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 elven queen lowered her head

mishap, it should've never have

is there to apologize

the fact that he wasn't trying

a contestant dies, so be it...khrrr...Only the strong deserve

"I agree."

from the side as his eyes locked onto the projection in the

warned beforehand of the possibility of death, we

"I see."

nodded her

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

in expression throughout the whole event was Octavious Hall who

one knew whether he cared or not about what had

Trrr— Trrr—

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

have detected slight fluctuations from one of the meters the Monolith

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

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

forgotten everything about

was someone that the Union had agreed to catch in exchange for

as the Union had never bothered investing that much effort into catching

to it, they had to do it, but it had never been on

876 was because his signal disappeared a while back. Octavious thought that he had

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

appeared as though

of his watch, Octavious sent

constant alert. If you find

leaned back on his chair

or not, he really

***

Late at night.

heavy scent of alcohol permeated throughout a small

hair.

delicate hand was Kevin whose body trembled uncontrollably. A couple of hours after the incident,

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

frail figure, Kevin felt a heartwrenching pain coarse

across his face ranging from pure hatred and

all my

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

his face

proved to be a lot harder than he imagined

did not stop Ren during that

ever happened if he had not stopped Ren

slowly started to sink in as dark

Cli Clank—!

the room suddenly opened and Ren walked in.

don't have to worry too much the

"...I know."

muttered. His voice

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

squeezed Emma's hand tightly before

let you kill

hatred mixed in his voice as he uttered those

Ren's direction, Kevin's snarled

soft. I should've not interfered back then when you were about to kill him! ...This is all my

more he spoke, the louder

feel himself losing

was currently experiencing, the heartwrenching feeling of

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

let

his head and placed his hand on his

not your

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

right. This isn't

corner of his

has to be

red glow suddenly manifested around his body. Turning his head and facing Ren,

going to win the

He suddenly proclaimed.

said that there is a chance of her fully recovering, and that's through the usage of something called an 'elven tear'.

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

Clank—!

felt his emotions become

going to stop him from winning the