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"

toothpaste all over the mirror, Kevin's eyes

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

only 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 early was to

could Kevin not be

"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 random people

Ren's voice once

time Kevin's body froze

"Ah...Ah..."

to say pushover,

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

started to protrude from the top of his

Crack—!

he knew it, a cracking sound rang throughout the room, finally snapping

to see what had happened, Kevin's face slowly

"Shit..."

at this phone, a curse inevitably escaped from

my second phone this

***

"The plan has failed..."

elderly man with turbid gray hair and

a youth

the elderly man's eyes as

what the Union couldn't do for

projection, the greater

Crack—! Crack—!

knuckles started to crack as the mana around him

"Relax."

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

Mo Jinhao kept his gaze

to leave things up to you. Yet, it

"It did."

Mo Jinhao's words was the same

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 from

Mo

plan could be considered a success

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 established in the

turned solemn

of this situation, we may be able to plant

Monolith's goal was to create as much discord as

that they could break the natural established order, and recruit more people

far, although their plan did not succeed as much as Mo Jinhao wanted it to as he wanted nothing more than to break

could plan for the future when the

I've come to

where his eyes soon paused on a black humanoid figure

bringing it toward his nose,

"Ugh."

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

understand how you humans can possibly

Mo Jinhao. Their eyes soon met, and

looks like you've finally come

"Yes."

Jinhao nodded his

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

the projection, he quickly turned

be leaving to talk to the

as he directly headed for the exit

Clank—!

sound, the room door shut, and silence

"Ku, ku, ku."

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