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?"

are

Emma's brows furrowed.

her hand

Kevin. Are you sure

"But…"

—Clank!

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

It was Donna.

she gathered the attention

to start.

of the podium, Donna's amethyst coloured eyes scanned the

her eyes paused on Kevin and

smile appeared on

with

her tablet, Donna started doing the

that

"Rank 1, Kevin Voss."

"Present."

Kevin instinctively answered.

he tried to remember what had happened the

quite place his finger on what was

"Rank 17, Troy Derekz"

which a youth with yellow eyes raised his hand

"Present."

"Rank 18..."

to do the register. Kevin, who was lost in his own thoughts, frowned as he

it taking

time. Instead, it was

was then that

took away all

"Rank 1750, Ren Dover."

"Present."

"—!"

stood up and looked towards

enough, he didn't hear

classroom by himself was a youth with deep blue eyes and jet black

an expression

exactly as

'Ren! You're alive!'

loud as

However, he refrained himself.

was because he suddenly realized that something was wrong with

something

asked by the podium as

realizing that everyone in the classroom was looking at him, including Ren, Kevin seriously shook his

poked me by the

"H…huh!?"

Emma

and she menacingly glared

"Y...you!"

"Sit down for now."

said from the front

Kevin due to his hard work, but

"Thank you, Miss."

sat down, much

Kevin, Emma hatefully glared at

better explain to me why you sold me out like

I owe

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

many times that Emma wanted to talk to him, Kevin was

couldn't think of

his watch, Kevin checked the

[September 24, 2055]

—Gulp!

swallowed a mouthful of

'2055...'

of his

time? Or is this a dream? An

"Uk.."

of his cheek to make sure he wasn't dreaming, Kevin opened his eyes widely

This wasn't a dream.

real. Supporting his head with both hands, Kevin's

what was going

in the world is happening,

he tried his best to remember what happened before

But.

of how much he tried, his

"Kevin!"

his thoughts

look, Emma packed up her things before

follow me back to the dorm,

Kevin could reply,

around, Kevin realized that most of

it, the class had already

also get

up, Kevin packed up his stuff and exited the

all too familiar

same as back in

the vegetation, and

was out of

so. Throughout the walk, his mind tried to come up with as many reasons as possible as to why he had gone back

was he

"Huh?"

he knew it, he had stopped in front of an unfamiliar building. Rather, he had seen the building before but had never actually

[Horned sheep]

by the

Kevin's brows jumped

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