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

black-clad individuals before him, Kevin couldn't help but

"Damm it"

his attack pattern and

attacked and his habits, they knew them all. It seemed that whoever they were, they had done their research on him and had come

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

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

his fighting style they

exactly where his

at the trio, Kevin let out a long breath.

would've already used [Overdrive] by now. However, that was only if it was about

things were

-Vuam!

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

stepped on the sword

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

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

guard, the black-clad individual tried to defend himself, but it was to no avail as

-Spurt!

"One"

black-clad individual's back, Kevin stared at

body shot in

left, a red glow slowly started

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

forcefully twisted his foot and redirected his attack towards the guy

-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

towards the remaining black-clad individual, Kevin stabbed

-Clank!

sword, Kevin thrust his sword again towards his

in Kevin's eyes as his sword continued

-Spurt!

"Two"

-Clank!

parried the attack coming from the other guy

on the remaining black-clad individual's

-Spurt!

"Three"

-Thud!

his sword from the body of the last black-clad individual,

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

what was happening, he knew that something serious was currently

-Click!

"What's going on?"

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

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

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

corridors of the first floor as students could be seen fighting

everywhere, attacking students from all sides as absolute mayhem

"Kevin!"

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

perfect figure danced around them as her swords constantly clashed against

hold 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 becoming more sluggish by the

-Spurt!

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

-Spurt! -Spurt! -Spurt!

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

...

-Spurt!

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

appeared before Emma as he heavily

"Huff..yes, thanks"

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

on? where

"I don't know"

looked just as confused

speaking 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

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

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

at Emma who seemed to

on

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!

of lights appeared before them as three

her head and looking in the direction of where the arrows

"Amanda!

of the air being sliced increased in frequency