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.

he slower than me? It's not like

"Maybe it's his hair?"

shouldn't take this long to do

was currently wearing a beautiful black dress that sparkled under the veil

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

"Hmmm…"

forward to

time

"Thank you."

with

her hand on her chin and muttering. "Maybe I should try it

Gli Clank—

was then that the both of them heard the sound of

was having trouble putting

"Took you long enough."

yellow one-piece dress, Melissa leaned by

for Melissa to not wear any glasses, and today, for the first time in a while, she decided to wear contacts, exposing her beautiful crystal clear eyes that sucked one in if

knit a frown. But at the same time, she always looked annoyed. This was probably why no one paid much attention to

and arriving before the others, Kevin looked

like everyone is here,

the time on her watch, Emma replied with a

or we'll

"Okay."

headed towards where

suddenly recalled something and his footsteps came

"Wait, what about Jin?"

"…"

"…"

"…"

words, everyone stopped walking and an

only after a couple of

kind of forgot he was coming…or rather,

***

the ceremony was being held was in the enormous

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

the high-ranking elven members stayed, but they made

"All done?"

"Yeah."

with Douglas in front of my

him were the others who

was there. He looked quite uncomfortable with a suit, but whenever he tried

are all

it's fine. Stop

if I had to

Angelica. This was mostly her choice, but it

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

Angelica had helped the dwarves, she was considered a traitor to

would only be detrimental

"Is there anyone missing?"

Douglas asked, looking around.

back in the dwarven domain, Douglas still looked

he looked even

head,

I think everyone is

"Did you forget anything?"

suit, I shook

I have everything

we

towards the lake in

pace, I

you met with the others

mean with

been a while since I had last seen him. Since the time we split up

"Yeah."

busy attending meetings with the others that I had no time to look

white building in

already be aware of

look that

my head and looked at Waylan who

a skin mask, he looked to be in

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

much sleep, huh?' I muttered in thought, before turning my attention back