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!

of seconds, the elevator reached the 25th floor, and the doors

-Clank

"Wow..."

soon as the elevator doors opened a whole different world

floor looked like a luxurious office

was extremely large, with a space that could accumulate

was currently in was the main reception area of the guild. The higher floors were office spaces for administrative management, and the lower

red carpet, and large TV screens were installed in the corner of the space with constant updates on

people wearing formal ones appeared everywhere. Most likely, they were the members of the

me, I couldn't

was my parent's guild,

"Ren!"

out of my revere, was the cheerful sound of

just in

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

"Ren"

her eyes became cold, and

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

look as if

Something wasn't right...

"What's wrong?"

you telling me that you can't tell

What I did wrong?

from taking Nola to the park and

was she

Sigh

how clueless I was, pointing towards Nola, her tone raised a few

the state

"Nola?"

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

god. What kind of

to Nola and apart from one Ice cream,

seriousness, she could only turn her head

...I'm sorry.

away all of the candy, Samantha, my mother, took Nola by her hand and urged me

it. Follow me

"Ok"

up, the whole

Everyone

doing, crowding towards the elevator, a bunch of guild

-Clank!

exiting them was the

solemnity given off by his extraordinary appearance was similar to that of my father as every step he

"…Huu."

eyes, the Vice-guild master of

guild is going to the

which was deep, was loud enough for most people around him to hear. With a moderate

my eyes narrowed into slits

was a ranked Hero, just slightly weaker than my father, and was selected by the guild investors to become the Vice-director of the guild. With the aid of the board

"...hm?"

another wave of murmurs engulfed the entire floor as a

wearing a white-colored, long-sleeved loosely fit T-shirt with a strange insignia sewn on the back of it. His

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

behind, with his back straight he would look down on everyone present in the

the other end of the hall where three individuals stood. A

"Follow me Alex"

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

my mother, Martin politely

a pleasure seeing you here

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

"Hello, Martin"

been a long time since we've spoken to each

their conversation, one wouldn't be able to notice all the hidden meanings behind

to build the guild from the

was largely due to

the youth behind him walked up

able to attend to the lock due to how their father stole from his own guild to pay for his son's

I saw him, I just