The Author's POV

Chapter 422

Raising his hand, Kevin knocked on the door of Ren's apparent.

To Tok—

However, upon knocking on the door he was met with no response.

To Tok—

Frowning, Kevin knocked once again. But, yet again, he was met with no response.

'Is he not back yet? Could he perhaps be training?'

Although Ren seemed like a slacker he was in fact someone who worked hard, therefore, Kevin quickly came to the assumption that he was training at the moment. Well, at least to him, that was the most probable location of where he could be.

As his thoughts paused there, he started hesitating.

'Should I? ...or should I not?'

If he was training, then he didn't really want to disturb him. He knew just how annoying it was when someone interrupted him in the middle of his training.

"Screw it."

But after thinking things through, he decided to go anyways.

He desperately needed answers.

The doubts that were rising within him were starting to eat at his sanity.

He had to deal with them right now.

And so, after once again checking to see if Ren was present in the room or not, Kevin decided to head to the training grounds.

***

At the same time.

Opening my eyes, I found myself back in the training room.

Di—! Di—!

[00 : 00]

What followed after was the repetitive sound of the alarm ringing, signaling that the training session was over. What followed after was a subtle clicking sound and the door opened.

"haaa...haaa..."

Leaning my head back, I breathed heavily.

At the moment my mana was completely drained and I had trouble moving my body.

As I had left my bracelet back in my apartment, I did not have anything to refuel my mana with. This was a precaution I took in the chance that the other Ren took over my body.

Fortunately, nothing happened, but I didn't want to take the risk.

Closing my eyes, instead of leaving the room I remained seated and channeled the mana in the surroundings towards myself.

As I was recuperating my mana, I started thinking back on my experience.

'Looks like I was right, Monarch's indifference is not a simple skill.'

For me to suddenly be brought to a weird void the moment I activated the skill, I could tell that there was now more to it than it looked on the surface.

My apprehension towards it grew even more.

Not only that but the fact that I was somehow able to get the skill made me question reality. Did I really get the skill by simple coincidence? ...If so it wouldn't make sense. How could such a skill suddenly fall in my hands like that?

The more I thought about it, the more questions I had.

But if there was one thing I was now certain about, it was the fact that I was being manipulated.

Whoever the other Ren was, he was trying to make me act like he wanted to. Disgust washed over me as my thoughts paused there and my eyes opened.

'Is this how others feel when I manipulate them?'

Disgusting.

Scratching the side of my head till my hair became messy, I coldly muttered.

"...Want to treat me as a pawn?"

head, I clenched my fists

use me as a pawn. I'll show you just what happens when a pawn does not move the way that you

and controlled by him, then all I had to do was do something completely out

wasn't just going to let

body up with the aid of the wall, I stretched

fact that I was still low in mana, having recuperated some of it in the meantime, it was now at a manageable

my feet came to a sudden stop.

you

other

my eyes lay on him, I was instantly

something wrong with

was looking at

Kevin

"You."

Kevin spoke.

sounded quite

I tried to figure

Are you

must still be haunting him. Perhaps he came here to train and get his mind off

as I took a step forward, he took

"Don't come any closer."

"What's wrong?"

instantly taken aback by his

confusion in me only grew as he

then that he suddenly opened

want to ask

his face was

stopped moving and nodded my

"Ask."

on a friendly

have anything to ask you can just ask me.

"Okay…"

softly nodded

my eyes,

you have any part in what happened with

"...eh?"

the smile on my face quickly receded. Lowering his head and staring at me from the top of his

have any part in what happened to

"W…what?"

figure

Ba...thump! Ba...thump!

started to speed

at him, I

you think

his tablet and turned on the holographic function where a

across the hologram, the video changed and it soon paused at the time

look at

Kevin pointed his

hope you send Ren your greetings for

as his cold

heart sank at those

'Shit...'

video stopped playing, Kevin put the

said that Aaron shouldn't have remembered anything,

"That…"

meeting his gaze,

inside of me is trying to manipulate me and Kevin to do his bidding?

explain to him what was going on. But I knew that I had

the other Ren's influence, I had to do something that he couldn't

things that he couldn't possibly predict that I would reveal everything to Kevin. Regarding the matter about my

to escape his influence, I had to do something that I

it really was

anything, a powerful aura

took a step back and raised

"Wait, Kevin."

Kevin's body suddenly disappeared before reappearing right in front

fists hurtling in my direction like a cannonball. What followed

'Damn it!'

I pressed my foot on the ground and sidestepped, narrowly voiding his

had in my hand, I softly placed my palm on

Booom—

till his back crashed against the side of the wall. From where I was standing I could hear a muffled groan coming

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