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.

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

for the mishap, it should've

is there to apologize

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

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

"I agree."

from the side as his eyes locked onto the

had been warned beforehand of the possibility of death, we can't blame

"I see."

elven queen reluctantly nodded her

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

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

one knew whether he cared or not about what had just

Trrr— Trrr—

coming from his watch. Turning his

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

came as so we were unable to properly locate the individual, but it appears as

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

had almost forgotten everything about

the Union had agreed to catch in exchange for

as the Union had never bothered investing that much

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

his signal disappeared a while back. Octavious thought that

said anything regarding him being dead, Octavious had some people keep

from the current message, it appeared as though he was still

of his watch,

sure to be on constant alert. If you find

the message, Octavious leaned back

or not,

***

Late at night.

heavy scent of alcohol permeated throughout a small

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

delicate hand was Kevin whose body trembled uncontrollably. A couple of hours after the incident, the elves managed to finally stabilize

consideration,

Kevin felt a heartwrenching pain

his face ranging from pure hatred

all my

hand harder, Kevin clenched his teeth tightly. It was only after someone showed

of hatred flashed across his face as he

be a lot harder than he imagined as his face turned red from

I did not stop

ever happened if he had not stopped Ren

slowly started to sink in as dark thoughts entered

Cli Clank—!

the room suddenly opened and Ren walked in. Staring in his direction and walking up to him,

don't have to worry too much the doctor

"...I know."

muttered. His

he also said that sh-e suffered from a

Emma's hand tightly before

should've let you

hatred mixed in his voice as he

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

interfered back then when you were about

he spoke, the louder

feel himself losing control of

happening to him, the feeling he was currently experiencing, the heartwrenching feeling of losing Emma...it

explain it, but the more he thought about

can't let

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

not your fault...It

go of Emma's hand, Kevin stood up. Closing his eyes for a short

This isn't

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

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

his head and

going to

He suddenly proclaimed.

her fully recovering, and that's through the usage of something called an

one last look at Emma, Kevin

Clank—!

out, Kevin slowly felt his emotions become numb as

going to stop him