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.

direction of the others, the elven queen lowered her head and

apologize for the mishap, it should've never

there to

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

a contestant dies, so be

"I agree."

the side as his eyes locked

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

"I see."

elven queen reluctantly nodded

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

elven queen was speaking, the only one that remained did not have a change in expression throughout the whole event was Octavious Hall who remained seated

one knew whether he cared or not about

Trrr— Trrr—

felt a vibration coming from his

from one of

it came as so we were unable to properly locate the

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

forgotten everything

Union had agreed

this was merely a formality thing as the Union

to it, they had to do it, but it had never

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

Monolith had never said anything regarding him being

appeared as though he was

screen of his watch,

alert. If you find his signal again, capture him

message, Octavious leaned back on his chair with an

876 or not, he really did

***

Late at night.

of alcohol permeated throughout

a young girl with auburn-colored hair. With a

body trembled uncontrollably. A couple of hours

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

at Emma's frail figure, Kevin felt a

of emotions flashed across his

all my

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

his face as he

than

not stop Ren during that

if he had not stopped

sink in

Cli Clank—!

Ren walked in. Staring in his direction and walking

much the doctor

"...I know."

His voice

also said that sh-e suffered from a permanent

squeezed Emma's hand

should've let you

undisguised hatred mixed 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

the louder his voice

losing control of his

what was happening to him, the feeling he was currently experiencing, the heartwrenching feeling

quite explain it, but the more he thought about it,

can't let her

Ren shook his head and placed

not your fault...It

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

This isn't

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

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

his body. Turning his head

going to

He suddenly proclaimed.

and that's through the usage of something called an

Ren could say anything back to him, taking one last look at Emma, Kevin walked out of the room, slamming the door shut

Clank—!

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

to stop him from