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 back as beads of sweat dripped from

individuals before him, Kevin couldn't help

"Damm it"

about his attack pattern and the

the way he attacked and his habits, they knew them all. It seemed that whoever they were,

it was to no avail as whenever he attacked, his faints would easily get read by them.

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

the more he realized how adapt to his fighting style they were. It was almost as if they

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

trio, Kevin let out a long breath. Though he was in a bind, he

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

now things

-Vuam!

and stronger whilst the trio's attacks started to become more

the air and stepped on the sword that came towards his left side, propelling his body

Kevin channeled wind psyons at

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

to defend himself, but it was to no avail as Kevin's figure disappeared and reappeared right

-Spurt!

"One"

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

Kevin's body shot in their

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

direction, the black-clad individual on the left

black-clad individual on the left was about to block Kevin's attack, Kevin forcefully twisted his foot and redirected his attack towards the guy on the right, catching

-Criiii

to his other hand and stabbed it towards the guy on the left whilst simultaneously using his

-Baam!

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

remaining black-clad individual, Kevin stabbed his

-Clank!

thrust his sword

redirected 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 head, piercing him straight through

-Spurt!

"Two"

-Clank!

attack coming from the other

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

-Spurt!

"Three"

-Thud!

black-clad individual, Kevin frowned and immediately headed towards

bodies of the people that assaulted him, he could hear a

unsure of what was happening, he knew that something serious was currently happening outside

-Click!

"What's going on?"

the door and exiting his room, Kevin couldn't

screams resounded across the whole first floor as the

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

reverberated throughout the corridors of the first floor as students could be seen fighting for their lives

from all sides as absolute mayhem shrouded the whole

"Kevin!"

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

danced around them as

Emma was on the verge of losing due to their numerical advantage. This was shown by how her

-Spurt!

black-clad individual,

-Spurt! -Spurt! -Spurt!

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

...

-Spurt!

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

black-clad individuals, Kevin appeared before Emma as he

"Huff..yes, thanks"

gasping for breath and nodding her head, Emma's eyes darted all over the

on? where

"I don't know"

his head, Kevin looked just as confused as

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

lot of the students here were sons and daughters of very influential figures. Their deaths would put a heavy burden on the lock, therefore, there was no way they wouldn't be here right

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

and looked at Emma who seemed to

on

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!

and Kevin out of their thoughts, three streaks of lights appeared before them as three

direction of where the arrows came

"Amanda!

Amanda's direction, the sound of the air being sliced increased in frequency as more arrows continuously shot out from Amanda's