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.

glance in the direction of the others, the elven queen lowered her head

the mishap, it should've never have

is there to

platform. Despite the fact that

dies, so be it...khrrr...Only the strong deserve to

"I agree."

side as his eyes locked onto the projection in

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

"I see."

nodded her head before standing

I believe that this shouldn't have happened during my watch. Each individual present represents the future of

change in expression throughout the whole event was Octavious Hall who remained seated on his seat, completely unperturbed by the various

he cared or not about what

Trrr— Trrr—

felt a vibration coming from his watch. Turning his watch, Octavious indifferently

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

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

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

had almost forgotten

agreed to

merely a formality thing as the Union

had to do it, but

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

said anything regarding him being

current message, it appeared as though

the screen of his watch,

sure to be on constant alert. If you find his

back on his chair with an

not, he

***

Late at night.

of alcohol

was a young girl with auburn-colored hair. With a pale complexion, her frail

body trembled uncontrollably. A couple of hours after the incident, the elves managed to finally stabilize her condition, allowing for the

to visit Emma. Taking his feelings into consideration, they all chose to visit at

at Emma's frail figure, Kevin felt a heartwrenching pain coarse

of emotions flashed across his face ranging from pure

all my

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

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

than he imagined as

I did not stop Ren

happened if he had not stopped Ren

in as dark thoughts entered his

Cli Clank—!

walked in. Staring in his direction and

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

"...I know."

His voice

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

Emma's hand

should've let you kill

mixed in his voice as he uttered those

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

soft. I should've not interfered back then when you were about to kill him! ...This is

he spoke, the louder his voice

himself losing control of

him, the feeling he was currently

the more he thought about

let

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

not your

Closing his eyes

you're right. This isn't my

corner of his eyes, Kevin's face slowly became

to blame, it has to be Aaron. He's the one who is responsible for

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

going to

He suddenly proclaimed.

her fully recovering, and that's through the usage of something called an 'elven tear'. I will win the tournament and ask for

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

Clank—!

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

to stop him from