The Author's POV

Calmly glancing at everyone in the room, the grey-suited male's eyes paused towards a certain girl.

An orange-haired one.

"Monica, I want you to listen carefully." Lifting his glasses with his finger index finger, he sternly said. "Your task is simple, you are to create as much chaos as possible. The location we've set is right outside the Monolith, you alongside the others are to divert the attention of the higher-ups away from the main building."

"Tsk, why do I get the most boring task."

Monica clicked her tongue.

"You're not the only one doing the boring task."

Behind her, one of the individuals spoke up causing Monica to turn around and glare in his direction.

"Shut up meat fodder."

"What did you call me?"

"I called you meat fodder, isn't that what you are?"

"Do you wanna fight?"

"Come on, I'm ready."

Bickering with Monica was a white-haired man with red eyes.

His skin was quite tanned and he had a sturdy build. An unfathomable aura exuded from his body, it was to the point that it even exceeded Monica's.

Ranked 5th in the Hero ranking, SS ranked hero, Amon Slabaugh, the unbreakable shield.

"Calm down both of you."

Stepping in and stopping the both of them, was a tall black-haired old man. A light gray goatee drooped down from the middle of his chin, and a white stripe appeared by the side of his hair.

Ranked 4th in the Hero ranking, SS ranked hero, Tasos Mallatos.

"Let's not do this now." Raising his hand to stop Amon from attacking Monica, before turning his attention towards her. "Monica, if you think about it, Amon and I are going to be the ones that will do the real heavy work. We're the ones that will actually be suffering the most, please be a little more respectful."

Both being SS ranked, it was them who were actually shouldering most of the troubles.

Monica was merely there to deal with the weaker S-ranked villains.

Raising her hands, Monica complained.

"That's why I'm saying it's boring. With you two next to me, how am I supposed to get a piece of the fun?"

Tasos smiled.

"Monica, if only it was as easy as you make it seem."

The mission they were currently being tasked to do was extremely dangerous.

Even he, an SS-ranked hero felt threatened by the mission. Less need to be said about Monica who was weaker than him.

"I know bu—"

"Alright, everyone please be quiet, I'm about to activate the artifact."

Cutting Monica off was the grey-suited male from before. Closing his eyes, and channeling his mana into the sphere, a yellow glow suddenly enveloped the room.

Shortly after, small threads of mana lingered in the air as a small portal formed before everyone's eyes.

—Vooom!

The moment the portal appeared, everyone stopped whatever they were doing and solemnly stared at the portal.

Heavy tension descended into the room.

"Haa..haa...done "

With heavy breaths, the grey-suited individual looked at all the people present in the room. Evening his breathing, he spoke.

to the Monolith. I want you guys to take this seriously, and please try to come back safely...we can't afford to lose any of you

to the man's

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

the orb. "Once you're done with everything, channel your mana into the orb and a portal should appear. Let me warn you

least know this

as she put

good luck on your

portal was Amon. "haha, I'll be the first one to go in. I'll see ya'll on

—Vooom!

up you

can you two

him were Monica

—Vooom! —Vooom!

entered the portal, and silence descended in the

at the portal that was slowly closing, the grey-suited individual lifted his glasses

the

***

At the same time.

front of the large monitor where the image of a guard strolling around could be seen, Matthew turned his head and

target seems to be moving towards the second

"We wait."

"Wait?"

away from the monitor, Luther calmly explained. "We're going

of hesitation, turning his head,

behind his back, Luther briefly glanced

he's planning, and we also don't

just him, he would've gone and captured 876 already, but since he was tasked with nurturing the new recruits,

it wouldn't hurt to know what he's planning. Since I'm responsible for

given to him by Xavier, he knew that

couldn't let them

have spotted 876. It

questioned. "Dormitory?" Luther's face turned into a scowl. "Is he planning on switching faces again? How laughably

observed 876, the more scornful

someone smart, especially since he

had overestimated 876. He was merely someone who relied too much on an artifact that allowed him to change

around, he looked at his

it's time to move out

knew that they had caught him. There were no escape routes that

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

the infirmary, a smirk emerged on

think you've

were in

beginning, I knew that the nurse was closely monitoring me. Not just me, but everyone that was present

were low, they were not slim. Therefore, it wouldn't have been strange for them to send someone

I really was hiding amongst the burn

me raising my hand pretending to kill her was also part of the

could tell that she was pretending to check the patient, and was actually

to kill

someone else, but not

"Should be this way."

I lowered my head

already left and wasn't sure what the nurse was doing at the moment, I knew that she had probably warned the

wasn't really that thorough when burning the guard's face. Though I covered his face with the bandages, it

was the effort that

seem like I tried, then everything was

the others about my whereabouts was what I

now they know about my ability to change faces', I thought to myself, as I calmly

I did since the beginning

very moment I pretended to be the unit captain back in the forest, I knew that my ability to change faces would

wouldn't have found out about it

the fake body in my hands, but not someone as

about my escape from the

him know that I could change faces was part

my worries were

one thing, they were monitoring my movements. The only reason why my path was unobstructed was because they didn't want to

exactly what

emerged on my face, I continued to move forward with

lab thinking about my escape routes, I realized that being passive and continuously hiding using the mask was not going to cut it when

with my approach. Rather than waiting for an opportunity,