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.
large banner hung at the entrance of
[Lock third-year graduation ceremony.]
below the banner as agents and guild scouts appeared all over the academy campus.
It was a mess.
finally manage to run
outside of the academy building, in a rather secluded
on his knees,
of guilds crazily started contacting him, in hopes of recruiting him. This was understandable, being the top-ranked guy for three years in a row was without a doubt something that all guilds
him constantly being harassed on the phone every day and night, Kevin was forced to change his phone
work as they would somehow find out
"About time you arrived."
Kevin in the area was Emma who was looking at him with her arms crossed.
next to her were Jin
Kevin too wore
take a
before walking up
behind him one more time, Kevin had a nostalgic look on
leaving this
over three years at 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 were
of his eyes, Kevin's eyes paused
hindsight, she spent most of her time in the lab, therefore, she didn't have any attachment to the
to care at all about the
Melissa bluntly replied. "What are
you forget that she wanted to celebrate
replied from
behind her ear, she yawned
said something about,
something, Emma suddenly turned
about timing. She's already
everyone saw the silhouette of a
long one-pieced black dress that perfectly showed off the contour of her body and legs, Amanda stepped out of the car
"Thank you for waiting."
said, walking
make you wait for
what did you
her glasses up. Before even sharing any formalities, she quickly
she was quite comfortable with
join
Amanda replied back.
said those words, Melissa's face
to then relax upon seeing the small smile on
better not joke
pointing her finger in her
"My offer still
"No thank you."
declined with
"That's too bad."
seem too fazed
the sake of it. I mean, who wouldn't want
her hair behind her ear,
you've made up your mind
"Yeah."
Kevin nodded.
that Ren was alive, he
was the best course of action to take in
were planning on using him, Kevin
their
should we
asked from
a little,
eat or
Amanda looked at
booked a good place where we
cause I'm
headed in the direction of her car and
rolling the passenger window down,
are you waiting
words, she sat back in the car and nudged them to
afar, everyone was
know
"Shall we just go?"
those
'It wasn't bad.'
staring at the academy campus for one last time before the car
***
[Henlour, elder hall.]
desk where all the other elders sat, Gervis looked around
been any further reports regarding the
every corner of the
couple surviving members, but that's all. There are still quite a few
a couple of seats
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