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..."

had occurred right after meeting the

My head snapped upwards.

'There was one...'

fidgeted

thought process...it definitely

occurred to 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

did that come

prior to meeting the

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

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

different ideologies inside of

crazy theory suddenly pierced through

My breathing evened out.

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

I shook my head repeatedly.

My toes curled inwardly.

TRIIIING—! TRIIIING—!

snapping me out of my

you ready? Should I come to pick you

"Haaa...haaa...."

all the anxiety inside of me. Taking

[Yeah, that would do.]

message, I shut off

"huuuu..."

breath, I took my jacket and put on my face mask. Then,

air

were eating away at

Ci Clank—!

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 soon as he opened his eyes was a

[Synchronization complete]

Synchronisation : 34%

"Haaa..."

his forehead with his hand, he supported his body with his

in the world did I just

vision he

vision, and it was because he remembered that at

up straight, Kevin was able to calm himself

me wasn't

Emma, and that the name of the black figure was 'Kevin', he didn't believe for one second that the vision

he saw, was not something he had ever experienced

been a

his head back, Kevin stared at the

the

the future, what else

more certain he was

"...Fuck."

Kevin's fists clenched tightly.

of Emma dying on him hurt his very

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

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

already gave him an idea of what had happened. The

Kevin was sure.

even more tightly as anger rose within his

'...He needs to die.'

that scene. But there was only one problem, Kevin did not know who the man

slightly

didn't.

Ren? ...No, he wouldn't do

trying to discard

resemblances, Kevin knew Ren. He would never

"It couldn't be, right?"

deny what he saw, the confidence he had

creep into

"Haaa...What do I do."

with both hands. He really did not know

***

stopped in front of the

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

mind off of things, but having walked a couple of steps out of my residence, I subconsciously made

"This is good too..."

the moment