The Author's POV

Rushing in my direction, Kevin shouted. His voice sounded extremely panicked.

"Where is Emma?!"

"Calm down, Emma has been taken by the staff, her father is with her."

Raising my hand, I motioned him to calm down.

"From what I've been told, she is still alive. Just before Emma was about to get stabbed in the back, the referee reacted in time and slightly shifted her body away, preventing her death, but..."

Pausing, my brows furrowed.

"But what!?"

Raising my head and meeting Kevin's gaze, I deeply sighed.

"...but, well, it's not looking too good. She was hit directly in the spine, so I don't know."

"Haa..."

Like a deflated balloon, Kevin's stumbled a couple of steps back as his face drained of all color.

Grabbing onto his shoulder, I held him up.

"Relax, don't lose hop—"

"The book!"

Kevin suddenly shouted as he cut me off.

My eyes immediately opened wide at his words.

Placing my hand over his mouth, I quickly shushed him.

"What the fuck are you doing?"

"Hmmhmmm."

Increasing my grip on his mouth, I whispered in his ear.

"Get a grip of yourself, the event has already happened, the book can't do anything. Furthermore, there is nothing written on it. You know best since you've seen the book yourself."

Listening to my words, Kevin quickly calmed down as his eyes dulled.

Seeing this, I asked. "...Are you finally calm?"

Kevin silently nodded his head in response.

Eyeing him for a while, I proceeded to take my hand away from his mouth. Taking a deep breath, I tried to reassure him.

"Don't worry too much, I'm sure she will be fine."

Despite my words, I wasn't too confident in the things I said.

Emma's condition was quite critical. Fortunately, the elves were able to intervene just in time to stabilize her condition and so she was at least guaranteed her life.

Regarding whether she was disabled or not, I wasn't sure. Only time could tell.

"Huuu..."

Taking a deep breath, I turned my wrist and glanced at my watch.

[Permission to access granted]

[On] [Off]

'This is enough for now.'

Tapping onto the screen of my watch, I turned off the tracking device in Aaron's head.

***

On the upper echelon platform, moments before.

Silence descended on the platform as the eyes of all the members on the platform locked themselves on the one specific projection where a girl lay on the floor in her own pool of blood.

"Someone go and get her patched up quickly."

The first to speak out amongst the members was the elven queen whose delicate brows knit tightly.

She was evidently displeased by the fact that an incident had occurred.

direction of the others,

apologize for the mishap, it should've never have

is there to apologize

throughout the platform. Despite the fact that he wasn't trying to speak loudly, his voice

be

"I agree."

as his eyes locked onto the projection

contestants had been warned beforehand of the possibility of death, we can't blame you guys

"I see."

reluctantly nodded

individual present represents the future of our kind, and so their death could

the elven queen was speaking, the only one that remained did not have a change in expression throughout the whole event was Octavious Hall who remained seated on

whether he cared or not about what had just

Trrr— Trrr—

that Octavious suddenly felt a vibration coming from his watch. Turning his watch, Octavious indifferently

fluctuations from one of

went as fast as it came as so we were unable to properly locate the individual,

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

forgotten everything about

Union had agreed to catch in exchange for the

Union had never bothered investing that much effort into catching

they had to do it, but it had never been on their

had completely forgotten about 876 was because his signal disappeared a while back. Octavious thought that he had

had never said anything regarding him being dead, Octavious had some people keep watch

from the current message, it appeared as

onto the screen of his watch,

alert. If you find his signal again, capture him

the message, Octavious leaned back on his chair with

not, he really did

***

Late at night.

scent of alcohol permeated

bed was a young girl with auburn-colored hair. With a

small delicate hand was Kevin whose body trembled uncontrollably. A couple of hours after the incident, the elves managed to finally

went to visit Emma. Taking his feelings into consideration, they all chose to visit at a

frail figure, Kevin felt a heartwrenching pain coarse through

across his face ranging

all

Kevin clenched his teeth tightly. It was only after someone showed him what had happened that he realized that the person responsible for

of hatred flashed across his face

a lot harder than

I did not stop

ever happened if he had not stopped

started to sink in as dark thoughts entered

Cli Clank—!

the door of the room suddenly opened and Ren walked in.

worry too much the doctor said

"...I know."

muttered. His

that she's going to live...but, he also said that sh-e suffered from a permanent

squeezed Emma's hand tightly

should've let you

mixed in his voice

Ren's direction, Kevin's snarled through gnashed

not interfered back then when you were about to kill

the

himself losing control of his

currently experiencing,

couldn't quite explain it, but the more he thought about it, the more his

can't let

outburst, Ren shook his

not your

Emma's hand, Kevin stood up. Closing his eyes for a short minute, he

This isn't my

of his eyes, Kevin's face slowly became

it has to be Aaron. He's the

glow suddenly manifested around his body. Turning his head and facing

going to

He suddenly proclaimed.

recovering, and that's through the usage of something called an 'elven tear'. I

say anything back to him, taking one last look at Emma,

Clank—!

his emotions become numb as a fire lit up in his

was going to stop