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.

slower than me? It's not like

"Maybe it's his hair?"

It shouldn't take this long to

was standing beside her. She was currently wearing a beautiful black dress that sparkled under the veil of the moonlight,

which was being held by a small pin, exposing her slender

"Hmmm…"

eyes, Emma leaned forward to take a

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

"Thank you."

with a

her hand on her chin and muttering. "Maybe I

Gli Clank—

was then that the both of them heard the sound

wait. I was having

"Took you long enough."

yellow one-piece dress, Melissa leaned by the side of

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

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

the stairs and arriving before the others, Kevin looked around before

is here, shall we

on her watch, Emma replied with

or we'll

"Okay."

once Emma's words faded everyone headed towards where the ceremony was

taken a few steps, Kevin suddenly recalled something and his footsteps came to a sudden

"Wait, what about Jin?"

"…"

"…"

"…"

stopped walking and

was only after a couple of seconds that Emma

was coming…or rather, forgot about

***

was being held was in the enormous white building in

the only place that could host the event. The sheer number of attendees was far too many for a simple building

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

"All done?"

"Yeah."

suit, I met up with Douglas

him were the others who also were dressed in formal

was there. He looked quite uncomfortable with a suit, but whenever he tried to complain, Smallsnake would

are all

it's fine.

a comical sight if I

was mostly her choice, but it

elves still fully trusted her. Perhaps some could trust her, but many were still against the idea of

that this was for her safety too. Since Angelica had helped the dwarves, she was considered a traitor to the demons. We managed

would only be

"Is there anyone missing?"

Douglas asked, looking around.

back in the dwarven

even more imposing

head, I

I think everyone

"Did you forget anything?"

my suit, I shook

I have everything

then, we

Douglas headed towards the lake in the

pace, I

you met with the

with

him. Since the time we split up when we first arrive. I

"Yeah."

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

the enormous white building in the distance

aware of my presence.

look that

my head and looked at Waylan

looked to be in his

about to embark on a long war appeared on his face. Quite

didn't get much sleep, huh?' I muttered in thought, before turning my attention