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

"Maybe it's his hair?"

It shouldn't take this long to

wearing a beautiful black dress that

was being

"Hmmm…"

Emma leaned forward to take a closer look

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

"Thank you."

replied with

multiple times before placing her hand on her chin and muttering. "Maybe

Gli Clank—

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

I was having

"Took you long enough."

a pale 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,

looked pretty annoyed as her 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

is here, shall we get

her watch, Emma replied with a

or we'll

"Okay."

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

suddenly recalled something

"Wait, what about Jin?"

"…"

"…"

"…"

and an awkward silence

was only after a couple of seconds

was coming…or rather, forgot about

***

held was in the

sheer

elven members stayed, but

"All done?"

"Yeah."

up with Douglas in

were the others who also were dressed

looked quite uncomfortable with a suit, but whenever

clothes are

it's fine.

if

Angelica. This was mostly her choice, but it

fully trusted her. Perhaps some could trust her, but many were still

dwarves, she was considered a traitor to the demons. We managed to hide this back in Henlour, but the same

only be detrimental to

"Is there anyone missing?"

Douglas asked, looking around.

to the one that he wore back in the dwarven domain, Douglas

fact, he looked even more imposing

head, I

think

"Did you forget anything?"

I shook my

have

we may

around, Douglas headed towards the lake in the faraway

his pace, I walked beside

you met with the others

mean with Donna

had been a while since I had last seen him. Since the time we split up when we first arrive. I was genuinely curious if

"Yeah."

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

in the distance that was becoming clearer

aware of my presence. I'll meet them at

look that

my head and looked at Waylan

a skin mask, he looked to be

akin to a soldier that was about to embark on a long war

much sleep, huh?' I muttered in thought, before turning my attention back to Douglas and pointing