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..."

right

My head snapped upwards.

'There was one...'

fidgeted all

definitely

me before, but, didn't my personality change

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

that come

previous behavior, the moment prior to meeting the previous

before had I had such thoughts about treating everyone as a chess piece and having everything under my control. It

felt it. I never felt the change...but now that I was looking back at

was as though someone was forcing traits and different ideologies inside of me. Ideologies that I had never

and crazy theory suddenly pierced

My breathing evened out.

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

refused to believe that. I shook my head repeatedly. It couldn't be.

My toes curled inwardly.

TRIIIING—! TRIIIING—!

snapping me out of my thoughts. Lowering my head, I looked

you ready? Should I come to pick you guys up

"Haaa...haaa...."

I suppressed all the anxiety inside of me. Taking my communication device, I

[Yeah, that would do.]

I

"huuuu..."

deep breath, I took my jacket and put on my face

fresh air to sort out

were eating away

Ci Clank—!

the door behind me, I walked down the

***

Ding—!

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

[Synchronization complete]

Synchronisation : 34%

"Haaa..."

Kevin exhaled deeply. Covering his forehead with his

in the world

vision he

saw in the vision, and it was because he

Kevin was

me

The fact that he was desperately searching for Emma, and that the name of the black figure was 'Kevin', he didn't believe for one second that the vision wasn't about

saw, was not something he had

been a

stared at the white

thinking back at the

not the future, what else

the more certain he was about

"...Fuck."

Kevin's fists clenched tightly.

thought of Emma dying on him

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

vision he saw. The features of the figure were obscured and so was his voice, but from what he saw, the figure was

an

Kevin was sure.

tightly as

'...He needs to die.'

with hatred as he recalled that scene. But there was

slightly familiar

he didn't. There was this chilly air surrounding the man that sent shivers down Kevin's

been Ren?

head, trying to discard such

figures bore slight resemblances, Kevin knew Ren. He would never do such a thing

"It couldn't be, right?"

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

to creep

"Haaa...What do I do."

really did not

***

knew it, my footsteps stopped

early in the morning.

couple of steps out of my residence,

"This is good too..."

the moment was to