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.

head to glance in the direction of the others, the elven

for the mishap, it

is there to

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

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

"I agree."

nodded from the side as his eyes locked onto the

warned beforehand of the possibility of death, we can't blame you guys

"I see."

elven queen reluctantly nodded her head before

shouldn't have happened during my watch. Each individual present represents the

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

cared or not about what

Trrr— Trrr—

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

one of the meters the Monolith gave

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

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

had almost forgotten everything about

had agreed to

merely a formality thing as the Union had never bothered investing that much

do it, but

forgotten about 876 was because his signal

him being dead, Octavious had some people keep watch

the current message, it appeared as though

the screen of his

constant alert. If you find his signal

Octavious leaned back on his chair with an aloof

or not, he really did

***

Late at night.

heavy scent of alcohol permeated throughout a small

girl with auburn-colored hair. With a pale

small delicate hand was Kevin whose body trembled uncontrollably. A couple of hours after the incident, the elves managed to finally stabilize her condition,

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

frail figure, Kevin felt a heartwrenching

across his

is all

harder, Kevin clenched his teeth tightly. It was only after someone showed him what had happened that he realized that the person responsible for

flashed across his face as he tried his best

to be a lot harder than he imagined as his face turned red

only I did not stop Ren

of this would've ever happened if he had

in as

Cli Clank—!

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

too much the doctor said that she

"...I know."

His voice

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

mixed in his

in Ren's direction, Kevin's snarled through gnashed

I am too soft. I should've not interfered back then when you were

he spoke, the

feel himself losing

currently experiencing, the heartwrenching feeling

he thought about it, the more his

let her

shook his head and placed his

not your fault...It really

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

right. This isn't

wiping the corner of

be Aaron. He's the one who is

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

to win the

He suddenly proclaimed.

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

one last look at Emma, Kevin walked out

Clank—!

his emotions become numb as a fire lit

was going to stop him from winning