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 you on

Emma's brows furrowed.

put her hand

strange, Kevin. Are

"But…"

—Clank!

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

It was Donna.

the class with her usual elegance, she gathered the attention of

class is about to start. Everyone, please be

the podium, Donna's amethyst coloured eyes

her eyes paused on Kevin and the

appeared

start with the

her tablet, Donna started doing the

that everyone was used

"Rank 1, Kevin Voss."

"Present."

Kevin instinctively answered.

he tried to remember what had happened the moments before waking up in the classroom,

wrong, but he couldn't quite

"Rank 17, Troy Derekz"

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

"Present."

"Rank 18..."

the register. Kevin, who was lost

is it

taken a lot less time. Instead, it was

was then that something caught

rather, it took away all of his

"Rank 1750, Ren Dover."

"Present."

"—!"

stood up and looked towards where the

enough, he didn't hear

classroom by himself was a youth with deep blue eyes

an expression of someone who

was exactly as Kevin

'Ren! You're alive!'

wanted to shout out loud

However, he refrained himself.

realized that something

there something

podium as her brow

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

poked me by

"H…huh!?"

caused Emma to be

became red, and she menacingly glared at

"Y...you!"

"Sit down for now."

from the

she favoured Kevin due to his hard

"Thank you, Miss."

much to Emma's

Kevin, Emma hatefully

explain to me why you sold me out like

I owe you

Kevin did not care that he had sold her

Emma wanted to talk to him, Kevin was too busy being in his own

the moment, his mind was a mess. He couldn't think of

watch, Kevin checked

[September 24, 2055]

—Gulp!

a mouthful of

'2055...'

of his first year

in time? Or is this a dream?

"Uk.."

Kevin opened his eyes

This wasn't a dream.

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

know what was going

world is

as he tried

But.

much he tried, his

"Kevin!"

him out of his thoughts

an annoyed look, Emma packed up her things before standing up

was planning on asking you whether you wanted to follow me back to the dorm, but it looks like you're not in the

reply, she

Kevin realized that most of the

he knew it, the class

also

Kevin packed up his stuff and

all too familiar academy campus was what met his

everything felt the same

clean air, the same smell nature-like coming from the vegetation, and the same noisy students who hung

was out

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

was

"Huh?"

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

[Horned sheep]

by the gates of the

the sign, Kevin's brows

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