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 succumb to the temptations of the demons.

didn't mean they were

so weak mentally?

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

Unfortunately, that was wrong.

was simply a

not built over strength,

the fact that

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

real question

you have any idea on how he managed to avoid

as I remembered, the Union was

to escape from the Union's watch, but Smallsnake's as

external help from somewhere. Also, the fact

"I see."

a sudden

the sky appearing, a lot of the focus

they still kept a tight watch on

was

to somewhat make a conclusion about what happened.

quickly turned off

bed, I let out another yawn

bathroom, the first thing I did

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

I could even

just say it wasn't really the

Splash—! Splash—!

the tap, I washed

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

didn't eliminate Aaron back at the dome to the Emma incident which

Emma incident truly only just there for the sake of hurting Kevin's mentality, or was there something deeper

was one connecting factor between all of

the other entity inside

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

if aside from doing what he did to me, his other goal is to make Aaron's

That would make sense.

formidable asset to use. It would be stupid of him to not take advantage

this hypothesis is true, the demon

come to a conclusion a while back that Everblood somehow had

trouble linking him with Aaron's

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

Clak—!

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

hunch is not wrong, at the moment, both

too confident about this hypothesis, but, this was

once again risk the idea of falling for the other

paranoid, but after everything that happened to me, I

way too early for me to think about all of this complicated

I said that, it was in fact

shower. After that, I got changed and

Ren

was. Although he looks lazy, he actually

the living room area, I heard a couple of familiar

talking smack

room area. The moment I entered the living room, I

"Miss. Longbern?"

"It's Donna."

before

no longer my student Ren, you don't have to call me Miss.

"Oh, right."

back of

did it out of

"It's alright."

I looked toward my mother before

"Are you here for..."

I'm here

me off before looking in

hint, my mother stood up with a smile on

I'll go back to the kitchen to make some

"Thank you."

a grateful look on

Clank—!

and an awkward silence

you take

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