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.

the direction of the others,

mishap, it

is there

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

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

"I agree."

nodded from the side as his eyes

beforehand of the possibility of death, we

"I see."

elven queen reluctantly nodded her head

shouldn't have happened during my watch. Each individual present represents the future of our kind, and so their death could significantly

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

cared or not about what

Trrr— Trrr—

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

from one of the meters the

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

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

forgotten

someone that the Union had agreed to catch in exchange for

as the Union had never

it, but it

his signal disappeared a while back.

said anything regarding him being dead, Octavious had

from the current message, it appeared

screen of his watch,

alert. If you find his signal again, capture

message, Octavious leaned back on his chair

or not, he

***

Late at night.

heavy scent of alcohol permeated

hair. With a pale complexion, her frail figure lay

of hours after the incident, the elves managed to finally stabilize her condition, allowing for the others to finally visit

Taking his feelings into consideration,

at Emma's frail figure, Kevin felt a

of emotions flashed across his face ranging

is all my

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

across his face as

lot harder than he imagined as his face

I did not stop Ren during

happened if he

slowly started to sink in

Cli Clank—!

Ren walked in. Staring in his direction and

too much the doctor said that

"...I know."

His

live...but, he also said that sh-e suffered from a permanent injury on her back. She...will never be

squeezed Emma's hand tightly

you

an undisguised hatred mixed in his voice as he uttered those

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

not interfered back then when you were about

more he spoke, the

could feel himself losing

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

explain it, but the more he thought about

let her

shook his

your fault...It

Kevin stood up. Closing his eyes for

This isn't my

the corner of

was someone to blame, it has to be Aaron.

suddenly manifested around his body. Turning his head and facing Ren, Kevin's

to win

He suddenly proclaimed.

a chance of her fully recovering, and that's through the usage

to him, taking one last look at Emma, Kevin walked out

Clank—!

slowly felt his emotions become numb as a fire lit up

stop