The Author's POV

"Hew."

Resting her head on her arms, Emma let out a deep sigh.

[Emma, training will start tomorrow at 5:00 A.M. in the morning. Make sure that you're not late.]

Emma caught glimpse of a message sent by her dad.

Ever since she reunited with her father, she had spent most of her time training with him. There was no better teacher for her than him.

"If only there was a way for me to become stronger faster..."

Nowadays, she felt sour just thinking of Kevin. Every time she tried to initiate a conversation with him, he would do everything in his power to avoid it and then quickly flee the scene. Whether it was in Immorra, human domain, Union...he would always dodge her.

"Tsk, what's gotten into him?"

After only a few short years, Emma was unable to fathom how Kevin could have undergone such a dramatic transformation.

During their time together at the academy, she had the impression that their relationship was doing well, and she didn't believe that she had done anything that could have caused tension between them...

"So what exactly is up with him?"

Emma ruffled her hair in annoyance.

"...If only I could be more like Melissa."

For the first time in her life, Emma experienced feelings of envy toward Melissa's seeming apathy toward everything. If she were more like her, then none of the problems that she was currently going through would be a problem for her.

She would just brush them off with a look of annoyance on her face.

'Don't want to talk to me? Cool, me too. Now go. I have other things to do.'

She could already imagine the sort of things Melissa would say had she been in a similar situation to hers.

"Hmph, you know what? Fuck him!"

A determined expression appeared on Emma's face as she smacked the table. She had grown tired of waiting around for Kevin to come back to her and talk to her. She decided that going forward, she would have nothing more to do with Kevin.

She had made up her mind.

"Even if Kevin comes back to me all beat up and injured and begs me to help him, I'll just ignore him! Hmph, see if that will make you regret your decision!"

She made a vow to herself.

One that she planned on keeping, regardless of what was going to happen next!

Crash━!

"Hait!"

Emma was startled when the sudden echoing of a crashing sound occurred, which prompted her to spring from her seat in response and caused her heart to palpitate out of her chest.

Her head snapped immediately back, and she was taken aback to see Kevin kneeling down on the ground with both hands on the ground, his complexion looking very pale.

"Kevin?! What's going on?"

She immediately rushed to him, completely forgetting what she had been thinking moments ago.

"Pfttt.."

"Kevin!"

Kevin spitting blood out of his mouth caused her

trouble focusing his

head, his eyes met her and he

Thud━!

ground after that, and

"Kevin!"

***

It was dark.

and suffered from multiple bouts of pain

a searing pain that persisted all over his body, which would cause him to fall back into a state

even realized what was happening, he felt a twitch in his

"...Where am I?"

a few blinks of his eyes and taking in a fuller picture of his

though he was in a room that was fairly large, with walls that were a faded light pink colour, a large TV screen in the middle of the room, as well as a sizable desk and chair. The room, which was adorned with flowers, exuded the

"Hm?"

his legs, he finally realized where he was and his

"Emma..."

few hours prior resurfaced in Kevin's mind and he let out another groan as he grasped the side of his waist, which was now

'Ukh, everything worked out...'

his plan had worked... but it wasn't without

had sustained

"Ukh."

out

the extent of my injuries. Still, it

had never planned on killing Malik Alshayatin. His goal was to

knew that he was going to be the biggest thorn

intentionally lied to Ren about the plan; there was a good chance that the

other Ren, in case he was able to see exactly what Ren

―●

#3: Conceal

vague by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no idea what you're planning, they won't be able to prepare the defense. Guide them

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"Cough...Cough..."

tingling his tastebuds. His chest violently ached, and Kevin

"Hmm...Kevin?"

upon hearing the one voice he didn't want

face. It was obvious that she

thoughts flashed across his eyes as

all honesty, it had never been his intention to go

actions were a lot more powerful than he had initially anticipated, and she was the first person he

never been his intention to go to her, but the situation had led him to her, and now that he was face to face with

Emma to furrow her brows as she glared at

have anything to say

feet. She looked down at Kevin, who was lying on her bed with

her line of sight, Kevin felt something

that he wanted to say to

A lot of things.

of her. The list was endless, and he hadn't been distancing himself

didn't think of her as a burden, nor did he ever. Be it past,

it, past, present, or future, Kevin had only suffered heartbreak, and

story was never meant to be

what he

The last one.

That was it.

back time was

and regardless of what happened next, time reversal was no longer something that

the records and everything else