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."

letter, he realized that it was just a

his bed, he let

need to stop

waking up, he felt paranoid about everything. Just the slightest thing

"Ukh!"

head prompting him to flinch slightly. Fortunately, the pain only lasted for a

the area that

does the side of

***

Thump—!

white towel from the side and wiped the sweat from my

forgotten about

the incident. The one

lines of, 'Everything I went through is a dream.' or

what I wanted him to

was merely something for my own

were able to somewhat create enough alibies and evidence to make it seem that he really had

"You're early."

training room, near my residence. This was a small perk I got

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

I'm used

and it was at my disposal, I told the others

everyone expect Melissa who did not want

"You look quite tired."

dumbbells are pretty

mass-changing properties of my sword, I had to resort to this kind of muscle

this, even if I used the Keiki style and increased the mass of the sword halfway through my swing, by the time I

"How heavy?"

"About 500kg?"

"...That much?"

anything lower

nodded her head. Extending her hand, she took out her

mouth as she gathered her hair behind her in

we do

"Yeah."

first time that Amanda and I met up. It was probably the fourth time by now. I was a bit surprised the first time, turns out we both trained at

routine she was used to ever since taking over the guild

since her days were usually

it was more of a habit I developed when training in the

this was

lot more efficient than just training alone. Plus, there were a lot of

Nola and

at

"Are you ready?"

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

was helping me train my

that one of my lacking aspects was my agility.

was a big help to

"Ready."

"Okay, I'm starting."

released the string of her

first

even a second after she shot her first arrow, two more arrows shot out and following this more and more quickly headed in my direction. It wasn't long before a wall made of blue streaks appeared

from the distance,

going

for this training. I wasn't allowed to

was training my agility,

Xiu! Xiu! Xiu!

missiles, the arrows soon

onto the ground, I

Xiu!

Moving my hands in front of me, twisting my heel, I swiftly grabbed

arrows lost their momentum, I dropped them to the ground and did the

started to accumulate on my forehead as I found my body progressively getting more and more tired

that wasn't the only thing I was feeling. I could vividly feel myself getting better and

flashed across my eyes as I continued to

to get used to the rhythm and I