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."

finally put the card down and sighed in

me want to

"Am I that untrustworthy?"

"Yes."

his head. Not an ounce of doubt in his

moment, he looked straight

least

"Right..."

should probably treat Kevin

of my head, I

'Five minutes already passed.'

don't tell me that the only reason you called me here

"No."

face

a problem

"Huh?"

hearing his words, I immediately

This was a lot more serious than I

arms together, I

"What exactly happened?"

trying to configure the coordinates of the planet we're about to go to, but the system suddenly stopped working as I got a string

you lost connection with the

words, my

covered my mouth with my hand as my

is a lot more

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

Kevin, I breathed

that the Demon King has

"The Demon King?"

when he heard my

King was currently the most powerful individual in

him to have targeted

that he felt extremely

do you

as he turned to look at

still locked

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

"In what sense?"

in that, it is closely related to the

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

from how he said that 'Kevin was the only person

the phrase that sparked

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

my words as Kevin stared

while,

does that mean that we

"Mhh…"

I leaned forward

was more serious

complete the mission, we would be in

"How about this..."

was then that I

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

this point, this was probably the

middle of nowhere and there was no way that

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

'This might work.'

the time, I patted

on

a few days to see if there are any problems with the system. If there are, we might

"...Okay."

Kevin stood up after nodding his head and

leave now. Have fun on

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

I squinted my eyes, I shrugged my shoulders and

"Guess he found out."

Whatever.

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