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

out of the water, Kevin almost dropped

time to change as he was still in his boxers. The reason why he

Kevin not be

"Ren, what in th—"

you can do that with Kevin. He's the type of guy

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

time Kevin's body froze

"Ah...Ah..."

was trying to say pushover,

sentence as he

to protrude from

Crack—!

cracking sound rang throughout the room, finally snapping Kevin out of his

had happened, Kevin's face

"Shit..."

phone, a curse

second phone

***

"The plan has failed..."

man with turbid gray hair and wearing a dark gray robe gazed at a small projection in front

the projection was a youth with deep

the elderly man's eyes as

guess you could say that I did what the Union couldn't do for quite a while, and that's

to the youth in the projection,

Crack—! Crack—!

crack as the mana around him started

"Relax."

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

Jinhao kept his gaze on the projection in front of

to you. Yet, it doesn't look

"It did."

was

failure, however, if you're talking about the plan in an objective manner, it did not fail. The

the matter, Mo

aside, the plan could be considered a success in its own way. It

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 established in the

face turned solemn as

Because of the contract, we 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

goal was to create as much

that they could break the natural established order, and

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

they could plan for the future when

come to a

head around where his eyes soon paused on a black humanoid figure sitting down on a small

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

"Ugh."

himself, the demon's eyes

humans can possibly like this sort

demon raised his head to look at Mo Jinhao. Their eyes soon

looks like you've finally come to terms with

"Yes."

nodded

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

the projection, he quickly turned

be leaving to talk to the leader. If

behind him as he directly headed for the exit

Clank—!

the room door shut, and silence

"Ku, ku, ku."

as his head moved back. With both arms on the back of the sofa, Everblood's raspy voice echoed across the