The Author's POV

-Ziiiiiiiip!

"Haaa..."

Exhaling, I put my arms on my waist and nodded my head in satisfaction.

After returning from my little trip to the headquarters of my mercenary group, I quickly returned to the Lock.

There was a particular reason for that...and that was that today I was finally moving out of my dorm and finally moving to a better one.

The Manticore building

...a considerable upgrade compared to the horned sheep building which I was currently staying in. It didn't need to be pointed out as to why the Manticore building was better as after all, I was going to get my own training room as well as a personal butler. Just those two things alone showed just how much better the place was.

If I did have a complaint though, it would be about the price. Believe it or not, I was roughly paying 100,000 U in monthly rent...yeah.

Very pricy as that would mean that I was basically paying 1,200,000 million U in yearly rent.

Expensive...but worth it.

With me having my own private training room, I no longer had to hold back when training. I could finally go all out and train without needing to worry about others discovering any of my secrets.

...and yes, although I could've gone to the Hydra building, the one that was even better than the Manticore building, I firmly was against the idea.

Too expensive and was filled with annoying young masters. To hell with that.

Aside from that, the main reason as to why I moved towards the Manticore building rather than the Hydra building was because Ava was here.

With her being in the same building as me, there was more room for me to interact with her.

At the very least I wanted to interact with her in a more organic way rather than me creepily approaching her in class. It just would look very suspicious in my opinion.

...either way, this move wasn't solely for me as it was also going to be a big help for me in increasing the chances of recruiting Ava to my group.

All in all, today was going to be a good day.

"Alright"

-Vuuuam!

Tapping my bracelet once, all of the packages before me disappeared.

"Let's see, is there anything else I am missing?"

After making sure I took every package in front of me, stepping outside my dorm, I took one last glimpse at the insides of my room and checked to see if there was anything I was missing.

missing, I couldn't help but look back at the time I spent in this

the four months I had been in this dorm were short, I couldn't

than move. After all, I would've rather have saved money. But the situation called for it, and I really needed my own private training room, therefore I had no choice but

"haaa.."

long scar on the wall to the right, my mouth couldn't help but twitch. Thereafter, turning off

-Clank!

scar had nothing to

...

"Name and student card"

at the Manticore building reception, I was

well-formed nose, and puffy lips. His light brown hair was carefully brushed to the side to give him a cleaner look, however, his droopy eyes that had black circles beneath them gave everything away as he looked to be on the verge of fainting any minute

Especially since another notable feature of his was his straight brown hair that was showing signs

like he was really having a bad

you go, my name

him my student ID card and

"Hmmm...thank you"

me, the middle-aged man lazily took my card. A couple of minutes after taking my card, after checking the card's information and compiling a couple of paper works,

stuff will shortly be sent to your phone, so if you have any questions look

a purple card from one of the drawers of his desk, he swiftly handed it to me

man, my mouth twitched as I shook my head at his

"...thank you I guess?"

the card in my hand and saw an [906] engraved on it. Thereafter, I quickly headed

the building, I was impressed by the internal design of the building. Especially the lighting as the corridor I was walking on was illuminated with a soft and welcoming light, as if it were a sunshine in gentle pastel

and a long red carpet covered most of the pavement

carpets and arriving in front of the elevators, I quickly pressed a button and patiently waited for the elevator

"huuu..."

now that I sorted everything out, I looked back at the incident with

pondered over the matter for a while, I realized that I was too arrogant and carefree. The actions that I took led to someone targeting

me went after my parents, I wouldn't know

as a consequence or would I be the one doing something reckless? I wasn't sure...but I

the one that was targeting me seemed to be a demon, they didn't touch my parents as they soon noticed that they were under a curse from another demon...and killing someone that was already being targeted by a demon was essentially a very big no no for the demons as that would

that they were cursed wasn't all too bad. I mean, it

still, what if my enemy wasn't a demon, but a human? What would've happened

was too naive, and

on. Come up with countermeasures for everything...that's

had true power would I not need to worry

-Ding!

from the elevator. Entering the elevator, without skipping a beat, I quickly pressed the button that led

current floor I was headed towards was the 9th floor,

quickly pulled out my phone and

"There..."