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, the elven queen lowered

the mishap, it should've

there to apologize

Brutus's deep voice reverberated throughout the platform. Despite the fact that he wasn't trying to speak loudly, his voice boomed loudly

be

"I agree."

his eyes locked

been warned beforehand of the possibility

"I see."

nodded her head before

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

have a change in expression throughout the whole event was Octavious Hall who remained seated on

he cared or not about what had just

Trrr— Trrr—

coming from his watch.

of the meters the Monolith gave to

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

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

almost forgotten everything about

Union had agreed to catch

was merely a formality thing as the Union had never bothered

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

his signal disappeared a while

anything regarding him being

the current message, it appeared as though he

the screen of his watch, Octavious sent a

be on constant alert. If you find

he sent the message, Octavious leaned back on his chair with an aloof

they captured 876 or not, he

***

Late at night.

alcohol permeated throughout

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

of hours after

others, Kevin went to visit Emma. Taking his feelings into consideration, they

felt a heartwrenching pain

multitude of emotions flashed across his face ranging from pure hatred and

all

tightly. It was only after someone showed him

undisguised amount of hatred flashed across his face as he tried his best

lot harder than he imagined as his face

did not

would've ever happened if he had

to sink in

Cli Clank—!

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

too much the

"...I know."

muttered. His

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

Emma's hand tightly before

should've let you kill

mixed in his voice as he uttered those

head and glancing in Ren's direction, Kevin's snarled through

interfered back then when you were about to kill him! ...This

more he spoke, the louder his

feel himself losing control

was happening to him, the feeling he was currently experiencing, the heartwrenching feeling

the more he thought about it, the

can't let

shook his head and placed

your fault...It

up. Closing his eyes for a short minute, he

This isn't

of his eyes, Kevin's face slowly

blame, it has to be

glow suddenly manifested around his body. Turning his head and facing Ren, Kevin's voice suddenly

to win the

He suddenly proclaimed.

through the usage of

back to him, taking one last look at Emma, Kevin walked out of the room, slamming the

Clank—!

Kevin slowly felt his emotions become numb as

going to stop him from