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

me want to roll my

"Am I that untrustworthy?"

"Yes."

nodded his head. Not an ounce of

a moment, he looked straight into

are definitely the least trustworthy person

"Right..."

should probably treat

head, I shook my head

'Five minutes already passed.'

called me here

"No."

look crossed Kevin's face as he

there is a

"Huh?"

hearing his words, I

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

my arms together,

"What exactly happened?"

to go to, but the system suddenly stopped working as I got a string of error messages, and I even

moment, you lost connection with

my brows knit even

forward, I covered my mouth with my hand

more serious than

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

face Kevin, I

that the Demon

"The Demon King?"

face tensed immediately when he heard my

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

him to

was no doubt that he felt

you know

asked as he turned to look at

my gaze still locked

hypothesis for now, but I believe the Demon King draws power from the same

"In what sense?"

in that, it is closely related to

deeply about what my other self had told

'Kevin was the only

was the phrase that sparked

portal and intervened. Of course, we could assume that something happened to the records, and that's why you lost connection, but I honestly

moment of silence after my

a while,

mean that we can't

"Mhh…"

I leaned forward a

more serious than I

couldn't complete the mission, we would be

"How about this..."

was then that

if anything goes wrong. If you feel you're losing connection with the

this was probably the

in the middle of nowhere and there was no way that

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

'This might work.'

checking the time, I patted Kevin on the

minutes on

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

"...Okay."

stood up after nodding his head and exhaling

now. Have fun

those words my head snapped in his direction,

my eyes, I shrugged my shoulders and headed back to

"Guess he found out."

Whatever.

***

think?

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 really