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 back as beads

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

"Damm it"

knew about his attack pattern and

knew them all. It seemed that whoever

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

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

to his fighting style they were. It was

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

few steps back and looking at the trio, Kevin let out

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

things were

-Vuam!

ranked pressure, Kevin's attacks became sharper and stronger whilst the trio's

jumped in the air and stepped on the sword

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

side of one of

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 at the other remaining two

his calves, Kevin's body

left, a red

sword coming in their direction, the black-clad individual on the left took a

the black-clad individual on the left was about to block Kevin's attack, Kevin forcefully twisted his

-Criiii

the right's sword, Kevin tossed his sword to his other hand and stabbed it towards the guy on the left whilst

-Baam!

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

attention towards the remaining black-clad individual, Kevin stabbed

-Clank!

thrust his sword

the slight glint in

-Spurt!

"Two"

-Clank!

the attack coming from

reappeared on the remaining black-clad individual's left flank and pierced

-Spurt!

"Three"

-Thud!

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

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

happening, he knew that something serious was currently happening outside

-Click!

"What's going on?"

his room, Kevin couldn't believe the sight

as the

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

metal clashing reverberated throughout the corridors of the first floor as

black-clad individuals appeared everywhere, attacking students from all sides as

"Kevin!"

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

them as her swords constantly clashed against

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

-Spurt!

black-clad individual, killing him instantly as

-Spurt! -Spurt! -Spurt!

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

...

-Spurt!

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

before Emma as he heavily panted for

"Huff..yes, thanks"

all over the place as she looked

where are the

"I don't know"

looked just as confused as

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

here were sons and daughters of very influential figures. Their deaths would put a heavy burden on the

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

Emma

were on

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!

of lights appeared before them as three black-clad individuals not so far from

turning her head and looking in the direction of where the arrows came

"Amanda!

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