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.

me? It's not like he's putting on any

"Maybe it's his hair?"

hair? It shouldn't take this long to

wearing a beautiful black dress that sparkled under

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

"Hmmm…"

forward to take a

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

"Thank you."

with a

before placing her hand

Gli Clank—

of them heard the sound of a door closing. What followed after was Kevin's

the wait. I was

"Took you long enough."

commented from the side. Wearing a pale yellow one-piece dress,

glasses, and today, for the first time in a while, she decided to wear contacts,

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

and arriving before the others,

everyone is here, shall we get

her watch, Emma

or we'll

"Okay."

words faded everyone headed towards

a few steps, Kevin suddenly

"Wait, what about Jin?"

"…"

"…"

"…"

his words, everyone stopped walking and an awkward silence

was only after a couple of seconds that

he was coming…or rather, forgot

***

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

host the event. The sheer number of attendees was

the high-ranking elven members stayed, but they made a special exception this time,

"All done?"

"Yeah."

my suit, I met up with Douglas in front

were the others who also were

suit, but whenever he tried

are

fine. Stop pestering

if I had

This was mostly her choice, but it was also the most appropriate

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

also had to be noted that this was for her safety too. Since Angelica had helped the dwarves, she was considered a traitor to the demons. We managed to hide this back in

would only be detrimental to her

"Is there anyone missing?"

Douglas asked, looking around.

compared to the one that he wore back

even more

head, I

I think everyone

"Did you forget anything?"

I

have

then, we may

towards the lake in the faraway

I walked beside

you met with

mean with Donna

time we split up when we first arrive. I was genuinely curious if he

"Yeah."

not yet." Douglas shook his head."I've been too busy attending meetings with the others that I had no time to look

building in the distance that was becoming clearer by the

aware of my

don't look

and looked at Waylan who was quietly following us

skin mask, he looked to be in

soldier that was about to embark on a long

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