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

because someone was strong didn't

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

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

Unfortunately, that was wrong.

was simply a

built over strength, but

something that Aaron's dad had considering the fact that he had a similar upbringing to

to the point

real

any idea on how he managed to avoid

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

to escape from the

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

"I see."

a sudden

appearing, a lot of

still kept

was

make

my body, I quickly turned

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

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

I looked at the moment, then it

could even see some residual drool on the side

it wasn't really

Splash—! Splash—!

tap, I

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

just there for the sake of hurting Kevin's mentality, or

one connecting factor between all of these

be the other entity inside

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

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, his other

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

this hypothesis is true, the demon in

while back that Everblood somehow had a link with the other entity inside of my

had no trouble linking him

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

Clak—!

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

if my hunch is not wrong, at the moment, both Everblood and Connal are in

entirely too confident about this hypothesis, but, this was

going to once again risk the idea of falling for the

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

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

it was in fact twelve in

quick shower. After that, I got changed and finally got out of

my, Ren

Although he looks lazy, he actually is a very

area, I heard a

talking smack about

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

"Miss. Longbern?"

"It's Donna."

before smiling

you don't have to call me

"Oh, right."

back of my

it

"It's alright."

toward my mother before looking

"Are you here for..."

I'm here for

cut me off before looking in my

my mother stood up with a smile

you to discuss. I'll go back to the kitchen to make some

"Thank you."

mother with a grateful look

Clank—!

and an awkward silence enveloped the

don't you

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