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!"

sight of Kevin spitting blood out of his mouth caused her

his eyes, and he was

eyes met her

Thud━!

to the ground after that, and he passed

"Kevin!"

***

It was dark.

bouts of pain as he floated in and out of

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

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

"...Where am I?"

few blinks of his

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 soothing scent of lavender

"Hm?"

Kevin looked down and felt something heavy resting on his legs, he

"Emma..."

recollections of what had transpired a few hours prior resurfaced in Kevin's mind and he let out another groan as he grasped

'Ukh, everything worked out...'

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

had sustained serious

"Ukh."

out

isn't even enough to cover the extent of

Malik Alshayatin. His goal was to seal off the other

he was going to be the biggest

a good chance that the other him would

other Ren, in case he was able to see exactly

―●

#3: Conceal

idea what you're planning, they won't be able to prepare the

―●

"Cough...Cough..."

his tastebuds. His chest violently

"Hmm...Kevin?"

body froze upon hearing the one voice he

to see Emma looking back at him with a sleepy face. It was obvious that she had not

complicated thoughts flashed across

never been his

more powerful than he had initially anticipated, and she was the first person he thought of when he was trying to look

had 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 her, he wasn't sure what to

Emma to furrow her brows as she

anything

pulling her head away from her arms and rising to her feet. She looked down at Kevin, who was

meet her line of sight, Kevin felt something stuck

he wanted to

A lot of things.

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

Be it past, present, or future, Kevin had only ever loved one girl, and it was

past, present, or future, Kevin

story was never meant to be a happy

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

The last one.

That was it.

was

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

together with the records and everything else that existed within the