The Author's POV

-Click!

Closing the door behind him, Ren stood in front of the door.

The room was dark, and apart from his breathing, no other sound could be heard.

Standing in front of the door, Ren looked at the narrow corridor that led to the living room of the small apartment.

-Click!

Turning on the lights whilst keeping an eye on the living room, Ren slowly took off his shoes.

Though he couldn't see the whole living room due to the corridor narrowing his line of sight, Ren knew that hiding inside of the living room were assassins waiting for him to enter.

Looking left and right, Ren summoned his sword and channeled his mana towards the tip of his sword.

"Oof, I am so stuffed. I can barely move, guess I'll quickly head to bed"

Making small talk at the entrance of the room, a translucent ring slowy formed in front of him.

-Voom!

As soon as the ring fully formed, Ren pushed it forwards.

Slowly, the ring moved towards the living room.

-Shua! -Shua!

As soon as the ring crossed the corridor and entered the living room, two black-clad silhouettes appeared out of nowhere and attacked the ring.

-Crack!

Breaking into a million particles, the ring scattered in the air.

Staring at the particles scattering in the air for a split second and noticing something wrong, the two silhouettes immediately turned towards the entrance of the room.

-Tap -Tap -Tap

Appearing from the other side of the living room, Ren's indifferent figure walked out.

Expressionesly looking at the two black-clad individuals, Ren took a stance as a white glow emanated from his body.

Nodding towards the two silhouettes, Ren placed his hand on the grip of his sword

-Click!

The second movement of the [Keiki style] : Horizon splitting slash

-Vuam!

As if a bolt of lightning had descended, a bright light illuminated the room and a horizontal white streak of light appeared on the necks of the two silhouettes.

Before the silhouettes could make out what was happening, they felt their world turn upside down as they slowly saw their headless bodies standing upright before them.

-thud! -thud!

-Click!

Removing his hand from the sword, Ren apathetically walked towards his room, ignoring the two heads rolling on the floor.

Along the way, his shoulder twitched a couple of times, but he ignored it.

Though his injury still wasn't fully healed, with the effects of [Monarch's indifference], he could ignore the pain that was coursing through his shoulder.

Heading towards the nightstand next to the bed, Ren opened the drawer and took out a red leather book.

Deactivating [Monarch's indifference] to save mana, Ren felt his emotions return to him.

"khhhh..."

As his emotions returned, Ren's face repeatedly changed as he felt his shoulder twitch uncontrollably.

Taking a minute to suppress the pain, Ren opened the red book and read through its contents.

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

Surrounded by three black-clothed individuals, Kevin swiftly moved around his apartment hacking at them with his sword whenever he saw an opening.

-Clank!

"khhh..."

Parrying Kevin's sword, one of the black-clad individuals signaled to the other two people to attack at the same time.

Noticing their sign, Kevin forcefully twisted his body and defended against two attacks coming from his left and right side.

-Clank! -Clank!

"khhh..."

Kevin took a few steps back as beads of sweat dripped from his

black-clad individuals before him, Kevin couldn't help but

"Damm it"

trio was, they knew about his attack pattern and the

knew them all. It seemed that whoever they

continued to pressure the trio but it was to no avail as whenever he attacked, his faints would easily get read by them. Blocking whatever he threw

was that whenever they counterattack they managed to precisely and cleanly direct their attacks where he was most vulnerable, almost as if they knew where he was going to

his fighting style they were. It was almost as

they were coordinating perfectly with each other, defending exactly where his true sword intent showed

back and looking at the trio, Kevin let out a

by now.

things were

-Vuam!

sharper and stronger whilst the trio's attacks started to become more sluggish

of the attacks coming from the right, Kevin jumped in the air and stepped on the sword

in the air, Kevin channeled wind psyons at the bottom of his feet and stepped on the

his body to the other side of one of the black-clad individuals, Kevin

black-clad individual tried to defend himself, but it was to no avail as Kevin's figure disappeared and reappeared right behind him, piercing him straight into the

-Spurt!

"One"

sword from the black-clad individual's back, Kevin stared

calves, Kevin's body shot

the black-clad individual on the left, a red

the left took a defensive stance whilst the other black-clad individual

Kevin forcefully twisted his foot and redirected his attack towards the guy on the

-Criiii

stabbed it towards the guy on the left whilst simultaneously

-Baam!

punch from Kevin, the black-clad individual on the right

black-clad individual, Kevin stabbed his sword in

-Clank!

Kevin's sword, Kevin thrust his sword again

notice the slight glint in Kevin's eyes as his sword continued making its way towards his

-Spurt!

"Two"

-Clank!

attack coming from the other guy and kicked him

back to avoid Kevin's foot, Kevin reappeared on the remaining black-clad individual's

-Spurt!

"Three"

-Thud!

the last black-clad individual,

the bodies of the people that assaulted him, he could hear

what was happening, he knew that something

-Click!

"What's going on?"

his room, Kevin couldn't believe the sight that laid ahead of

whole first floor as the corpses of students and black-clad

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

the corridors of the first floor as students could be seen fighting for their lives

attacking students from all sides as absolute mayhem shrouded the

"Kevin!"

daze was Emma's distraught voice as she fought against multiple black-clad individuals with her short

danced around them as her swords constantly clashed against

the black-clad individuals, Emma was on the verge of losing due to their numerical advantage. This was shown by how her movements were becoming more sluggish by the

-Spurt!

Kevin hacked towards the nearest black-clad individual, killing him instantly as his sword disappeared and

-Spurt! -Spurt! -Spurt!

in his way. Along the way, he would help

...

-Spurt!

"Huff..huff...you okay?"

black-clad individuals, Kevin appeared before

"Huff..yes, thanks"

eyes darted all over the place as she looked at all

going on? where

"I don't know"

Kevin looked

that was happening around them, the professors would've already have come down to help them as they wouldn't

deaths would put a heavy burden on the lock, therefore, there was no way they wouldn't be

they still weren't here. That

far, Kevin clenched his fists and looked at Emma who seemed

on their

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!

and Kevin out of their thoughts, three streaks of lights appeared before them as three black-clad individuals not so far

turning her head and looking in the direction

"Amanda!

the sound of the air being sliced increased in frequency as