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.

to glance in the direction of the others, the elven queen lowered her head and

apologize for the mishap, it should've never

there

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

a contestant dies, so be it...khrrr...Only the strong

"I agree."

side as his eyes locked onto

beforehand of the possibility of death, we

"I see."

queen reluctantly nodded her head before

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

he cared or not

Trrr— Trrr—

that Octavious suddenly felt a vibration coming from

detected slight fluctuations from one of the meters the Monolith gave to

came as so we were unable to

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

had almost forgotten everything

was someone that the Union had agreed to catch in

a formality thing as the Union had never bothered investing that much

it, but it had never been

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

said anything regarding him being dead, Octavious had some people keep

from the current message, it appeared as though he was still

his watch, Octavious

on constant alert. If you find his signal again, capture

he sent the message, Octavious leaned back on his chair with an

not, he really did not

***

Late at night.

of alcohol permeated

on a small bed was a young girl with auburn-colored hair. With a pale complexion, her frail figure lay

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

Ren and the others, Kevin went to visit Emma. Taking his feelings into consideration, they all chose to visit

Kevin felt a heartwrenching pain coarse through

across his face

is all my

someone showed him what had happened that he realized that the person responsible for this

hatred flashed across his face as he tried his best to keep

than he imagined as his face

only I did not stop Ren

happened if he had

in as

Cli Clank—!

the room suddenly opened and Ren walked in. Staring in his direction and walking up to him,

you don't have to worry too much

"...I know."

muttered. His

suffered from a permanent injury on her back. She...will

hand tightly

you kill that

in his voice as he uttered those

glancing in Ren's direction, Kevin's snarled through gnashed

soft. I should've not interfered back then when

more he spoke, the louder his

losing control of his

to him, the feeling he was currently experiencing, the

the more he thought about it, the more his

let her

his sudden outburst, Ren shook his head and placed his

your

Kevin stood up. Closing his eyes

you're right. This isn't my

corner of

blame, it has to be Aaron. He's

glow suddenly manifested around his body. Turning his head

going to win

He suddenly proclaimed.

and that's through the usage of something called an

him, taking one last look at Emma, Kevin walked out of the room, slamming the

Clank—!

out, Kevin slowly felt his emotions become numb as a fire

was going to stop