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

want to roll

"Am I that untrustworthy?"

"Yes."

Not an ounce of

a moment, he looked straight into my

least trustworthy person that

"Right..."

probably treat

I shook my head

'Five minutes already passed.'

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

"No."

Kevin's face as

there is a

"Huh?"

words, I

with the system? This was a

my arms

"What exactly happened?"

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

his words, my

I covered my mouth with

a lot more serious than

there was only one thing that came to

Kevin, I

believe that the Demon King has his eye

"The Demon King?"

when he heard

all, the Demon King was currently the most powerful

to have

that he felt extremely

you

suddenly asked as he turned to look at

my gaze still locked toward the ground, I

just a hypothesis for now, but I believe the Demon King draws power

"In what sense?"

closely related to

had told me in the past,

said that 'Kevin was the only

was the phrase

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

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

while, he

case, does that mean that we can't finish

"Mhh…"

I leaned

more serious

we couldn't complete the mission, we would be in serious trouble.

"How about this..."

then that

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

this was probably

was especially true because of the fact that my warehouse was in the middle of nowhere and there was no

up the portal there. This was especially

'This might work.'

checking the time, I patted Kevin on the

minutes on the

in a few days to see if there are any problems with the system. If

"...Okay."

nodding his head

now. Have

in his direction, but by then, he

I shrugged my shoulders and headed back to the

"Guess he found out."

Whatever.

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think?

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