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 direction of the others,

mishap, it

is there to

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

a contestant dies, so be it...khrrr...Only

"I agree."

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

contestants had been warned beforehand of the possibility

"I see."

nodded her

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

did not have a change in expression throughout the whole event was Octavious Hall who remained

cared or not about what had

Trrr— Trrr—

from his

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

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

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

forgotten everything about

had agreed to catch in

the Union had never bothered investing that much effort

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

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

him being dead, Octavious had

the current message, it appeared

screen of his watch, Octavious sent a

If you find his signal again,

message, Octavious leaned back

or not, he really did not

***

Late at night.

of alcohol permeated throughout

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

onto her small delicate hand was Kevin whose body trembled uncontrollably. A couple of hours after

with Ren and 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 time

felt a heartwrenching pain coarse

flashed across his face ranging from

all

hand harder, Kevin clenched his teeth tightly. It was only after someone showed him what had happened

across his face as he tried his best

lot harder than he imagined as his face turned red from

not stop

ever happened if he had not stopped

started to sink in as dark

Cli Clank—!

then that the door of the room suddenly opened and Ren walked in. Staring

don't have to worry too much the doctor said that she

"...I know."

His voice

to live...but, he also said that sh-e suffered from a

Emma's hand tightly before

should've let you kill

undisguised hatred mixed in

glancing in Ren's direction, Kevin's

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

he spoke, the louder his

himself losing control

couldn't understand what was happening to him, the feeling he was currently experiencing, the heartwrenching feeling of losing Emma...it all felt too

couldn't quite explain it, but the more he thought about it, the more

can't let her

his sudden outburst, Ren shook his

not your

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

This isn't

the corner of his eyes, Kevin's face slowly

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

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

going to win

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'. I will

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

Clank—!

he walked out, Kevin slowly felt his emotions become numb as a fire lit up in

stop him