The Author's POV

Crunch—!

The crunching sound of an apple being bitten rang out.

The juices from the apple trickled down the hand of a young man whose deep blue eyes reflected the burning fire opposite him.

Crunch—!

The youth took another bite of the apple with a cold and apathetic look.

—Rustle! —Rustle!

Suddenly, a rustling sound arose, and four shadows silently materialized from all sides of the youth.

"..."

Despite being surrounded by all sides, the youth kept his head lowered and continued to eat his apple.

Seemingly unbothered by their presence.

Before long, a male with fair skin and green eyes appeared from the other side of the youth.

Outwardly he looked like a perfect gentleman, as he had a kind smile on his face.

"Enjoying your meal?"

He asked.

"..."

He was met with dead silence.

Shrugging his shoulders, Xavier sat on a rock opposite Ren.

Looking at Ren from top to bottom, an amused look appeared on his face.

"Is that how you look without the scars, 876? Not bad, you look a lot better than before."

Crunch—!

Once again Ren took a bite of the apple.

Completely disregarding Xavier's presence.

Not minding Ren's attitude, Xavier continued.

"...If you remember, we've previously met once before. Back in the Monolit—"

"One broken hand, a punch in the stomach, two broken shoulders..."

Cutting Xavier off, opening his mouth, Ren softly mumbled.

"Hm?"

Xavier's brows knit.

"Have you gone crazy during the time that you left the Monolith?"

As he said that, wariness crept into Xavier's heart.

Things were odd.

After spending so many months trying to catch 876, once they were able to finally catch up to him, he seemed completely unbothered.

Almost as though he had been expecting their arrival.

But that was impossible.

He was only one person.

How could it be possible for him to find out about their arrival?

Furthermore, they had already checked the surroundings thoroughly; apart from him, there should be no one else.

Glancing towards the four black-clad people, Xavier nudged them with his head. Instantly they approached Ren.

Standing up, Xavier's eyes flashed coldly.

"What a pity. Although I was ordered to bring you back alive, I would'v—"

Opening his mouth, Ren once again disrupted Xavier mid-speech.

"...Those were the injuries I sustained during our first meeting."

Lifting his head up and staring at Xavier directly in the eyes, Ren casually threw the apple in his hand to the side.

"It's time for me to pay you back for what you've done to me."

Frowning, terrifying pressure suddenly sprang out from Xavier's body.

"What are you talking about? Have you gone insane?"

in

—Thud!

just as he was about to attack Ren, the faint sound of something falling

Xavier's eyes opened

"——!"

shocked look appeared on his

that had previously surrounded Ren, was a stunning beauty with fair skin

her head, Angelica casually glanced at the other three

suddenly appeared in her hand, causing Xavier's face to

"A demon!? ...Impossible!"

He muttered in shock.

Angelica, Ren

Ren's cold voice echoed inside of Xavier's

I say? Today I'm definitely going

as three pairs of bloodthirsty

—Rustle! —Rustle!

"...I see. "

the three wolves and finally realizing what was happening,

trap 876...who would've thought that you'd be resourceful enough to get

wanted to ask, such as why a demon was helping him and how he had known that they were coming, but he did not

knew that he would only be met with deathly

members,

Angelica's direction, completely disregarding Ren and the three

a dagger in his hand, Xavier's hand

take out the strongest individual first before taking care of

"Nope."

suddenly rang

from the nearby bushes was Hein, who quickly

one of the

—Clang!

two intense forces directly shaved a layer off the grass surfaced forest. Some of

"Grrr..."

the wolves finally made their moves as they quickly dashed forward and helped suppress one

on,

body shot forward, and he soon appeared in front

his fist with wind psyons, Ren

out, Ren's sleeves fluttered wildly due to the tremendous speed, creating a paper like sound. Ren's fist then violently shot forward. Within the short distance, the intense force that the fist carried emitted a sharp whistle

sharp noise of the wind breaking behind him caused the

force that it made the

—Bang!

"U...ugh!"

echoed throughout the forest,

back, the black silhouette was

him was not

—Swooosh!

Ren's body stabilized, a sharp wind flashed toward him. With a calm expression on his face, Ren forcefully twisted

body shot back a couple of steps as he

hand on the sheath of his sword, a white glow sprang out from his body as a subtle clicking sound

—Click!

first movement of the [Keiki style] :

within a second that the glow appeared. Not long after, a body fell onto the

huge gaping hole appeared by his

ranked individual

happened

"Im...impossible!"

individual was about to support his partner, to his utter dismay, he was already dead. To make matters worse, he wasn't able to see how his

he quickly took out a small communication device and tried to get in contact with

"Emergency, emergency, we—"

"It's no use."

same spot as before, Ren calmly stared

and taking the dimensional space off of the black-clad individual he

will not function within

were not the only people

also been

couldn't quite figure out the chip, he learned a lot of new things. One such thing was that

here, trying their best to help through the aid of the drones in the sky

was extremely important since Ren did not want the Monolith to find out the

information they knew, the bigger

were above Hein's and Ava's, someone needed to watch

powerless after

"...shit!"

words, the black-clad

denial is not a good

advantage of the black-clad individual's panic,

body disappeared and reappeared in front of the black-clad individual, completely

ball, a green hue shrouded Ren's fist, directly smashing towards the abdomen area of the

—Bam!

"Pu...chi!"

extremely fast, the

feebly fell onto the

—Thud!

"..."

black-clad individual fall to the ground, Ren simply wiped his hand indifferently. Then, turning his head, he looked towards Angelica's

—Boooom!

distance, an explosion rang out,