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!"

out of his mouth

was having trouble focusing his

his eyes met her and he

Thud━!

to the ground after

"Kevin!"

***

It was dark.

was engulfed in darkness and suffered from multiple bouts of pain as

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

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

"...Where am I?"

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

fairly large, with walls that were a faded light pink colour, a large TV screen in the middle of the room, as well

"Hm?"

his

"Emma..."

few hours prior resurfaced in Kevin's mind and he let out another groan as he grasped the

'Ukh, everything worked out...'

plan had worked... but it wasn't

had sustained

"Ukh."

out another

even enough to cover the extent

killing Malik Alshayatin.

that he was going to be the

Ren about the plan; there was a good chance that the other him would discover the situation

to lure the other Ren, in

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Conceal

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 be too

―●

"Cough...Cough..."

his tastebuds. His chest violently ached, and Kevin felt

"Hmm...Kevin?"

the one voice he didn't

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

sorts of complicated thoughts flashed across his eyes as he gazed

had never been his intention to go

lot more powerful than he had initially anticipated, and she was

never been his intention to go to her, but the situation had led him to her, and

Emma to furrow her brows as

have anything to say to

her feet. She looked down at Kevin, who was lying on her bed with his back against the wooden frame of the

his head to meet her line of sight,

he wanted to say to

A lot of things.

other versions of her. The list was endless, and he

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

he knew what he had to do.

The last one.

That was it.

back time was no longer

reached a point where they could no longer sustain a time renewal, and regardless of what happened next, time reversal was no longer something that this

together with the records and everything else that existed