Staring at Emma who was indifferently staring at him from above, Kevin weakly smiled.
"Hey."
"You…"
Despite how hard Emma tried to keep a straight face, before long, her body trembled. She had a hard time formulating her words as her eyes grew blurry.
"W..why did you do that?"
Her voice was faint and weak, but Kevin was able to make out every single word that came out of her mouth.
"A...re you so desperate to breakthrough that you would reduce your body to that state?...Are you still not over...his death?"
Lifting his head up, and meeting Emma's eyes, Kevin shook his head.
"No, it's not that."
"Then why!"
She screamed, tears flowing down her cheek.
"Why would you do that to yourself? Do you not understand how worried everyone was when they saw you in that state in your room!?"
"You wouldn't understand."
Kevin replied.
He couldn't quite bring himself to tell her the truth. That he had done what he did to save Ren.
He wanted to, but he couldn't.
Who would believe him in the first place? Ren was dead, he'd only look crazy to Emma if he said those words.
"You…"
A hurt look appeared on Emma's face as she heard Kevin's words.
"Am I that untrustworthy to you?"
"No, it's not that."
Shaking his head, Kevin took out the wires that were attached to his body and weakly stood up.
"What are you doing!"
This obviously flustered Emma who rushed towards him and tried to put him back on the bed.
"Got you."
But just as Emma was about to grab him, extended his hand forward, Kevin grabbed Emma by the arm and pulled her towards the bed, helping himself up in the meantime.
"Hiak!"
Falling onto the bed, she screamed in panic.
Staring at Emma who was on the bed, Kevin teasingly smiled.
"Thanks for helping me up."
"You!"
An enraged looked appeared on Emma's face as she looked up towards Kevin.
Turning his back in Emma and walking towards the exit of the room, Kevin's smile faded.
Thinking back at all the things that had happened recently, Kevin felt this sense of urgency rise from within him.
From the synchronization episodes to the fact that the demon king was going to ascend in eight years' time, Kevin knew that he could no longer take things as easily as before. This recent event was a wake-up call to him.
He had to put in even more effort. He had been relying on his system too much.
Now that it wasn't grating him as many quests as before, he knew that he needed to make a change.
He needed to push himself even more than he ever pushed himself before.
"Hey Kevin, where are you going?"
Right as Kevin was about to leave the room, Emma's voice echoed from behind.
Turning around, Kevin briefly glanced at Emma before answering.
"I'm going back to the dorm."
"To do what?"
Halting his footsteps right at the door, Kevin extended his hand and pushed the door open.
"To train."
***
Eight months later.
a large banner hung at
[Lock third-year graduation ceremony.]
myriad of people walked below the banner as agents and guild scouts appeared all over the academy campus. Their eyes, which seemed
It was a mess.
I finally manage to run away
a rather secluded area, Kevin looked back
his knees, Kevin tried to
a month before graduating, a series of guilds crazily started contacting him, in hopes of recruiting him. This was understandable, being
was a limit to how crazy things could get. But with him constantly being harassed on the phone every day and
didn't work as they would somehow find out
"About time you arrived."
was Emma who was looking at him with her arms crossed. Her foot
her were Jin and
too wore a similar attire as they
had to take a
walking up
behind him one more time, Kevin
finally leaving
the Lock, it was now finally time for him to leave. It'd be a lie if he said that he wasn't sad. A lot of good memories
others from the corner of his eyes,
one that cared about leaving the least. In hindsight, she spent most of her time in the lab, therefore, she didn't have
about the fact that we're
don't." Melissa bluntly replied. "What are we even doing
you forget that she wanted to celebrate our graduation with
replied from the
behind her ear, she
said something about,
something, Emma suddenly turned her head
about timing. She's already
the silhouette of a figure exiting
that perfectly showed off the contour of her body and legs, Amanda stepped out of the car and faintly smiled in
"Thank you for waiting."
said, walking in
didn't make you wait
did you want
even sharing
also had to be said that she was quite comfortable with Amanda, which
join
Amanda replied back.
she said those words, Melissa's face
seeing the small
joke
her
I was joking?" Amanda replied, turning her attention towards Kevin. "My offer still
"No thank you."
kindly declined with
"That's too bad."
didn't seem too fazed
sake of it. I mean, who wouldn't want someone
side of her hair behind her ear,
up your mind into
"Yeah."
Kevin nodded.
alive, he still decided to join the
he decided that this was the best course of
on using him, Kevin
their
should we do
asked
her stomach a little, she looked
go eat or anything? I'm
helpless look on her face, Amanda looked at Emma before she nodded her
booked a good place where we can all stay to celebrate
good, cause
to say anything else, she quickly headed
she got in, rolling the
are you waiting for?
she sat back in the
from afar,
know what
"Shall we just go?"
it was only after Kevin said those words that everyone
'It wasn't bad.'
for one last time before the car slowly sped into
***
[Henlour, elder hall.]
where all the other elders sat, Gervis
been any further reports
every corner
There are still quite a few at large, but let's be honest, they are nothing but cornered
from a couple
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