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."

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

me want to roll

"Am I that untrustworthy?"

"Yes."

Not an ounce of doubt in his

for a moment, he looked straight

definitely the least

"Right..."

should probably

I shook

'Five minutes already passed.'

reason you called me here is

"No."

crossed Kevin's face as he shook

there is a

"Huh?"

his words, I

system? This was a lot more serious than I

arms

"What exactly happened?"

suddenly stopped working as I got a

a moment, you lost connection with the

my brows knit

my mouth with my hand as my

lot more

have lost connection with the system, there was

face Kevin, I

believe that the Demon King has

"The Demon King?"

immediately when he heard my

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

to have targeted

doubt that he

you know

he turned to look

locked toward the ground,

but I believe the Demon King

"In what sense?"

closely related to the

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

that 'Kevin was the only person capable of

was the phrase that sparked

course, we could assume that something happened to the records, and that's why you lost connection, but I honestly doubt that's what

of silence after my words as Kevin

while,

the case, does that mean that

"Mhh…"

I

was more serious than I

mission, we would be

"How about this..."

was 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 you feel you're losing connection with the system, I'll knock you out directly and

this was probably the

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

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

'This might work.'

checking the

minutes on the

to see if there are any problems with the system. If there are, we might

"...Okay."

Kevin stood up after nodding his head and exhaling

now. Have fun on your

after he said those words my head snapped in his direction, but by then, he

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

"Guess he found out."

Whatever.

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