The Author's POV

Four days later.

"Ugh, not this again."

My face darkened as I looked at myself in the mirror.

Wearing the same suit as when I met the other elders in Henlour, I once again struggled to tie my tie.

There were improvements, however.

Staring at my reflection in the mirror, turning around, and touching my tie multiple times, I nodded in satisfaction.

"It's not too bad."

Compared to last time, when I struggled quite hard to tie it, there were massive improvements.

Remembering how Douglas had tied my tie, I was somewhat able to mimic his movements. Thanks to that, I was able to somewhat do a good job. Was well satisfied with it.

Of course, it wasn't perfect, but it was better than nothing.

Staring at myself in the mirror and fixing my hair which was still quite long, my hand paused slightly.

'They should also be there…'

Kevin, and the others. I was finally going to see them properly.

This time, not from afar.

"Huu…"

Thinking about them, I let out a long breath.

'I guess it's time.'

After thinking things through, I decided to finally reveal myself to the others.

There was no point in hiding myself from the others. Sure, the high-ranking members of the Union were there, but it wasn't like they could instantly tell that I was 876.

With the chip disabled, it would be quite difficult for them to figure out who I was.

This was why I decided to stop pretending. Of course, I was only planning on revealing myself to them. Not the Union.

Despite the fact that the chip was now disabled, and there being no concrete evidence linking me to 876, there were still many loopholes in such thought.

For example, the last sighting of 876 was in the dwarven domain. I came out of the dwarven domain. 876 is a human, I am a human...there were just too many links for my comfort.

'It's too risky to expose myself completely.'

The more I thought about it, the more I realized just how much of a risk my exposure was, but…

'I'll still meet them.'

My mind was made, and I wasn't going to change it, even if the risks were there.

I just needed to be more careful.

Fixing my clothes, and reaching out for my mask by the side of the table, I pressed it against my face and my face soon morphed into that of someone else.

"But before that, I need to take care of something else…"

There was something very important that I needed to take care of before meeting with the others again.

***

"Hurry up, we're going to be late.

Emma's voice rang from below the residence as she looked up towards a certain window.

Ci Clank—

Opening the window of the room, Kevin leaned out of it and shouted.

"Give me a minute! I'm coming."

"Wha—"

Clank—!

Kevin closed the window before she could even speak. This obviously did not sit well for her as she Crossed her arms together, and pouted in dissatisfaction.

than me? It's

"Maybe it's his hair?"

this long

standing beside her. She was currently wearing a beautiful

hair, which was being held by a small

"Hmmm…"

leaned forward to

I take a closer look, it's the first time

"Thank you."

replied with a

you look really beautiful," Emma circled Amanda multiple times before placing her hand on her chin and

Gli Clank—

then that the both of them heard the sound of a door closing. What

the wait. I was

"Took you long enough."

a pale yellow one-piece dress, Melissa leaned

for the first time in a while, she decided to wear contacts, exposing her beautiful crystal clear eyes that sucked one in

her brows were slightly knit a frown. But at the same time, she always looked annoyed. This was probably

arriving before the others, Kevin looked

here, shall we get

her watch, Emma

or we'll end up

"Okay."

once Emma's words faded everyone headed towards where the

suddenly

"Wait, what about Jin?"

"…"

"…"

"…"

and an awkward silence enveloped

was only after a couple of seconds that Emma

forgot he was coming…or rather, forgot about his

***

ceremony was being held was in the enormous white building in the

could host the event. The sheer number of attendees was far too many

was supposed to be the place where only the high-ranking elven members stayed, but they made

"All done?"

"Yeah."

suit, I met up with Douglas

were the others who

suit, but whenever

clothes are

fine. Stop pestering

a comical sight if I

her choice, but it was also the

back in Henlour, but that didn't mean that the orcs and elves still fully trusted her. Perhaps

she was considered a traitor to the demons. We managed to hide this back in Henlour, but the same couldn't

only be

"Is there anyone missing?"

Douglas asked, looking around.

different suit compared to the one that he wore back in the dwarven domain, Douglas still looked as imposing as

fact, he looked even more imposing than

my head,

I think everyone

"Did you forget anything?"

suit, I

I have everything with

then, we

Douglas headed towards the lake in the

pace, I

with

with

him. Since the time we split up

"Yeah."

his head."I've been too busy attending meetings with the others that I

enormous white building in the distance that was

aware of my presence. I'll meet

look

I turned my head and looked at Waylan who was quietly following us

mask, he looked to

on a long

muttered in thought, before turning my attention back to Douglas and pointing at Waylan