The Author's POV

[No, it's cause I can actually do something about them, unlike the Union who can't seem to be able to do anything at this point.]

Staring at the projection in front of her, Monica munched on the popcorn in her mouth.

"...Munch, munch, I guess you were right Donna. His tongue really did go loose...Munch..."

There was a trace of amusement in her voice as she said those words. Clearly, she wasn't the least bit perturbed about the things that Ren had said on the projection.

"Munch...Heh, he even said that he doesn't care about anyone, hahaha...way to go Ren!"

Besides her, Donna was in total dismay as she covered her face with her arms.

"I knew it...I knew that this was going to happen..."

Gulp—!

Swallowing the popcorn in her mouth, Monica patted Donna on the back. Secretly, she was just trying to get rid of the grease on her hands.

"Calm down Donna, the one that should be most worried about the situation should be me. Unlike you, I'm actually working for the Union, not that I disagree with what he's saying, but..."

Lowering her hand, she grabbed another handful of popcorn.

"Well, what's done it's done. The moment I gave him the recording, I already knew that he was going to pull something like this."

Stopping her hand right before her mouth, Monica sighed.

"Actually, I'm probably going to be in a bit of trouble since Daphne didn't know I was recording her back then, but, well, I'm ranked now."

Softly chuckling, Monica stuffed her mouth with another handful of popcorn.

"Munch...Munch...What they gonna do about it?"

Gazing at the projection in front of her for a good minute, Donna eventually gave up.

"...Well, alright."

'I knew that this was going to happen anyways.'

Though a small part of her prayed that Ren wouldn't pull something like this, thinking back at the words he said, Donna realized that perhaps this was for the best.

The crack in thy sky did indeed seem like a good indication that something big was about to happen.

If Ren's words served as a catalyst to help humanity realize in just how much of a predicament they were in, then what he said wasn't as bad as she was making it out to be.

There was only one problem.

And that was the backlash that Ren's words would create throughout the world. For a good while, Donna knew that the human domain would be in a lot of turmoil.

Turning her head to glance at Monica who was carefreely eating her popcorn, Donna softly mumbled.

"It looks like we're going to be very busy this month."

Because she had been so focused on the press conference, Monica was unable to hear Donna's mumbles.

"Hm?"

Turning her head, she asked.

"Did you say something, Donna?"

"No."

Staring at Monica for a good couple of seconds, Donna shook her head and sighed.

"Nothing, I didn't say anything."

***

[...and that's Kevin Voss.]

"Pftttttt"

all over the mirror,

mouth like a fish stuck out of the

had only woken up ten minutes ago, and thus he did not have enough time to change as he was still in his boxers. The reason why he woke up

Kevin

"Ren, what in th—"

can do that with Kevin. He's the type of

Ren's voice once again rang

Kevin's

"Ah...Ah..."

was trying to say pushover,

Kevin was unable to formulate a sentence as he found himself having

from the

Crack—!

knew it, a cracking sound rang throughout the

his head to see what had happened, Kevin's face slowly

"Shit..."

phone, a curse

second phone this

***

"The plan has failed..."

voice echoed throughout the surroundings as an elderly man with turbid gray hair and

youth with deep

man's eyes as he stared at the

guess you could say that I did what the Union couldn't do for quite a while,

the projection,

Crack—! Crack—!

knuckles started to crack as the mana around him started

"Relax."

At the exact moment his words echoed, the mana around Mo

around, Mo Jinhao kept his gaze on

to leave things up to you. Yet, it doesn't

"It did."

Jinhao's words was the

if you're talking about the plan in an objective manner, it

over the matter, Mo Jinhao's eyes began

could be considered a

we take advantage of this situation, we may be able to harvest a lot out of this situation." The same raspy voice from before

his arms, Mo Jinhao's face turned solemn as he deliberated

words aren't wrong. Because of the contract, we can't directly attack the Union or the human domain. However, just like the demon said, if we take advantage of this situation, we may be able to plant even more seeds of chaos in the human domain. Once that happens, getting to 876

Monolith's goal was to create as much discord as possible in the

so that they could break the natural established order, and recruit more

he wanted nothing more than to break 876 into bits, the current situation was

it, they could plan for the future when the

come

Jinhao finally turned his head around where his eyes soon paused on a black humanoid figure sitting down on a small red couch with a wine cup

and bringing it toward his nose, the demon took

"Ugh."

the demon's eyes

humans can possibly like this sort of

head to look at Mo

like you've finally come to

"Yes."

Jinhao nodded

much as we wanted, but we have indeed achieved our

projection, he quickly turned

to talk to the leader. If you will

he directly headed for the exit of the door, leaving Everblood

Clank—!

the room door shut,

"Ku, ku, ku."

as his head moved back. With both arms on the back of the sofa, Everblood's raspy