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

Emma's brows furrowed.

her hand on his

Are you sure

"But…"

—Clank!

any more questions, the door to the classroom opened

It was Donna.

gathered the attention of all of the boys

is about to start. Everyone, please be

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

paused on Kevin

smile appeared on her

start with

her tablet, Donna

was a routine that

"Rank 1, Kevin Voss."

"Present."

Kevin instinctively answered.

tried to remember what had happened the

he couldn't quite

"Rank 17, Troy Derekz"

out, to which a youth with

"Present."

"Rank 18..."

to do the register. Kevin, who was lost in his

it taking

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

then that something caught his

took away all of his

"Rank 1750, Ren Dover."

"Present."

"—!"

looked towards where

he

of the classroom by himself was a youth with

had an expression

as Kevin remembered

'Ren! You're alive!'

shout out loud

However, he refrained himself.

realized that something

something wrong,

by the podium as her

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

Emma poked

"H…huh!?"

caused Emma to be

became red, and she menacingly

"Y...you!"

"Sit down for now."

the

Kevin due to his hard work, but she

"Thank you, Miss."

sat down, much

towards Kevin, Emma hatefully glared

better explain to me why you sold me out

owe you

care that he had sold her out as he immediately apologized

wanted to talk to him, Kevin was

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

at his watch,

[September 24, 2055]

—Gulp!

swallowed a mouthful

'2055...'

of his first

gone back in time? Or is this

"Uk.."

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

This wasn't a dream.

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

didn't know what was going

is happening, and

his mind as he tried his best to remember what happened before arriving

But.

of how much he tried, his mind

"Kevin!"

out of his thoughts was

look, Emma packed up her things before standing

to the dorm, but it looks like you're

could reply, she

realized that most of the class had

it, the class had

also get

exited the building, the all too familiar academy campus was what met his

everything felt the same as back in

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

was out of

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,

was

"Huh?"

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

[Horned sheep]

engraved by the gates of the

at the sign, Kevin's

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