The Author's POV

Chapter 311

A book he had never seen before lay on his bed.

"Who put this here?"

Kevin muttered out loud as he turned his head around and once again scanned the whole room from top to bottom.

'...Did anybody come here without my permission?'

He wondered to himself.

Even though he had never seen the book before, the more he stared at it, the more entranced with it he became.

It was as though the book was begging for him to pick it up.

This made Kevin more and more apprehensive about the book. There was something wrong with it,.

Yet.

He took a step forward. Towards the book.

—Gulp!

Stopping right at the edge of his bed, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Ba..dum! Ba..dum! Ba..dum!

Unbeknownst to him, his heart started to beat faster.

It wasn't out of fear nor nervousness, but something different…

Something he couldn't explain.

"Huuu…"

Taking a deep breath, Kevin reached out for the book.

Even though his mind was telling him not to touch the book, his body moved on its own. Refusing to listen to him.

It was as though someone was controlling his body.

His finger soon touched the book, and it was at the exact moment that a static current ran down his body.

"Arrgghhh!"

Pain.

An almost unbearable pain coursed through his brain, threatening to tear it apart.

"Huuueeeaaaaaghhh!"

—Thud!

Falling face-first onto the ground, Kevin directly passed out. The pain was too much for him to handle.

Next to him, the now open red book mysteriously glowed.

As though a breeze of air had entered the room, the pages soon started to flip by themselves.

***

Only darkness enveloped Kevin's thoughts and mind for an unknown period of time.

He couldn't hear, see, or feel anything.

Like when he was travelling through a portal, his mind drifted through an endless void.

"Kevin!"

A faint voice reached Kevin's ears.

It was a familiar voice, one that he had heard not too long ago.

"Kevin!"

The voice once again called out for his name.

This time the voice was a lot clearer.

Kevin's mind slowly cleared up, and he opened his eyes. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a devastatingly beautiful girl looking at him at nose length.

With a small pout, she muttered.

"Geeez, class is about to start; just for how long are you planning on sleeping for?"

"…Emma?"

Kevin blinked a couple of times.

Raising his head, he glanced around. Then, much to his surprise, he found himself inside of the classroom.

He couldn't quite remember what happened before that.

"Strange…"

He muttered as he looked around the classroom.

"What's strange?"

Emma tilted her head.

Her short auburn hair gently fell on her shoulder.

Kevin pointed at the classroom.

"Did we have this many people in our class before?"

What are you on

Emma's brows furrowed.

then put her

acting strange, Kevin. Are

"But…"

—Clank!

before Kevin could ask any more questions, the door to the classroom opened up,

It was Donna.

usual elegance, she gathered the attention

class is about to start. Everyone, please

both hands by the side of the podium, Donna's amethyst coloured eyes scanned the

eyes paused on Kevin and

satisfied smile appeared

with the

on her tablet, Donna started

routine that everyone was

"Rank 1, Kevin Voss."

"Present."

Kevin instinctively answered.

remember what had happened the moments

couldn't quite place

"Rank 17, Troy Derekz"

out, to which a youth with yellow eyes raised his hand and

"Present."

"Rank 18..."

was lost in

it taking so

less time. Instead, it was taking a lot more time than

that something caught

it took away all of his

"Rank 1750, Ren Dover."

"Present."

"—!"

stood up and looked towards where the

enough, he didn't hear

the classroom by himself was a youth with

he had an expression of someone who

as Kevin

'Ren! You're alive!'

wanted to shout out loud as he looked at

However, he refrained himself.

that something was wrong with

there something wrong,

podium as her brow

classroom was looking at

it's nothing. Emma poked me by

"H…huh!?"

answer caused Emma

became red, and

"Y...you!"

"Sit down for now."

from the front

because she favoured Kevin due to his

"Thank you, Miss."

down, much

towards Kevin, Emma

better explain to me why you sold

I owe you

Kevin did not care that he had sold her out as he

the many times that Emma wanted to talk to him, Kevin was too busy being in his own

was a mess. He couldn't think of anything else; less needed to be said about

at his watch, Kevin checked the

[September 24, 2055]

—Gulp!

swallowed a mouthful

'2055...'

time of his first

time? Or

"Uk.."

left side of his cheek to make sure he wasn't dreaming, Kevin

This wasn't a dream.

him was real. Supporting

what was going

world is happening, and why am I

of questions rammed through his mind as he tried

But.

he tried,

"Kevin!"

his thoughts was

look, Emma packed up her things before standing up and sulkily leaving

whether you wanted to follow me back to

Kevin could reply, she had already

most of the class

he knew it, the

also

up, Kevin packed up his stuff and exited

the building, the all too familiar

everything felt the same

the same smell nature-like coming from the vegetation, and the

out of

come up with as many reasons as possible as to why he had gone back in time, but regardless of how much he tried to rack his brain over the

why was he

"Huh?"

before he knew it, he had stopped in front of an unfamiliar building.

[Horned sheep]

by the gates of

the sign, Kevin's brows jumped up

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