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..."

occurred right after meeting the previous

My head snapped upwards.

'There was one...'

fidgeted

definitely

before, but, didn't my personality change moments

Ren, I started to get this

that

previous behavior, the moment prior to meeting the previous

everyone as a chess piece and

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

ideologies inside of me. Ideologies that I

and crazy theory suddenly

My breathing evened out.

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

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

My toes curled inwardly.

TRIIIING—! TRIIIING—!

suddenly rang, snapping me out of my thoughts. Lowering my head,

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

"Haaa...haaa...."

inside of me.

[Yeah, that would do.]

I shut off the communication

"huuuu..."

on my face

some fresh air to

were eating away

Ci Clank—!

behind me, I walked

***

Ding—!

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

[Synchronization complete]

Synchronisation : 34%

"Haaa..."

his forehead with his hand, he

in the world

he saw

everything that he saw in the vision, and it was because he

up straight, Kevin was able to

me wasn't

name of the black figure was 'Kevin', he didn't believe

not something

that have been a vision of

his head back, Kevin stared at the white ceiling

back at the vision

not the future, what

the more certain he was

"...Fuck."

Kevin's fists clenched tightly.

thought of Emma dying

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

The features of the figure were obscured and so was his voice, but from

and the flask in his hands already gave him an idea

Kevin was sure.

clenched even more tightly as anger rose within

'...He needs to die.'

eyes flashed with hatred as he recalled that scene. But there was only one problem, Kevin did not know who

slightly

didn't.

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

head, trying to discard

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

"It couldn't be, right?"

weakly shook his head. Despite his many attempts at trying to deny what he saw, the confidence

started to creep into

"Haaa...What do I do."

face with both hands. He really did not know what to believe in at

***

it, my footsteps stopped in front

it was early in the morning. I thought about going

a couple of steps out of

"This is good too..."

moment