The Author's POV

"You remember me?"

A chill ran down Aaron's spine as he heard those words. Those indifferent and cold eyes, menacingly staring at him from a few meters away…and that familiar face. A face he thought he would never see again.

"I…impossible…"

Aaron muttered, pointing in the direction of where the other person stood. His hands shook slightly. Still unable to process what was happening before him.

"You should've been dead!"

He said out loud as he took a step back.

"How is possible? I've watched you die…You can't be alive!"

A crazed look flashed in his eyes as he recalled the day of the incident, around three years ago when he used his ability to swap with him. He saw him get engulfed by the flames, it should've been impossible for him to have survived that kind of impact.

It was impossible

"Why would I be dead?"

Ren cocked his head to the side, unmoving from his spot.

"Y..you…y…"

Aaron opened and closed his mouth multiple times, seemingly struggling to find the right words to say. But regardless of how much he wanted to speak, no words came out of his mouth. The shock was too much for him.

For a brief moment of time, his eyes just focused on the figure before him. The figure that should've been dead.

"Huuuu…"

'I need to calm down.'

But the shock did not last for long as letting out a long breath, Aaron forced himself to calm down. He had been trained for incomprehensible situations such as these, and thus he knew best that he had to remain coolheaded.

Losing his mind at the moment would not benefit him in the slightest.

And so, lifting his head up and staring at Ren right in the eyes, he coldly muttered.

"I don't know how you are alive...but it doesn't matter."

Turning his head and staring at the building in the distance, calmness returned to his face.

"You think you'll be fine if you do anything to me? You forget who is inside of that building?"

edges of his lips curled upward. Confidence rose in his

strange. For Ren to have been able to get some people to lead him here, he definitely must've asked a few

clicked his tongue multiple

Now that I know that you're

Bang—

suddenly went dark as he

out of his lungs, and

"Uahk!"

lingered inside the back

to himself as his

fast for him to understand

was only after his vision returned and he saw a large hand in front of him that he finally

"Get up."

a few

"Khhh.."

Aaron gritted his teeth.

just

that. If he wasn't caught

not been slacking during the time the incident happened. He was miles stronger than most

it had to

His confidence slowly rose

stood up. As he stood up, his eyes never left Ren

Aaron was

SHIIIING— SHIIIING—

from his dimensional space, Aaron took a stance and Ren once

at me. Show me how

facial expression unchanging. Seemingly treating this brief exchange as nothing worth his

looking down

his mouth, Aaron looked at his finger where he

saying anything else, pressing his toes into the ground he appeared

you can keep up

dagger towards Ren's temple area. His movement was so

Swoosh—

just as the dagger was about to hit Ren in the temple, Ren's eyes

"Huh."

a simple movement, there was nothing special about it, but Aaron's attack, which was going at speeds faster than a bullet,

"That's it?"

Two words.

when Aaron heard them, it felt as though

'H...how?'