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..."

attacks, Kevin took a few steps

three black-clad individuals before him,

"Damm it"

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

them all. It seemed that

Kevin continued to pressure the trio but it was to no avail as whenever he attacked, his

made things worse for Kevin, was that whenever they counterattack they managed to precisely and cleanly direct their attacks where he was most vulnerable, almost as if they knew

he realized how adapt to his fighting style they

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

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

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

things were

-Vuam!

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

attacks coming from the right, Kevin jumped in the air and stepped

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

his body to the other side of one of

to no avail as Kevin's figure disappeared and reappeared right behind

-Spurt!

"One"

back, Kevin stared at the other remaining two individuals in

body shot

on the left, a

individual on the left took a defensive stance whilst

attack, Kevin forcefully twisted his foot and redirected

-Criiii

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!

black-clad individual

towards the remaining black-clad individual, Kevin

-Clank!

his sword again towards

black-clad individual did not notice the slight glint in Kevin's eyes as his sword continued making its way towards his head,

-Spurt!

"Two"

-Clank!

Kevin easily parried the attack coming from the other guy and kicked him

back to avoid Kevin's foot, Kevin reappeared on the remaining

-Spurt!

"Three"

-Thud!

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

people that assaulted him, he could

knew that something serious was currently happening outside of his

-Click!

"What's going on?"

his room, Kevin couldn't believe the sight that

the whole first floor as the corpses of students and black-clad

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

throughout the corridors of the first floor as students could be seen

appeared everywhere, attacking students from all

"Kevin!"

of his daze was Emma's distraught voice as she fought against multiple black-clad individuals

danced around them as her swords constantly clashed against

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!

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 by the black-clad

...

-Spurt!

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

individuals, Kevin appeared before Emma as

"Huff..yes, thanks"

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

where are the

"I don't know"

head, Kevin looked just as confused

them, the professors would've already have come down to help them as they wouldn't stand there and just watch their students

daughters of very influential figures. Their deaths would put a heavy burden on the lock, therefore, there was no way they wouldn't

on around them, they still weren't

fists and looked at Emma who seemed to have had

were on

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!

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

looking in the direction of where the arrows came from, Emma

"Amanda!

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