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.

to glance in the direction of the

mishap, it should've never

is there to

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

be

"I agree."

the side as his eyes locked onto the

possibility of death, we can't blame

"I see."

nodded her head

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

expression throughout the whole event was Octavious Hall who remained seated on his seat,

knew whether he cared or not about what had just

Trrr— Trrr—

vibration coming from his watch. Turning his watch,

detected slight fluctuations from one of the meters the

as so we were unable to properly locate

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

forgotten

agreed to catch in

thing as the Union had never bothered investing that much effort into

agreed to it, they had to do it,

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

since the Monolith had never said anything regarding him being dead, Octavious

current message, it appeared as

of his watch, Octavious sent

be on constant alert. If you find his signal again, capture

Octavious leaned back on his chair with

they captured 876 or not, he

***

Late at night.

of alcohol permeated throughout a

auburn-colored hair. With a pale complexion,

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

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

Emma's frail figure, Kevin felt

flashed across his face

all my

was only after someone showed him

of hatred flashed across his face as he tried

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

not

ever happened if he had not stopped Ren that

in as dark thoughts entered his

Cli Clank—!

walked in. Staring in his direction and walking up

to worry too much

"...I know."

muttered. His

he also said that sh-e suffered from

hand

let you kill

was an undisguised hatred mixed in

his head and glancing in Ren's

I should've not interfered back then

more he spoke, the

losing control

him, the feeling he was currently experiencing,

but the more he thought about it, the more his body

let

shook his head and placed his

not your

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

This isn't

hand and wiping the corner of

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

body. Turning his head and

to win the

He suddenly proclaimed.

that there is a chance of her fully recovering, and that's through the usage of something called an 'elven tear'. I will win the tournament

could say anything back to him, taking one last look at Emma, Kevin walked out of

Clank—!

become numb as a

stop him from