"What are you talking about, punk? Heh. How could I just go easy on someone when it's about billiards?"
Leo was immediately agitated when he heard Fane’s words, shooting a glare toward him.
"The f*ck you talking about? Won't I be able to tell if he was going easy on me?"
Timothy also spoke in a huff, "I'm a pretty good player!"
Yet Fane replied with a mirthless smile," It's precisely because he went easy on you that you can't tell. His angle was off ever so slightly on purpose when he struck the ball, and pretended he almost pocketed a ball. He only needed to go easy once or twice during a game to allow you to win.
Besides, you said it yourself-you're a pretty good player!"
Here, Fane paused for a while before continuing in a leisurely tone," Furthermore, I think you've thought about why he would go easy on you, Young Master Drake. Would you still play with him if he never went easy on you, and if you kept losing ten rounds out of ten games? Of course, he would need to let you win a few rounds to let you savor the happiness of winning a bet! But it's obvious that overall, you lose more than you win. Let's say that you lose more than one billion bucks today, he'll probably let you win 20 million bucks the next day. Haha!"
Timothy's expression darkened when he heard that. It was because he realized that whatever Fane said was true. Furthermore, Fane had never seen them play billiards before.
However, even after he had carefully thought about it, he still could not see how Leo had gone easy on him.
"What sh*t are you talking about! It's just m y bad luck that I lost more, that’s all.
Sometimes I'm really just slightly off my game!"
Naturally, Timothy did not want to admit that he was a worse player compared than Leo. It was because he felt that he was already pretty skilled at the game, and was almost on par with Leo. If Leo truly went easy on him quite frequently, did that not mean that his friend was far, far stronger than him?
He would rather believe in Leo and the others than to lose face in this matter. Besides, Fane had no evidence to support his claims. He was just being ostentatious. I t was possible that Fane was just trying to
draw a rift between them, and so he said something like that.
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