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

out of the water, Kevin almost dropped

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

Kevin not be

"Ren, what in th—"

your hopes into, then you can do that with Kevin.

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

time Kevin's body froze

"Ah...Ah..."

was trying to say pushover, wasn't

formulate a sentence as he found himself having a hard time trying to comprehend what he had

protrude from the top of his

Crack—!

knew it, a cracking sound rang throughout the room, finally snapping Kevin out

what had happened, Kevin's face slowly started

"Shit..."

this phone, a curse inevitably

second phone this

***

"The plan has failed..."

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

the projection was a youth with deep blue eyes and

man's eyes as he stared at the

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

he listened to the youth in the projection,

Crack—! Crack—!

man's knuckles started to crack as the mana around

"Relax."

the exact moment his words echoed, the mana around Mo

turning around, Mo Jinhao kept his gaze

to you. Yet, it doesn't look like your plan

"It did."

Mo Jinhao's words was the same raspy

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

deliberating over the matter, Mo Jinhao's eyes

876 aside, the plan could be considered a success in its own

wanted with 876, however, the seeds of distrust against the 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

Mo Jinhao's face turned solemn

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 happens, getting to 876 should not be

as much discord

so that they could break the natural established order,

as Mo Jinhao wanted it to as he wanted nothing more than to break

it, they could plan for the future when

I've come to

his head, Mo Jinhao finally 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 his

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

"Ugh."

himself, the demon's eyes squinted considerably as he moved

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

the demon raised his head to look at Mo Jinhao. Their eyes soon met, and a smile

finally

"Yes."

nodded

trouble 876 as much as we wanted, but we have

toward the projection, he quickly turned it

be leaving to talk to the leader. If you will excuse

robe flung behind him as he directly headed for the exit of the door,

Clank—!

loud sound, the room door shut, and silence surrounded the

"Ku, ku, ku."

With both arms on