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..."

blocking the attacks, Kevin took a few steps back as beads of

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

"Damm it"

the trio was, they knew about his attack

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

as whenever he

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

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

other, defending exactly where his true

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

Kevin would've already used [Overdrive] by now. However,

things

-Vuam!

became sharper and stronger

stepped on the

at

body to the 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

-Spurt!

"One"

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

Kevin's body

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

left took a defensive stance whilst

left was about to block Kevin's attack, Kevin forcefully twisted his foot and redirected his

-Criiii

on the right's 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

-Baam!

individual on the right dropped his sword and held

his attention towards the remaining black-clad individual, Kevin stabbed

-Clank!

his sword

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

-Spurt!

"Two"

-Clank!

attack coming from the other guy and

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

-Spurt!

"Three"

-Thud!

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

the bodies of the people that assaulted

knew that something serious was currently happening outside of

-Click!

"What's going on?"

couldn't believe the

resounded across the whole first floor as the corpses of students and

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

corridors of the first

students from all sides as absolute mayhem shrouded the whole first

"Kevin!"

his daze was Emma's distraught voice as she

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

-Spurt!

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

-Spurt! -Spurt! -Spurt!

from 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 he

"Huff..yes, thanks"

darted all over the place as she looked

where

"I don't know"

Kevin looked just as confused

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

were sons and daughters of very influential figures. Their deaths would put

them, they still weren't here. That

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

were on their

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!

Emma and Kevin out of their thoughts, three streaks of lights appeared before them as three black-clad individuals not so far from where they were standing fell on

in the direction of where the arrows came

"Amanda!

to head in Amanda's direction, the sound of the air being sliced increased in