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..."

took a few steps back as beads of sweat

black-clad individuals before him, Kevin couldn't

"Damm it"

his

that whoever

whenever he attacked, his faints would easily get read by them. Blocking whatever he threw

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

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

coordinating perfectly with each other, defending exactly where his true sword

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

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

now things were

-Vuam!

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

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

at

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

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

-Spurt!

"One"

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

body shot in

towards the black-clad individual on the left, a red glow slowly started emanating from

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

forcefully twisted his foot

-Criiii

it towards the guy

-Baam!

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

individual, Kevin stabbed his

-Clank!

Kevin thrust his sword

not notice the slight glint in Kevin's eyes as his sword continued making its

-Spurt!

"Two"

-Clank!

around, Kevin easily parried the attack coming from the other guy and

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

-Spurt!

"Three"

-Thud!

the body of the last black-clad individual, Kevin frowned and immediately headed towards the exit of

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

that something serious was currently

-Click!

"What's going on?"

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

curdling screams resounded across the whole first floor as the corpses of students and black-clad individuals could

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

first floor as students could be

attacking students from all

"Kevin!"

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

figure danced around them as

of losing due to their numerical advantage. This was shown by how her movements were becoming more sluggish

-Spurt!

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

-Spurt! -Spurt! -Spurt!

he would help a couple of students who were on the verge of getting killed by the black-clad

...

-Spurt!

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

Kevin appeared before

"Huff..yes, thanks"

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

where

"I don't know"

Kevin looked just

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

deaths would put a heavy burden on the lock, therefore, there was no way they wouldn't

them, they still weren't here. That

Emma

were on their

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!

Kevin out of their thoughts, three streaks of lights appeared before them as

her head and looking in the direction of where the arrows

"Amanda!

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