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 back as beads

the three black-clad individuals before him,

"Damm it"

trio was, they knew about his attack

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

avail as whenever he attacked, his faints would

managed to precisely and cleanly direct their attacks

he realized how adapt to his fighting style they were. It was almost as if they had been

were coordinating perfectly with each other, defending exactly where his true sword intent showed up and attacking exactly when he

back and looking at the trio, Kevin let out a long breath. Though he

the situation was, Kevin would've already used [Overdrive] by now. However,

now things

-Vuam!

his ranked pressure, Kevin's attacks became sharper and stronger whilst the trio's attacks started to become

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

at the bottom of

of the black-clad

himself, but it was to no avail as Kevin's figure disappeared and reappeared right behind him, piercing him straight into the

-Spurt!

"One"

stared at the other remaining two individuals in the

body shot in

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

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

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

-Criiii

and stabbed it towards

-Baam!

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

black-clad individual, Kevin stabbed

-Clank!

thrust his sword

did not notice the slight glint in Kevin's eyes as

-Spurt!

"Two"

-Clank!

easily parried the attack coming from the other guy and

avoid Kevin's foot, Kevin reappeared on the remaining

-Spurt!

"Three"

-Thud!

the last black-clad individual, Kevin frowned

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

that something serious was currently happening outside of

-Click!

"What's going on?"

the door and exiting his room, Kevin couldn't believe

across the whole first floor as the corpses of students

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

first floor as students could be

all sides as absolute mayhem shrouded the whole

"Kevin!"

voice as she fought against multiple black-clad individuals with her short

them as her

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!

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

-Spurt! -Spurt! -Spurt!

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

...

-Spurt!

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

black-clad individuals, Kevin appeared before Emma as he

"Huff..yes, thanks"

darted all over the place as

going on? where are

"I don't know"

head, Kevin looked just as

with 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 watch their

a lot of the students here were sons and daughters of very influential figures. Their deaths would put a heavy burden on the lock, therefore,

them, they still weren't here. That only

that far, Kevin clenched his fists and looked at Emma who seemed

on

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!

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

her head and looking in the direction of where the arrows

"Amanda!

the sound of the air being sliced