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..."

a few steps back as

before him, Kevin couldn't

"Damm it"

they knew about his attack pattern and

knew them all. It seemed that whoever they were, they had done their research on him

was to no avail as whenever he attacked, his faints would easily get read by

they managed to precisely and cleanly direct their attacks

adapt to his fighting style they were. It was

the point that they were coordinating perfectly with each other, defending exactly where his

the trio, Kevin let out a long breath. Though he was

used [Overdrive] by

things were

-Vuam!

became sharper and stronger whilst

air and stepped on the sword that came towards his

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

of the black-clad individuals,

tried to defend himself, but it was to no avail as

-Spurt!

"One"

back, Kevin stared at the other remaining

Kevin's body shot in their

towards the black-clad individual on the left, a red glow

Kevin's sword coming in their direction, the black-clad individual on the left took a defensive stance whilst

block Kevin's attack, Kevin forcefully twisted his foot and redirected his attack towards

-Criiii

on the right's sword, Kevin tossed his sword to his other hand and stabbed it towards the guy on the left whilst simultaneously using his fist to punch the

-Baam!

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

black-clad individual, Kevin stabbed his sword in

-Clank!

Kevin's sword, Kevin thrust his sword

did not notice the slight glint in Kevin's eyes as his sword continued making its way

-Spurt!

"Two"

-Clank!

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

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

-Spurt!

"Three"

-Thud!

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

to check the bodies of the people that assaulted him, he could hear a commotion outside of

of what was happening, he knew that something serious was currently happening

-Click!

"What's going on?"

the door and exiting his room, Kevin couldn't

the whole first floor as the corpses of students and black-clad individuals could be seen

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

throughout the corridors of the first

individuals appeared everywhere, attacking students from all sides

"Kevin!"

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

perfect figure danced around them as

the black-clad individuals, Emma was on the verge of losing due to their numerical advantage. This

-Spurt!

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

-Spurt! -Spurt! -Spurt!

way. Along the way, he would help a couple of students who were

...

-Spurt!

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

killing multiple black-clad individuals, Kevin appeared before Emma as he heavily

"Huff..yes, thanks"

over the place as she looked at all of

going on? where

"I don't know"

Kevin looked just as

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

influential figures. Their deaths would put a heavy burden on the lock, therefore, there was no way they

around them, they still weren't here.

far, Kevin clenched his fists and looked at Emma who seemed to have had the

were on

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!

of their thoughts, three streaks of lights appeared before them as three black-clad individuals not so far from where they were standing fell

and looking in the direction

"Amanda!

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