The Author's POV

"Bye Ren, see you later"

"Bye bwudda!"

"Bye"

Smiling as I waved at my parents and Nola who were waving back at me as they stood at the front of the house, I turned around and made my way towards the entrance of the compound.

As I turned around, the smile that was on my face faded away.

Taking out my phone I dialed Smallsnake's number.

-Ring! -Ring!

A couple of seconds after I dialed Smallsnake's number, answering the call, Smallsnake's voice traveled through the speakers of the phone.

[Hello, Ren? Are you coming?]

Walking towards the exit of my parent's compound, I cut straight to the chase.

"Smallsnake, make sure you alert me if anything happens during the time that I am traveling to the destination. I'll be there in thirty minutes"

[Understood]

Pausing for a second, frowning slightly I asked.

"By the way, how much did you spend?"

[For the information gathering?]

"Yeah, the information gathering"

I had previously asked Smallsnake to gather as much information as he could get for the upcoming operation.

I didn't specify the budget, and therefore I was unaware of much money was spent.

[The amount of money that I used to gather all of the information that you had asked totals around a couple of million U]

"Tsss..."

Hearing the sum of money that was spent on information gathering, I couldn't help let out a small hiss.

That was a lot more money than I had expected, but in all honesty, it was necessary.

From past experiences, I knew that information was key.

Therefore, to thoroughly crush Matthew, I had to gather as much information as possible.

From his past, habits, and everything that was known about him...I had to know everything.

Although I knew a bit about Matthew from the previous Ren, I still didn't know everything about him.

To know everything about him, I had to dig a lot. Hence the large sum of money spent.

...however, as I said before, it was worth it.

Thanks to the information I've learned a lot of new things about Matthew.

They were extremely helpful in helping me get a better idea of who I was dealing with.

With the information, I've also learned about his whereabouts of today a month prior to this day. This helped me thoroughly plan for today's upcoming operation.

"Hotel Dellamorca"

That was where Matthew was staying today.

Holding onto my phone with my shoulder, I tapped on my watch and looked through the information Smallsnake sent me with regards to the hotel.

Apparently, the hotel was a very prestigious hotel that housed celebrities and highly ranked heroes.

The building was worth over a billion U and was considered as one of the most luxurious hotel places in the whole of Ashton city. It had 88 floors, and each room cost an astronomical amount of money.

Naturally, because of its fame and prestige, the security was pretty tight with many guards and security measures installed in the place.

wisely and have learned of this place from Smallsnake, I managed to book a room in the hotel a month back. One that

didn't need

had Smallsnake thoroughly analyze the

and staff worked in that place, who their strongest individual was,

sure to

was so that nothing could go

I was dealing with and what environment I was in

merely a number that could be grown

moment my priority was getting rid

Thoroughly at that.

can you

I can

thoughts, was Smallsnake's voice as he

I wanted to ask, from the way that you've been speaking for a while, it seems to me that Matthew isn't

Without hesitation, I confirmed.

"Yes there is"

who he/she is? Any info on

Smallsnake's question, I shook my

"Unfortunately not"

rank he/she was, however, I was fairly certain that it was

I have gathered after thoroughly investigating Matthew thanks to Smallsnake, I was able to find out that Matthew's talent was in fact A

This was excellent.

I was sure it wasn't a count-ranked demon he had made a contract with was because a count-ranked demon would've never have coveted my

play couldn't be something that a count-ranked demon would do as they were usually members of the main clan and were extremely

stoop to the

elaborate setup by the demons, but the chances of such a thing happening were

it didn't really

other choice but to give up on the notion of being

having been forcefully broken, the extent of his/her

Extremely severe.

about the whole operation. Of course, I did in fact have backup plans in case things went south, but I highly doubted that I would be forced to go to

I naturally had to

along those lines, I softly said

report to me if you see anything suspicious. If something does happen, just report it to me

voice,

I'll make sure to inform Leopold about

enough the do not part. Please don't

[Understood]

agreeing, I

I'll see

[Okay]

-Clank!

"Huuu..."

the call and put my phone back into my pocket, I looked at the

"Taxi!"

-Screech!

taxi, a white car

-Clank!

quickly

"Thank you"

to come to me, I was old school and so I preferred getting taxis this

up, the driver looked at his rearview mirror and

"Where to?"

hesitation, I glanced at my phone

in Avenue

"Understood"

his head, the driver didn't ask any questions and directly pressed the gas paddle as

this is

comfortably on the seat of the car, I looked at the window and stared at the ever-changing scenery before

washed away the previous Ren's

...

-Spurt!

"Gahhh...huff...huff...."

glass tea table that only reached the height of an adult's knees, a handsome youth gagged as droplets of sweat kept pouring down

"Khh-How did it happen?"

fine for him for

company, Matthew's life was sailing as smoothly as a newly sewn sail that operated with perfect

Everything was just perfect.