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.

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

the mishap, it should've never have

is there to

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

dies, so be it...khrrr...Only the strong deserve

"I agree."

the side as his eyes locked onto the projection

the possibility

"I see."

reluctantly nodded her head

watch. Each individual present represents the future of

have a change in expression throughout the whole event was Octavious Hall who remained seated on his seat, completely unperturbed

he cared or not about

Trrr— Trrr—

that Octavious suddenly felt a vibration coming from his

of the

as so we were unable to

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

almost forgotten

Union had agreed to catch in exchange for

this was merely a formality thing as the Union had never bothered

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

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

him being dead, Octavious had some

message, it appeared as though he was

his

constant alert. If you find his

he sent the message, Octavious leaned back on his

or not,

***

Late at night.

heavy scent of alcohol permeated throughout

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

visit Emma. Taking his feelings into consideration,

Kevin felt a heartwrenching pain coarse through his

across his face ranging from

all

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 to keep

lot harder than

only I did not stop

happened if he had not stopped Ren

started to sink in as dark thoughts entered his

Cli Clank—!

suddenly opened and Ren walked in. Staring in his direction and

too much the

"...I know."

His

live...but, he also said that sh-e suffered from a permanent injury on her back.

hand tightly

should've let you

an undisguised hatred mixed in his voice

and glancing in Ren's direction, Kevin's

back then when you were about to kill

he spoke, the louder

feel himself losing control of his

was currently experiencing, the heartwrenching feeling of losing Emma...it all felt

more he thought about it, the

let

his

your fault...It really

stood up. Closing his

you're right. This

hand and wiping the corner of his eyes,

there was someone to blame, it has to be Aaron. He's

his head and

going to

He suddenly proclaimed.

recovering, and that's through the usage of something called an 'elven tear'.

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

Clank—!

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

to stop him from winning