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.

to the temptations of the demons. If they actually thought of it that way, then there would've been no

was strong didn't mean

Kevin's mentality still so weak mentally? Why were there

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

Unfortunately, that was wrong.

simply a naive way of

was not built over strength, but a true

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

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

the real question

he

as I remembered, the Union was keeping a very tight watch on

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

"I see."

sudden

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

said, they still kept a tight watch

this was

already have enough information to somewhat make a conclusion

quickly turned

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

the first thing I did was stare at myself in

how I looked at the

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

it wasn't really the

Splash—! Splash—!

on the tap, I washed my

I couldn't help but think back on the topic of Connal. To

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

truly only just there for the sake of hurting

there was one connecting factor between all of these events,

be the other

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

may be a farfetched theory, 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.

asset to use. It

if this hypothesis is true, the demon in

that Everblood somehow

no trouble linking

sequence 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 assume that Everblood also has a link

Clak—!

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

wrong, at the moment, both Everblood and Connal are in the

too confident about this hypothesis, but, this was definitely

risk the idea of falling for the

I wasn't going to

early for me to think about all

said that, it was in fact twelve in the

hair, I proceeded to take a quick shower. After that, I got changed

my, Ren

lazy, he

room area, I

talking smack about

I entered the living

"Miss. Longbern?"

"It's Donna."

corrected before

longer my student Ren, you don't have to call me

"Oh, right."

scratched the back of

did it out

"It's alright."

looked toward my mother

"Are you here for..."

I'm here

quickly cut me off before looking in

my mother stood up with a smile on her

leave the two of you to discuss. I'll go back to

"Thank you."

my mother with a grateful look on her

Clank—!

an

you

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