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.

to glance in the direction of the others, the elven queen

the mishap,

is there

platform. Despite the fact that he wasn't trying

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

"I agree."

the side as his eyes locked onto the projection in the

the possibility of death, we can't

"I see."

elven queen reluctantly nodded her head before

Each individual present represents the future of our kind,

in expression throughout

whether he cared or not about

Trrr— Trrr—

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

from one of

as fast as it came as so we were unable to

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

had almost forgotten everything

had agreed to catch in exchange

thing as the Union had never bothered investing that much

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

being dead, Octavious had

current message, it appeared

his watch, Octavious sent a

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

the message, Octavious leaned back on his chair

they captured 876 or not, he really did

***

Late at night.

scent of alcohol permeated throughout a small

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

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

the others, Kevin went to visit Emma. Taking his feelings into consideration, they all chose to visit at a later hour, giving him some alone

at Emma's frail figure, Kevin felt a

multitude of emotions flashed across his face

all my

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

flashed across his face as he tried his best to

harder than he imagined as his face turned red from

I did not

happened if

to sink in as dark thoughts entered

Cli Clank—!

the room suddenly opened and Ren walked

too much the doctor said that

"...I know."

His voice

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

hand

should've let you kill

was an undisguised hatred mixed in his voice as

and glancing in Ren's

right, I am too soft. I should've not interfered back then when you were about

more he spoke, the louder

could feel himself losing control of

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

more he thought about it, the more his

can't let her

his head and placed his hand on

your fault...It

his eyes for

This

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

was someone to blame, it has to be

his head and

going to

He suddenly proclaimed.

that's through the usage of something called

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

Clank—!

his emotions become numb as a fire lit up in

was going to stop him