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 rank he would not succumb to the temptations of the demons. If they actually thought of

strong didn't mean they

Kevin's mentality still so weak mentally? Why were

their strength, they shouldn't be able

Unfortunately, that was wrong.

was simply a naive way

not built over strength, but a true

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

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

the real

any idea on how he managed to avoid your sight and

Union was keeping a very

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

somewhere. Also, the fact that a crack

"I see."

sudden look

lot of the focus was

still kept a tight watch on

was

somewhat make a

body, I quickly turned off

I let out another yawn and scratched

Upon entering the bathroom, the first thing I did was stare at myself in

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

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

just say it wasn't really the

Splash—! Splash—!

on the tap, I washed

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

Aaron back at the dome to the Emma incident which resulted

mean, was the Emma incident truly only just there for the

one connecting factor between all of these events,

would be the other entity inside

factor between 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

That would make sense.

formidable asset to use. It would be stupid

true, the demon in question could be

a conclusion a while back that Everblood somehow had a

I had no trouble linking him with

at the Monolith back when I was there, it is safe to assume that Everblood also

Clak—!

side of the sink and deeply

not wrong, at the moment, both Everblood and Connal are in

entirely too confident about this hypothesis, but,

the idea of falling

happened to me, I wasn't

too early for me to think about

that, it was in fact

shower. After that,

Ren

lazy,

living room area, I heard a

smack about

area. The moment I entered the living room, I was left surprised by who the person in

"Miss. Longbern?"

"It's Donna."

corrected before

student Ren, you don't have to call

"Oh, right."

scratched the back of my

did it out of

"It's alright."

my head, I looked toward my mother before looking

"Are you here for..."

here

quickly cut me off before looking

hint, my mother stood up with a smile on her

to discuss. I'll

"Thank you."

mother with a grateful look on

Clank—!

closed and an

don't you

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