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

to finally regain my freedom. Of course, this was

not, everything would be for

"Oy!"

Without needing to look in the direction of where the voice came from, I already knew who it

It was Kevin.

behind him were the

from the same dormitory, it was only right that they came

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

in the world are we

"Portals."

I pointed towards the distance where multiple small portals were

he tried to get a better look at the portals in

"Oh, that makes sense."

look behind me, his eyes soon

"Huh? Isn't that Ava?"

hide his shock as his words were

"Ava?"

everyone present

"Eh? That's Ava?"

that her? She looks

shock was understandable, after all, Ava was indeed someone who used to be in our

there was something that I didn't

I

she made it to the top 64 of

"Did she?"

"Yeah."

For him to have not even

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

It was a must.

the fact that Kevin still

to be more

him, I shook my

words, Kevin

Ava's presence

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

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

her

we just met you again and so we didn't notice

at trying to remedy

not

side, I decided to introduce Kevin and the others to

guys probably already know

"Hey."

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

'Is that really her?'

saying as

I pointed

guy over here 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.

was glaring in my direction, I

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

to introduce me in

from

I scoffed at him.

"As if—Huh?"

say anything else, Kevin abruptly walked up to Smallsnake and hugged

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

mouth trembled as he bit his lips

"You too?"

"...Yeah."

face froze at

to make sure I wasn't

hug, the way they looked at each other reminded

'The hell...'

this some sort of club you created to

I suddenly heard a faint voice coming from my right side. Without needing

rolled

yes, wanna

"N—"

called the Melissa fan club. A club dedicated wholly to worshipping

"Dissolve it."

as her face cringed and her head

rude. That what you say to your

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