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 in

me want to

"Am I that untrustworthy?"

"Yes."

head. Not an ounce of

for a moment, he looked straight into my

least trustworthy person

"Right..."

probably

head, I shook my head and

'Five minutes already passed.'

reason you called me here

"No."

face as he

there is a

"Huh?"

his words,

was a lot more serious than

arms

"What exactly happened?"

to, but the system suddenly stopped working as I got a string of error

a moment, you lost connection

words, my

covered my mouth with

lot more

lost connection with the system, there was only

Kevin, I breathed

not sure, I believe that the Demon King has his eye on you,

"The Demon King?"

face tensed immediately when he

King was currently the

to

doubt that he

you

asked as he turned

locked toward the

believe the Demon King draws power from the same source as

"In what sense?"

closely related to the

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

that 'Kevin was the only person capable of killing the

phrase that sparked

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

brief moment of silence after my words as Kevin stared deeply

a while,

does that mean that

"Mhh…"

I leaned forward a

serious than I

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..."

then that

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

probably the best

middle of nowhere and there was

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

'This might work.'

my seat and checking the time,

minutes on

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

"...Okay."

nodding his head

Have fun on your

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

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

"Guess he found out."

Whatever.

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you think? Will Nola

to take a stroll in the surroundings. From going to different shops to trying food on the street,