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

of the water, Kevin almost dropped his

ten minutes ago, and thus he did not have enough time to change as he was still in his boxers.

could Kevin not

"Ren, what in th—"

if you're looking for a pusho—Keumm, someone to put your hopes into, then you can do that with Kevin. He's the type of guy

Ren's voice once again rang

Kevin's

"Ah...Ah..."

to say pushover, wasn't

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

to protrude from the

Crack—!

sound rang throughout the

happened, Kevin's face slowly started to turn

"Shit..."

curse inevitably escaped from his

my second phone

***

"The plan has failed..."

voice echoed throughout the surroundings as an elderly man with turbid gray hair and wearing a dark gray robe gazed at

was a youth with deep

eyes as he stared at

I guess you could say that I did what the Union couldn't do

the youth in the projection, the greater the hatred in

Crack—! Crack—!

to crack as the mana around him

"Relax."

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

around, Mo Jinhao kept his gaze on the projection in front

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

"It did."

Jinhao's words was the

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

over the matter, Mo

876 aside, the plan could be considered a success in its

may be able to harvest a lot out of this situation." The same raspy voice from before continued speaking. "You just have

Mo Jinhao's face turned solemn as he

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

create as much discord as possible in

they could break the natural

he wanted nothing more than to break 876 into bits, the current

plan for the future

come to a

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

"Ugh."

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

still don't understand how you humans

to look at Mo Jinhao. Their eyes soon

you've finally come to terms with

"Yes."

nodded

able to trouble 876 as much as we

he quickly

to the leader. If you

behind him as he directly headed for the exit of the door,

Clank—!

a loud sound, the room door shut,

"Ku, ku, ku."

eventually broken by Everblood's amused laugh as his head moved back. With both arms on