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

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

he was different from his usual self, an aura of arrogance still radiated

she wasn't keen

Aaron got the message as he continued

close

Emma's face froze slightly.

were so unexpected that for a moment, Emma almost

she was able to quickly recollect herself as her face

you talking

"…Dead?"

A clear look of mockery

"I know…I know…I know…"

tilted from left and right as he said those words. Raising his hand he pointed it

know he's fucking alive, little

hands on his face, his voice trembled in an uncontrollable

there

"…He's completely lost it."

muttered as

clear indication

back replayed

you really have to

what he was in the past. Emma almost felt pity for

was the usual elegant self. All that was left was an almost

"Begin!"

anything else, the referee's voice rang out, marking the beginning of

one to

the ground,

that Aaron was stronger than her, given his current mental state, Emma believed that she had a chance of beating

unwilling to waste the opportunity, she immediately went

body as she quickly redirected all

"Hiiiia!"

ranked than Aaron, her attack was nothing to be trifled with as it tore the air in a

react in time and thus was only able to

"Khuaa!"

scar traced from his lower torso all the

Drip! Drip! Drip!

a few steps back, Aaron's face grimaced in pain as he felt blood trickle down his

the booming cheers from the

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

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

Emma reappeared in front of Aaron and once again slashed down, this time, her attack hit

"Khuuuak!"

groan escaped from Aaron's lips as he stumbled down on

head and staring upward, at where Emma was, Aaron blinked

is happening to me?... Why am I losing

mind in seconds as

comprehend what was happening

He couldn't think straight.

looking for something to

SHIIIIING—!

in his direction. From the corner of his

next happened within the blink

shortsword was about to land on Aaron's face, Aaron's body

"Huh?"

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

SHIIIIING—!

the shortsword came

Spurt!

after the referee stopped the attack, blood suddenly sprayed all over

"y..you?"

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