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..."

the attacks, Kevin took a few steps back

at the three black-clad individuals before him,

"Damm it"

they knew about his attack pattern and the

he attacked and his habits, they knew them all. It seemed that

no avail as whenever he attacked, his faints

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

fighting style they were. It was almost as if they had been trained precisely to counter

exactly where his

at the trio, Kevin let out

considering how difficult the situation was, Kevin would've already used [Overdrive] by now. However, that was only if it was about a

things were

-Vuam!

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

air and stepped on the sword that came

wind psyons at the bottom of his feet

of one of the black-clad individuals, Kevin hacked his sword towards his

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

-Spurt!

"One"

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

his calves, Kevin's body shot in

individual on the left, a red glow slowly started

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

Kevin forcefully twisted his foot and redirected his attack

-Criiii

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

-Baam!

individual on the right dropped his sword and held

towards the remaining black-clad individual, Kevin stabbed his sword in

-Clank!

thrust his sword

the slight glint in Kevin's eyes as

-Spurt!

"Two"

-Clank!

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

on the remaining black-clad individual's left flank and pierced

-Spurt!

"Three"

-Thud!

from the body of the last black-clad individual,

people that assaulted him, he could hear a commotion outside of his

being unsure of what was happening, he knew that something serious was currently happening outside of

-Click!

"What's going on?"

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

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

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

of metal clashing reverberated throughout the corridors of the first floor as students could be seen fighting for

from all sides as absolute mayhem shrouded the whole first

"Kevin!"

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

figure danced around them as her swords constantly clashed

against the black-clad individuals, Emma was on the verge of losing due to their

-Spurt!

nearest black-clad individual, killing him instantly as his

-Spurt! -Spurt! -Spurt!

stabbed everyone in his way. Along the way, he would help a couple of students who were

...

-Spurt!

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

before

"Huff..yes, thanks"

head, Emma's eyes darted all over the place as she looked at all of the battles happening around

going on? where

"I don't know"

his head, Kevin looked just

that was happening around them, the professors would've already have come down to

students here were sons and daughters of very influential figures. Their deaths would put a heavy burden on the lock, therefore, there was no way they wouldn't be here right

on around them, they still weren't here. That only meant

and looked at Emma who seemed to have

on

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!

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

her head and looking in the direction

"Amanda!

of the air being sliced increased in frequency as more arrows continuously shot out from