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.

point of thinking that just because he was rank he would not succumb to

was strong didn't mean

then why was Kevin's mentality still so weak mentally? Why were there so many strong figures with

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

Unfortunately, that was wrong.

simply a

not built over strength, but a true

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

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

real question

do you have any idea on how he

was

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

looks like he had external help from somewhere. Also, the fact that a crack

"I see."

a sudden look

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

being said, they still kept a tight

was the Monolith's

I think I already have enough information to somewhat make a conclusion about what

my body, I quickly

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

for the bathroom. Upon entering the bathroom, the first thing

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

and I could even see some residual drool on the side of

wasn't really

Splash—! Splash—!

on the tap,

couldn't help but think back on the topic of Connal. To be honest, there was something about

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

the sake of hurting

one connecting factor

would be the other entity inside

all of those events. Once I realized this, the gears

a farfetched theory, but what if this was all planned by him from the very beginning? What if

That would make sense.

father's strength, he would without a doubt be a formidable asset to use. It would be stupid of him to

true, the demon in question could

that Everblood

no trouble linking him with

Since I found Matthew at the Monolith back when I was there, it is safe to assume that Everblood also has a

Clak—!

side of the

is not wrong, at the moment, both Everblood

about this hypothesis, but, this

going to once again risk the idea of falling

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

me to think

that, it was

a quick shower. After

Ren was

lazy, he

area, I heard a

talking smack

I entered the

"Miss. Longbern?"

"It's Donna."

corrected before

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

"Oh, right."

the back of

it

"It's alright."

my mother before looking

"Are you here for..."

here for

before looking in my mother's

mother stood up with a smile on

discuss. I'll go back to the kitchen

"Thank you."

thanked my mother with a grateful

Clank—!

an awkward

you

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