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.

rank he would not succumb to the temptations of the demons. If they actually thought

because someone was strong didn't mean they

strength was correlated to mentality, then why was Kevin's mentality still so weak mentally? Why

their strength, they shouldn't be able

Unfortunately, that was wrong.

a naive

not built over strength, but a true

Aaron's dad had considering the fact that he had a similar upbringing to that of

were questionable, they weren't arrogant to the point of thinking that

the real question

any idea on how he managed to avoid your sight

remembered, the Union was keeping a very tight watch

manage to escape from the Union's

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

"I see."

sudden look of

appearing, a lot

still kept a tight watch on

was the

information to somewhat make a conclusion about what happened. I'll call you later

my body, I quickly turned off the

let out another

entering the bathroom, the

two words to describe how I looked at the moment,

hair was all over the place, and I could even see some residual drool on the

say it wasn't really the

Splash—! Splash—!

on the tap, I washed my

topic of Connal. To be honest, there was something about

past, from the fact that I didn't eliminate Aaron back at the dome to the Emma incident which resulted

the

was one connecting factor between all

other entity inside

between all of those events. Once I realized this, the gears of my mind started to quickly

this was all planned by him from the very beginning? What if aside from doing

That would make sense.

formidable asset to use. It would

if this hypothesis is true, the demon in question could

come to a conclusion a while back that Everblood somehow had

had no trouble linking

of events is part of some intricate plan that the other entity planned beforehand. Since I found Matthew at the Monolith back when I was there, it is safe to

Clak—!

leaned both of my arms by the side of the sink and deeply

the

about this hypothesis, but, this was definitely worth taking

once again risk the idea of falling for the other

to me, I wasn't going

early for me to think about all of this complicated

was in

a quick shower. After

Ren was

looks lazy, he

the living room area, I heard

smack about

moment I entered the living room, I was left surprised

"Miss. Longbern?"

"It's Donna."

corrected before smiling

longer my student Ren, you don't

"Oh, right."

scratched the back

it out

"It's alright."

looked toward my mother

"Are you here for..."

I'm here

me off before looking in

my mother stood up

discuss. I'll go

"Thank you."

with a grateful

Clank—!

door closed and an awkward silence enveloped

you

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