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

apologize for the mishap, it should've never have

is there to apologize

the fact that he wasn't trying to speak loudly, his

so be it...khrrr...Only the strong deserve

"I agree."

his eyes locked

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

"I see."

reluctantly nodded

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

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

cared or not about what

Trrr— Trrr—

a vibration coming from

have detected slight fluctuations from one of the

connection went as fast as it came as so we were unable to properly locate

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

forgotten everything

that the Union had agreed to catch in exchange

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

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

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

regarding him being

current message, it appeared as though he

screen of his watch, Octavious sent a message

be on constant alert. If you find his signal

Octavious leaned back

not,

***

Late at night.

alcohol

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

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

went to visit Emma. Taking his feelings into consideration, they all chose to visit at a later hour, giving

felt a heartwrenching pain coarse through his

multitude of emotions flashed across his face ranging from pure hatred

is 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 for this was

flashed across his face as he tried his best to keep

a lot harder than he imagined as his face turned red from

only I did not

of this would've ever happened if he had

started to sink in

Cli Clank—!

the room suddenly opened and Ren walked

worry too much the doctor

"...I know."

His

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

hand tightly before

you kill that

hatred mixed in

head and glancing in Ren's direction,

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

more he spoke, the louder his voice

losing control of

understand what was happening to him, the feeling he was currently experiencing, the heartwrenching feeling of losing

he thought about it, the more his

can't let

response to his sudden outburst, Ren shook his head and placed

your

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

right. This isn't

hand and wiping the corner of his eyes, Kevin's face

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

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

going to win the

He suddenly proclaimed.

through the usage of something called an 'elven tear'. I will win the tournament

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

Clank—!

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

to stop him from