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."

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

made me want

"Am I that untrustworthy?"

"Yes."

an ounce of doubt in his

for a moment, he looked straight into

the least trustworthy person

"Right..."

should probably

of my head, I shook my head and checked the

'Five minutes already passed.'

reason you called me

"No."

face as

there is a

"Huh?"

his words, I

with the system? This was a lot more serious than

arms together, I

"What exactly happened?"

was trying 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

lost

his words, my brows knit even

forward, I covered my mouth with my hand as

more serious than I

connection with the system, there was only one thing

to face Kevin, I breathed

that the Demon

"The Demon King?"

tensed immediately when he heard

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

to have

no doubt that he felt

you

as he turned to

still locked toward the ground,

I believe the

"In what sense?"

closely related to

what my other self had told me in the past,

from how he said that 'Kevin was the only person capable

phrase that sparked

could assume that something happened to the records, and that's

a brief moment of silence after my words as Kevin stared

while,

does that mean

"Mhh…"

my brows, I leaned

was more serious

we couldn't complete the mission, we would be in serious trouble. Even with the mana density increasing by the day, it was simply not

"How about this..."

then

run a few tests to see if anything goes wrong. If you feel you're

this point, this was probably the best course

especially true because of the fact that my warehouse was in the middle of nowhere and there was no way that anyone would notice that we

especially so because Smallsnake and the

'This might work.'

from my seat and checking the time, I patted Kevin on the

on

the system. If there are, we might have to give up on the idea of

"...Okay."

up after nodding his head and

now. Have fun on your

said those words my head snapped in his direction, but

I squinted my eyes, I shrugged my shoulders

"Guess he found out."

Whatever.

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