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

apologize for the mishap, it should've never

there

voice reverberated throughout the platform. Despite the fact that he wasn't

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

"I agree."

as his eyes locked onto

warned beforehand of the possibility of death,

"I see."

elven queen reluctantly nodded her head before

my watch. Each individual present represents the future of our kind, and

expression throughout the whole event was Octavious Hall

whether he cared or not about what had just

Trrr— Trrr—

was then that Octavious suddenly felt a vibration coming from his watch.

fluctuations from one of

so we were unable to properly

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

had almost forgotten everything about

agreed to catch in exchange for the

the Union had never bothered investing that much

had agreed to it, they had to do it, but it had never

because his signal disappeared a while back. Octavious

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

message, it appeared as

of his watch, Octavious sent a

If you find

leaned back on

not, he

***

Late at night.

alcohol permeated throughout a small

auburn-colored hair. With a pale complexion, her

body trembled uncontrollably. A couple of hours after the

into consideration, they all chose to visit

figure, Kevin felt

multitude of emotions flashed across his face ranging from pure hatred and

all

clenched his teeth tightly. It was only after someone showed him what

undisguised amount of hatred flashed across his face

than he imagined as his face turned red from

only I did not stop Ren

happened if he had not stopped

in as

Cli Clank—!

walked in.

worry too much the doctor said that she will

"...I know."

muttered. His voice

sh-e suffered from a permanent injury

Emma's hand tightly

should've let you

was an undisguised hatred mixed in his voice as he

and glancing in Ren's direction,

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

more he spoke, the louder his

feel himself losing control of his

currently experiencing,

but the more he thought about it, the

can't let her

Ren shook his head and

your fault...It really

Emma's hand, Kevin stood up. Closing his eyes for a short minute, he quickly recomposed

you're right. This isn't

and wiping the corner of his eyes,

blame, it has to be Aaron.

Turning his head and

to

He suddenly proclaimed.

chance of her fully recovering, and that's through the usage of something called an 'elven tear'. I will win

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

Clank—!

emotions become numb as

was going to stop him from