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.

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

was more to the story than

...

9:15 P.M.

felt oddly agonizing. It was as if a part of me really wanted it to arrive and quickly send me to

I want to meet people that I had never met before so

I perhaps longing for

discarded

yes I did want to once again feel the love I felt from my parents back in my previous world, it shouldn't be to the point where I would start longing for it from strangers that I've

Perhaps...

Right.

contained the emotions of the previous Ren? What if this longing feeling I was feeling towards my new family was due to

did the previous Ren have

feel the slow rhythmical palpitations

...it hurt.

same feeling I felt whenever I thought of

to think along those lines, it just didn't

I spent with my family back in my previous world. When everything wasn't as fucked up as

memories came flooding down like a dam that

"Fuuu..."

eyes and tried

doing to me Ren? and

...

square '”

pleasant voice

the train, I took a quick glance at my surroundings before choosing a seat on

a seat next to the window, I took out my earbuds and played some

calming down, my thoughts became more

back then, I

he had still not fully died and a small part

wasn't and it was just my imagination, I wasn't

I hoped it wouldn't influence my future course of action. If by chance I was forced to do something I didn't want to do

Lock square

in deep thought, the voice coming from the train

-Clank!

square ▷ Northen District, Veril

-Vuuuuam!

the air train slowly picked up speed and

city had a cumulative population

the human domain, it naturally

It was massive.

city was divided into

Southern District, Eastern District, Western

were split that

apart from the Northern district, every other district was under the jurisdiction of one of the four Diamon graded guilds present

Hunter ▷

Guild ▷ Central

3. Black Hammer ▷

of Dawn ▷ Eastern

the union and the central government were the main powers that kept humanity in check, they still allowed the top four

power centralized