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 long list of rules regarding the upcoming

down on his bed, he let out another deep

to

he felt paranoid about everything. Just the

"Ukh!"

pain coursed through the right side of Aaron's head prompting him to flinch slightly. Fortunately, the pain

the area that hurt, he

side

***

Thump—!

dumbbell onto the ground, I took a white towel

probably forgotten about everything that has

passed since the incident. The

something along the lines of, 'Everything I

what I wanted him to

torture was merely something for my own self-satisfaction.

alibies and evidence to make

"You're early."

my residence. This was a

voice rang out. Looking

used

disposal,

expect Melissa

"You look quite tired."

dumbbells are pretty

properties of my sword, I had to resort to this

not for this, even if 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, my sword would just drop to the ground and an

"How heavy?"

"About 500kg?"

"...That much?"

lower would

nodded her head. Extending her hand, she

her mouth as she gathered her hair behind her in a

should we

"Yeah."

the fourth time

was used to ever since taking over the guild in

very early since her days were usually

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

was good for

efficient than just training alone. Plus, there were a lot of things that I wanted to ask

regarding Nola and

bow and aiming it at me,

"Are you ready?"

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

Amanda was helping me train my reflexes

was that one of my lacking aspects was my agility. Not only that, but long-ranged

was a big

"Ready."

"Okay, I'm starting."

the string of her

Following the first shot, Amanda extended her hand again and pulled the string

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

the

is going to be

set a couple of handicaps on myself for this training. I wasn't allowed to

my agility, this was the most appropriate

Xiu! Xiu! Xiu!

the air like missiles, the arrows soon materialized in

the ground, I took a

Xiu!

in my vicinity. Moving my hands in front

momentum, I dropped them to the ground and did the

forehead as I found my body progressively getting more and more tired with each passing

the only thing I was feeling. I could vividly feel

eyes as I

to the rhythm