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.

in the direction of the others, the elven

for the mishap,

there to

Brutus's deep voice reverberated throughout the platform. Despite the fact that

dies, so be it...khrrr...Only

"I agree."

his eyes locked onto the projection in the

had been warned beforehand of the possibility of

"I see."

reluctantly nodded her head

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

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

knew whether he cared or not about

Trrr— Trrr—

then that Octavious suddenly felt a vibration coming from

slight fluctuations from one of the

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

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

forgotten everything about

was someone that the Union had agreed to catch

formality thing as the Union had never bothered investing that much

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

because his signal disappeared a

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

the current message, it appeared

his watch, Octavious sent a

sure to be on constant alert. If you

the message, Octavious leaned back on

or not, he really

***

Late at night.

of alcohol permeated throughout a small

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

beside her, holding onto her small delicate hand was Kevin whose body trembled uncontrollably. A couple of hours after the incident, the elves managed to finally stabilize her condition, allowing for the others to

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

Kevin felt a

emotions flashed across his face ranging from pure hatred

is all my

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

his face as he tried his best to

to be a lot harder than he imagined as

I did not

would've ever happened if he

sink in as dark thoughts entered his

Cli Clank—!

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

you don't have to worry too much the doctor said that

"...I know."

muttered. His

sh-e suffered from a permanent

Emma's hand tightly

you kill

undisguised hatred mixed in his voice as he uttered

glancing in Ren's

soft. I should've not interfered back then when

spoke, the louder his voice

could feel himself losing

the feeling he was currently experiencing,

he thought about it, the more his

let

Ren shook his

your fault...It really

his eyes for a short minute,

This isn't my

corner of his eyes,

was someone to blame, it has to be Aaron. He's the one who is responsible for

manifested around his body. Turning his head

to win

He suddenly proclaimed.

doctor said that there is a chance of her fully recovering, and that's through the usage

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

Clank—!

his emotions become numb

going to stop him from winning the