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.

was not stupid to the point of thinking that just because he was rank he would not succumb to the temptations of the demons. If they actually thought of it

because someone was strong didn't

so weak mentally? Why were there so many strong figures with

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

Unfortunately, that was wrong.

simply a

was not built over strength,

was not something that Aaron's dad had considering the fact that he had a similar

although some of the Union's actions were questionable, they weren't arrogant to the point of thinking that someone like

real

have any idea on how he managed to avoid

far as I remembered, the Union was keeping a very tight

manage to escape from the Union's

Also, the fact that a crack in the sky appeared made things a bit

"I see."

a sudden

a lot of the focus was

kept a tight watch

likely, this was the

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

quickly turned off the

straight on my bed, I let out another yawn and scratched my chest

bathroom. Upon entering the bathroom, the first thing

to use two words to describe how I looked at the

all over the place, and I could even

it wasn't really the most pleasant of

Splash—! Splash—!

the tap, I washed my

but think back on the topic of Connal. To

fact that I didn't eliminate Aaron back at the dome to the Emma incident

the sake of

one connecting factor between all of these events,

would be the other entity inside

events. Once I realized this, the gears of my mind

very beginning? What if aside from doing what he did to me, his other goal is to make Aaron's father a

That would make sense.

he would without a doubt be a formidable asset to use. It would be

if this hypothesis is true, the demon in question could

Everblood somehow had

I had no trouble

Matthew at the Monolith back when I was there, it is safe to assume that Everblood also has a link there, and with the fact that the Monolith may have had

Clak—!

side of the

not wrong, at the moment, both Everblood and

this hypothesis, but, this was definitely worth

risk the idea of

that happened to me, I wasn't going

for me to think about all of this

it was in fact twelve in the

to take a quick shower. After that, I got changed and finally got out

Ren was like

was. Although he looks lazy, he actually is a

area, I heard

smack

my eyes, I turned toward the living room area. The moment I entered the living room, I was

"Miss. Longbern?"

"It's Donna."

corrected before smiling

my student Ren, you don't have to

"Oh, right."

back of my

did it

"It's alright."

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

"Are you here for..."

I'm here for

before looking in

up with a smile on her

I'll go

"Thank you."

my mother with a grateful look

Clank—!

and an awkward silence enveloped the

don't you take

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