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.

direction of the others, the elven queen lowered her head

for the mishap, it should've never have

is there to

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

so be

"I agree."

as his eyes

warned beforehand of the possibility of death, we can't blame you guys for

"I see."

queen reluctantly nodded her head before standing

have happened during my watch. Each individual present represents the future of our kind, and so

remained did not have a change in expression throughout the whole event was

one knew whether he cared or not

Trrr— Trrr—

a vibration coming from his watch. Turning his watch, Octavious indifferently glanced at

detected slight fluctuations from one of the meters the Monolith gave

went as fast as it came as so we were unable to properly locate the individual, but it appears as though 876 is

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

had almost forgotten everything

Union had agreed to catch in exchange for

this was merely a formality thing as the Union

do it, but it had never been on their

completely forgotten about 876 was because his signal disappeared a while back. Octavious thought

said anything regarding him being dead, Octavious

appeared as though he

his watch, Octavious sent a message

sure to be on constant alert. If

sent the message, Octavious leaned back on

captured 876 or not, he really did

***

Late at night.

scent of alcohol

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

of hours after the

Ren and the others, Kevin went to visit Emma. Taking his feelings into consideration, they all chose to

figure, Kevin felt a

his face ranging from

all my

showed him what had happened

of hatred flashed across his face

that proved to be a lot harder than he

I did not stop

if

in as dark thoughts entered

Cli Clank—!

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

to worry too much

"...I know."

muttered. His

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

squeezed Emma's hand

you kill that

an undisguised hatred mixed in his voice as he uttered

in Ren's

should've not interfered back then when you were about to kill

the louder his voice

losing control

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

let

his sudden outburst, Ren shook his

your

Closing his eyes

right. This isn't

his hand and wiping the corner of his eyes, Kevin's face slowly

be Aaron. He's the one who is responsible

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

going to win the

He suddenly proclaimed.

and that's through the usage of something called an 'elven tear'. I will win the tournament and ask

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

Clank—!

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

stop him