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

I didn't

Smallsnake thoroughly analyze the hotel

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

sure to know

so that nothing

having a solid idea of who I was dealing with and what environment I was in

it was expensive, money was merely a number that could

priority was getting rid

Thoroughly at that.

can

yes? I

out of my thoughts, was Smallsnake's voice as

it seems to me that Matthew

Without hesitation, I confirmed.

"Yes there is"

any idea of who

Smallsnake's question, I

"Unfortunately not"

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

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 with was because a count-ranked demon would've never

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

this, I knew that they wouldn't stoop to the level of manipulating humans

be wrong and this could be an elaborate setup by the demons, but

it didn't

demon backing Matthew was he/she had no other choice

broken, the extent of his/her

Extremely severe.

this information, I was somewhat 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 that

a chance for everything, and I thus I naturally had to make

lines, I softly said to Smallsnake

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,

make sure to inform Leopold about

not part. Please don't do

[Understood]

Smallsnake agreeing, I could rest

I'll see

[Okay]

-Clank!

"Huuu..."

my phone back into my pocket, I looked at the darkening sky in the distance and raised my

"Taxi!"

-Screech!

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

-Clank!

car, I quickly got in

"Thank you"

get a taxi to come to me, I was old

his head up, the driver looked at his

"Where to?"

I glanced at my

in Avenue

"Understood"

didn't ask any questions and directly pressed the gas

guess this

I

day I washed away

...

-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?"

for him

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 with perfect

Everything was just perfect.