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

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

time to change as he was still in his boxers. The reason why he woke up so early was to watch

Kevin not be

"Ren, what in th—"

hopes into, then you can do that with Kevin. He's the type of guy that will care about random people that

and Ren's voice once again rang out from the speaker

time Kevin's body froze

"Ah...Ah..."

to say pushover,

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

from the top

Crack—!

rang throughout the room, finally snapping

see what had happened, Kevin's face

"Shit..."

curse

second phone this

***

"The plan has failed..."

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

in the projection was a youth

the elderly man's eyes as he stared at the youth in the

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

"Relax."

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

his gaze on the projection in front of

said that to leave things up to you. Yet, it

"It did."

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

Mo Jinhao's eyes began to

if we set 876 aside, the plan could be considered a success in its own way. It can't be considered a total

lot out of this situation." The same raspy voice from

face turned solemn as he

demon said, if we take advantage of this situation, we may be able to plant even more seeds of chaos in the human

to create as much discord

so that they could break the natural established order, and recruit

their plan did not succeed as much as Mo Jinhao wanted it to as he

for the future when the contract finally

I've come

soon paused on a black

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

"Ugh."

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

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

cup down, the demon raised his head to look at Mo Jinhao. Their eyes soon met,

you've finally come to

"Yes."

nodded

have not been able to trouble 876 as much as we wanted, but we have indeed achieved

the projection, he

talk to the leader. If you will

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

Clank—!

room door

"Ku, ku, ku."

both arms on the back