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!

a matter of seconds, the elevator reached the 25th

-Clank

"Wow..."

a whole different

like a luxurious office

was extremely large, with a space that could

for administrative management, and the lower floors were for heroes as they provided training facilities and other things heroes required like

corner of the space

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

me, I

my parent's

"Ren!"

my revere, was the cheerful sound

you're just in

mother's eyes landed on Nola who was standing next to me. The more she looked the grimmer her

"Ren"

eyes became cold,

sudden shift in attitude, I didn't know

why does it look as if a demon had suddenly appeared behind

Something wasn't right...

"What's wrong?"

me that you can't

What I did wrong?

the park and beating a couple of kids, I don't think there was anything

was she so

Sigh

pointing towards Nola, her tone raised a

look at the

"Nola?"

anything wrong with her. Apart from the fact that both her pockets were filled with candy and she was holding an ice cream cone in

god. What kind of son did

her head, my mom went to Nola and apart from one Ice cream, she immediately took everything

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

...I'm sorry.

my mother, took Nola by her

Follow me up

"Ok"

mother up, the whole floor became quiet before suddenly everyone

here. Everyone get

doing, crowding towards the elevator, a

-Clank!

was the Vice-guild leader of the

nicely fitted around his jaw. The solemnity given off by his extraordinary appearance was similar to that of my father as every step he would take

"…Huu."

eyes, the Vice-guild master

guild is going

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

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

he 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 of the guild. With the aid of the board of directors, he managed to convince them

"...hm?"

the entire floor as a youth

a white-colored, long-sleeved loosely fit T-shirt with a strange insignia sewn on the back of it. His black obsidian eyes which were brighter than ordinary people's

his skin being smooth without any imperfections. His long black-colored

straight he would look down on everyone present in the room. Almost as

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

"Follow me Alex"

and the youth named Alex soon stopped in front of me

Martin

seeing

it quickly disappeared as fast as it came.

"Hello, Martin"

time since we've spoken to

paying close attention to their conversation, one wouldn't be able to notice all the

worked very hard to build

course, that was largely due to how much

my mom was conversing with Martin, the youth behind him walked up to me. Seizing me up, a smirk soon appeared on his

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

I saw him, I