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 her head and

for the mishap,

is there

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

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

"I agree."

nodded from the side as his eyes

possibility of death, we can't blame

"I see."

reluctantly nodded her

Each individual present represents the future of our kind,

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

one knew whether he cared or not about what

Trrr— Trrr—

that Octavious suddenly felt a vibration coming from his watch.

fluctuations from one of the meters the Monolith gave

to properly locate the individual, but it appears as though 876

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

had almost forgotten everything

agreed

a formality thing as the Union had never bothered investing that much effort

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

was because his signal

said anything regarding him being dead, Octavious had some

message, it appeared as though he

onto the screen of his watch, Octavious sent a message

constant alert. If you find

leaned back on his chair with an

not, he really

***

Late at night.

scent of alcohol permeated throughout a small

bed was a young girl with auburn-colored hair. With a pale complexion, her frail

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

Taking his feelings into consideration, they all chose to visit at a later hour, giving him some alone time with

frail figure, Kevin felt a heartwrenching pain coarse through his

multitude of emotions flashed across his face ranging from

is all

someone showed him what had happened that he realized

his face as he tried his best to keep

lot harder than he imagined as his face turned red from

I did not

happened if he had

to sink in as dark

Cli Clank—!

of the room suddenly opened and Ren walked in.

to worry too much the doctor said

"...I know."

muttered. His

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

hand tightly before

should've let you kill that

was an undisguised hatred mixed in his

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

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

he spoke, the

losing control of his

happening 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 more

let her

sudden outburst, Ren shook his head and placed his

your fault...It

stood up. Closing his eyes for a

This isn't

his hand and wiping the corner of his

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

manifested around his body. Turning his head and facing Ren,

to win the

He suddenly proclaimed.

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

one last look at Emma, Kevin walked out of

Clank—!

his emotions become

going to stop him