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.

head to glance in the direction of the others, the elven queen lowered her head and softly

for the mishap, it

is there

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

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

"I agree."

eyes locked onto

possibility of death,

"I see."

queen reluctantly nodded her

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

not have a change in expression throughout the whole event was

knew whether he cared or not about what

Trrr— Trrr—

a vibration coming from his watch. Turning his watch, Octavious

fluctuations from one of the meters the Monolith gave to

so we were unable to properly locate the individual,

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

almost forgotten everything about

Union had agreed to

Union had never bothered investing that much

it, but it had never been on their

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

regarding him being dead, Octavious had some people keep watch for any

appeared as though

his watch, Octavious sent a message

constant alert. If you

the message, Octavious leaned back on his

not, he

***

Late at night.

scent of alcohol permeated throughout a small

auburn-colored hair. With

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

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

frail figure, Kevin felt a heartwrenching pain coarse through

emotions flashed across his face ranging from pure hatred and

all my

her hand harder, Kevin clenched his teeth tightly. It was only after someone showed him what had happened that he

of hatred flashed across his face as he tried his best to keep himself

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

not

if he

started to sink in as dark thoughts entered his

Cli Clank—!

room suddenly opened and Ren walked in. Staring in his direction and walking

you don't have to worry too much the doctor said that she

"...I know."

muttered. His

suffered from a permanent injury on her

Emma's hand tightly before

you kill that

in his voice as

and glancing in Ren's direction, Kevin's snarled through

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

spoke, the

himself losing control of

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

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

let her

his head and

your fault...It

up. Closing his eyes for a short

you're right. This isn't

of his eyes,

to blame, it has to be

his head and

going to win

He suddenly proclaimed.

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

say anything back to him, taking one last look at

Clank—!

his emotions become numb as

stop him