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

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 that I wanted

not, everything would be

"Oy!"

to look in the direction of where the voice came from, I already knew who

It was Kevin.

him were

they were coming from the same dormitory, it

a couple of meters away from me, Kevin looked around the place. Lifting his head and staring toward the platforms on the thick branches of the tree, Kevin opened his mouth

we going to get up

"Portals."

towards the distance where multiple small

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

"Oh, that makes sense."

head to look behind me,

"Huh? Isn't that Ava?"

to hide his shock as his words were quite loud, attracting the attention of

"Ava?"

the faces of everyone present as their

"Eh? That's Ava?"

that her? She looks

indeed someone who used to be in

something that

at Kevin, I pointed in Ava's

made

"Did she?"

"Yeah."

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

before every round, I would spend a lot

It was a must.

that Kevin

to be

shook

response to my words, Kevin scratched his

presence that

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

no presence whatsoever. Compared

wouldn't have recognized her

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

his failed attempt at trying

it's not really that

I decided to introduce Kevin

already know her, she's

"Hey."

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

'Is that really her?'

what their faces were saying as

pointed in

top 64. He's a great meat shie...keum,

Almost slipped there.

was glaring in my

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

you seriously have to introduce me in such an unenthusiastic

complained from

I scoffed at him.

"As if—Huh?"

else, Kevin abruptly walked up

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

trembled as he bit his

"You too?"

"...Yeah."

face froze at the

gaze left and right to make sure I wasn't seeing wrongly, I remained speechless for

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...'

of club you created to inflate your

I suddenly heard a faint voice coming from my right side. Without needing to look I knew that it was

instantly rolled my

wanna know

"N—"

the Melissa fan

"Dissolve it."

as her face cringed and

rude. That what

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