wasn't worried. He was the stronger, and he had also decided to disregard the storyline.
Thanks to Skyler, everything had gone to hell. He wasn't naive enough to think the story would unfold as written with such a significant variable entering the picture.
Charles' fate had also been dramatically altered. He, who should have met a tragic end, had not only entered the academy but also the Battle Royal, a place he was never meant to enter after the preliminary test.
Actually, there were good reasons Zack wanted to follow the original storyline. The most important of them was that he wanted Max to do the same as he did in the original storyline because there were certain things only the protagonist could do in this world.
