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!

matter of seconds, the elevator reached the 25th

-Clank

"Wow..."

as the elevator doors opened a whole different world

twenty-fifth floor looked like a luxurious office

extremely large, with a space that could accumulate over hundreds of

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

a red carpet, and large TV screens were installed in the corner of the space

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

scenery before me, I couldn't

was my parent's guild,

"Ren!"

of my revere, was

you're just

Nola who was standing next to me. The more she looked the

"Ren"

her eyes became cold, and her previous cheerful demenour

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

what happened? and why does it look as if

Something wasn't right...

"What's wrong?"

telling me that you can't tell

What I did wrong?

and beating a couple of kids, I don't

she so

Sigh

pointing towards Nola, her

at the

"Nola?"

Apart from the fact that both her pockets were filled with candy and she was holding an ice cream cone in each hand, I didn't

god. What kind of

to Nola and apart from one Ice cream, she immediately took everything

her head in my

...I'm sorry.

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

it. Follow me up

"Ok"

I was about to follow my mother up, the

here. Everyone

whatever they were doing, crowding towards the elevator, a bunch of

-Clank!

them was the Vice-guild leader of the Galxicus guild.

his jaw. The solemnity given off by his extraordinary

"…Huu."

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

is going to

most people around him to hear. With a moderate arrogance and a

distance, my eyes narrowed into slits as I closely

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

"...hm?"

the entire

with a strange insignia sewn on the back of it. His black obsidian eyes which were brighter than ordinary people's had hints of wisdom

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

he would look down on everyone present

towards the other end of the hall where

"Follow me Alex"

and the youth named Alex

at my mother, Martin

pleasure seeing you here

my mother's face before it quickly disappeared as fast as it came. Smiling politely she

"Hello, Martin"

a long time since

wasn't paying close attention to their conversation, one wouldn't be able to

worked very hard to build

due to how much I was helping

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

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

saw him, I