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

his mouth like a fish stuck out of the water,

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 not be

"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

sentence and Ren's voice once again rang out from

Kevin's body

"Ah...Ah..."

was trying to say pushover, wasn't

he found

started to protrude from

Crack—!

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

head to see what had happened,

"Shit..."

at this phone, a curse inevitably escaped from his

second phone

***

"The plan has failed..."

throughout the surroundings as an elderly man with turbid gray hair and wearing a

youth with deep

across the elderly man's eyes as he stared at

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

projection, the greater the hatred in the elderly

Crack—! Crack—!

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

"Relax."

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

Jinhao kept his gaze on the

said that to leave things up to you. Yet,

"It did."

was the same raspy

if you're talking about the plan in an objective manner, it did not fail. The Union has suffered considerably from

matter, Mo

876 aside, the plan could be considered a success in

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 down the natural

his arms, Mo Jinhao's face turned solemn as he

just like the demon said, if we take advantage of

Monolith's goal was to create as much discord as

the natural established order, and recruit

to as he wanted nothing more than to break

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

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

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

"Ugh."

Moving the cup away from himself, the demon's

understand how you humans can possibly like this sort

Mo Jinhao. Their eyes soon met, and a

you've finally come to terms with

"Yes."

nodded his

may have not been able to trouble 876 as much as we wanted, but

he quickly turned

the leader. If

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

Clank—!

the room door shut, and

"Ku, ku, ku."

as his head moved back. With both arms on