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

apologize for the mishap, it should've never have

there to

deep voice reverberated throughout the platform. Despite the fact that he wasn't trying to

a contestant dies, so be

"I agree."

his eyes locked

possibility

"I see."

elven queen reluctantly nodded her head before

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

throughout the whole event

cared or not about

Trrr— Trrr—

from his watch. Turning his watch, Octavious indifferently glanced

of the meters the Monolith gave

came as so we were unable to properly locate the individual, but it

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

had almost forgotten everything about

Union had agreed to catch in exchange for the

this was merely a formality thing as the Union had never bothered

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

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

being dead, Octavious had some

it appeared as though he was

of his watch,

alert. If you

he sent the message, Octavious leaned back on his

or not, he really did

***

Late at night.

alcohol permeated throughout a

with auburn-colored hair. With a pale

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

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 with

frail figure, Kevin felt a

flashed across his face ranging from pure

is all

tightly. It was only after someone showed him what had happened that he

his face

be a lot harder than he imagined as

only I did not stop Ren during that

this would've ever happened if he had not

started to sink in

Cli Clank—!

walked in. Staring in

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

"...I know."

His

also said that sh-e suffered from a

Emma's hand

you kill that

mixed in his voice as

Ren's

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

the louder his voice

himself losing control of his

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

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

can't let her

to his sudden outburst, Ren shook his head and placed his hand on his

your fault...It really

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

This isn't my

and wiping the corner of

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

his body. Turning his head and facing Ren,

going to win the

He suddenly proclaimed.

and that's through the usage of something called an 'elven

look at Emma, Kevin walked out of the room, slamming the door

Clank—!

walked out, Kevin slowly felt his emotions become numb as a fire

was going to stop him