The Author's POV

"Bwergh!"

As I gripped the grass, I felt my stomach churn and it wasn't long before I found myself vomiting on the ground.

"Fucking port—Bwergh!"

Midway through my sentence, I once again puked on the ground as I felt a sudden wave of nausea wash over me.

'It's always like this with portals and just when I thought I had gotten over it…'

It had been quite a while since I had last puked from a portal. After recently thinking I had become accustomed to it, I was disappointed to discover that this was only my delusion.

In the midst of my puking spree, I suddenly heard the sound of someone puking close by.

"Bwergh!"

Upon turning my head slightly, I noticed Liam in a similar situation to mine. As a matter of fact, he appeared in a worse state than mine as his face was swollen and tears were streaming down his eyes.

"Damned port—Bwergh!"

I felt a great deal of sympathy for him after seeing how badly he was affected by the portal.

'Poor hi—'

"Bwegh!"

"You guys…"

A helpless voice echoed while Liam and I were puking. It belonged to none other than Edward. The only one that seemed unaffected by portal sickness.

"H…how can you still stand?"

I managed to get out a few words when I raised my head to gaze at him.

It had to be noted that portal sickness was a very real thing that people suffered from, and the longer the journey, the more prevalent this was.

It was weird for Edward to be unaffected by this.

With a shrug of his shoulders, Edward answered.

"I just have a stronger stomach than the two of you."

"Ugh."

I groaned.

After that, it took about five minutes for both Liam and I to finally recover from portal sickness.

Once I did, I finally stood up and looked around me. Currently, we were in a vast grassland. Immediately, my gaze was drawn to the mountains on the horizon, which were surrounded by a sea of trees. The sight was breathtaking.

Taking a glance at Liam, I asked.

"Where exactly are we?"

"I don't know."

His reply was quick. But immediately after that, my face changed a little.

"…Nevermind."

'Need to make a mental note to myself about his bad memory.'

Tapping on my bracelet, I took out my phone and checked the top bar to see if there was any signal. Fortunately, it seemed as though I was in luck.

"...Two bars. Good enough."

Ding—! Ding—! Ding—!

It was at that moment that my phone started chiming repeatedly as over a hundred different notifications came in at once. It was a bit overwhelming as my phone froze up.

Furthermore, most of the notifications were useless as they belonged to some apps or were just s.

I quickly discarded those.

Halfway through deleting them, I noticed that I also received plenty of messages from the others.

"Kevin sent me quite a few..."

===[Kevin Voss]==

: Where

: Why did you suddenly leave

Kevin : I swear...

: I've just broken through rank. If you don't inform me soon, I

note, does the quote "You have to look through the

===[Kevin Voss]==

messages. He lost me on the last

I also received texts from

I quickly checked those.

===[Mom]==

over the last five years. I just came to learn about your little trip. One that would last for half a year. I'm totally fine with you going, but couldn't you have given your mother a little heads up? You know, because I'm your mother? You probably won't see this message for a

===[Mom]==

a chill run down my spine as soon as I saw

I glanced toward the others to make sure they weren't listening. As a sign of precaution, I moved a

dialed

Ring—! Ring—!

—…

there

'…she's mad.'

I started to

me. Your favorite

—…

once again met with silence. It was from that moment that I realized

"Mo—"

—…Are you okay?

I was about to say something, my mother

voice, I

just came back a couple of minutes ago,

my head, I glanced at my body. Making sure that everything was still there, I

of my limbs are

—That's good.

replied in a rather flat and short tone. My brows

of the worst, I felt my heart sink

while I was gone?

—No.

to be the case as my

happened while you were gone.

"Is that so?"

—Yes.

was

she's giving me

decided that the best thing to do at

that I was going to leave, but back then, circumstances forced me to

sort out my head, not because I wanted to train and

I was still suffering from my past experiences

cope with everything that was happening, I resorted

then, everything was going well. Nightmares became less frequent, and I was able to sleep more

the demon realm, they ceased to be useful, and two more months later, they stopped

In spite of this, they did not seem to affect me as much as they used to. This was to be expected, I had gone

then, they still affected me from time

need to find a long-term solution for this

one day end up losing it again as I did

mountains in

that the place I went wasn't dangerous, but you should

—I understand.

I heard my mother's voice. I instantly stopped speaking the moment I heard her

a short pause, she

now, answer me this. Will

Give me

at my

location through the GPS on my watch. Licking my lips, I did a quick scan of

that far from Ashton city. In fact, we're pretty close to the Clayton ridge. If we take the train, we might be able to make it by six,

confirmed that everything was in order,

I should be able to make it back

I will make one extra meal. Natasha and Amanda will also be joining, so it won't really

"Ah!"

Natasha's names, I suddenly remembered something and turned my head to glance at Edward in the

my head

you add

—Another person?

who it is,

—…Okay.