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"

over the mirror, Kevin's eyes opened

mouth like a fish stuck out of

was still in his boxers.

could Kevin not

"Ren, what in th—"

you can do

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

time Kevin's body froze

"Ah...Ah..."

to say pushover, wasn't

unable to formulate a sentence as he found himself having a hard time

started to protrude from the top of

Crack—!

cracking sound rang throughout

had happened, Kevin's face slowly

"Shit..."

a curse inevitably escaped from his

second

***

"The plan has failed..."

as an elderly man with turbid gray hair and wearing a

was a youth with deep blue eyes and black

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

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

to the youth in the projection, the greater the hatred in

Crack—! Crack—!

knuckles started to crack as the mana around him started to turn

"Relax."

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

turning around, Mo Jinhao kept his gaze on the projection in front of

up to you.

"It did."

was

plan could be considered to be a failure, however, if you're talking about the plan in

matter, Mo

a success in its own way. It can't

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

arms, Mo Jinhao's face turned solemn as

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

as much discord as possible in

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

not succeed as much as Mo Jinhao wanted it to as he wanted nothing more than to break 876 into

could plan for the future when the

come to a

turned his head around where his eyes soon paused on a black humanoid figure sitting down on a small red couch with a wine cup in

bringing it toward his

"Ugh."

grimaced. Moving the cup away from himself, the demon's eyes squinted considerably as he moved his head to

humans can

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

like you've finally

"Yes."

nodded

to trouble 876 as much as we wanted, but we have indeed achieved our

the projection, he

to the leader.

he directly headed

Clank—!

room door shut, and silence surrounded the

"Ku, ku, ku."

amused laugh as his head moved back. With both arms on the back