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"

over the mirror, Kevin's eyes opened

stuck out of the water, Kevin almost dropped his

minutes ago, and thus he did not have enough time to change as he was still in his boxers.

could Kevin not

"Ren, what in th—"

saying, if you're looking for a pusho—Keumm, someone to put your hopes into, then you can do that with Kevin. He's the type of guy that will care about random people

halfway through his sentence and Ren's voice once again rang out

time Kevin's

"Ah...Ah..."

was trying to say pushover, wasn't

formulate a sentence as he found himself

started to protrude from the top

Crack—!

cracking sound rang throughout the room, finally

what had happened,

"Shit..."

curse

my second phone this

***

"The plan has failed..."

man with turbid gray hair and wearing a dark

projection was a youth

as

did what the Union couldn't do

more he listened to the youth in the projection, the greater the hatred

Crack—! Crack—!

the elderly man's knuckles started to crack as the mana around him started to turn

"Relax."

from behind Mo Jinhao. At the exact moment his words echoed, the mana around Mo Jinhao

Jinhao kept his gaze on the

up to you. Yet, it doesn't look

"It did."

Mo Jinhao's words was the same raspy

to be a failure, however, if you're talking about

matter, Mo Jinhao's eyes

plan could be considered a success in its own way. It can't be considered a

the Union have been planted. If we take advantage of this situation, we may be able to harvest a lot out of this situation." The same raspy voice from before continued speaking. "You just have to be patient and think long-term, there will be plenty of opportunities against 876. Especially if we manage to break down the

face turned solemn as

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 should

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

break the natural established order, and recruit more

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

could plan for the

I've come to a

on a black humanoid figure

it toward his nose, the

"Ugh."

face soon grimaced. Moving the cup away from himself, the demon's

understand how you humans can possibly

raised his head to look at Mo Jinhao. Their

like you've finally come to

"Yes."

nodded

much as we wanted, but we have indeed achieved

he

the leader. If you will

flung behind him as he directly headed for the exit

Clank—!

a loud sound, the room door shut, and

"Ku, ku, ku."

his head moved back. With both arms on the back of the