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

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

"Oy!"

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

It was Kevin.

behind him

the same dormitory, it was only right that they

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

world are we going to get up

"Portals."

the distance where multiple

Kevin's eyes squinted into small slits as he tried to get a better look at the portals in the

"Oh, that makes sense."

look behind me, his eyes soon

"Huh? Isn't that Ava?"

didn't try to hide his shock as his words were quite loud,

"Ava?"

on the faces of everyone present as their eyes paused on

"Eh? That's Ava?"

her? She

indeed someone who used to be in our

was something

Kevin, I pointed

noticed? You know she made

"Did she?"

"Yeah."

it this far. For him to have not even noticed her was a testament to his

operated differently. Unlike him, before every round, I would spend a lot of my time studying the profiles of each and

It was a must.

of baffled by the fact that Kevin still did not

got to be

him, I shook my head

response to my words, Kevin scratched his

Ava's presence that

that that he didn't come, but that Ava changed too much compared

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

have recognized her if I were in Kevin's

it's probably because we just met you again and so

at his failed attempt at trying to remedy the situation, I shrugged my

alright, it's not

side, I decided to introduce Kevin and

already know

"Hey."

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

'Is that really her?'

their faces were saying as they looked at

I pointed in

to the top 64. He's a great meat

Almost slipped there.

in my direction,

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

to introduce me in such an unenthusiastic

from the

I scoffed at him.

"As if—Huh?"

Kevin abruptly walked

just how much of an

trembled as he bit his lips

"You too?"

"...Yeah."

face froze at

sure I wasn't seeing wrongly, I

they looked at each other reminded me

'The hell...'

is this some sort of club

a faint voice coming from my right side. Without needing

instantly rolled

wanna

"N—"

it's called the Melissa fan club. A club dedicated wholly to

"Dissolve it."

immediately said as her face cringed

of rude. That what you say to your

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