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!

the elevator reached the 25th floor, and

-Clank

"Wow..."

opened a

looked like a luxurious office

extremely large, with a space 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 facilities and other things heroes required like a

ground was covered in a red carpet, and large TV screens were installed in the corner of the space with constant updates on the news and

wearing combat suits followed by people wearing formal ones appeared everywhere. Most likely, they were the members of the guild

me, I couldn't help but

was my parent's

"Ren!"

of my revere, was the cheerful sound

just in

on Nola who was standing next to me. The more she

"Ren"

became

shift in attitude, I didn't know what to do as cold sweat suddenly

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

Something wasn't right...

"What's wrong?"

telling me that you can't tell what you've

What I did wrong?

that had happened today. Apart from taking Nola to the park and beating a couple of kids, I don't think there was

was she

Sigh

towards Nola, her

the state Nola is

"Nola?"

her pockets were filled with candy and

What kind of son

Nola and apart from one Ice

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

...I'm sorry.

Samantha, my mother, took Nola by her hand and urged me to follow

it. Follow me up

"Ok"

my mother up, the whole floor became

here. Everyone get

were doing, crowding towards the elevator, a

-Clank!

elevator doors opened, exiting them was the Vice-guild leader of the Galxicus guild. Martin

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

"…Huu."

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

guild is going to the

most people around him to hear. With a moderate arrogance and a lethargic attitude, Martin Lorewik pushed back

distance, my eyes narrowed

was the man 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?"

scrutinized Martin, another wave of murmurs engulfed the entire floor as a youth walked out from

sewn on the back of it. His black obsidian eyes which

imperfections. His long black-colored hair dangled to

straight he would look down on everyone present in the

drifted towards the other end of the hall where three individuals stood. A smirk

"Follow me Alex"

people, Martin and the youth named Alex soon stopped in front of me

mother, Martin politely

a pleasure seeing

trace of disgust appeared on my mother's face before it quickly disappeared as fast as it came. Smiling

"Hello, Martin"

long time since we've spoken

However, if someone wasn't paying close attention to their

hard to build the guild from the ground

was largely due to how much

Martin, the youth behind him walked up to me. Seizing

due to how their father

saw him, I