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.

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

didn't

say, I've also had Smallsnake

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

sure

so that nothing could go

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

was expensive, money was merely a number

the moment my priority was getting rid of one of

Thoroughly at that.

Ren can

I can

me out of my thoughts, was Smallsnake's voice

speaking for a while, it seems to me that Matthew isn't your only target. Is there perhaps someone else we should be looking out

Without hesitation, I confirmed.

"Yes there is"

who he/she is? Any info on

question, I shook

"Unfortunately not"

wasn't sure of what rank he/she was, however, I was fairly certain that it was

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

This was excellent.

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

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

they wouldn't stoop to the level of manipulating humans to gather resources for

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

it didn't

he/she had no other choice but to give

broken, the extent of

Extremely severe.

have backup plans in case things went south, but I highly doubted that I would be

for everything, and I thus I naturally

lines, I softly said

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

my voice, Smallsnake

sure to inform Leopold about

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

[Understood]

Smallsnake agreeing, I

I'll see you

[Okay]

-Clank!

"Huuu..."

into my pocket,

"Taxi!"

-Screech!

moment after I called out for the taxi, a white car stopped before the road I

-Clank!

quickly got in and thanked the driver for

"Thank you"

to get a taxi to come to me, I was

up, the driver looked at

"Where to?"

at my phone text and casually

Dellamorca in Avenue street

"Understood"

didn't ask any questions and directly pressed the gas paddle as the car slowly

guess this is

on the seat of the car, I looked at the window and

was the day I washed away the

...

-Spurt!

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

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

"Khh-How did it happen?"

going perfectly fine for

their knees to receiving awards after awards and helping his father's company, Matthew's life was sailing as smoothly as a newly sewn sail

Everything was just perfect.