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."

a while that he finally put the card down and sighed

want to

"Am I that untrustworthy?"

"Yes."

an ounce of doubt in his

he looked straight into my eyes before

definitely the least trustworthy

"Right..."

probably

head, I shook my head and

'Five minutes already passed.'

you called me

"No."

serious look crossed Kevin's face as he shook

a problem

"Huh?"

his words, I immediately tensed

was a

arms together,

"What exactly happened?"

the system suddenly stopped working as I got a string of error messages, and I

you lost

his words, my brows knit even

forward, I covered my mouth with

a lot more serious

lost connection with the system, there

to face Kevin, I

sure, I believe that the Demon

"The Demon King?"

tensed immediately when he heard my

be expected. After all, the Demon King was currently the most

to have

no doubt that he

you know

he turned to

my gaze still locked toward

the Demon King

"In what sense?"

in that, it is closely related to the Akashic

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

was the only person

was the phrase that

most likely scenario, the demon King noticed you opening the portal and intervened. Of course, we could assume that something happened to the records, and that's why you lost

after my words as Kevin stared

while, he

that's the case, does that mean that we can't finish the

"Mhh…"

I leaned forward

more serious than I

couldn't complete the mission, we would be

"How about this..."

was then that I

see if anything goes wrong. If you feel you're losing connection with

was probably

nowhere and there was

that, we've always planned on setting up the portal there. This was especially so because

'This might work.'

checking the time, I patted Kevin on

minutes on the

days to see if there are any problems with the system. If there are, we might have to give up on

"...Okay."

up after nodding his head

now. Have fun on your

words my head snapped in his direction, but

I squinted my eyes, I shrugged my shoulders and headed back to

"Guess he found out."

Whatever.

***

you think? Will

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 the vicinity, and quite honestly, I really enjoyed