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

-Clank

"Wow..."

a whole different

like a

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

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

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

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

me,

this was my parent's guild,

"Ren!"

out of my revere, was the cheerful

you're just in

was standing next to me. The more she looked

"Ren"

eyes became

know what to do as

does it look as if a demon had suddenly

Something wasn't right...

"What's wrong?"

you can't tell what

What I did wrong?

Apart from taking Nola to the park and beating a couple of kids, I don't think there was anything to warrant

she

Sigh

was, pointing towards

the

"Nola?"

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

my god. What kind of son did

apart from one Ice cream, she immediately took

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

...I'm sorry.

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

forget it. Follow me up

"Ok"

about to follow my mother up,

here. Everyone get

doing, crowding towards the elevator,

-Clank!

exiting them was the Vice-guild leader of

black beard that nicely fitted around his jaw. The solemnity given off by his extraordinary appearance was similar to that of my father as every

"…Huu."

eyes, the Vice-guild master of the Galxicus guild,

guild is going to the

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

my eyes narrowed into

and was selected by the guild

"...hm?"

the entire floor as a youth

wearing 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

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

he followed Martin from behind, with his back straight he would look down on everyone present in

drifted towards the other end of the hall where

"Follow me Alex"

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

my mother, Martin politely smiled

a pleasure seeing you

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

"Hello, Martin"

time since we've spoken to each other

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

husband indeed worked very hard to build the guild from the ground

due

walked up to me. Seizing

attend to the lock due to how their father stole from his own

I saw him, I just