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.

glance in the direction of the others, the elven queen lowered

apologize for the mishap, it should've

is there

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

be it...khrrr...Only the

"I agree."

eyes locked onto the

contestants had been warned beforehand of the possibility of

"I see."

nodded her

have happened during my watch. Each individual present represents the future of our kind, and

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

whether he cared or not about what had

Trrr— Trrr—

suddenly felt a vibration coming from his watch.

have detected slight fluctuations from one of the meters the Monolith gave to

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

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

almost forgotten everything

someone that the Union had agreed to

thing as the Union had never bothered investing that much effort into

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

his signal disappeared a while back.

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

message, it appeared as though

the screen of his watch,

sure to be on constant alert. If

sent the message, Octavious leaned back on his

captured 876 or not, he really did

***

Late at night.

of alcohol permeated

hair. With a pale complexion, her

Kevin whose body trembled uncontrollably. A couple of hours after the incident, the elves managed to finally stabilize her condition, allowing for

feelings into consideration, they all chose

frail figure, Kevin felt a heartwrenching pain coarse through his

emotions flashed across his face ranging

all my

someone showed him what had

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

a lot harder than he imagined as

not stop Ren

would've ever happened if he had not

to sink in

Cli Clank—!

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

worry too much the doctor said that

"...I know."

His

suffered from a permanent injury on her back. She...will never be able to

squeezed Emma's hand tightly before

should've let you kill

hatred mixed in

glancing in Ren's direction,

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

spoke, the louder

feel himself losing control of

was happening to him, the feeling he was currently experiencing, the heartwrenching feeling of losing Emma...it all felt too familiar

he thought about it, the more

let

sudden outburst, Ren shook his head and placed

your fault...It really

Kevin stood up. Closing his eyes for a short minute, he

This

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

it has to be Aaron. He's the one who is

his head and facing Ren, Kevin's voice suddenly

going to win the

He suddenly proclaimed.

that there is a chance of her fully recovering, and that's through the usage of something called an 'elven tear'.

last look at Emma, Kevin walked out of the

Clank—!

emotions become numb as a fire lit up in his

to stop him