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 mishap, it should've

there

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

contestant dies, so be

"I agree."

side as his eyes locked onto the projection in the

the possibility of death, we

"I see."

nodded her head before standing

my watch. Each individual present represents the future

throughout the whole event was Octavious Hall who

cared or not

Trrr— Trrr—

from his watch. Turning his watch,

from one of the meters the

unable to

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

forgotten everything

agreed to catch in exchange for

formality thing as the Union had never bothered

to it, they had to do it,

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

being dead, Octavious had some people

from the current message, it appeared as

onto the screen of his watch, Octavious sent a

to be on constant alert. If

Octavious leaned back on his

they captured 876 or not, he

***

Late at night.

heavy scent of alcohol permeated throughout a small

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

body trembled uncontrollably. A couple of hours after the incident, the elves managed to finally stabilize her condition, allowing for

with Ren 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 alone time

frail figure, Kevin felt a heartwrenching pain coarse through

emotions flashed across his

all my

her hand harder, Kevin clenched his teeth tightly. It was only after someone showed him what had happened that he realized that the person responsible for this was

hatred flashed across his face as he tried

that proved to be a lot harder than he imagined as his face

did not stop Ren during

would've ever happened if he had not stopped

in as dark thoughts entered his

Cli Clank—!

of the room suddenly opened and Ren walked in. Staring

to worry too much the doctor said that

"...I know."

muttered. His voice

that she's going to live...but, he also said that sh-e suffered from

Emma's hand

should've let you kill

an undisguised hatred mixed in his voice

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

were right, I am too soft. I should've not interfered back then when you were about to

the

losing control

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

it, but the more he thought about it,

let

Ren shook his head and placed his

not your fault...It really

Closing his eyes for

you're right. This isn't my

wiping the corner of his eyes, Kevin's face slowly

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

red glow suddenly manifested around his body. Turning his head

going to win

He suddenly proclaimed.

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

taking one last look at Emma,

Clank—!

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

to stop him from winning