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.

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

apologize for the mishap, it

there

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

contestant dies, so be

"I agree."

eyes locked onto the

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

"I see."

reluctantly nodded her head before

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

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 his seat, completely unperturbed by the

he cared or not about

Trrr— Trrr—

felt a vibration coming from his watch. Turning his

detected slight fluctuations from one of the meters the

as so we were unable to properly locate the individual,

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

forgotten everything about

had agreed to

reality, this was merely a formality thing as the Union had never bothered investing that much effort into

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

why he had completely forgotten about 876 was because his signal disappeared

anything regarding him being dead, Octavious had some people keep watch for any

from the current message, it appeared as though

onto the screen of his watch, Octavious sent a message

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

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

876 or not,

***

Late at night.

of alcohol permeated throughout a

young girl with auburn-colored hair. With a

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

and the others, Kevin went to visit Emma. Taking his feelings into consideration, they all chose to visit at a later hour, giving him some

figure, Kevin felt a

of emotions flashed across his face ranging from pure hatred and

is all my

Kevin clenched his teeth tightly. It was only after someone showed him what had

undisguised amount of hatred flashed across his face as he tried his best

harder than he imagined

only I did not stop

ever happened if he had not stopped

slowly started to sink in as dark thoughts entered his

Cli Clank—!

opened and Ren walked in. Staring in his direction and walking up

have to worry too much the doctor said that she will

"...I know."

His

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

squeezed Emma's hand tightly

let you kill

in his voice as he

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

then when you were about to kill him! ...This is all my

the

could feel himself losing control of

was currently

the more he thought about it, the more his body

let

sudden outburst, Ren shook his

not your fault...It really

Closing his

This isn't

the corner of his eyes, Kevin's

be Aaron. He's the

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

going to win

He suddenly proclaimed.

and that's through the usage of something

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

Clank—!

he walked out, Kevin slowly felt his emotions become numb as a fire lit up in

was going to stop him from