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."

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

back down on his bed, he let out another deep

to stop

he felt paranoid about everything.

"Ukh!"

of Aaron's head prompting him to flinch slightly. Fortunately, the pain only

that hurt,

side of my head

***

Thump—!

I took a white towel from the side and wiped the sweat

forgotten about everything that

since the incident. The one

lines of,

exactly what I wanted him

merely something for my own

aid of Douglas and the others, we were able to somewhat create enough alibies and evidence to make

"You're early."

was in a private training room, near my residence. This was a small

100 meters away, Amanda's voice

used to

it was at my disposal, I told the others that they could

offer. Well, everyone expect Melissa who

"You look quite tired."

the dumbbells

my sword,

through my swing, by the time I was done with

"How heavy?"

"About 500kg?"

"...That much?"

anything lower

her head. Extending her hand, she

had a small hairband on her mouth as

see, should we

"Yeah."

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

was the routine she was used to ever since taking over the guild in

early since her days were

habit I developed

way, this was

with someone else was a lot more efficient than just training alone. Plus, there were

Nola and

at me, Amanda's

"Are you ready?"

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

me train my reflexes

that one of my lacking aspects was my agility. Not

was a big help to

"Ready."

"Okay, I'm starting."

released the string of her

first

more

from the distance,

going to

I wasn't allowed

my agility, this was the most appropriate

Xiu! Xiu! Xiu!

the air like missiles, the arrows soon materialized in front of

the ground, I took

Xiu!

of my cheek. Following that arrow, two more arrows arrived in my vicinity. Moving my hands in front of me, twisting my heel,

their momentum, I dropped them to the ground and did the same thing for the next few

the endless amount of arrows, sweat started to accumulate on my forehead as I found my body progressively

thing I was feeling. I could vividly feel myself getting better and better at moving

eyes as

to get used to the rhythm and I started to feel at ease dodging the