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

reaction made me want

"Am I that untrustworthy?"

"Yes."

nodded his head. Not an

he looked straight into my eyes before

least trustworthy person

"Right..."

should probably treat Kevin

head, I shook my

'Five minutes already passed.'

please don't tell me that the only reason you called me here is because you wanted me to fix your

"No."

look crossed Kevin's face as he shook

is a problem

"Huh?"

hearing his words, I

problem with the system? This was a lot more serious than I

arms

"What exactly happened?"

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 connection with the

my

my mouth with

a lot more serious

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

to face Kevin, I breathed

sure, I believe that the Demon King has his

"The Demon King?"

immediately when he

all, the Demon King was currently the most powerful individual in

to have

was no doubt that he felt extremely

do you

he

gaze still locked toward

believe the

"In what sense?"

is closely

self had told me

'Kevin was the

phrase

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 connection, but I honestly doubt that's

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

while, he

the case, does that mean that we can't

"Mhh…"

I leaned forward

more serious than I

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

"How about this..."

was then that I

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

was probably the

that my warehouse was in the middle of nowhere and there was no way that anyone would notice

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

'This might work.'

seat and checking the time, I patted Kevin

minutes on

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

"...Okay."

nodding his head and exhaling

leave now. Have

those words my head snapped in his direction, but by then, he had already disappeared from

I shrugged my shoulders and headed back to

"Guess he found out."

Whatever.

***

think? Will

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,