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

of the water, Kevin almost

did not have enough time to change as he was still in his boxers. The reason why he woke up so early

Kevin not

"Ren, what in th—"

you're looking for a pusho—Keumm, someone to put your hopes into, then you can do that with

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

time Kevin's body

"Ah...Ah..."

to say

a sentence as he found himself having a hard time trying to comprehend what

from

Crack—!

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

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

"Shit..."

phone, a curse inevitably

my second phone this

***

"The plan has failed..."

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

the projection was a youth with

flashed across the elderly man's eyes as he stared

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

in the projection, the greater the hatred

Crack—! Crack—!

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

"Relax."

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

his gaze

to you. Yet, it doesn't look like

"It did."

Mo Jinhao's words was 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 considerably

over the matter, Mo Jinhao's eyes

a success in its own way.

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,

turned solemn as he

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 domain. Once that happens, getting

to create as much discord as possible in the

break the natural established order, and recruit more

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

they could plan for the future when

come to a

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 in his

toward his nose, the demon

"Ugh."

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

don't understand how you humans can possibly like this

his head to look at Mo Jinhao. Their

like you've finally come to terms

"Yes."

Jinhao nodded

much as we wanted, but we have indeed

the projection, he quickly turned it

to the leader. If you will excuse

behind him as he directly headed for the exit of

Clank—!

the room door shut, and silence

"Ku, ku, ku."

With both