The Author's POV

"...and this is your new room"

Stopping before a door, a butler wearing a slick black suit turned around and handed me a white card. Without hesitation, I took the card and thanked the butler.

"Thank you"

"No problem, welcome to the Leviathan building"

Today was the day I moved into my new room.

A couple of days have passed since I had killed Gerrard and his father. During those days, a lot of things had happened.

Like wildfire, the death of Gerrard and his father spread all over the news. This was natural since Gerrard's father was the CEO of one of the biggest companies in the human domain.

The autopsy reports said that their deaths were due to an attack by a demon. This was easily discernible from the fact that demonic energy lingered on their bodies upon their death.

After investigating further, it was later found that Gerrard was being targeted by four individuals.

Four of the five tyrants.

This was all due to the timestamps that I had asked Angelica to steal.

Stealing them wasn't actually that hard.

Given that they had to be redistributed around to the other members, they were put inside of a separate dimensional space that was given to a distributor who would redistribute them.

Only after distributing all of the timestamps would the distributor give the remaining ones to the tyrant.

The identity of the distributor was naturally a secret that only a few individuals knew, and only after spying on them for the past month or so was able to find their identity and have Angelica directly steal their dimensional space.

That was how everything started. After that, I did what I did with Gerrard and his father.

...and given the tyrant's background, putting the pieces together, the four of them became prime suspects.

Although everything linked to the fact that it was a demon who had killed them, it wasn't uncommon for people to hire a demon to do the dirty work for them. Such was the case for Thobias Church.

Taking advantage of the situation, all of the victims of their bullying and suffering came forward and reported everything to the authorities.

As a result of this, the four tyrants were now under the heavy scrutiny of the public.

'...and checkmate'

Like a trapped king with no spaces to move, the four tyrants crumbled overnight as their crimes became public for the world to know. Their parents weren't exempted from public scrutiny due to their involvement in covering up for their children's crimes.

In just one night, everything that they worked so hard for crumbled. I naturally profited from this as I had made arrangements months prior to this event. Just a little bit of stock manipulation.

'There's also the Lock situation...'

Besides the four tyrants, the Lock also started facing heavy scrutiny. With this event and the previous incidents added together, the Lock became the prime target for the media and the public.

[Is the Lock a safe haven like the government made us think it was?]

[Problem after problem after problem, the truth about the Lock]

[Can they really secure the future of our children?]

Papers and news outlets criticizing the Lock began spreading everywhere. The more light was shed on the matter the angrier the masses became.

'How could we let our children enter such an academy when they can't even keep them safe?'

the academy doing? Are they getting paid to sit on

Anger.

was what the public felt. They felt

the top academy in the world allow for such things to happen? Just how dysfunctional was the academy? Where were all their

The public wanted answers.

the security even more. This naturally wasn't enough to appease the angry masses, but this was

outside of the academy, they could only

*

the guards beforehand about any possible outing

the butler giving me a rundown of the rules of the building.

get quite troublesome for the next few

I knew that for a bit things were going

manage to secure myself a lot of money, but I also managed to sort out the

and Ram should be

better life. Especially since there would no

also made sure to eliminate any possibility of more

of the five tyrants, new ones would certainly

were gone, the next strongest guys would take the empty position and act like the next five

was the most appropriate method to get rid of the problem

Fortunately, it worked.

enforcing stricter rules, there would no longer be any more five tyrants in the Manticore building.

Ram as I made my way to

'”Fwua

my dimensional space I showed

there is a time regressor machine here. How does that work? Do I have to get time

any

tournament was coming up soon. I needed to increase the mastery of my arts. Especially since my enemies were only going to start getting stronger from now on. I couldn't remain

to my question, the butler nodded his head

worry. There is no need to use timestamps for the time regressor machine. You may use it whenever you want. However do be careful, usage of more than five hours can

'”Clank!

to the butler, I suddenly heard the sound of a

my

around and found out the identity of my neighbor, my smile froze.

hall. The first to break the silence was the butler who greeted Melissa with a

how was your day? I'm currently showing your new neighbor the workings of the building. If you haven't met him, allow me to introduce him, his name is Ren Dover and just like you he is

mee

mouth opened widely. No words

I

to make sure she wasn't seeing wrong,

not for that, I would've never been in such a nightmarish situation. Yeah, this must just be a horrible nightmare that I need to quickly

head and made

to this building the chances of him being my neighbor should be slim to

close the door, she took one last peek at

"hi"

Melissa's eyes shot wide open as

"Why!!!!?"

...

be specific and the lectures were about to begin. Sitting next

me that you were

Melissa's scream rang out in the building, almost everybody went out of the room to check out what had happened. Be it Kevin, Amanda, Emma, or Jin,

have a few days

I thought about it, she was always screwing up my plans. Now I could no longer

'Damn her...'

you move in without telling