The Author's POV

Chapter 474

TRIIIING—! TRIIIING—!

Waking my groggy mind up was the sound of my phone ringing beside my bed.

Without moving, I extended my hand and touched the side of the bed until my finger tapped onto the screen of the phone and the call went through.

"Who is it?" I groggily asked.

—Ren, Jesus Christ. How much are you planning on sleeping?

Smallsnake's voice rang from the speaker of the phone.

"What time is it?"

Rather than checking for myself, I opted to ask Smallsnake.

—It's 12 in the afternoon.

"Huh?"

Raising my head, my head turned in the direction of my phone.

Leaning toward my phone, I looked at the time.

[Wednesday, 12 : 38 P.M.]

"Oh wow."

Slumping back down on the bed, I stared at the ceiling of the room. I had slept quite a bit.

—Ren, are you even listening to me?

Snapping me out of my thoughts was Smallsnake's voice. I could feel hints of frustration in it.

"What is it?" I lazily asked.

—Connal Rhinestone, the person that you've asked me to keep watch of has gone missing.

"Oh."

—Hm? How come you don't sound surprised at all?

"Because I'm not."

I replied in a flat and monotonous tone. Covering my eyes with my arm, I yawned.

"Huaaam."

"To be honest, I sort of expected this outcome from the very beginning."

I mumbled in a low voice. Low enough for Smallsnake to not hear.

—Hm? Did you say something?

"No."

I shook my head.

The reason why I had asked Smallsnake to take a watch of Connal was because I wanted to get rid of him before he got too troublesome, however, the preparations needed to take care of someone of that caliber were not simple.

I needed a lot of time, at least a couple of months, and that was something that I, unfortunately, did not have.

'Looks like some demon managed to strike...'

Given Connal's current state of mind, this was not surprising.

The man watched his son die in front of the whole human domain, and instead of feeling anything for him, they all cheered for Kevin.

Treating him as some sort of hero.

Not only that, after the deal that I made with Octavious, Aaron was framed as 876, and with all the stuff that the Union had put up, Aaron's guild naturally underwent turbulent times, falling into extremely chaotic times.

Though I did not know exactly what happened, all I did know was the fact that his father was taking blows after blows.

In just a couple of days, he watched as everything he built and worked hard for crumbled right in front of his eyes.

Had I been in Aaron's father's shoes, I too would find my mentality start to wane.

I wasn't the only one who had figured this out as the Union also knew of this and hence why they kept a close watch on him.

that just because he was rank he would not succumb to the temptations of the demons. If they actually thought of it that way, then

because someone was strong didn't mean they

mentality still so weak mentally? Why were there

strength, they shouldn't be able to succumb to their mental

Unfortunately, that was wrong.

simply a naive way of

built over strength,

something that Aaron's dad had considering the fact that he had

of the Union's actions were questionable, they weren't arrogant to the point of thinking

real

do you have any idea on how he managed to avoid

far as I remembered, the Union was keeping a very

escape from the Union's watch, but

like he had external help from somewhere. Also, the fact that a crack in the sky appeared made things a

"I see."

had a sudden look of

crack in the sky appearing, a lot of the focus was shifted

said, they still kept a

was the

make a

my body, I quickly turned off

on my bed, I let out another

headed for the bathroom. Upon entering the bathroom, the

to describe how I looked at the moment, then it would be 'a

I could even see some residual drool on the side of

say it wasn't really the most pleasant

Splash—! Splash—!

on the tap, I washed

I couldn't help but think back on the topic of Connal. To be honest, there was something about the situation

didn't eliminate Aaron back at the dome to the Emma incident which resulted in Kevin publically killing Aaron, everything was

truly only just there for the sake of

there was one connecting factor between all of

would be the other entity inside of my

factor between all of those events. Once I realized this, the gears of

but what if this was all planned by him from the very beginning? What if aside from doing what he did to me,

That would make sense.

doubt be a formidable asset to use.

hypothesis is true, the demon in question could be

already come to a conclusion a while back that Everblood somehow had

had no trouble

other entity planned beforehand. Since I found Matthew at the Monolith back when I was there, it is safe to assume

Clak—!

the tap, I leaned both of my arms by the side of the sink and deeply stared at the

if my hunch is not wrong, at the moment, both Everblood and

this hypothesis, but,

going to once again risk the idea of

everything that happened to me, I wasn't going to discard

for me to think about

that, it was

a quick shower. After that, I got changed

Ren was

looks lazy,

the living room area, I heard a couple

talking smack about

area. The moment I entered the living room, I was left surprised by who the person in the

"Miss. Longbern?"

"It's Donna."

corrected before

student Ren, you don't have to call me Miss.

"Oh, right."

the back of

did it out of

"It's alright."

my head, I looked toward my mother before looking back at

"Are you here for..."

I'm here for

off before looking

the hint, my mother stood up with

you to discuss. I'll go

"Thank you."

a grateful look

Clank—!

door closed and an awkward

don't you take

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