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.

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

time I didn't

say, I've also had Smallsnake

worked in that place, who their strongest individual was, the layout of the

made sure

was so that

idea of who I was dealing with and what environment I was in

was expensive, money was merely

my priority was getting rid of one

Thoroughly at that.

can you

I can hear

me out of my thoughts, was Smallsnake's voice

to ask, from the way that you've been speaking for a while, it seems to me that Matthew isn't your only target. Is there perhaps someone

Without hesitation, I confirmed.

"Yes there is"

you have any idea of who he/she is? Any info

I shook

"Unfortunately not"

what rank he/she was,

what I have gathered after thoroughly investigating Matthew thanks to Smallsnake, I was able to find

This was excellent.

definitely attract Count ranked demons, however, the reason why I was sure it wasn't a count-ranked demon he had made a contract with was because a count-ranked

be something that a count-ranked demon would do as they

to the level of manipulating humans to

be an elaborate setup by the

it didn't really

backing Matthew was he/she had no other choice but to give

curse having been forcefully broken, the extent

Extremely severe.

reassured 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

for everything, and I thus I naturally had to make countermeasures for those events if the possibility ever presented

said to Smallsnake as

you see anything suspicious. If something does happen, just report it to me and do not, and I mean

my voice,

sure to inform Leopold about

I can't stress enough the do not part. Please don't do something

[Understood]

I could rest

see you

[Okay]

-Clank!

"Huuu..."

as I ended the call and put my phone back into my pocket, I looked at the darkening sky in the distance and

"Taxi!"

-Screech!

after I called out for the taxi,

-Clank!

the car, I quickly got

"Thank you"

to me, I was old school and so I preferred

head up, the driver looked at his

"Where to?"

I glanced at my phone

Dellamorca in Avenue street

"Understood"

pressed the gas

guess this

and sitting comfortably on the seat of the car, I looked at the window and stared at the

washed away

...

-Spurt!

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

elbow on a small glass tea table that only reached the height of an adult's knees, a handsome youth gagged

"Khh-How did it happen?"

was going perfectly fine for him for the past

bringing Galxicus to their knees to receiving awards after awards and helping his father's company, Matthew's life was

Everything was just perfect.