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 others,

for the mishap, it

is there to

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

so be it...khrrr...Only

"I agree."

his eyes locked

beforehand of the possibility of death, we can't blame you

"I see."

nodded her head before standing

represents the future of our kind, and so their death could significantly

queen was speaking, the only one that remained did not have a change in expression throughout the

whether he cared or not

Trrr— Trrr—

that Octavious suddenly felt a vibration coming from his watch.

have detected slight fluctuations from one of

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

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

almost forgotten

was someone that the Union had agreed to catch in

a formality thing as the Union had never bothered investing that much effort

it, but it had never been on their lists of

because his signal disappeared a while back.

being dead, Octavious had some people keep watch for

current message, it appeared as though he

of his watch, Octavious sent a

alert. If you

message, Octavious leaned back on his chair with an

not, he really did not

***

Late at night.

heavy scent of alcohol

bed was a young girl with 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 finally stabilize her condition, allowing for the

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

felt a heartwrenching pain coarse

flashed across his face ranging from pure

is all my

her 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

of hatred flashed across his face as he

harder than he imagined as his face turned red from

I did not stop Ren during that

ever happened if he had not stopped Ren that

sink in as dark thoughts entered

Cli Clank—!

that the door of the room suddenly opened and Ren walked in. Staring in his direction and walking up to

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

"...I know."

His

know that she's going to live...but, he also said that sh-e suffered from a permanent injury on her back. She...will never

squeezed Emma's hand tightly

let you kill that

hatred mixed in his voice as he

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

were right, I am too soft. I should've not interfered back then when you were about to kill him!

more he spoke, the louder

could feel himself losing

him, the feeling he was currently experiencing, the heartwrenching

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

let

response to his sudden outburst, Ren shook his head and

not your

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

This isn't my

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

it has to be Aaron. He's

around his body. Turning his head and facing

to win the

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

Clank—!

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

stop