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

at the three black-clad individuals before

"Damm it"

the trio was, they knew about his attack

seemed that whoever

he attacked, his faints would easily get read by them. Blocking

things worse for Kevin, was that whenever they counterattack they managed to precisely and cleanly direct their attacks where he was most

Kevin fought, the more he realized how adapt to his fighting style they

exactly where

looking at the trio, Kevin let out a long breath. Though he was in a bind, he

used [Overdrive] by now. However,

things were

-Vuam!

attacks became sharper and stronger whilst the trio's

and stepped

body in the air, Kevin channeled wind psyons at the bottom of his feet

the other side of one of the black-clad individuals, Kevin hacked

guard, the black-clad individual tried to defend himself, but it was to no avail as

-Spurt!

"One"

black-clad individual's back, Kevin stared at the other remaining two individuals in the

calves, Kevin's body shot

the black-clad individual on the left, a red glow slowly started emanating from Kevin's

the black-clad individual on the left took a defensive stance

as the black-clad individual on the left was about to block Kevin's attack, Kevin forcefully twisted his

-Criiii

stabbed it towards the guy on the left whilst simultaneously using

-Baam!

body due to the heavy punch from Kevin, the black-clad individual on the right dropped his sword and held his

remaining black-clad individual, Kevin stabbed his sword in

-Clank!

Kevin thrust his sword

the sword to be redirected to his heart, the black-clad individual did not notice the slight glint in Kevin's eyes as his sword continued making its way towards

-Spurt!

"Two"

-Clank!

easily parried the attack coming from the other guy and kicked him

remaining black-clad

-Spurt!

"Three"

-Thud!

from the body of the last black-clad individual, Kevin frowned and immediately headed towards the

that assaulted him, he could hear a

he knew that something serious was currently happening outside of

-Click!

"What's going on?"

and exiting his room, Kevin couldn't believe

whole first floor as the corpses of students

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

of the first floor as students

all sides as absolute mayhem shrouded the

"Kevin!"

Kevin out of his daze was Emma's distraught voice as she fought against multiple

perfect figure danced around them as her swords constantly

her own 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

-Spurt!

in Emma's direction, Kevin hacked towards the nearest black-clad individual, killing him instantly as his sword disappeared and reappeared on

-Spurt! -Spurt! -Spurt!

everyone in his way. Along the way, he would help a couple

...

-Spurt!

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

individuals, Kevin appeared before Emma as he heavily panted

"Huff..yes, thanks"

over the place as she looked at all of the battles

on? where are the

"I don't know"

his head, Kevin looked just as confused

already have come down to help them as they wouldn't stand there and just

had to be noted that a lot of the students here were sons and daughters of very influential figures. Their deaths would put a

they still weren't here. That only meant

fists and looked at Emma who seemed to have had the same

were on

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!

lights appeared before them as three black-clad individuals not so far from where they were

and looking in the direction of where the arrows came

"Amanda!

of the air being sliced increased in frequency as more arrows