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 not like he's putting on

"Maybe it's his hair?"

shouldn't take this

who was standing beside her. She was currently wearing a beautiful black dress

her hair, which was being held by

"Hmmm…"

forward to take a closer

time that I've seen you with your hair

"Thank you."

with a

her hand on her chin and

Gli Clank—

was then that the both of them heard the sound of

I was having trouble

"Took you long enough."

Wearing a pale yellow one-piece dress, Melissa leaned by the

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

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

before the others, Kevin looked around before

everyone is here, shall we

time on her watch, Emma

should, or we'll end up

"Okay."

headed towards where

steps, Kevin suddenly recalled

"Wait, what about Jin?"

"…"

"…"

"…"

his words, everyone stopped walking and an awkward

couple of seconds that Emma finally opened

he was coming…or rather, forgot about his

***

in the enormous white building

that could host the event. The sheer number of attendees

only the high-ranking elven members stayed, but they made a special

"All done?"

"Yeah."

met up with Douglas

others who also

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

clothes are

fine, it's fine. Stop

if I had

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

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

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 Henlour, but the same couldn't be said

would only be detrimental

"Is there anyone missing?"

Douglas asked, looking around.

back in the dwarven domain, Douglas still looked

he looked even more imposing than

my head, I

think

"Did you forget anything?"

suit, I shook my

I have everything

we

around, Douglas headed towards the lake in

pace, I

met with the others

with

while since I had last seen him. Since the time we split up when we first

"Yeah."

attending meetings with the others that I had no time to

enormous white building in the distance that was becoming clearer

both of them should already be aware of my

look that

turned my head and looked at Waylan who

skin mask, he looked to

that was about to embark on a long war appeared on his face. Quite frankly, he looked quite

thought, before turning my attention back