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

want to roll my

"Am I that untrustworthy?"

"Yes."

his head. Not an ounce

a moment, he looked straight into my eyes

least trustworthy person that I

"Right..."

probably treat

side of my head, I shook my head

'Five minutes already passed.'

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

"No."

Kevin's face

is a problem with

"Huh?"

hearing his words, I immediately

This was a lot more serious than I

my arms together,

"What exactly happened?"

but the system suddenly stopped working as I got a string

lost connection

his words, my brows knit even

mouth with my hand

lot more serious than I

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

Kevin,

the Demon King has his eye on you,

"The Demon King?"

tensed immediately when he heard

to be expected. After all, the Demon King was

him to have targeted

was no doubt that

you know

he

still locked toward

now, but I believe the Demon King

"In what sense?"

is closely related to the Akashic

deeply about what my other self had told me in

particular, from how he said that 'Kevin was the only person capable of killing

the phrase that sparked

could assume that something happened to the records, and that's why you lost connection, but I

moment of silence after my

a while,

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

"Mhh…"

brows, I leaned

was more serious

descended, so if we couldn't complete the mission, we would be in serious trouble. Even with the mana density increasing by the day, it

"How about this..."

was then

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

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 were currently setting up a portal

was especially so because Smallsnake and the others were there. Their presence would definitely

'This might work.'

checking the time, I patted Kevin

minutes on the

problems with the system. If there are, we

"...Okay."

Kevin stood up after nodding his head and

leave now. Have fun on your

words my head snapped in his

my shoulders and headed back

"Guess he found out."

Whatever.

***

do you think? Will

with 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 the vicinity, and quite honestly, I