The Author's POV

Splash—! Splash—!

Splashing water onto my face I stared at my haggard figure in the mirror. Glaring dark circles bagged beneath my eyes as my mind felt numb.

Glink—!

Turning off the tap, I turned around.

My eyes paused on a certain book in the middle of the table.

My heart remained calm as I stared at the book...or rather, my head was too numb to process what was happening around me. Nothing excited nor stimulated my emotions.

Closing my eyes, I sat down on my bed and leaned forward.

"...Just what happened?"

Ever since waking up, I've been trying to make heads or tails of what had just occurred to me.

My head really hurt.

'For starters, the world I was in not too long ago was definitely not my own world...or did that world even exist in the first place?'

From the fact that I had no recollection of my parent's faces, my own name, and the fact that the prestigious university I wanted to go to was called 'Unversity A,' a name which itself seemed far too generic to make sense.

Putting everything together everything that I previously thought that I knew no longer started to make sense inside of my head.

"Aghhh."

'My head hurts.'

Grasping my head with my hands I ruffled my hair into a mess.

Everything was a mess. A mess I couldn't quite figure the answer to.

"There's also him..."

The previous Ren.

Just thinking about him spread uneasiness throughout my whole body.

There was definitely something odd about that guy. How did he know about the fact that the world was a novel? I never gave him the password of my laptop so it shouldn't have been possible for him to figure out that the world I was in was that of a novel I wrote.

Furthermore, how did he know to ask the right questions?

Like what my name was, whether I recalled my parent's faces and the name of the university I wanted to go to.

The order of the questions didn't really make sense...it was as though he already knew about my answers beforehand.

"Haaa..."

I suddenly stood up.

My head throbbed even more fiercely.

Pacing around the room, I started to think back to my first interaction with the previous Ren in search of an answer.

This wasn't hard, I had only interacted with him once throughout my whole life so I could still vividly remember what had happened.

It was the time he was showing me his past experiences with Matthew and what was going on with his parents...my parents.

I remember that time clearly.

I could see just how sad he was.

Was that a facade or was that really him? At this point, I no longer knew.

"Ugh."

I groaned.

Massaging my head, I thought even further.

'Ever since meeting him, did something strange ever happen to me?'

My brows knit tightly.

Placing my hand on my chin, I fell into deep thought.

"Something strange happening after meeting him..."

My brows which were knit together suddenly jumped up in shock.

"Wait...hold on..."

back at any of the incidents that had occurred right after meeting the previous Ren, a

My head snapped upwards.

'There was one...'

hands fidgeted all

process...it definitely

but, didn't my personality

I look back at myself, right after meeting the previous Ren, I started to get this weird idea that everything around me

that come

looked back at my previous behavior, the moment prior to meeting the previous Ren, everything I did was completely different. My personality

a chess piece and having everything under my control. It was

put too much thought into it in the past because I never felt it. I never felt the change...but now that

different ideologies inside of me. Ideologies that I

crazy theory

My breathing evened out.

"....It can't be, right?"

shook my head repeatedly. It couldn't be. Yeah, there's no way something like that

My toes curled inwardly.

TRIIIING—! TRIIIING—!

rang, snapping me out of my thoughts.

tomorrow, are you ready? Should I come to pick you guys up tomorrow

"Haaa...haaa...."

of me. Taking

[Yeah, that would do.]

sending the message, I

"huuuu..."

and put on my face

some fresh air

thoughts were eating away at

Ci Clank—!

behind me,

***

Ding—!

loud chime rang inside of Kevin's head as he slowly opened his eyes. The first thing he saw as soon as he opened his eyes

[Synchronization complete]

Synchronisation : 34%

"Haaa..."

Covering his forehead with his

the world did I

vision he

remembered everything that he saw in the vision, and it was because he remembered that at the moment he couldn't quite grasp

Kevin was able to

me

had to be. The fact that he was desperately searching for Emma, and that the name of the black figure was

not something he had

a

Kevin stared at the white ceiling of

thinking back at the vision made his body

what else

the more certain he was about his analysis. Whatever he

"...Fuck."

Kevin's fists clenched tightly.

Emma dying on him hurt his

"Haaa..haaa...who was that man?"

obscured and so was his voice, but from what he saw, the figure was

in his hands already gave him an idea

Kevin was sure.

even more tightly as anger rose within

'...He needs to die.'

But there was only one problem, Kevin did not know

slightly

yet, at the same time, he didn't. There was this

have been Ren? ...No,

shook his head, trying to discard

Kevin knew Ren. He would never do such a thing to

"It couldn't be, right?"

trying to deny what he saw, the confidence he had within him slowly crumbled

creep into his

"Haaa...What do I do."

He really did not know what to believe in at the

***

it, my footsteps stopped in

woke up from the 'dream' it was early in the morning. I thought about going around the city to

of steps out

"This is good too..."

I needed at the moment was to