The Author's POV

Chapter 418

"This isn't good..."

Staring at the projection where Emma and Aaron appeared, my face darkened and my heart sped up a little.

I suddenly felt an ominous premonition.

'...I should've seen this coming.'

I should've seen the possibility of Aaron getting matched up with someone like Emma. Or rather, I knew about the possibility, but I still chose to ignore it.

Normally, I wouldn't have worried, but the current Aaron was not in the right state of mind.

Of course, he wasn't.

I made sure he wasn't.

Back then, when I had taken him outside of the building, I didn't just go to him with the goal of beating him up to satiate my thirst for revenge.

No, things were a lot more complicated than that.

After Waylan and Douglas took him away from me, and after I regained myself, they quickly gave him back to me at my request.

I told them that I had a plan in mind. The both of them did not refuse but made me promise not to kill him, which I didn't.

Once I gained their permission, I gave Aaron more sedatives to keep him knocked out.

From there, I had Ryan create a small chip that was similar to mine and have it installed in his brain. That took about a day to do, and with the aid of a potion, I was able to remove any trace of anything ever happening to him.

After having learned a lot through the teachings of Jomnuk, Ryan was now able to create an almost perfect replicate of the chip, well, at least the tracking part of it, which was exactly what I needed.

After installing the chip, I also injected him with a little bit of the serum. The one that the Monolith injected me over and over again.

The intent behind such a move was so that traces of the serum would be found inside of his body, increasing the links to him possibly being 876.

Of course, there was much more to it in the plan than that. After all, there was countless evidence pointing to the fact that he couldn't possibly be 876, but I already had a solution for this.

Anyhow, the point was that the current Aaron was no longer the previous Aaron. His current state of mind was akin to what I had experienced not too long ago.

He was now extremely dangerous, and I was worried that something was going to happen.

Vrrr— Vrrr— Lowering my head and glancing at my watch that had just vibrated, I quickly tapped on its screen. It was a message from Ryan.

[Permission to access granted]

[On] [Off]

Without hesitation, I pressed the [On] switch.

Raising my head and staring in the direction of where Emma and Aaron were, I secretly clenched my fists before gazing in the direction of where the referee was.

'...She shouldn't die from this.'

Hopefully, the referee should have no problem stopping the fight before anything bad happened.

Crossing my arms, and glancing in the direction of Kevin's match, I secretly prayed that nothing bad happened.

If something happened to Emma...I really couldn't tell how Kevin would react.

***

An eerie silence enveloped platform [5] as Aaron and Emma stared off.

At the moment, they were both just waiting for the referee to begin the match.

As the two stared at each other, Aaron, whose face was slightly sunken and had glaring black circles underneath his eyes, opened his mouth.

"Hey…"

raspy almost croaky voice came out of his mouth

when she heard his words, however, she didn't reply back

too well. Although he was different from his usual self, an aura of arrogance still radiated from his

put, she wasn't keen on hearing

seem as though Aaron got the message as he continued

you close to

Emma's face froze slightly.

words were so unexpected that for a moment,

quickly recollect herself as

you talking

"…Dead?"

A clear look of mockery appeared

"I know…I know…I know…"

and right as he said those words. Raising his hand

alive,

his hands on his face, his voice

it...he was definitely there

"…He's completely lost it."

softly muttered as she looked

was acting, it was a clear indication to her that Aaron

back

you really have to

what he was in the past. Emma almost felt

All that was left was an almost deranged and borderline psychopathic version

"Begin!"

else, the referee's voice rang out,

one to move

feet onto the ground, her figure dashed in

his current mental state, Emma

to waste the opportunity, she immediately went

she quickly redirected all of

"Hiiiia!"

attack was nothing to be trifled with as it

who had only just snapped out of his delusions was unable to react in time and thus was only able to partly dodge her

"Khuaa!"

traced from his lower torso all the way towards his right shoulder, and the color

Drip! Drip! Drip!

grimaced in pain as he felt

booming cheers from the audience reverberated throughout the

"W...wha...t?"

closing his mouth, Aaron did not know what to say. Raising his head

again cost him. Repeating the same attack as before, Emma reappeared in front of Aaron and once again slashed down, this time, her attack hit

"Khuuuak!"

escaped from Aaron's lips as he stumbled down on the ground.

his head and staring upward, at where Emma was, Aaron blinked a couple

to me?... Why am I losing to

myriad of thoughts flashed across his mind in seconds as his eyes

what was happening to

He couldn't think straight.

over the place in looking for something to grab on, it wasn't long before his

SHIIIIING—!

he suddenly felt a powerful force quickly headed in his direction. From the corner of

everything that happened next happened within

on Aaron's face,

"Huh?"

the referee who was just as startled to find Emma's shortsword

SHIIIIING—!

the shortsword came to an

Spurt!

a second after the referee stopped the attack, blood suddenly sprayed all over his

"y..you?"

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