The Author's POV

"Ghua!"

Aaron's eyes shot wide open. Clenching onto his heart, Aaron started hyperventilating. He kept breathing, but with each breath he took, he felt this overwhelming sense of death wash over him.

"Haa...haaa..."

Only after taking a couple more breaths did Aaron finally calm down a little.

'What happened to me?'

He looked beneath him, his bedsheets were soaked in his own sweat. Touching his forehead, Aaron wiped his forehead which was dripping with sweat.

Faint memories started to surface inside of his mind as his face paled considerably.

"Ukh..."

Clenching onto his head and letting out a groan, Arron lifted his head and looked around him.

Wooden floor, white walls, and a white ceiling. He was in his own residence.

"Haa...haaa..."

His hyperventilation did not stop as he bit his lips till his lips bled. his body shook all over. Hugging his body, he repeatedly muttered.

"Spar..e..me...spare...me."

He could feel this vivid sense of pain course through his whole body. He just wanted it to stop.

'What is this smell?'

Sniffing around, Aaron suddenly smelled a strong and pungent smell, reminiscent of that of alcohol. Lowering his head, he pulled his shirt and smelled it.

"It's coming from me."

He mumbled underneath his breath. When he realized this, he pulled himself off his bed and moved straight to the mirror.

He stumbled a couple of times, but it wasn't long before he stood face to face with the mirror.

"...I'm still okay?"

Aaron muttered, touching his face and body all over. Though faint, images of different scenarios propped up inside of his mind. Recalling them his body trembled all over.

The pain.

It felt so vivid. As though he had truly experienced it.

Even now, he couldn't quite get rid of the sense he had experienced.

"It was just a dream, just a dream...I must've drank too much...he's dead for sure."

Aaron repeatedly muttered as he stared at himself in the mirror. It had to be that.

The smell of alcohol in the room and the fact that he was still alright were testaments to that. Also, the fact that the person responsible for torturing him was someone who was supposed to be dead, Aaron realized that there were simply too many holes in his dreams to make it seem that what had happened had truly happened.

He laughed.

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"Hahah, it must've been a bad dream."

His laugh was forced, but he was merely trying his best to remain composed.

Although he had no idea about what happened at the party, he was planning on checking later to make sure it really was a dream.

"Fuuuu..."

But just as Aaron had calmed down, and he had managed to convince himself that everything that had happened last night was merely a dream that came as a result of him getting too drunk, from the corner of his eyes, he caught a glimpse of a small letter by the side of his desk.

"What's this?"

An ominous feeling washed over him as he laid eyes on the letter.

"Huuuu..."

Taking another deep breath to calm his nerves down, Aaron slowly walked toward the letter. Extending his hand which was trembling, he slowly unfurled the letter.

"...Whew."

through the contents of the letter, he realized that it was just a

on his bed,

to

felt paranoid about everything. Just the slightest thing startled

"Ukh!"

head prompting him to flinch slightly. Fortunately, the pain

area that hurt,

the side of my head

***

Thump—!

ground, I took a white towel from

probably forgotten about everything

passed since the incident. The one

moment, Aaron was probably thinking something along the lines of, 'Everything I

what I wanted him

own self-satisfaction.

the aid of Douglas and the others, we were able to somewhat create enough alibies and evidence to make it seem that he really had been drunk, and

"You're early."

a private training room, near my residence. This was

meters away, Amanda's voice rang out. Looking at her, I

used

and it was at my disposal,

everyone expect Melissa who did not want to have anything

"You look quite tired."

dumbbells are pretty

order to get used to the mass-changing properties of my sword, I had to resort

I used the Keiki style and increased the mass of the sword halfway through my swing, by the time I was done with my movements,

"How heavy?"

"About 500kg?"

"...That much?"

lower would not

Extending her hand, she took out her

her mouth as she gathered her hair behind her in a ponytail, revealing her slender

should we

"Yeah."

up. It was probably the fourth time by now. I was a bit surprised the first

was used to

her days were usually very busy with

I developed when training in the wilderness back in

this was good for

with someone else was a lot more efficient than just training alone. Plus, there were a lot of things that I wanted to

regarding Nola

her bow and aiming it at me, Amanda's

"Are you ready?"

both of my hands forward, I channeled the wind psyons inside of my body until a green

now, Amanda was helping me train my reflexes

my lacking aspects was my agility. Not only that, but

big help to

"Ready."

"Okay, I'm starting."

the string

light shot out from her bow. Following the first shot, Amanda extended

following this more and more quickly headed in my direction. It wasn't long before a

them from the distance, my face

going to

on myself for this training. I wasn't allowed to

agility, this was the most

Xiu! Xiu! Xiu!

air like missiles, the arrows soon materialized

foot onto the ground,

Xiu!

two more arrows arrived in my vicinity. Moving my hands in front of

the ground

sweat started to accumulate on my forehead as I found my body progressively getting

only thing I was feeling. I could vividly feel myself getting better

my eyes as I continued to dodge the

before I started to get used to the