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 lips

I may be able to finally regain my freedom. Of course, this was only granted on the fact that my plan worked and

everything would

"Oy!"

look

It was Kevin.

him were the

dormitory, it was only

head and staring toward the platforms on the thick branches

are we going to get up

"Portals."

as I pointed towards the distance where multiple small portals were being

as he tried to get a

"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, attracting the attention of

"Ava?"

of everyone present as their eyes paused

"Eh? That's Ava?"

her? She

indeed someone who

was something that I

Kevin, I pointed in

you just noticed? You know she made it to the top 64

"Did she?"

"Yeah."

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

that we operated differently. Unlike him, before every round, I would spend a lot

It was a must.

baffled by the fact that Kevin still did

be more prepared,

I shook my head

Kevin scratched

presence that

that he didn't come, but that Ava

the Ava of back then had little to no presence

her if I were in Kevin's

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

trying to remedy the situation, I

alright, it's not

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

already know her, she's

"Hey."

a confident smile. Surprise flashed across their eyes as

'Is that really her?'

faces were saying as

pointed

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

Almost slipped there.

in my direction, I introduce

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

introduce me

complained from the

I scoffed at him.

"As if—Huh?"

else, Kevin abruptly walked up to

sorrows. I know just

mouth trembled as he bit his lips

"You too?"

"...Yeah."

froze at

and right to make sure I wasn't seeing wrongly, I remained

each other reminded me of

'The hell...'

this some sort of club you created to inflate

voice coming from my right side.

instantly rolled

yes, wanna know its

"N—"

it's called the Melissa fan club. A

"Dissolve it."

immediately said as her face cringed and her head rolled

That what you say to

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