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.

to glance in the direction of the others,

the mishap, it

is there to apologize

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

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

"I agree."

side as his eyes locked onto the projection in the

of the possibility

"I see."

nodded her head

my watch. Each individual present represents the future of our

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 on his seat,

whether he cared or not about

Trrr— Trrr—

from his watch. Turning his watch, Octavious indifferently glanced

from one of the meters the

as so we were unable to properly locate the individual, but it appears as though 876 is

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

forgotten everything about

was someone that the Union had agreed

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

they had to do it, but it

about 876 was because his signal disappeared a while back. Octavious thought that he had

regarding him being dead,

current message, it appeared as

his watch,

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

the message, Octavious leaned back on his chair with an

they captured 876 or not,

***

Late at night.

of alcohol

on a small bed was a young girl with auburn-colored hair. With a pale complexion, her

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

into consideration, they all chose to visit at a later hour, giving him

figure, Kevin felt a

his face ranging from pure hatred and

all my

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

across his face as

a lot harder than he imagined as his face turned red

only I did not stop Ren during that

if he had not stopped Ren

started to sink in

Cli Clank—!

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

much the doctor said that

"...I know."

muttered. His

know that she's going to live...but, he also said that sh-e suffered from a permanent injury on

Emma's hand

you kill that

mixed in his voice as he

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

should've not interfered back then when you were about

more he spoke, the louder

losing control

he was currently experiencing, the heartwrenching feeling of losing

explain it, but the more he thought about

let

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

not your fault...It

hand, Kevin stood up. Closing his eyes for a

This isn't

hand and wiping the corner of

someone to blame, it has to be Aaron.

his

going to win the

He suddenly proclaimed.

doctor said that there is a chance of her fully recovering, and that's through the usage of

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

Clank—!

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

going to stop him from winning