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 beads

individuals before him,

"Damm it"

the trio was, they knew about his attack pattern and

the way he attacked and his habits, they knew them all. It seemed that whoever they were, they had done

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

and cleanly direct their attacks where he

more Kevin fought, the more he realized how adapt to his fighting style they were. It was almost as if they had

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

let out a long breath. Though

by now. However, that was only

now things were

-Vuam!

sharper and stronger whilst the trio's attacks started

in the air and stepped on the sword that came towards his left side, propelling

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

of the black-clad individuals, Kevin

off guard, the 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

-Spurt!

"One"

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

his calves, Kevin's body shot

left, a red glow slowly started emanating from Kevin's

the left took a defensive stance whilst the

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

-Criiii

hand and stabbed it towards the

-Baam!

Kevin, the black-clad individual on the right dropped

towards the remaining black-clad individual,

-Clank!

sword, Kevin thrust his

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 his head, piercing him

-Spurt!

"Two"

-Clank!

easily parried the attack coming from the other

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

-Spurt!

"Three"

-Thud!

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

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

of what was happening, he knew that something

-Click!

"What's going on?"

door and exiting his room, Kevin couldn't believe

floor as the

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

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

attacking students from all sides as absolute

"Kevin!"

Emma's distraught voice as she fought against multiple black-clad

around them as

losing due to their numerical advantage. This

-Spurt!

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

-Spurt! -Spurt! -Spurt!

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

...

-Spurt!

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

black-clad individuals, Kevin appeared before

"Huff..yes, thanks"

nodding her head, Emma's eyes darted all over the place as

where are the

"I don't know"

head, Kevin looked just

the professors would've already have come down to help them

a lot of the students here were sons and daughters of very influential figures. Their deaths would put a heavy

they still weren't

at Emma who seemed to have had the same thought

were on their

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!

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

direction

"Amanda!

was about to head in Amanda's direction, the sound of the air being sliced increased in frequency as more arrows