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."

edges of my

freedom. Of course, this was only granted on the fact that my plan worked and the people involved acted the way that

would

"Oy!"

me. Without needing to look in the direction of where the voice came

It was Kevin.

him were

coming from the same dormitory, it

couple of 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 going to get up

"Portals."

said as I pointed towards the distance where multiple

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

"Oh, that makes sense."

turning his head to look behind me, his eyes soon paused on

"Huh? Isn't that Ava?"

to hide his shock as his words were

"Ava?"

on the faces of everyone present as their eyes

"Eh? That's Ava?"

that her? She

Ava was indeed someone who used to be in

was something

I pointed in Ava's

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

"Did she?"

"Yeah."

many people that made it this far. For him

just went to show that we operated differently. Unlike him, before every round, I would spend a lot of my

It was a must.

by the fact that Kevin still

be more

shook my head

words, Kevin scratched

presence that

but that Ava changed too much compared to her

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

recognized her if I were in

it's probably because we just met you again and so we didn't

trying to remedy

it's not really that

step to the side, I decided to

probably already

"Hey."

greeted them with a confident smile. Surprise flashed

'Is that really her?'

were saying as

I pointed

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

Almost slipped there.

who was glaring in my

little child is Ryan,

seriously have to introduce me in such an unenthusiastic

complained from

I scoffed at him.

"As if—Huh?"

abruptly walked up to

sorrows. I know just how

bit his

"You too?"

"...Yeah."

froze at

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

at each other reminded me of two old comrades finally

'The hell...'

club you created to

looking at Smallsnake and Kevin, I suddenly heard a faint voice coming

instantly rolled my

yes, wanna

"N—"

fan club. A club dedicated wholly

"Dissolve it."

face cringed and

what

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