So when Lin Feiyu approached him after the trial—bruised, exhausted, but still carrying that stubborn hope—Kaito made a choice. Instead of warning him about the betrayals to come, he told him a half-truth.
He turned to Lin Feiyu and said, "I know how to beat Xue Tianming without losing anyone. But you're not going to like it." -Doujindesu.TV--Came-Into-The-Martial-Arts-Nove...
But he also remembered something else: in the original story, an unnamed extra dies in chapter 48. He's described in one sentence: "A young man in a gray hood, foreign and foolish, was the first to fall into the spider pit." So when Lin Feiyu approached him after the
When the Falling Leaf Trial began, Kaito didn't fight. He danced . He sidestepped pitfalls that hadn't yet triggered, ducked under swinging axes that others couldn't see, and walked through the spider pit by stepping on the exact three stones that wouldn't break. But you're not going to like it
"You know everything that will happen," the protagonist said quietly. "Do you know how you die?"
And then—nothing.
But Kaito was lying. He did know. In chapter 47, the unnamed extra in the gray hood died in the spider pit. But in chapter 48, a revised version he had read in a fan translation footnote—an alternate ending the author never published—the extra survived. He became a minor ally, then disappeared from the story entirely.
So when Lin Feiyu approached him after the trial—bruised, exhausted, but still carrying that stubborn hope—Kaito made a choice. Instead of warning him about the betrayals to come, he told him a half-truth.
He turned to Lin Feiyu and said, "I know how to beat Xue Tianming without losing anyone. But you're not going to like it."
But he also remembered something else: in the original story, an unnamed extra dies in chapter 48. He's described in one sentence: "A young man in a gray hood, foreign and foolish, was the first to fall into the spider pit."
When the Falling Leaf Trial began, Kaito didn't fight. He danced . He sidestepped pitfalls that hadn't yet triggered, ducked under swinging axes that others couldn't see, and walked through the spider pit by stepping on the exact three stones that wouldn't break.
"You know everything that will happen," the protagonist said quietly. "Do you know how you die?"
And then—nothing.
But Kaito was lying. He did know. In chapter 47, the unnamed extra in the gray hood died in the spider pit. But in chapter 48, a revised version he had read in a fan translation footnote—an alternate ending the author never published—the extra survived. He became a minor ally, then disappeared from the story entirely.