The Author's POV

"I'm done Nola, come here"

Smiling, I waved at Nola in the distance and urged her to come to me.

"Um"

Nodding her little head, putting the phone away, Nola ran in my direction.

"Up"

Lifting her into my arms, I smiled and pointed towards the playground in the distance.

"Let's go play"

"Yes!"

Walking towards the playground, although I was smiling, that was merely a facade I put on since Nola was with me.

My mind was in a current state of turmoil.

After 'politely' conversing with the two individuals, I found out a few things.

First off, the long-haired guy's name was Simon Perk and his father was a relatively influential person inside of a bronze-graded guild. The guy next to him was called Greg Topaz and he was his childhood friend as well as bodyguard.

...The reason why they knew me was because the old Ren and they, used to attend the same middle school.

Fermin middle school.

One of the top middle schools in the northern district.

However, from what I've uncovered from my 'talk', the previous Ren Dover was a social outcast.

It wasn't like this before, but after a series of events, he became an outcast. This probably happened right after he got accepted in the lock.

Although I wasn't able to get a clear picture of what had happened since they weren't part of Ren's class, I was able to deduce that an important event had happened in Fermin middle school.

Which was enough of a start for me...I at least had a direction to focus on now.

"Bwader?"

As I was busy pondering over the old Ren's matters, feeling a light tug on my pants, I saw Nola's droopy eyes staring at my shoes.

"Are you tired already?"

"um"

Nodding her head, Nola extended her hands in my direction.

11:20 A.M.

"...it should be time anyways"

Checking the time, I picked Nola from the ground and left the park. It was about time I headed to the guild.

I wonder what's it like being in a guild.

...

"It should be this one"

Arriving in front of a large skyscraper that was about 200 meters in height, and had about 80 floors, I brought Nola inside of the building with me.

From what I had been told by my parents, the whole building was used as the base for their guild Galxicus.

Although they didn't own the building, they managed to rent it out for a reasonable monthly price.

Arriving in front of the elevators at the entrance of the building, I pressed the button and called for one. As I waited for the elevator to arrive, I took a quick glance at my surroundings.

Surrounded by glass, the interior of the bottom floor was brightly lit by the sun in the sky. White marble floor covered the entire pavement, and people moving to and fro inside of the building was a constant sight.

It looked extremely busy.

-Ding!

Entering the elevator and pressing on the 25th-floor button, the elevator doors closed and a slight pushing sensation appeared beneath my feet.

-Ding!

elevator reached the 25th floor, and the doors

-Clank

"Wow..."

doors opened a whole different

looked like

that could accumulate over hundreds of people at a

guild. The higher floors were office spaces for administrative management, and the lower floors were for heroes as they provided training

corner of the space

everywhere. Most likely, they were the members of the guild being followed by

scenery before me, I couldn't help but be

this was my parent's guild,

"Ren!"

my revere, was the cheerful sound

just in

mid-sentence, my mother's eyes landed on Nola who was standing next to me. The more she looked

"Ren"

her eyes became cold, and

by her sudden shift in attitude, I didn't know what to do as cold sweat

happened? and why does it look as if a demon had

Something wasn't right...

"What's wrong?"

you can't

What I did wrong?

everything that had happened today. Apart from taking Nola to the park and beating a couple of kids,

she so

Sigh

was, pointing towards Nola, her tone raised a few

at the state Nola

"Nola?"

I didn't see anything wrong with her. Apart from the fact that both her pockets were filled with

What kind

my mom went to Nola and apart from one

to protest, but under our mother's seriousness, she could only turn her head in my direction to which I could only avoid and

...I'm sorry.

my mother, took Nola by her hand

me up to meet

"Ok"

to follow my mother up, the whole floor

Everyone

doing, crowding towards the

-Clank!

exiting them was the

solemnity given off by his extraordinary appearance was similar to that of my father as every step he would take caused all the guild members near him to shake in

"…Huu."

room with his snake-like eyes, the Vice-guild master of the Galxicus

is going

was loud enough for most people around him to hear. With a moderate arrogance and a lethargic attitude, Martin Lorewik pushed back the people flocking in his

in the distance, my eyes narrowed into slits as I closely

leading the inner conflicts within the guild. He was a ranked Hero, just slightly weaker than my father, and was selected by the guild investors to become the Vice-director

"...hm?"

another wave of murmurs engulfed the entire floor as a youth walked out from behind

of it. His black obsidian eyes which were brighter than ordinary people's had hints of wisdom hidden

skin being smooth without any imperfections. His long black-colored hair dangled to his shoulders, and his demenour carried hints

look down on everyone present in the room. Almost

and the youth were walking, Martin's eyes suddenly drifted towards the other end of the hall where three individuals stood. A smirk soon emerged

"Follow me Alex"

the crowd of people, Martin and the youth named Alex soon stopped

mother, Martin politely smiled and

pleasure seeing you here

appeared on my mother's face before it quickly

"Hello, Martin"

time since we've spoken

started conversing with each other. However, if someone wasn't paying close attention to their conversation, one wouldn't be able to notice all the

my husband indeed worked very hard to

course, that was largely due

mom was conversing with Martin, the youth behind him walked up to me. Seizing me up, a smirk

you the talentless waste who was able to attend to the lock due to how their father stole from

saw him, I