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..."

incidents that had occurred right after meeting the previous Ren,

My head snapped upwards.

'There was one...'

fidgeted all

definitely changed after meeting

me before, but, didn't my personality change moments after

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

did that

prior to meeting the previous Ren,

thoughts about treating everyone as a chess piece and having everything under

past because I never felt it. I never felt the change...but now that I was looking back at them, from this new perspective, it

traits and different ideologies inside of

wild and crazy theory suddenly

My breathing evened out.

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

No, I refused to believe that. I shook my head repeatedly. It couldn't be. Yeah, there's no way something

My toes curled inwardly.

TRIIIING—! TRIIIING—!

my thoughts. Lowering my head, I looked

ready? Should I come to pick you guys up tomorrow

"Haaa...haaa...."

suppressed all the anxiety inside of me.

[Yeah, that would do.]

the message, I shut off the

"huuuu..."

on my

air to sort out

eating away

Ci Clank—!

door behind me, I walked down

***

Ding—!

slowly opened his eyes. The first thing he

[Synchronization complete]

Synchronisation : 34%

"Haaa..."

his forehead with

world did I just

he saw was

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

straight, Kevin was able to calm himself

me

of the black

not something he had ever

have been a vision of the

head back, Kevin stared at the

back at the vision made his body

not the future, what else

thought about it, the more certain he was about his analysis. Whatever

"...Fuck."

Kevin's fists clenched tightly.

dying on him hurt

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

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

flask in his hands already gave him an

Kevin was sure.

more tightly as anger rose

'...He needs to die.'

But there was only one problem, Kevin

felt slightly

though he had met him before, yet, at the same time, he didn't. There was this

have been Ren? ...No, he wouldn't

trying to

knew Ren. He would

"It couldn't be, right?"

Despite his many attempts at trying to deny

creep into

"Haaa...What do I do."

really did not know

***

stopped in front of the training

the 'dream' it was early in the morning. I thought about going around

things, but having walked a couple of steps out of my residence, I subconsciously made my way towards

"This is good too..."

moment was to clear