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"

the mirror, Kevin's eyes

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

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 so

Kevin

"Ren, what in th—"

someone to put your hopes into, then you can do

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

time Kevin's

"Ah...Ah..."

to say pushover,

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

slowly started to protrude from the

Crack—!

rang throughout the

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

"Shit..."

phone, a curse

my second

***

"The plan has failed..."

an elderly man with turbid gray hair and wearing a

the projection was a youth

across the elderly man's eyes as he stared at the youth in the

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

in the projection, the greater the hatred in the

Crack—! Crack—!

as the mana around him started to

"Relax."

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

Mo Jinhao kept his gaze

up to you.

"It did."

was

876's situation, then yes, the plan could be considered to be a failure, however, if you're talking about the plan in an objective manner, it did not fail. The Union has suffered

Mo Jinhao's eyes began to

the plan could be considered a success in its own way.

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

face turned solemn as

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

to create as much discord as

break the natural established order, and recruit more people

plan did not succeed as much as Mo Jinhao wanted it to as he wanted nothing more than to break 876 into bits, the

it, they could plan for the future when the contract finally

come

paused on a black humanoid figure sitting down on a small

toward his nose, the demon took a couple of sniffs

"Ugh."

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

understand how you humans can possibly like this sort

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

like you've finally come to terms with

"Yes."

Jinhao nodded his

876 as much as we

the projection, he quickly turned

talk to the

arm, Mo Jinhao's robe flung behind him as he directly headed for the exit of the

Clank—!

door shut, and silence surrounded

"Ku, ku, ku."

both arms on the back of the sofa, Everblood's