The Author's POV

"What did you want to talk about?"

Gazing into the distance from one of the park benches, I sat.

"Haa..."

The person next to me, Kevin, sighed and leaned back on the bench.

"You know, if you had answered my calls, I wouldn't have had to come all the way here."

"...I was kind of busy, you know?"

I replied whilst scratching the side of my neck. I actively chose not to use my phone while I was spending time with Amanda, as I thought that it would be rude of me to do so.

In addition, I was here to understand my feelings properly. Not to play around with my phone.

"...and, after sending me over a hundred messages just this morning, I wouldn't know if you sent me a message.

"Whose fault do you think that is?"

Kevin glared my way.

His eyebrows shot up as he suddenly recalled something.

"Now that you've reminded me, fix what you did."

"Right…"

Almost forgot that Kevin's memories were still altered.

"Empty your mind."

A gentle white hue enshrouded my hands as I extended them towards Kevin.

I was just about to touch Kevin's head when he backed away and warily glanced my way.

His reaction made me frown.

"What are you doing?"

"…I'm telling you now, you better not pull off another one of your jokes."

"I won't, I won't."

Waving my hand, I reached out to grab his head.

The only reason I even did what I did back then was because I wanted to confirm a couple of things regarding the skill.

If I used the skill too often, I would end up losing Kevin's trust.

"Relax a bit. If you do it like last time, you will suffer a bit of pain."

"I know."

In a harsh reply, Kevin closed his eyes.

After that, an intense white light illuminated the area we were in for several seconds. It came as fast as it went, but it was enough to attract the attention of the people around us who looked at us with strange looks.

'Figures…'

My grip on Kevin's head soon loosened, and he gradually opened his eyes.

"How are you feeling?"

I asked.

After pulling a small card from his wallet, Kevin glanced at me briefly before ignoring me and staring at it.

Similarly looking at the card in his hand, I recognized what the card was based on its color.

"Is that your ID card?"

I was met with no response.

As Kevin ignored me, his eyes swept left and right across the card. While he was scrutinizing the card, his face was filled with serious expressions.

"...everything seems to be in order."

that he finally put the card down and

made me want

"Am I that untrustworthy?"

"Yes."

nodded his head. Not an ounce

for a moment, he looked straight into my eyes

the least

"Right..."

should probably treat

side of my head, I shook my head and checked

'Five minutes already passed.'

the only reason you called me here is because you wanted me to fix

"No."

crossed Kevin's face as

a problem with

"Huh?"

hearing his words,

the system? This was a lot more serious

my arms together,

"What exactly happened?"

to configure the coordinates of the planet we're about to go to, but the system suddenly stopped working as I got a string of error messages, and I even lost contact with the

a moment, you lost

words, my

forward, I covered my mouth with my

is a lot more serious than I

Kevin to have lost connection with the system, there was only one thing that came to

face Kevin, I

believe that the Demon King has his eye

"The Demon King?"

when he

After all, the Demon King was currently the most

him to have

was no doubt that he felt extremely

you know

as he

locked

a hypothesis for now, but I believe the

"In what sense?"

it is closely related to

had told me in the past, I came up with this

he said that 'Kevin was the only person capable of killing the

phrase that sparked this

you opening the portal and intervened. Of course, we could assume that something happened to the records, and that's why

silence after my words as Kevin stared deeply at

a while, he

case, does that mean that we can't

"Mhh…"

my brows, I

serious

if we couldn't complete the mission, we would be

"How about this..."

then that

address of my mercenary headquarters. Before we leave, we can run a few tests to see if anything goes wrong. If you feel you're losing connection with

this was probably the best course

in the middle of nowhere and there was no way that anyone would notice that

especially so because Smallsnake and the others were there. Their presence

'This might work.'

and checking the time, I patted Kevin on the

minutes on

days to see if there are any problems with the system.

"...Okay."

Kevin stood up after nodding his

Have fun on your

head snapped in his direction, but by then, he had

shrugged my shoulders and headed back to the

"Guess he found out."

Whatever.

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you think? Will Nola

going to different shops to trying food on the street, we went to whatever was