The Author's POV

Chapter 416

"Huuuu."

Placing my hands in my pockets, I exhaled as white steam rose from my mouth.

A chilly breeze brushed past me as the cold air made me involuntarily shiver. Had to say, the mornings in Issanor were quite cold.

"You guys here pretty early."

Moving through the crowd, my footsteps soon came to a halt as I gazed into the distance where Hein, Ava, Leopold, Smallsnake, and the others were already waiting.

I smiled at them.

'Looks like everyone is here.'

Well, everyone apart from Angelica.

Kind of felt bad for her but it seemed as though she was happy with this arrangement.

Gazing in Hein's and Ava's direction, I asked.

"Are you two ready?"

"Yes."

"Um."

The both of them firmly nodded their heads. They looked quite confident in themselves.

Especially Ava whose eyes burned with fighting spirit as she tightly held her flute in her right hand.

On the other hand, standing beside her, Hein looked a little bit more anxious as hugged his shield with both arms.

It had to be noted that a white cloth covered the whole of his shield from top to bottom. The intent behind it was clear.

"We will try our best."

Hein said, trying his best to look confident.

"...That's good,"

Pretending to not have seen the cloth covering his shied, I replied with a straight look.

"I really hope you pass..."

Internally, I was a bit worried.

After having checked the contestant's list, I knew that the chances of Hein and Ava passing this round were not as high as the both of them thought. The opponents were nothing to scoff at.

Plus, to make things worse, one guy was a shield user and the other was a beast tamer, not really the best for one on one competitions.

"Haaa..."

At the thought of it, a sigh escaped from my lips as once again vapor rose from my mouth.

Gulp—!

What followed after the sigh was a low gulping sound. Turning around, my eyes met with Leopold's as he stared at the slowly rising water vapor.

My mouth twitched.

'...I don't even know what to say.'

His relapses were starting to become worse and worse.

'Oh, right.'

Right as I was about to say something to him, I suddenly recalled something and turned to look at Ryan who was currently standing next to Smallsnake.

"Ryan has the matter been settled."

"The matter?"

Upon hearing my words, Ryan tilted his head, evidently unsure about what I was trying to say. Seeing his confusion, I elaborated.

"Regarding what I asked you to do back in Henlour and that I told you to keep close attention to..."

"Ah!"

A look of realization suddenly flashed on Ryan's face as he nodded his head.

"Yes, everything is already done. I can turn on the connection whenever you want."

"Perfect."

of my lips curled

went according to what I had set up, I may be able to finally regain my freedom. Of course, this was only granted

not, everything would be

"Oy!"

someone calling out for me. Without needing to look in the direction of where the voice came from, I already knew

It was Kevin.

behind him

were coming from the same dormitory, it

meters away from me, Kevin looked around the place. Lifting his head and staring toward the platforms on the thick branches

in the world are we

"Portals."

pointed towards the distance

slits as he tried to get a better look at the portals in

"Oh, that makes sense."

to look behind me, his eyes

"Huh? Isn't that Ava?"

to hide his shock as his words were quite loud, attracting

"Ava?"

everyone present as their

"Eh? That's Ava?"

that her? She looks

indeed someone who used to be in

was something that I didn't

I pointed

just noticed? You know she made it

"Did she?"

"Yeah."

weren't that many people that made it this far. For him to have not even noticed her was

Unlike him, before every round, I would spend a

It was a must.

by the fact that Kevin still did not do

to be more prepared,

shook my

to my words, Kevin scratched

presence that

that that he didn't come, but that Ava

hindsight, the Ava of back then had little to no presence whatsoever.

wouldn't have recognized her

think it's probably because we just met you again

at trying to remedy the situation,

not really

step to the side, I decided to introduce Kevin

already know her,

"Hey."

the others, Ava greeted them with a confident smile. Surprise flashed across their eyes as they stared at

'Is that really her?'

were saying as they looked at

I pointed in

top 64. He's a great meat shie...keum, I mean, he's great at taking

Almost slipped there.

glaring in my direction, I introduce

drunkard over here is Leopold, this little child is Ryan,

seriously have to introduce me in such an

complained from the

I scoffed at him.

"As if—Huh?"

say anything else, Kevin abruptly walked up

sorrows. I know just how much of an ass

as he bit

"You too?"

"...Yeah."

face froze

to make sure I wasn't seeing wrongly, I remained speechless for a

Smallsnake separated from their hug, the way they looked at each other reminded

'The hell...'

is this some sort of club you created to inflate your

faint voice coming from my right side. Without needing to look I knew that

instantly rolled my

wanna know

"N—"

Melissa fan club. A club dedicated wholly

"Dissolve it."

immediately said as her face cringed and her

rude. That what you

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