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

out of the water, Kevin

time to change as he was still in his boxers. The reason why he woke up so early

Kevin

"Ren, what in th—"

you can do that with Kevin. He's the type of guy that

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

Kevin's

"Ah...Ah..."

was trying to say

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

slowly started to protrude from the top of

Crack—!

sound rang throughout

what had happened, Kevin's face slowly started to

"Shit..."

phone, a curse

second phone

***

"The plan has failed..."

hair and wearing a dark gray robe gazed at a

was a youth with deep blue eyes

flashed across the elderly man's eyes as he stared at the

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

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

Crack—! Crack—!

to crack as the mana around

"Relax."

raspy voice rang from behind Mo Jinhao. At the exact moment his

Jinhao kept his gaze on the projection

things up to you. Yet,

"It did."

words was the same

however, if you're talking about the plan in an objective manner,

matter, Mo

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

not achieved 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

turned solemn as he deliberated over the

the demon said, if we take advantage of this situation, we may be able to

goal was to create as much discord as possible

the natural established order, and recruit more people for their

their plan did not succeed as much as Mo Jinhao wanted it to as he wanted nothing more than to break 876 into bits, the current situation was very favorable

plan for the future when

come

Mo Jinhao finally turned his head around where his eyes soon paused on a black humanoid figure sitting down on a small red couch

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

"Ugh."

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

understand how you humans can possibly like this sort

down, the demon raised his head to look at Mo

finally

"Yes."

nodded his

trouble 876 as much as we

projection, he quickly turned

to talk to the leader. If you

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

Clank—!

loud sound, the room door shut, and silence surrounded the

"Ku, ku, ku."

as his head moved back. With both