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

Of course, this was only granted on the fact that my plan worked

would be

"Oy!"

needing to look in the direction of where the voice

It was Kevin.

behind him were the

dormitory, it was only

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

are we

"Portals."

distance where multiple

small slits as he tried to get a better look at

"Oh, that makes sense."

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

"Huh? Isn't that Ava?"

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

"Ava?"

of everyone present as their eyes paused

"Eh? That's Ava?"

her? She looks

understandable, after all, Ava was indeed someone who used to

was something that

at Kevin, I pointed

know she made it to the

"Did she?"

"Yeah."

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

would spend a lot of my time studying the profiles of each and

It was a must.

the fact that Kevin still did

be more prepared,

I shook my head

to my words, Kevin

Ava's presence that

but that Ava changed

hindsight, the Ava of back then had little to no presence whatsoever. Compared to her past, the current Ava looked

her if I were in Kevin's

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

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

alright, it's not really that

step to the side, I decided to introduce

guys probably already know

"Hey."

with a confident smile. Surprise

'Is that really her?'

what their faces were saying as they

I pointed in Hein's

Hein, he has also made it to the top 64. He's

Almost slipped there.

in my direction, I introduce

here is Leopold, this little child is Ryan,

introduce me in such

complained from

I scoffed at him.

"As if—Huh?"

say anything else, Kevin abruptly walked up

I know just how much of an

trembled as he bit his lips and

"You too?"

"...Yeah."

froze

I wasn't seeing wrongly, I

separated from their hug, the way they looked at each other reminded me

'The hell...'

of club you created to

Smallsnake and Kevin, I suddenly heard a faint voice coming from my right side. Without needing to look

instantly rolled my

wanna know

"N—"

the Melissa fan club.

"Dissolve it."

as her face cringed and her head rolled

rude. That what you

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