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?'

all of those S rank heroes in the academy doing?

Anger.

what the public

world allow for such things to happen? Just how dysfunctional was the

The public wanted answers.

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

the academy, they could only respond this

*

any

wall of the hall, I absentmindedly listened to the butler giving me a rundown of the rules of the building. Unfortunately

get quite troublesome for the next

knew that for a bit things were going

myself a lot of money, but I also managed to sort

and Ram should

should have a better life. Especially since there would no longer

tyrants, I also made sure to eliminate any

the five tyrants, new ones would

was just how the world worked. Once the strong guys were gone, the next strongest guys would take the empty position and act like the next five tyrants. It was an

a lot of consideration, making this public was the most appropriate method to get rid of the problem from

Fortunately, it worked.

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

longer needed to worry about Leo and Ram as I made my

'”Fwua

space I showed it

time regressor machine here. How does that work? Do I

most important information I needed to know. With barely any time to

Especially since my enemies were only going to start getting stronger from

to my question, the butler nodded his head and calmly

You may use it whenever you want. However do be

'”Clank!

I suddenly heard the sound of a door unlocking

must be my

turned around and found out the identity of my neighbor, my smile froze. Similarly, looking at me, Melissa who had just returned

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

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 a

to mee you

Melissa's mouth opened widely. No words came out of her

I

to make sure she wasn't seeing wrong, Melissa's mind

be hallucinating. Yes, this is because I've overworked myself. If not for that, I would've never been in such a nightmarish situation. Yeah, this must just be a horrible nightmare that I

of her imagination, Melissa shook her head and made her way into the room. Completely disregarding me and

chances of him being my neighbor should be slim to none. This is just me hallucinating. Definitely shouldn't overwork

was about to close the door, she took one last peek at her right side.

"hi"

time, Melissa's eyes shot wide open

"Why!!!!?"

...

and the lectures were about to begin. Sitting next to me, Kevin kept

you tell me that you

out of the room to check out what had happened. Be it Kevin, Amanda, Emma, or Jin, everyone found out about the fact that I had

could have a few days of peace

plans. Now I

'Damn her...'

move in without telling