Inside the SSA.
While everyone was in shock at Meng's insane feat of learning sword intent, the thoughts in Rio's mind were completely different from everyone else.
'Ah, so that's why I felt that this guy seemed familiar to me… now I understand the name 'Qi Meng' sounded so familiar to me earlier…' (Rio)
When Rio read that particular novel in his previous life he never really thought too much about sidekicks and side characters and forgot about their existence very fast. Because none of the side-characters were properly developed.
Moreover, most of the side characters only appeared to praise Fade's achievements for one or two chapters, so they were easily forgettable, but there was one side character who was the most significant side character among them all, he appeared for a full three chapters in that 'three-thousand-chapter' novel. (It was still not completed even with three thousand chapters…)
