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!"

of his mouth caused her facial expression

appeared as though he was having trouble focusing his eyes, and he was

head, his eyes met her and he smiled

Thud━!

fell to the ground after that, and

"Kevin!"

***

It was dark.

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

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

realized what was happening, he felt a twitch

"...Where am I?"

with a few blinks of his

in the middle of the room, as well as a sizable desk and chair. The room, which was adorned with flowers, exuded

"Hm?"

down and felt something heavy resting on his legs, he finally realized where he was and his

"Emma..."

resurfaced in Kevin's mind and he let out another groan

'Ukh, everything worked out...'

had worked...

had sustained serious

"Ukh."

let out

enough to cover the extent of my injuries.

he had never planned on killing Malik Alshayatin. His goal was to seal off the other

going to be the biggest

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

the other Ren, in case he was able to see

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#3: Conceal

you uncertain 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

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"Cough...Cough..."

tastebuds. His chest violently ached, and Kevin felt his arms tremble

"Hmm...Kevin?"

upon hearing the one voice

slowly lowered his head to see Emma looking back at him with a sleepy face. It

of complicated thoughts flashed across his eyes as he gazed at

all honesty, it had never been his

the time, the repercussions of his actions were a lot more powerful than he had initially anticipated, and she

him to her, and now that he was face to face with her, he wasn't sure

her

anything to

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

her line of sight, Kevin felt

he wanted

A lot of things.

her, the previous her, and all the other versions of her. The list was endless, and he hadn't been distancing himself for the reason she was thinking

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

be it, past, present, or future, Kevin

story was never meant to

knew what he had to

The last one.

That was it.

time was no longer

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

together with the records and everything else that existed