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 and softly

apologize for the mishap, it should've

is there to apologize

the fact that he

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

"I agree."

nodded from the side as his eyes locked onto the

of the possibility of death, we can't blame

"I see."

queen reluctantly nodded her head before

Each individual present represents the future of our kind, and so their

expression throughout

one knew whether he cared or not about what had just

Trrr— Trrr—

was then that Octavious suddenly felt a vibration coming from his watch. Turning his watch, Octavious indifferently glanced at

of the meters the

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

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

almost forgotten everything

Union had agreed to catch in exchange for

formality thing as the Union had never bothered investing

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

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

said anything regarding him being dead, Octavious had some

from the current message, it appeared as though

the screen of his watch, Octavious sent a message

to be on constant alert. If you find his signal again,

leaned back on

they captured 876 or not, he

***

Late at night.

heavy scent of alcohol permeated

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

uncontrollably. A couple of hours after the incident, the elves managed to finally stabilize her condition, allowing for the others to

consideration, they all chose

figure, Kevin felt a heartwrenching pain coarse

his face ranging from

is all my

his teeth tightly. It was only after someone showed him what had happened that he realized that the person responsible for this was

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

than he imagined as his face turned red from

only I did not

would've ever happened if he had not stopped Ren that

to sink in as dark thoughts

Cli Clank—!

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

to worry too much the doctor

"...I know."

muttered. His voice

he also said that sh-e suffered from a permanent injury on her back. She...will never be able

squeezed Emma's hand

should've let you kill that

hatred mixed in his voice as he uttered those

Ren's

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

the louder

himself losing control of

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

quite explain it, but the more he thought about it, the

let

his head and placed his hand on his

not your

hand, Kevin stood up. Closing his

you're right. This

corner of his eyes, Kevin's

blame, it has to be

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

to win the

He suddenly proclaimed.

and that's through the

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

Clank—!

become numb as a fire lit up

going to stop him from winning the