The Author's POV

-Slash!

-Spurt!

"huuff...hufff...hufff..."

Breathing heavily, with his sword imbued on one of the demons that was stacked on top of five other demons, Kevin glanced at his surroundings. Craters and deep marks appeared on the cobblestone streets of Rowa.

Everything was destroyed.

Though the demons Kevin was fighting were a lot weaker compared to the demon leader, because they were many, he had no choice but to move around a lot. Because he didn't have any skill that allowed him to fight multiple opponents at once, Kevin had no other choice but to kill them one at a time.

...Hence why he was currently tired.

Wiping the sweat that had accumulated on his forehead, Kevin looked up and searched for Ren's figure.

After directly leaving him behind to fend off against the remaining demons, Ren just disappeared from his view. He had no idea why...

Frowning as he looked for him in the distance, Kevin couldn't help but mumble out loud

"Just where did he g'”hm?"

However just as he was about to directly look for him, snapping his head to the right, Kevin sensed something in the distance. In the opposite direction of where Ren left.

Squinting his eyes, Kevin managed to spot something approaching his location from the distance.

At a closer inspection, it was a grown woman in red. The woman's body was slender and fair and her gaze was calm and stoic. Slowly, she made her way towards Kevin.

When Kevin's gaze met her own, an indescribable feeling of numbness spread across his scalp. Thereafter he soon noticed two horns protruding from the top of her head, causing Kevin's heart to sink.

"...demon"

Although the former did not give off a terrifying aura, a pressuring feeling had emerged across the surroundings, causing the entire streets of Rowa to become deathly silent.

This time Kevin knew he was in trouble...

-Tap! -Tap!

Slowly, stopping a fair bit of distance from Kevin, the woman looked towards her surroundings. Her indifferent face briefly glanced at the demons on the floor. However, it was only for a brief moment as they soon paused on a particular demon in the distance.

Looking at a particular demon with a small hole on his forehead, the woman softly said with a trace of pity in her voice

"...so he died too"

Thereafter, frowning slightly, the Matriarch looked towards Kevin. Staring at him for what felt an eternity, the Matriarch slowly spoke

"...You must be Kevin Voss"

"..."

Increasing the grip of his sword, Kevin didn't respond. Right now his mind was racing as he thought of solutions to get out of this situation.

...The person before him was on another level compared to the demon leader he had just fought. He even felt that even if he used overdrive, he wouldn't be able to win.

Things were serious.

"huuuu..."

Kevin's heart palpitated as he couldn't help but take a deep breath to try to calm himself down.

"I see...you're a mute. How unfortunate"

Deeply staring at Kevin who refused to speak, the Matriarch looked around and asked

"Where is he?"

Frowning, Kevin slowly said

"Who?"

her brow and glancing at Kevin, the Matriarch

"...the boy named Ren"

Ren's name being mention,

Him again.

today was somehow related to Ren. Just what did he do to earn the

this was over, Kevin was definitely going to get

at the matriarch before him, Kevin slowly asked as

do you

for any sign of Ren, the

here to

Smiling, Kevin helplessly said

can't help you there...you see, I'm also looking

stifling atmosphere enveloped the area where Kevin and the Matriarch

"I see..."

-Fwuam!

head, the Matriarch's figure disappeared and

"...then die!"

-Bang!

palm in his direction. With barely enough time for Kevin to react, crossing his arms, Kevin felt a gentle

"khhha'”!"

was knocked out of his lungs. Taking a couple of seconds to recover, staring at the Matriarch in shock, the frown on

"Not bad..."

and noticing that he was still alright after her attack, Angelica started to understand why a lot of the higher-ups were paying close

definitely a

care about that. She only had one goal at the

"Again"

disappeared as she once again

had happened to her, with a bit of effort, Angelica was able to overwhelm

-Bang! -Bang!

span of a couple of minutes, Kevin was pushed back more than fifty meters as the

"Damn it!"Â

out of the situation. However, no matter what he tried, she would reappear right before him and attack him

felt that the reason why she was able to overwhelm him was mostly due to the fact that he was tired. If he wasn't

only wishful thinking on Kevin's end. There were no what-ifs in the world, and thus he could only fight against

If the Matriarch wasn't injured, Kevin would've long died

he should've been rejoicing at the fact that he

"Khhh..."

backward, Kevin couldn't feel his arms anymore. It felt as if a truck had rammed onto them causing him to

no one, Kevin couldn't help but curse

Ren...where are

barely hold on. If Ren didn't come in ten minutes, Kevin felt

-Fwua!

to narrowly avoid the Matriarch's palm, thereafter,

"Overdrive..."

He had no choice.

to hold back. He had to go all out

buy enough time for Ren to come back...if there was one

as he was

of his muscles suddenly fill with tremendous energy, Kevin glared

-Bam!

"Haa-?"

plan was about to hit Kevin one more time, to her surprise, she suddenly felt a tremendous force hit her palm causing her

back. Looking upwards towards Kevin in shock, it took a couple of

"You!"

glared at Kevin as her demenour turned

"Die!"

time, she exerted all of her force into the palm. She was

"Huuup!"