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.

as 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 back.

I didn't

Smallsnake thoroughly analyze the

and staff worked in that place, who their strongest individual

made sure to know

so that nothing

solid idea of who I was dealing with and what environment I was in that I could thoroughly be able to

money was merely

the moment my priority was getting rid of one

Thoroughly at that.

Ren can you hear

I can

thoughts,

that you've been speaking for a while, it seems to

Without hesitation, I confirmed.

"Yes there is"

idea of who he/she is? Any info on

question, I shook my

"Unfortunately not"

with, I wasn't sure of what rank he/she was, however,

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

This was excellent.

reason why I was sure it wasn't a count-ranked demon he had made a contract with was because a count-ranked demon would've

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

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

this could be an elaborate setup by the demons, but

way, it

whoever the demon backing Matthew was he/she had no other choice but to give up on the notion of being able to battle

curse having been forcefully broken,

Extremely severe.

whole operation. Of course, I did in fact have backup plans in case things went south, but I

never know, there was a chance for everything, and I thus I naturally had to make countermeasures for those events if the possibility

lines, I softly said to Smallsnake as I switched

just report it to me and do not,

voice,

sure to inform Leopold

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

[Understood]

I

see

[Okay]

-Clank!

"Huuu..."

back into my pocket, I looked at the darkening sky in

"Taxi!"

-Screech!

called out for the taxi, a

-Clank!

quickly got in and thanked the

"Thank you"

to come to me, I was old school

looked at his rearview

"Where to?"

I glanced at my phone

in Avenue

"Understood"

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

guess this

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

the day I washed

...

-Spurt!

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

heavily, with 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

"Khh-How did it happen?"

for him

almost bringing Galxicus to 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 that operated

Everything was just perfect.