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!"

spitting blood out of his mouth caused her facial

focusing his eyes, and

met her and

Thud━!

the ground

"Kevin!"

***

It was dark.

in darkness and suffered from multiple bouts of pain as he floated

for a split second, he would feel a searing pain that persisted all over

was happening, he felt a twitch in his eyelids, and then very slowly, his

"...Where am I?"

his eyes and taking in

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

"Hm?"

heavy resting on his legs, he finally realized

"Emma..."

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

'Ukh, everything worked out...'

plan had worked...

had sustained

"Ukh."

out another

to cover the extent of my injuries. Still, it was

Alshayatin.

going to

had intentionally lied to Ren about the plan; there was a good chance that the other him would discover the

the other Ren, in case he

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#3: Conceal Your Intentions.

and 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 far enough in another direction, shroud them in a smokescreen, and by the time they discover your designs, it will

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"Cough...Cough..."

bitter, iron-like sensation tingling his tastebuds. His chest violently ached, and Kevin felt his arms

"Hmm...Kevin?"

upon hearing the one voice

slowly lowered his head to see Emma looking back at him with a sleepy face. It was obvious that she had not slept the entire time while she

flashed across his eyes

been his intention to go to

than he had initially anticipated, and she was

to go to her, but the situation had led him to her, and now

silence prompted Emma to furrow her brows as she

have anything

to her feet. She looked down at Kevin, who was

to meet her line of sight,

were many things that he wanted to say to

A lot of things.

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

a burden, nor did he ever. Be it past, present, or future, Kevin had

be it, past, present, or future, Kevin

never meant to be a

his past, he knew what he had to do. This was

The last one.

That was it.

back time was no longer

had reached a point where they could no longer sustain a time renewal, and regardless of what

would simply disintegrate together with the records and everything else that