The Author's POV

Chapter 371

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

[Lock third-year graduation ceremony.]

people walked below the banner as agents and guild scouts appeared all over

It was a mess.

manage to run away from

in a rather secluded area, Kevin looked back at the academy

on his knees, Kevin tried to catch

him. This was understandable, being the top-ranked guy

him constantly being harassed on the phone every day and

they would somehow find out

"About time you arrived."

the area was Emma who was looking at him with

to her were Jin

all wore long robes with the academy logo engraved on the back. Kevin too wore a similar attire as they were the academy graduation robes, signifying that they had graduated from the

had to take a

before walking up

him one more time, Kevin had a nostalgic

finally leaving

to leave. It'd be a lie if he said that he wasn't

corner of his eyes, Kevin's eyes paused on

leaving the least. In hindsight, she spent most of her time in the lab, therefore, she didn't have any attachment to

about the

don't." Melissa bluntly replied. "What are we even doing here

that she

from

behind her ear,

said something about,

something, Emma suddenly turned

about timing. She's already

saw the silhouette of a figure exiting a nice

off the contour of her body and legs, Amanda stepped out of the car

"Thank you for waiting."

said, walking

didn't make you

you want us here

said, lifting her glasses up. Before even sharing any formalities, she quickly went straight to the

was quite comfortable

to join my

Amanda replied back.

Melissa's

upon seeing the small smile

not joke about

said, pointing her

offer still stands. If you're not planning on joining the Union, you can always join

"No thank you."

kindly declined with a

"That's too bad."

didn't seem too fazed

tried for the sake of it. I mean, who wouldn't want

her hair behind her ear, she looked at Kevin and

up your mind into joining

"Yeah."

Kevin nodded.

alive, he still decided to join

decided that this was the best

they were planning on using him,

their own

should we do

suddenly asked from

little,

eat or anything?

a helpless look on her face, Amanda looked

we can all stay to

cause I'm

anything else, she quickly headed in

got in, rolling the passenger window

are you waiting for? Let's go

she said those words, she sat back in the car

Emma from afar, everyone was

didn't know what to

"Shall we just go?"

the end, it was only after Kevin said those words that everyone finally

'It wasn't bad.'

and staring at the academy campus for one last time before the car slowly sped into the distance, Kevin knew that this

***

[Henlour, elder hall.]

where all the other elders sat, Gervis looked

there been any further reports regarding the remains members of

solemn voice reached every corner of

quite a few at large, but let's be honest, they are nothing but cornered rats at this

from a couple of

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