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, Kevin's eyes opened

fish stuck out of the water, Kevin almost dropped his phone

was still in his boxers. The reason why he woke up so early was

could Kevin not

"Ren, what in th—"

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

even halfway through his sentence and Ren's voice once

Kevin's body

"Ah...Ah..."

was trying to

Kevin was unable to formulate a sentence as he found himself having a hard time trying to comprehend

slowly started to protrude from

Crack—!

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

what had happened, Kevin's face slowly

"Shit..."

curse inevitably

my second phone this

***

"The plan has failed..."

turbid gray hair and wearing a dark gray robe gazed at a small projection

in the projection was a youth with deep

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

could say that I did what the Union couldn't do for quite

listened to the youth in the projection, the greater the hatred in the elderly man's eyes

Crack—! Crack—!

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

"Relax."

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

kept his gaze

to leave things up to you. Yet, it doesn't look like your plan

"It did."

words was the same raspy

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

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

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 natural order

his arms, Mo Jinhao's face turned

advantage of this

goal was to create as much discord as

break the natural established

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

could plan for the future

come to a

head, Mo 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

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

"Ugh."

grimaced. Moving the cup away from himself, the demon's eyes squinted considerably as he moved

don't understand how you humans

his head to look at Mo Jinhao. Their eyes

like you've finally come

"Yes."

nodded his

as much as we wanted, but

toward the projection, he

leaving to talk to the leader.

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

Clank—!

door shut, and

"Ku, ku, ku."

eventually broken by Everblood's amused laugh as his head moved back. With both arms on the back of the sofa, Everblood's raspy