The Author's POV

"Is that him?"

"Did he really get injured over such a simple mission?"

"He really does look weak"

Aimlessly walking around the mansion, I ignored the whispers and stares coming from some of the students that I passed along the way.

Yesterday night, after completing the mission, I returned to the mansion all battered up. My whole arm was bleeding profusely and my clothes were all torn.

Though I didn't pass out, to the people who saw me return, it looked as if I had been through hell.

Because I had some notoriety, news of my battered state spread across all of the students...and soon I became the hot topic of the first years.

Because the missions that we got were not a secret from the other students, after a bit of digging, people immediately found out who my target was and news of me getting beat up by a ranked individual spread across the academy.

...in the end, this resulted in me becoming the butt of the jokes of the first years.

'Weakling'

'Loser'

'Trash'

Walking along the corridor, I was called all sorts of defamatory names by everyone that saw me.

On a normal day, I would've grumbled and cursed at the people talking crap about me, but today...

Staring at my hands, I recalled the moment when my sword reaped through the lives of multiple people at once.

'...I killed'

I didn't sleep throughout the whole night.

Right now to the people around me I probably looked like a lifeless corpse that was aimlessly wandering around the mansion.

My mind kept replaying the moments where I reaped through the lives of the four bodyguards.

...I could vividly recall Karl's pleading face as he begged for me to spare him.

"Fuuuuu..."

Letting out a long breath and staring at the ceiling of the corridor, I tried to calm my mind.

What had happened already happened.

...There was no going back.

I had killed and I needed to move on...

This wasn't going to be the only time, and it sure as heck wasn't going to be the last time.

This was the path that I had chosen for myself and thus had to take responsibility for my decisions.

Moreover, there was something more important I needed to worry about.

'The massacre of Hollberg'

The second big event in the first arc of the novel.

Tomorrow at 9:45 P.M, the last day of the trip, when everyone was sleeping, an organized attack will happen.

Though their primary targets were Kevin and the others, the other weaker students weren't spared from their pursuit.

...Meaning that I was also not safe.

Though I decided not to interfere, I needed to prepare myself for what was to come.

Placing my hand on my chin, I fell into deep thought.

First things first...I needed to memorize the whole building blueprint.

well as attract the least amount of attention. The reason why I needed a good view of what was happening was so

want another incident like the one with

the mysterious book with me. With it, I could more or less tell if something outside of the norm was

deviated from the plotline happened, it was my job to prevent it at

I needed to quickly recover from the

potions, they couldn't heal all my injuries that quickly. Especially since my whole shoulder had been pierced and my

full day to

now, the whole of my right hand hurt like hell. Just the slightest movement and I would get an electrifying pain coursing through my body. Though

I needed to

to be put through another

...I just couldn't.

hands to tremble uncontrollably. I was not ready

already decided that for tomorrow I would use [Monarch's indifference] throughout the whole

after killing for the first time yesterday did I realize how many

I was too emotional.

I had killed someone, the thought of what future lay ahead of me and how many more lives I would take made me question my

I right? Was everything that I was

my mind

to go before being able to confidently stand up against demons and

of all my distracting thoughts, I quickly headed to my room

to be the longest two days of my

...

-Bang! -Bang! -Bang!

"Huff...huff..huff"

an extremely handsome individual stood in the middle of the room heavily panting for

in sweat, and his

-Gulp!

a potion and recovering some of his stamina, the young individual quickly dashed

"Die! Die! Die!"

-Bang! -Bang! -Bang!

spread throughout the room as

the dummies, the young individual laid on

hard and

am

night the mission was assigned, Jin couldn't help but feel a massive wall standing before

if a wall that he couldn't climb was standing

find any

Kevin that much more

just accept the fact that Kevin was better than

"Damm it..."

-Bang!

fist hard, Jin punched the

as good as his, I have access to the best resources and facilities! This should be enough for me to

orphan and had nothing managed to

He couldn't accept it.

was no way he could

-Gulp!

of his energy, Jin immediately downed

you

-Bang!

of the training dummies he once again started training until

repeated continuously until his fists

after passing out from overworking himself

...

old wooden tables and boards, two stunningly beautiful young girls sat

stunning girls that had short creamy brown hair looked at the girl in front of

Amanda, did you notice something strange

Emma, Amanda frowned for

"No"

"Really?"

a bit,

"Maybe it's just me..."

discomfort. She constantly felt as if someone was

the end, she could only