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"

all over the

a fish stuck out of the water,

time to change as he was still in his boxers.

Kevin

"Ren, what in th—"

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

his sentence and Ren's voice once

time Kevin's

"Ah...Ah..."

to

a sentence as he

to protrude from the top of his

Crack—!

knew it, a cracking sound rang throughout the

to see what had happened, Kevin's face slowly started

"Shit..."

phone, a curse inevitably

second phone

***

"The plan has failed..."

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

was a youth with deep blue eyes and

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

the Union couldn't do for quite a while, and that's actually doing

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

Crack—! Crack—!

as the mana around him started

"Relax."

Jinhao. At the exact

Jinhao kept his gaze on the projection in front

to you. Yet, it

"It did."

Mo Jinhao's words was

situation, then 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

matter, Mo Jinhao's eyes began

if we set 876 aside, the plan could be considered a

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

arms, Mo Jinhao's face turned

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

goal was to create as much discord

so that they could break the natural

wanted it to as he wanted nothing more than to

the future when the

come

a black humanoid figure sitting down on a small red couch with a wine cup in his

bringing it toward his nose,

"Ugh."

grimaced. Moving the cup away from himself, the demon's eyes squinted considerably as

understand how you humans can possibly like

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

looks like you've finally come to terms

"Yes."

nodded his

been able to trouble 876 as much as we wanted, but we

toward the projection, he quickly

leaving to talk to the leader. If you

flung behind him as he directly headed for the exit of

Clank—!

sound, the room door shut, and silence surrounded the

"Ku, ku, ku."

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