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 queen lowered her head

for the mishap, it

there

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

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

"I agree."

the side as his eyes

the possibility of death, we can't

"I see."

queen reluctantly nodded

represents the future of our

elven queen was speaking, the only one that remained did not have a change in expression throughout the whole event was Octavious Hall

knew whether he cared or not about what had just

Trrr— Trrr—

that Octavious suddenly felt a vibration coming from his watch. Turning his watch,

of the meters the

as so we were unable to

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

forgotten everything

had agreed to

the Union had never bothered investing that

it, but it

forgotten about 876 was because his signal disappeared

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

from the current message, it appeared

onto the screen of his watch, Octavious sent a message

on constant alert. If you find his signal

back

captured 876 or not, he really

***

Late at night.

alcohol permeated throughout

hair. With a pale complexion, her frail figure lay on a

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 finally visit

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

figure, Kevin felt a heartwrenching pain coarse through his

of emotions flashed across his face ranging from

is all my

only after someone showed him what had happened that he realized that the

hatred flashed across his face as he tried his best to keep himself

that proved to be a lot harder than

did not stop

happened if he

started to sink in as dark thoughts entered his

Cli Clank—!

Ren walked in. Staring in his direction and walking

too much the doctor said that she

"...I know."

His voice

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

squeezed Emma's hand tightly

you kill that

in his voice as he uttered those

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

back then when you were about

he spoke, the louder his

could 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

the more he thought about it, the

let her

response to his sudden outburst, Ren shook his head and placed his hand

your fault...It really

his eyes for a short minute,

you're right. This isn't my

wiping the corner of his

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

body. Turning his head and facing Ren, Kevin's voice

going to win the

He suddenly proclaimed.

and that's through the

anything back to him, taking one last look at Emma, Kevin walked out of

Clank—!

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

going to stop him from