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.

of the others, the elven queen lowered

the mishap,

there to

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

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

"I agree."

side as his eyes locked onto the

contestants had been warned beforehand of the possibility

"I see."

queen reluctantly nodded her head before

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

expression throughout the whole event was Octavious Hall who remained seated on his seat, completely unperturbed by the

cared or not about what had just

Trrr— Trrr—

was then that Octavious suddenly felt a vibration coming from his

have detected slight fluctuations from one of the meters the Monolith gave

fast as it came as so we were unable to

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

almost forgotten

had agreed to

the Union had

to do it, but

876 was because his signal

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

current message, it appeared

onto the screen of his watch, Octavious sent

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

message, Octavious leaned back on his

876 or not,

***

Late at night.

of alcohol permeated

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

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

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

frail figure, Kevin felt a heartwrenching

of emotions flashed across his face ranging from pure hatred

all

after someone showed him

hatred flashed across his face as he tried his best

a lot harder than he imagined as his face

not

would've ever happened if he had not stopped Ren

started to sink in as dark thoughts entered

Cli Clank—!

was then that the door of the room suddenly opened and Ren walked in. Staring in his direction and walking up to him,

to worry too much the doctor said that she

"...I know."

His voice

to live...but, he also said that sh-e suffered from a

Emma's hand tightly before

should've let you kill that

hatred mixed in his

Ren's direction, Kevin's snarled through

were right, I am too soft. I should've not interfered back then when you were about to kill him! ...This is all

he spoke, the

feel himself losing control of

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

it, but the more he thought about it, the more his

can't let

his

your fault...It really

up. Closing his eyes for a short

you're right. This

of his eyes, Kevin's face slowly became

to blame, it has to be

manifested around his body. Turning his head

going to win

He suddenly proclaimed.

through the usage of something called an 'elven

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

Clank—!

he walked out, Kevin slowly felt his emotions become numb as

to stop