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

a fish stuck out of the water, Kevin almost dropped

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

"Ren, what in th—"

someone to put your hopes into, then you can do that with Kevin. He's the type of guy that will care about

and Ren's voice once again

Kevin's body

"Ah...Ah..."

was trying to say pushover, wasn't

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

to protrude from

Crack—!

rang throughout the room, finally snapping Kevin out of

had happened, Kevin's face slowly started

"Shit..."

this phone, a curse inevitably

second phone

***

"The plan has failed..."

turbid gray hair and wearing a

youth with deep blue

elderly man's eyes as he stared

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

to the youth in the projection, the greater the hatred in the elderly man's

Crack—! Crack—!

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

"Relax."

Mo Jinhao. At the exact moment

gaze on the projection in front

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

"It did."

Mo Jinhao's words was the same raspy

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

over the matter, Mo Jinhao's eyes began to

a success in its own way. It can't be considered a total

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

arms, Mo Jinhao's face turned solemn as he deliberated over the

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 more seeds of chaos in the human domain. Once that happens, getting to 876 should not

create as much discord

natural established order, and recruit more

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

could plan for the future when

I've come to

Mo Jinhao finally turned his head around where his eyes soon paused on a black humanoid figure sitting down on a small red couch with

his hand and bringing it toward his nose, the demon took a couple

"Ugh."

demon's eyes

still don't understand how you humans can possibly like this sort

the cup down, the demon raised his head to look at Mo

like you've finally come

"Yes."

nodded his

have not been able to trouble 876 as much as we

toward the projection, he quickly turned it

to talk to the leader.

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

Clank—!

a loud sound, the room door shut, and silence

"Ku, ku, ku."

broken by Everblood's amused laugh as his head moved back. With both arms on the back of the sofa,