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..."

of the incidents that had occurred right

My head snapped upwards.

'There was one...'

hands fidgeted

process...it definitely

to me before, but, didn't my personality

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

that come

to meeting the previous Ren, everything I did

treating everyone as a chess piece and having

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,

ideologies inside

crazy theory

My breathing evened out.

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

head repeatedly. It couldn't be. Yeah, there's

My toes curled inwardly.

TRIIIING—! TRIIIING—!

of my thoughts. Lowering my head, I looked at

you ready? Should I come to

"Haaa...haaa...."

suppressed all the anxiety inside of me. Taking my communication device, I quickly sent back a

[Yeah, that would do.]

sending the message, I shut off the communication

"huuuu..."

deep breath, I took my jacket and put on my face mask. Then, I proceeded to head for

some fresh air

thoughts were eating away at my

Ci Clank—!

door behind me, I walked down

***

Ding—!

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

[Synchronization complete]

Synchronisation : 34%

"Haaa..."

Covering his forehead with his hand, he supported his body

world did I

he saw

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

Kevin was able to calm himself

was me wasn't

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

vision he saw, was not something he had ever

that have been a vision

stared at the white ceiling of

thinking back at the vision made

the future, what else could

certain he was about

"...Fuck."

Kevin's fists clenched tightly.

dying

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

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

hands already gave him an idea of what had happened. The man had purposely

Kevin was sure.

fists clenched even more tightly as anger

'...He needs to die.'

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

slightly

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

been Ren?

trying to discard

Kevin knew Ren. He would never do such

"It couldn't be, right?"

to deny what he saw, the confidence he had

started to creep into his

"Haaa...What do I do."

both hands. He really did not

***

stopped in front of

in the morning. I thought about going around the city to explore

my mind off of things, but having walked a couple of steps out

"This is good too..."

at the moment was