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.

the others, the elven queen lowered her head and

the mishap, it should've never

is there to apologize

reverberated throughout the platform. Despite the fact that

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

"I agree."

his eyes locked onto the projection in

warned beforehand of the possibility of death, we

"I see."

queen reluctantly nodded her head

individual present represents the future of

in expression throughout the whole event

one knew whether he cared or

Trrr— Trrr—

was then that Octavious suddenly felt a vibration coming from his watch. Turning

detected slight fluctuations from one of the meters

fast as it came as so we were unable to

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

almost forgotten

that the Union had agreed to catch

the Union had never bothered investing that much

they had to do it, but it had

why he had completely forgotten about 876 was because his signal

since the Monolith had never said anything regarding him being dead, Octavious had some people keep watch for

the current message, it appeared as

onto the screen of his watch, Octavious sent a

constant alert. If

back

or not,

***

Late at night.

scent of alcohol permeated throughout

young girl with auburn-colored hair. With a pale

trembled uncontrollably. A couple of hours after the incident, the elves managed

his feelings into consideration, they all chose to visit at a later hour, giving him some alone time with

Emma's frail figure, Kevin felt

multitude of emotions flashed across his face

all my

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

his face as

that proved to be a lot harder than

not stop Ren

of this would've ever happened if he had not stopped

to sink in

Cli Clank—!

walked in. Staring in his direction and walking up

to worry too much the doctor

"...I know."

muttered. His

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

Emma's hand tightly

you kill that

was an undisguised hatred mixed in his

glancing in Ren's direction, Kevin's snarled

then when you were about to kill him! ...This is

the

losing control of his

the feeling he was currently experiencing, the heartwrenching feeling of losing

quite explain it, but the more he

let her

outburst, Ren shook his head and placed

your fault...It really

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

you're right. This

corner of his eyes, Kevin's face

be Aaron.

manifested around his body. Turning his head and

going to win the

He suddenly proclaimed.

is a chance of her fully recovering, and that's through the usage of

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

Clank—!

out, Kevin slowly felt his emotions become numb as

stop