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.

of the others, the elven queen lowered

apologize for the mishap, it

there

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

be it...khrrr...Only

"I agree."

side as his eyes locked onto the

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

"I see."

elven queen reluctantly nodded her

Each individual present represents the future of our kind, and so their

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

or not

Trrr— Trrr—

from

of the meters the

fast as it came as so we were unable to

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

forgotten

had agreed to

as the Union had never

had to do it, but it had never been

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

being dead, Octavious had some people keep

it appeared as

the screen of his watch, Octavious sent a

If you find his signal

back on his chair with an

captured 876 or not, he

***

Late at night.

alcohol permeated throughout a small

auburn-colored hair. With a pale complexion, her frail figure lay on

A couple of hours after the incident, the elves managed to finally stabilize her condition, allowing for the others

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

Emma's frail figure, Kevin felt a heartwrenching pain

across his face ranging from pure hatred

all my

hand harder, Kevin clenched his teeth tightly. It was only after someone showed him what

face as he

to be a lot harder than he imagined as

did not stop

this would've ever happened if he had not stopped

started to sink in as dark

Cli Clank—!

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

you don't have to worry too much the

"...I know."

His

live...but, he also said that sh-e suffered from a permanent injury on her back.

squeezed Emma's hand tightly

let you

undisguised hatred mixed in his voice as

in Ren's direction,

I should've not interfered back then

the louder

himself losing control of

was currently experiencing, the heartwrenching feeling of losing Emma...it all

but the more he thought about it, the more his

can't let her

shook his head and

not your fault...It

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

you're right. This isn't my

of his eyes, Kevin's

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

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

going to

He suddenly proclaimed.

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

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

Clank—!

slowly felt his emotions become numb as a fire lit up in his

going to stop him from winning