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,

apologize for the mishap, it should've never

there to

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

dies, so be it...khrrr...Only

"I agree."

as his eyes locked onto

of the possibility of death,

"I see."

elven queen reluctantly nodded her head before standing

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

the only one that remained did not have a change in expression throughout the

one knew whether he cared or not about what

Trrr— Trrr—

felt a vibration coming from

from one of the

as so we were unable to properly locate the

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

forgotten everything

the Union had agreed to catch in exchange for

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

to do it, but it had never

why he had completely forgotten about 876 was because his signal disappeared a while back.

had never said anything regarding him being dead, Octavious had some people keep watch

from the current message, it appeared

his watch,

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

sent the message, Octavious leaned back on his

or not, he

***

Late at night.

of alcohol

auburn-colored hair. With

body trembled uncontrollably. A couple of hours after the incident, the elves managed

into consideration, they

Emma's frail figure, Kevin felt

across his

all

teeth tightly. It was only after someone showed him what had happened that he realized that the person responsible for this

his face as he tried his best

harder than he imagined as his

only I did not stop Ren during that

if he

in as dark thoughts entered

Cli Clank—!

walked in. Staring in his direction and walking up to

worry too much the doctor said

"...I know."

muttered. His voice

he also said that sh-e suffered from a permanent

hand

let you kill that

an undisguised hatred mixed in his voice

in Ren's direction, Kevin's snarled through

not interfered back then when you were about to kill him! ...This is

he spoke, the louder his

could feel himself losing

feeling he was currently experiencing, the heartwrenching

the more he thought about it, the more his

let

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

not your fault...It

stood up. Closing his eyes for a

right. This

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

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

his head and facing Ren, Kevin's voice

going to win

He suddenly proclaimed.

chance of her fully recovering, and that's 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

Clank—!

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

stop him from winning