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.

her hand on

Are you sure

"But…"

—Clank!

the door to the

It was Donna.

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

is about to start. Everyone, please

of the

paused on Kevin

appeared

with

tablet, Donna started doing

a routine that everyone

"Rank 1, Kevin Voss."

"Present."

Kevin instinctively answered.

No matter how much he tried to remember what had happened the moments before waking up in the classroom, he

he couldn't quite place his finger on what

"Rank 17, Troy Derekz"

youth with yellow eyes raised his hand and

"Present."

"Rank 18..."

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

it taking

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

that

it took away

"Rank 1750, Ren Dover."

"Present."

"—!"

and looked towards where the voice came

he didn't hear

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

an expression of someone

as Kevin

'Ren! You're alive!'

to shout out loud as

However, he refrained himself.

was because he suddenly realized that something was wrong with

there something wrong,

the podium as

looking at him,

it's nothing. Emma poked me by

"H…huh!?"

Emma to

became red, and she menacingly glared

"Y...you!"

"Sit down for now."

said from the front

was because she favoured Kevin due to his hard work, but she didn't pursue the matter

"Thank you, Miss."

down, much to Emma's

Emma hatefully glared

to me why you sold me out

I owe you

he had sold her out as he immediately

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

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

his watch,

[September 24, 2055]

—Gulp!

a mouthful of

'2055...'

coincided with the time of his first year

gone back in time? Or is this a

"Uk.."

he wasn't dreaming, Kevin opened his eyes widely when he

This wasn't a dream.

was real. Supporting his head with both

didn't know what

is happening, and why

flood of questions rammed through his mind as he tried his best

But.

he tried, his

"Kevin!"

out of his

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

to follow me back to the dorm, but it

reply, she

of the

the class

also

up his stuff and

exited the building, the all too

the same as back in the real

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

out

next hour or so. Throughout the walk, his mind tried to come up with as many reasons as possible as to why

was he

"Huh?"

in front of an unfamiliar building. Rather,

[Horned sheep]

by the gates of

the sign, Kevin's

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