The Author's POV

Friday, 9:00 P.M.

Sitting on a bench waiting for the air train to arrive, I absentmindedly stared at my phone.

Looking through the files smallsnake sent me, a strange feeling welled up inside of me. The more I read the files, the stronger the feeling became.

「Galxicus - Information」

Guild grade :

[Bronze] [▼Silver] [Gold] [Platinum] [Diamond]

History :

Guild was established in 2045, with 10 years to its name. Currently graded as a silver ranked guild and is under command of current guild leader Ronald Dover ranked hero. Under his guidance, the guild was able to rise from a bronze-graded guild to a silver-graded one.

Current situation :

'”Financial distress [Debt - 95,000,000 U]

'”Risk of guild relegation [Silver ▷ Bronze]

'”Internal power struggle [Current guild master under heavy scrutiny by board members]

More information :

...

...

Looking through the information and after pondering for a bit, I somehow got the gist of what was happening.

After going through my phone, I found out that the three-year lock enrolment fee was 30,000,000 U.

To some, it may be spare change, but to regular people, it was an absurdly astronomical sum.

Prior to when I reincarnated, Ren's parents must've taken a 30 million U loan under the guild's name to finance 'Ren's' tuition fee for the lock.

After a long and heated debate, Ren's parents must've been able to convince the board to loan them 30 million U as a form of investment.

However, after Ren took the test and was judged to be a ranked talent by the lock, the guild executives must've started pressuring Ren's parents into paying back what they owed.

...As soon as they saw that Ren wasn't talented, they immediately ceased all formalities with their own guild master and took it as an opportunity to take over the guild.

The fact that they were withstanding such a heavy burden yet letting me attend the lock at the same time, went to show how much they loved me. Their 'son'

As I thought more about it, another question emerged in my mind.

What happened to the original Ren?

After thinking long and hard about it, my face became grim.

My current hypothesis was that after receiving his talent grading, he fell into a deep depression due to the guilt he felt towards his parents and chose to end his life, allowing me to take over.

...But this was just a hypothesis I came up with only the report as a reference.

home and assessing the situation more carefully, I could find more about the

to the story than the

...

9:15 P.M.

through the report a couple of more times, every second that the train wasn't here felt oddly agonizing. It was as if a part of me really wanted it to arrive

never met before so badly? It's not like they were my

longing for

quickly discarded such

love I felt from my parents back in my previous world, it shouldn't

Perhaps...

Right.

the previous Ren? What if this longing feeling I was feeling towards my

influence did the

slow rhythmical palpitations that would increase whenever I

...it hurt.

was the same feeling I felt whenever I thought of my

along those lines, it just didn't

started remembering the happy days I spent with my family back in my previous world. When everything wasn't as fucked

flooding down like

"Fuuu..."

that had slightly reddened, I closed my eyes and tried my best to hide the tears that were threatening to fall

you doing to me

...

Lock square

pleasant voice resounded across the

quick glance at my surroundings before choosing a seat

seat next to the window, I

calming down, my thoughts became

don't know what went over me back then, I knew that the previous Ren had something to

had still not fully died and a small

he wasn't and it was just my

course of action. If by chance I was forced to do something I didn't want to do due

Lock square '”

deep thought, the voice coming from the train

-Clank!

▷ Northen District, Veril

-Vuuuuam!

air, the air train slowly picked up speed and headed

had a cumulative population of 50 million

centralized area in the human domain, it

It was massive.

city was divided into

Eastern District, Western District, and

reason why they were split that way was

under the jurisdiction of one of the four Diamon

Hunter ▷ Southern

Starlight Guild ▷

Black Hammer ▷

Eclipse of Dawn ▷

that kept humanity in check, they still

power centralized and keep guilds satisfied at