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..."

that had occurred right

My head snapped upwards.

'There was one...'

fidgeted

thought process...it definitely changed

never occurred to me before, but, didn't my personality

meeting the previous Ren, I started to get this weird idea that everything around me was a chess

did that come

meeting

as a chess piece and having everything under my

much thought into it in the 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 really did seem as

was forcing traits and different ideologies inside of me. Ideologies

crazy theory suddenly pierced through my

My breathing evened out.

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

head repeatedly. It couldn't be. Yeah, there's no

My toes curled inwardly.

TRIIIING—! TRIIIING—!

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

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

"Haaa...haaa...."

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

[Yeah, that would do.]

the message, I shut off the

"huuuu..."

jacket and put on my face mask. Then, I proceeded to

some fresh air to sort

eating away

Ci Clank—!

the door behind me, I walked

***

Ding—!

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

[Synchronization complete]

Synchronisation : 34%

"Haaa..."

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

the world did I

vision he saw

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

was able to

me wasn't

be. The fact that he was desperately searching for Emma, and that the name of the black figure was 'Kevin', he didn't believe

not something he had ever

been a vision of

his head back, Kevin stared at the white ceiling

the vision made his body

future, what else could it

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

"...Fuck."

Kevin's fists clenched tightly.

thought of Emma dying

"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

him an idea of

Kevin was sure.

even more tightly as

'...He needs to die.'

he recalled that scene. But there was only one problem, Kevin did not know who

slightly

before, yet, at the same time, he didn't. There was this chilly air surrounding the man that sent

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

to discard such

Ren. He would never

"It couldn't be, right?"

many attempts at trying to deny what he saw, the confidence he had within him

started to creep into his

"Haaa...What do I do."

face with both hands. He really

***

stopped in front of the training

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

couple of steps out of my residence,

"This is good too..."

I needed at the moment was to