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

the mishap, it

is there

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

be it...khrrr...Only the strong

"I agree."

side as his eyes locked onto the projection

warned beforehand of the possibility of death, we

"I see."

reluctantly nodded her

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

was speaking, the only one that remained did not have a change in expression throughout the whole event was Octavious Hall who remained

whether he cared or not about what had just

Trrr— Trrr—

coming from his watch. Turning his watch, Octavious indifferently glanced

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

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

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

forgotten everything

that the Union had agreed to catch in exchange

the Union had never bothered investing that much effort into

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

forgotten about 876 was because his signal disappeared a

had never said anything regarding him being dead, Octavious had

message, it appeared as

his

alert. If you find his signal again, capture

the message, Octavious leaned back on his chair with an

or not, he really did not

***

Late at night.

of alcohol permeated throughout

hair. With a pale complexion, her frail figure lay on a soft

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

Taking his feelings into consideration, they all chose to

frail figure, Kevin felt a heartwrenching pain

flashed across his face ranging

all

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

his face as he tried his best to

proved to be a lot harder than he imagined

not

of this would've ever happened if he had not stopped Ren

to sink in as dark

Cli Clank—!

opened and Ren walked in. Staring in his direction and walking up to him,

too much the doctor said that she

"...I know."

muttered. His

sh-e suffered from

Emma's hand tightly before

should've let you kill that

an undisguised hatred mixed in his voice as he

glancing in Ren's direction, Kevin's

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

the louder his voice

could feel himself losing

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

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

let her

sudden outburst, Ren shook his head and

not your fault...It really

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

This isn't

the corner of his eyes, Kevin's face

it has to be Aaron.

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

to

He suddenly proclaimed.

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

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

Clank—!

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

going to stop