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."

after a while that he finally put the card down and sighed

want to roll my

"Am I that untrustworthy?"

"Yes."

Not an ounce of

looked straight into my

are definitely the least trustworthy person that I

"Right..."

should probably

side of my head, I shook

'Five minutes already passed.'

don't tell me that the only reason you called

"No."

serious look crossed Kevin's face as he

is a

"Huh?"

his words, I immediately

system? This was a lot more serious than

my arms

"What exactly happened?"

about to go to, but the system suddenly stopped working as I got a string of error messages, and

you lost

words, my brows

body forward, I covered my mouth with my hand

is a lot more serious

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

to face Kevin,

that the Demon King has his eye on

"The Demon King?"

when he heard my

expected. After all, the Demon King was currently the most powerful individual in the

to have targeted

doubt that he felt extremely

do you know

suddenly asked as he

still locked

a hypothesis for now, but I believe the

"In what sense?"

it is closely related to the Akashic

thought deeply about what my other self had told me in the past, I came

from how he said that 'Kevin was the only person

was the phrase that sparked

assume that

was a brief moment of silence after my words as Kevin stared deeply at the

while,

that mean that we can't

"Mhh…"

my brows, I leaned forward

more serious than

we would be in serious trouble. Even with the mana density

"How about this..."

then that I

the address of my mercenary headquarters. Before we leave, we can run a few tests to see if anything goes wrong. If

was probably

the middle of nowhere and there was no way that anyone would notice that we were currently setting up a

we've always planned on setting up the portal there. This was especially so because Smallsnake and the others were

'This might work.'

the time,

on

place in a few days to see if there are any problems with the system. If there are, we might have to

"...Okay."

Kevin stood up after nodding his head and exhaling

leave now. Have fun

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

shrugged my shoulders and headed back to the

"Guess he found out."

Whatever.

***

think? Will Nola

Amanda, we soon decided to take a stroll in the surroundings. From going to different shops to trying food on the street, we went to whatever was in