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 curled

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 them to

everything would

"Oy!"

for me. Without needing to look in the direction of

It was Kevin.

him were the

they were coming from the same dormitory, it was only right that

of meters away from me, Kevin looked around the place. Lifting his head and

in the world are we going

"Portals."

pointed towards the distance

squinted into small slits as he tried to get a better look at the

"Oh, that makes sense."

turning his head to look behind

"Huh? Isn't that Ava?"

his shock as his words

"Ava?"

on the faces of everyone present as

"Eh? That's Ava?"

that her?

indeed someone who used

was something

at Kevin, I pointed in Ava's

noticed? You know she made it to the top

"Did she?"

"Yeah."

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

I would

It was a must.

that Kevin still did not

to be

shook my head in

Kevin scratched

Ava's presence

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

of back then had little to no presence

her if I were

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

failed attempt at trying to remedy

not really that

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

guys probably already know her,

"Hey."

a confident smile. Surprise flashed across their eyes as they stared at

'Is that really her?'

what their faces were saying as they looked at

I pointed in Hein's

to the top 64. He's a great meat shie...keum, I mean,

Almost slipped there.

in my direction,

child is Ryan, and...yeah,

you seriously have to introduce me

from

I scoffed at him.

"As if—Huh?"

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

know just

he bit his lips and

"You too?"

"...Yeah."

froze at the

sure I wasn't seeing wrongly, I remained

Kevin and Smallsnake separated from their hug, the way they looked at each other

'The hell...'

club

voice coming from my right side. Without needing to look I

rolled

yes, wanna know its

"N—"

too bad, it's called the Melissa fan club. A club dedicated wholly

"Dissolve it."

immediately said as her face cringed and her

of rude. That what you say to your

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