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

stuck out of the water, Kevin almost dropped his

had 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 watch Ren's press conference, however, mid-way through the press conference, Ren suddenly named

could Kevin not

"Ren, what in th—"

your hopes into, then you can do that with Kevin. He's the

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

Kevin's body

"Ah...Ah..."

trying to say

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

to protrude from the top of

Crack—!

a cracking sound rang throughout the room, finally

to see what had happened, Kevin's

"Shit..."

at this phone, a curse inevitably escaped

second

***

"The plan has failed..."

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

was a youth with

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

what the Union couldn't do for

listened to the youth in the projection, the greater the

Crack—! Crack—!

elderly man's knuckles started to crack as the

"Relax."

At the exact moment his words echoed, the mana around Mo Jinhao

his gaze on the projection in front

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

"It did."

Mo Jinhao's words was the

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 this

matter, Mo Jinhao's eyes

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

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

Mo Jinhao's face turned solemn as he deliberated

domain. However, just like the demon said, if we take advantage of this situation, we may

was to create as much discord

the natural

wanted it to as he wanted nothing more than to break 876 into bits, the current situation was very favorable for

plan for the future when

come to

his head, Mo Jinhao finally turned his head around where his eyes soon paused on a black

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

"Ugh."

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

you humans can possibly like this

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

finally come

"Yes."

Jinhao nodded

trouble 876 as much as we wanted,

the projection, he quickly turned

talk to the

as he directly headed for the exit

Clank—!

a loud sound, the room door shut,

"Ku, ku, ku."

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