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..."

any of the incidents that had occurred right

My head snapped upwards.

'There was one...'

fidgeted

process...it definitely changed after

didn't my personality

right after meeting the previous Ren, I started

that

at my previous behavior, the moment prior to meeting the previous Ren, everything I did was completely

a chess piece and

felt the change...but now that I was looking back at them, from this new perspective, it really

as though someone was forcing traits and different ideologies inside of me.

and crazy theory suddenly pierced through my

My breathing evened out.

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

my head repeatedly. It couldn't be. Yeah,

My toes curled inwardly.

TRIIIING—! TRIIIING—!

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

you ready? Should I come to pick you

"Haaa...haaa...."

inside of me. Taking my communication device, I quickly sent back a

[Yeah, that would do.]

I shut off the

"huuuu..."

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

air to

thoughts were eating away at

Ci Clank—!

me, I walked

***

Ding—!

he slowly opened his eyes. The first thing he saw as soon as he opened his eyes was a

[Synchronization complete]

Synchronisation : 34%

"Haaa..."

deeply. Covering his forehead with his

world did

vision he saw was

because he remembered that at the moment he couldn't quite grasp what was happening around

was

was me wasn't

Emma, and that the name of the black figure was

vision he saw, was not something he had ever experienced

that have been a vision

head back, Kevin stared at the white ceiling of

at the vision made his body

future, what else could it

he thought about it, the more certain he was about

"...Fuck."

Kevin's fists clenched tightly.

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

and the flask in his hands already gave him an idea of what had happened. The man had

Kevin was sure.

tightly as anger rose within his

'...He needs to die.'

he recalled that scene. But there

slightly

didn't. There

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

quickly shook his head, trying to discard

figures bore slight resemblances, Kevin knew Ren.

"It couldn't be, right?"

his head. Despite his many attempts at trying to deny what he saw, the confidence he had within him slowly crumbled

to creep

"Haaa...What do I do."

hands. He really did not know what

***

stopped in

it was early in the morning. I thought about going around the city to

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

"This is good too..."

I needed at the moment was to clear