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

out of the water,

thus he did 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 press conference,

could Kevin

"Ren, what in th—"

for a pusho—Keumm, someone to put your hopes into, then you can

through his sentence and Ren's voice once again rang

Kevin's body froze

"Ah...Ah..."

trying to say pushover,

a sentence as he found

slowly started to protrude from

Crack—!

it, a cracking sound rang throughout the room, finally snapping Kevin out of his

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

"Shit..."

phone, a curse inevitably escaped from his

second

***

"The plan has failed..."

with turbid gray hair and wearing a dark gray

was a youth with deep

elderly man's eyes as he

that I did what the Union couldn't do for

to the youth in the projection, the greater the hatred in the

Crack—! Crack—!

crack as the mana around him started to

"Relax."

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

kept his gaze on the projection

said that to leave things up to you. Yet, it

"It did."

words was the same

if you're talking about the plan in an objective manner, it did not

Mo Jinhao's eyes began

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

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

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

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

was to create as much discord as possible in

break the natural

as much as Mo Jinhao wanted it to as he wanted nothing more than to break 876 into bits, the current situation

the future when the contract

I've come to a

where his eyes soon paused on a black humanoid figure sitting

the cup in his hand and bringing it toward his nose, the demon took a couple

"Ugh."

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

humans can possibly

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

looks like you've finally

"Yes."

nodded

876 as much as we wanted,

he quickly turned it

to talk to the leader. If

him as he directly

Clank—!

the room door shut, and

"Ku, ku, ku."

both