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

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

"Damm it"

about his attack pattern and the sword art

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

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

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 where he was

adapt to his fighting style they were. It was almost as if they

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

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

[Overdrive] by now. However, that

now things

-Vuam!

pressure, Kevin's attacks became sharper and stronger

stepped on the sword that came towards his left

at the bottom of his feet and stepped on

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

but it was to no avail as

-Spurt!

"One"

individual's back, Kevin stared at the other remaining

calves, Kevin's body shot in their

a

on the left took

left was about to block Kevin's attack, Kevin forcefully twisted

-Criiii

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!

body due to the heavy punch from Kevin, the black-clad individual on

towards the remaining black-clad individual, Kevin stabbed his

-Clank!

thrust his sword

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

-Spurt!

"Two"

-Clank!

from the other guy and kicked

foot, Kevin reappeared on the remaining

-Spurt!

"Three"

-Thud!

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

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

he knew that something

-Click!

"What's going on?"

couldn't believe the sight that

as the corpses of students and black-clad

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

of metal clashing reverberated throughout the corridors of the first floor as students could be seen

attacking students from all sides as

"Kevin!"

voice as she fought against multiple black-clad individuals with

perfect figure danced around them as her swords constantly clashed against their

the black-clad individuals, Emma was on the verge of losing due to their

-Spurt!

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

-Spurt! -Spurt! -Spurt!

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

...

-Spurt!

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

before Emma as he

"Huff..yes, thanks"

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

where are the

"I don't know"

Kevin looked just as confused as

with everything that was happening around them, the professors would've already have come down to help them as they wouldn't stand

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

with everything going on around them, they still weren't

at Emma who seemed to have had the same thought as

were on

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!

lights appeared before them as three black-clad individuals not

direction of where

"Amanda!

sound of the air being