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 of sweat dripped

black-clad individuals before him, Kevin couldn't

"Damm it"

his attack pattern and

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

no avail as whenever he attacked, his faints

and cleanly direct their attacks where he was most vulnerable, almost as if they knew where he was going

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

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

let out a long breath. Though he was in

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

now things

-Vuam!

Kevin's attacks became sharper and stronger whilst the trio's

stepped on the sword that came towards his left side,

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

side of one of the black-clad

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

-Spurt!

"One"

the black-clad individual's back, Kevin stared at the other remaining two individuals

calves, Kevin's body shot

on the left, a red glow slowly started emanating

the black-clad individual on the left took a

Kevin's attack, Kevin forcefully twisted his foot and redirected his attack

-Criiii

Kevin tossed his sword to his other hand and stabbed it towards the guy

-Baam!

Kevin, the black-clad individual on the right dropped his sword

the remaining black-clad individual, Kevin

-Clank!

thrust his sword again towards his

glint in Kevin's eyes as his sword continued making its

-Spurt!

"Two"

-Clank!

coming from the other guy

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

-Spurt!

"Three"

-Thud!

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

the bodies of the people that assaulted him, he

he knew that something serious

-Click!

"What's going on?"

exiting his room, Kevin couldn't believe the

floor as the corpses of

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

of the first floor as students could

from all sides as absolute mayhem shrouded the

"Kevin!"

out of his daze was Emma's distraught voice as she

danced around them as her swords constantly

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

-Spurt!

black-clad individual,

-Spurt! -Spurt! -Spurt!

his way. Along the way, he would help a couple

...

-Spurt!

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

Kevin appeared before Emma as he heavily

"Huff..yes, thanks"

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

where are

"I don't know"

his head, Kevin looked just as confused as

already have come down to help them as they wouldn't

influential figures. Their deaths

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

clenched his fists and looked at Emma who seemed to have had the

on

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!

three streaks of lights appeared before them as

looking in the direction of where the arrows

"Amanda!

in Amanda's direction, the sound of the air