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.

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 that way, then there

was strong didn't mean they were strong

weak mentally?

be able to succumb to their

Unfortunately, that was wrong.

was simply a naive way

built over strength,

dad had considering the fact that he had a similar upbringing

weren't arrogant to the point of thinking that someone like Connal

the real

idea on how he managed to avoid your sight and the

as I remembered, the Union was keeping a very

Connal manage to escape from

it looks like he had external help from somewhere. Also, the

"I see."

had a sudden look

in the sky appearing, a lot of the focus

being said, they still kept a

was the

enough information to somewhat make a conclusion about

body, I quickly turned

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

up, I headed for the bathroom. Upon entering the bathroom, the first thing I did was stare at myself in the

had to use two words to describe how I looked at the moment, then it would

all over the place, and I could even

wasn't really the most

Splash—! Splash—!

the tap,

help but think back on the topic of Connal. To be honest, there was something about the situation

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

the sake of hurting Kevin's mentality, or was there something deeper

connecting factor

other entity inside of

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

if aside from doing what he did to me, his

That would make sense.

to use. It

hypothesis is true, the demon in question could

come to a conclusion a while back that Everblood somehow had a link with the other

I had no trouble linking him with

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 a hand in this, possibly,

Clak—!

my arms by the side of the sink and deeply stared at the mirror before

not wrong, at the moment, both Everblood and Connal

hypothesis, but, this was definitely worth taking into

idea of falling for the other entity's

paranoid, but after everything that happened to me, I wasn't going to discard any

way too early for me to think about all of this

that, it was in fact twelve

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

my, Ren was

looks lazy,

area, I

smack

moment I entered the living room, I was left

"Miss. Longbern?"

"It's Donna."

before

longer my student Ren, you don't have to

"Oh, right."

the back of my

did it out of

"It's alright."

looked toward my mother before looking back

"Are you here for..."

here for

before

hint, my mother stood up with

the two of you to discuss. I'll

"Thank you."

a grateful look on

Clank—!

an

don't you take a

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