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,

the mishap, it

is there to

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

dies, so be it...khrrr...Only the

"I agree."

the side as his eyes locked

been warned beforehand of the possibility of death, we

"I see."

elven queen reluctantly nodded her head before

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

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, completely unperturbed by

cared or not about

Trrr— Trrr—

a vibration coming from his watch.

of

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

Octavius's brows furrowed slightly.

876.

almost forgotten everything

that the Union had agreed to catch in exchange for the

the Union had

it, they had to do it, but

was because his signal disappeared a while back. Octavious thought that

Monolith had never said anything regarding him being dead, Octavious had

message, it appeared

screen of his watch, Octavious sent a

constant alert. If you find his

sent the message, Octavious leaned back

captured 876 or not,

***

Late at night.

of alcohol permeated throughout a

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

whose body trembled uncontrollably. A couple of hours

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

frail figure, Kevin felt

across his face ranging from

all

was only after someone showed him what had happened that he

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

to be a lot harder than he imagined as his face turned

only I did not stop Ren during that

happened if he had

to sink in as dark

Cli Clank—!

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

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

"...I know."

muttered. His voice

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

hand

should've let you kill that

hatred mixed in his voice as

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

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

he spoke, the

losing

currently experiencing,

but the more he thought about it,

let her

response to his sudden outburst, Ren shook his head and placed his

your

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

you're right. This

hand and wiping the corner of his

has to be Aaron. He's the one

his body. Turning his head and facing Ren,

to win the

He suddenly proclaimed.

a chance of her fully recovering, and that's through the usage

last look at Emma, Kevin walked out of

Clank—!

felt his emotions become numb as

going to stop him from