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"

toothpaste all over the mirror, Kevin's eyes opened

closing his mouth like a fish stuck out of the water, Kevin almost

not have enough time to change as he was still in his boxers. The reason why he woke up so early was to watch Ren's press conference, however, mid-way through the

could Kevin

"Ren, what in th—"

for a pusho—Keumm, someone to put your hopes into, then you can do that with Kevin. He's the type of guy

Ren's voice once again rang out from the speaker of his

time Kevin's body

"Ah...Ah..."

was trying to say pushover,

brief moment of time, Kevin was unable to formulate a sentence as he found himself having a hard

from the top of

Crack—!

it, a cracking sound rang throughout the room,

head to see what had happened, Kevin's

"Shit..."

this phone, a curse

second phone this

***

"The plan has failed..."

turbid gray hair and wearing a dark gray robe gazed

a youth with deep blue eyes

eyes as he stared

that I did what the Union couldn't do for quite a while, and that's actually

to the youth in the projection, the greater

Crack—! Crack—!

crack as the

"Relax."

a raspy voice rang from behind Mo Jinhao. At the exact moment his words echoed, the mana around

turning around, Mo Jinhao kept his gaze on the

to you. Yet, it doesn't look

"It did."

Jinhao's words was the same raspy

if you're talking

matter, Mo Jinhao's

we set 876 aside, the plan could be considered a success in its own

what we wanted with 876, however, the seeds of distrust against 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

his arms, Mo Jinhao's face turned

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.

create as much discord as possible in

the natural established order, and

did not succeed as much as Mo Jinhao wanted it to as he wanted nothing more than to break 876

it, they could plan for the future

come to a

paused on a black humanoid figure sitting down on a small red couch with a wine cup

bringing it toward his nose, the demon took a couple of sniffs of

"Ugh."

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

humans can possibly

demon raised his head to look at Mo Jinhao. Their eyes soon met, and

like you've finally come to terms with

"Yes."

Jinhao nodded

to trouble 876 as much as we wanted, but we have indeed achieved our main

he quickly turned

to the leader. If you will

him as he directly headed for the exit of the door,

Clank—!

door shut, and silence

"Ku, ku, ku."

both arms on the back of the sofa,