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.

then put her hand on his

strange, Kevin. Are you sure

"But…"

—Clank!

ask any more questions, the door to the classroom opened up, and a familiar figure

It was Donna.

her usual elegance, she gathered the attention of all of the

is about to start. Everyone, please be

of the podium, Donna's amethyst coloured eyes

her eyes paused on Kevin

smile appeared on

with

Donna started doing the

routine that everyone

"Rank 1, Kevin Voss."

"Present."

Kevin instinctively answered.

matter how much he tried to remember what had happened the moments before waking

he couldn't quite place

"Rank 17, Troy Derekz"

youth with yellow eyes raised his hand and

"Present."

"Rank 18..."

who was lost in his own thoughts, frowned

is it taking

the registration would've taken a lot less time. Instead, it was

that something

took away all

"Rank 1750, Ren Dover."

"Present."

"—!"

and looked towards where

enough, he didn't

the left side of the classroom by himself was a youth with deep blue eyes and jet

expression of someone who

as Kevin remembered

'Ren! You're alive!'

wanted to shout out loud

However, he refrained himself.

he suddenly realized that something was wrong

something wrong,

the podium as her brow

classroom was looking at him, including

nothing. Emma poked

"H…huh!?"

Emma to be

became red, and

"Y...you!"

"Sit down for now."

impatiently said from the front of the

due to his hard work, but

"Thank you, Miss."

sat down, much

Kevin, Emma

better explain to me why you sold me out

owe

that he had sold her out

wanted to talk to him, Kevin was too

moment, his mind was a mess. He couldn't think of anything else; less needed

watch, Kevin checked

[September 24, 2055]

—Gulp!

a mouthful

'2055...'

of his first year

time? Or is

"Uk.."

to make sure he wasn't dreaming, Kevin opened his eyes widely when he realized that he was actually feeling the

This wasn't a dream.

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

what

in the world is happening, and why am I

as he tried his best

But.

he

"Kevin!"

him out of his thoughts

him an annoyed look, Emma packed up her things before standing up and sulkily

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

reply,

Kevin realized that most of the class had already

the class had already

should also get

packed up his stuff and exited

he exited the building, the all too familiar academy

the same as

smell nature-like coming from the vegetation, and

was out of

campus for the next hour or so. Throughout the walk, his mind tried to 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 matter, he couldn't figure

was

"Huh?"

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

[Horned sheep]

the

the sign, Kevin's brows jumped up

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