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..."

blocking the attacks, Kevin took a few steps back as beads of sweat dripped from

the three black-clad individuals before him, Kevin

"Damm it"

trio was, they knew about his attack pattern and the sword art

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

to pressure the trio but it was to no avail as whenever he attacked, his faints would easily get

counterattack they managed to precisely and cleanly direct their attacks

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

defending exactly where his true sword intent showed up and attacking exactly

few steps back and looking at the trio, Kevin let out a long

already used [Overdrive] by now. However, that was only

now things were

-Vuam!

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

one of the attacks coming from the right, Kevin jumped in the air and stepped on the sword that came towards his

air, Kevin channeled wind psyons at

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

no avail as Kevin's figure disappeared and reappeared right behind him, piercing him straight

-Spurt!

"One"

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

his calves, Kevin's body shot in their

black-clad individual on the left, a red

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

attack, Kevin forcefully twisted his foot and redirected his attack

-Criiii

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 guy on the right

-Baam!

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

black-clad individual,

-Clank!

Kevin thrust his sword again towards his

glint in Kevin's eyes as his sword continued making its way

-Spurt!

"Two"

-Clank!

Kevin easily parried the attack coming from the other

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

-Spurt!

"Three"

-Thud!

from the body of the last black-clad individual, Kevin frowned

he wanted to check the bodies of the people that

what was happening, he knew that something serious was currently

-Click!

"What's going on?"

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

the corpses of students and

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

first floor as students could be seen fighting for their lives

black-clad individuals appeared everywhere, attacking students from all sides as absolute mayhem shrouded

"Kevin!"

Emma's distraught voice as she

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

-Spurt!

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

-Spurt! -Spurt! -Spurt!

a shura from hell, Kevin hacked and stabbed everyone in his way. Along the way, he would help a couple of students who were on the verge

...

-Spurt!

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

black-clad individuals, Kevin appeared before Emma

"Huff..yes, thanks"

all over the place as

on? where are

"I don't know"

Kevin looked

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

daughters of very influential figures. Their deaths would put a

with everything going on around them, they still weren't here. That

fists and looked at Emma who seemed to have had

were on their

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!

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

turning her head and looking in the direction of where

"Amanda!

the sound of the air being sliced increased in frequency as more arrows continuously shot out from Amanda's