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 opened

a fish stuck out of the water, Kevin almost

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

Kevin not be

"Ren, what in th—"

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

Kevin's body froze

"Ah...Ah..."

trying to say pushover, wasn't

unable to formulate a sentence as he found himself having a

protrude from the top

Crack—!

cracking sound rang throughout the room, finally snapping

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

"Shit..."

at this phone, a curse

my second phone this

***

"The plan has failed..."

elderly man with turbid gray hair and wearing a dark gray robe

the projection was a youth

the elderly man's eyes as he stared at

say that I did what the Union couldn't do for quite a while, and that's actually doing some damage to the

in the projection, the greater the hatred

Crack—! Crack—!

knuckles started to crack as the mana around him started to

"Relax."

from behind Mo Jinhao. At the exact

Jinhao kept his gaze on the

you. Yet, it doesn't look like your plan

"It did."

Jinhao's words was

about 876's situation, then yes, 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 from

matter, Mo Jinhao's

be considered a success in its

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 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

Mo Jinhao's face turned solemn as he

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

create as much

the natural established order, and recruit more people for their

as he wanted nothing more than to break 876 into bits,

for the future when the contract

come to a

a black humanoid figure sitting down on a small red

his nose, the

"Ugh."

himself, the demon's eyes

humans can possibly like

head to look at Mo Jinhao. Their eyes soon

finally come to terms

"Yes."

nodded his

much as we wanted, but we have indeed

toward the projection, he

to the leader. If you

him as he directly headed for the exit of the

Clank—!

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

"Ku, ku, ku."

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