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, the elven

the mishap, it should've never have

is there to apologize

Brutus's deep voice reverberated throughout the platform. Despite the fact that he wasn't trying to

be it...khrrr...Only the strong deserve to

"I agree."

as his eyes locked onto the

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

"I see."

reluctantly nodded her head before

that this shouldn't have happened during my watch. Each individual present represents the future of our kind, and

not have a change in expression throughout the whole event was Octavious Hall who remained seated on his seat, completely unperturbed by

or not about

Trrr— Trrr—

was then that Octavious suddenly felt a vibration coming from his watch. Turning

slight fluctuations from one of the

came as so we were unable to properly locate the individual, but it appears as though 876

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

had almost forgotten everything

was someone that the Union had agreed to catch

was merely a formality thing as the Union had never bothered investing that

to do it, but it

he had completely forgotten about 876 was because his

never said anything regarding him being dead, Octavious had

from the current message, it appeared as though he was

the screen of his watch, Octavious sent a message

alert. If you find his signal again, capture him

sent the message, Octavious leaned back on his chair with

they captured 876 or not, he really did not

***

Late at night.

heavy scent of alcohol permeated throughout a

auburn-colored hair. With a pale complexion,

her small delicate hand was Kevin whose body trembled uncontrollably. A couple of hours after the

consideration, they

frail figure, Kevin felt a heartwrenching pain coarse through his

of emotions flashed across his face

is all

tightly. It was only after someone showed him what had happened

his face as he

lot harder than he imagined as his

did not stop

would've ever happened if he had not stopped Ren that

in as dark thoughts entered

Cli Clank—!

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

have to worry too much the

"...I know."

muttered. His voice

said that sh-e suffered from a permanent

Emma's hand

should've let you kill

mixed in his voice as

and glancing in Ren's direction, Kevin's snarled

right, I am too soft. I should've not interfered back then when you were about to kill him! ...This is

he spoke, the louder his

could feel himself losing control

to him, the feeling he was currently experiencing, the heartwrenching feeling of losing Emma...it all felt too familiar

quite explain it, but the more he thought about it, the

can't let

Ren shook his head

your

hand, Kevin stood up. Closing his eyes for

This

corner of his eyes,

to blame, it has to be Aaron. He's the one who

Turning his head

to win the

He suddenly proclaimed.

said that there is a chance of her fully recovering, and that's through the usage of something called an 'elven tear'. I will

could say anything back to him, taking one last look at Emma, Kevin walked out of the room,

Clank—!

slowly felt his emotions become numb

stop him from