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, the elven

the mishap,

is there

her, Brutus's deep voice reverberated throughout the platform. Despite the fact that he wasn't trying to speak loudly, his voice boomed loudly throughout the viewing

be it...khrrr...Only

"I agree."

his eyes locked onto the projection

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

"I see."

nodded her

watch. Each individual present represents the

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

one knew whether he cared or not about what had just

Trrr— Trrr—

from his watch.

of the meters the

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

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

forgotten everything about

that the Union had agreed to catch in exchange

as the Union had never bothered investing

agreed to it, they had to do it, but it had never been on

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 for any

it appeared as though

the screen of his

to be on constant alert. If you find his

he sent the message, Octavious leaned back on his chair

captured 876 or not, he really did

***

Late at night.

of alcohol

auburn-colored hair. With a pale complexion, her frail figure lay on a soft

hours after the incident, the elves managed to finally stabilize

with Ren and the others, Kevin went to visit Emma. Taking his feelings into consideration, they all chose to

frail figure, Kevin felt a heartwrenching

his face ranging from

all my

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

flashed across his face as he tried his best to keep

to be a lot harder than he imagined as his face

not stop

ever happened if he had not

slowly started to sink in as

Cli Clank—!

room suddenly opened and Ren walked in. Staring in his direction and walking up to him,

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

"...I know."

muttered. His

said that sh-e suffered from a permanent injury on her back. She...will never be

hand

should've let you kill that

in his voice as

his head and glancing in Ren's direction, Kevin's

am too soft. I should've not interfered back then when you were about

more he spoke, the louder his

feel himself losing control of

currently experiencing, the heartwrenching feeling of losing Emma...it all felt too

the more he thought about it, the

let

sudden outburst, Ren shook his head

your fault...It really

stood up. Closing his eyes for a

you're right. This isn't my

wiping the corner of his eyes, Kevin's

someone to blame, it has to be Aaron. He's the one

suddenly manifested around his body. Turning his head

to win the

He suddenly proclaimed.

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

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

Clank—!

slowly felt his emotions become

was going to stop him from