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 mirror, Kevin's eyes

stuck out of the

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

Kevin not

"Ren, what in th—"

you're looking for a pusho—Keumm, someone to put your hopes into, then you can do that with Kevin. He's the type of

voice once again rang out from the speaker of

time Kevin's body

"Ah...Ah..."

trying to

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

started to protrude from the top

Crack—!

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

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

"Shit..."

at this phone, a curse

second phone

***

"The plan has failed..."

gray hair and wearing a dark gray robe gazed at a small

was a youth

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

what the Union couldn't do for quite

youth in the projection, the greater the hatred

Crack—! Crack—!

man's knuckles started to crack as the mana around him

"Relax."

then, a raspy voice rang from behind Mo Jinhao. At the exact moment

gaze on the projection

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

"It did."

Jinhao's words was the

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

the matter, Mo Jinhao's eyes began to

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

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

turned solemn as he deliberated over the

take advantage of

as much discord as possible in the

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

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

they could plan for the

I've come

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

his nose, the demon took a couple of sniffs

"Ugh."

demon's eyes

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

to look at Mo Jinhao. Their

finally

"Yes."

Jinhao nodded

876 as much as we wanted, but

he quickly

to talk to the leader. If you will

Mo Jinhao's robe flung behind him as he directly headed for the

Clank—!

door shut, and silence

"Ku, ku, ku."

With both arms on the back of the sofa, Everblood's raspy