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."

my

everything went according to what I had set up, I may be able to finally regain my freedom. Of course, this was only granted on the fact that my plan worked and the people involved acted the way

would be

"Oy!"

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

It was Kevin.

behind him were

were coming from the same dormitory, it was

head and staring toward the platforms on the thick branches of the tree, Kevin opened his

world are we going

"Portals."

I pointed towards the distance where multiple small portals were

slits as he tried

"Oh, that makes sense."

head to look behind me, his

"Huh? Isn't that Ava?"

hide his shock as his words

"Ava?"

the faces of everyone present as their eyes paused on

"Eh? That's Ava?"

her? She looks

understandable, after all, Ava was indeed someone

something that

Kevin, I pointed in Ava's

You know she made

"Did she?"

"Yeah."

it this far. For him

before every round, I would spend a lot of my time studying the profiles of each and

It was a must.

fact that Kevin still did

be more prepared,

shook my

response to my words, Kevin

Ava's presence that

come, but that Ava changed too much compared to her

the Ava of back then had little to no presence whatsoever. Compared to her past, the

wouldn't have recognized her if I were in Kevin's

it's probably because we just met you

at his failed attempt at trying to remedy the situation,

it's not really

to the side, I decided to introduce Kevin and the others to

guys probably already know her, she's

"Hey."

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

'Is that really her?'

saying

pointed in Hein's

has also made it to the top 64. He's a great meat shie...keum, I

Almost slipped there.

Hein who was glaring in my direction, I

this little child is Ryan, and...yeah, well,

introduce me in

complained from

I scoffed at him.

"As if—Huh?"

abruptly

your sorrows. I know just how much of an ass he can

trembled as he bit

"You too?"

"...Yeah."

froze at

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

Kevin and Smallsnake separated from their hug, the way they looked at each other reminded me of two old comrades finally meeting each other

'The hell...'

sort of club you created to inflate your

was looking at Smallsnake and Kevin, I suddenly heard a faint voice coming from my right side. Without needing to look I knew

instantly rolled

yes, wanna know

"N—"

called the Melissa fan club. A

"Dissolve it."

her face cringed

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