The Author's POV

"Cough…Cough…"

Kevin's coughing fit started right in the middle of him organizing the stack of papers that were sitting in front of him.

While he was protecting his mouth with his hand, he became aware of a wet feeling in his hand. When he looked up at his hand, he noticed that blood was dripping down the spaces between his fingers.

He quickly removed his hand from his mouth.

'It looks like this is a lot more severe than I had originally thought.'

This was the price that Kevin needed to pay in order to seal an entity that stood at the very pinnacle of the world, or, to be more accurate, the universe.

It should come as no surprise that sealing such a person would result in significant drawbacks and injuries; Kevin was suffering as a direct consequence of his actions.

He had long known that something like this would've happened, and he didn't regret his actions.

"Pftt.."

Another mouthful of blood came out of his mouth, and his complexion became noticeably paler. He noticed that his vision was becoming distorted, and his right hand started shaking.

The symptoms only lasted for a couple of minutes before Kevin was able to recover with the assistance of a potion that he had placed by his side.

It was something that he had prepared earlier in anticipation of something like this happening.

"Cough…thank god I didn't have to fight over the past month."

One of the reasons he remained in his office the entire time was due to his injuries. He was in no way qualified to fight anyone at the moment.

At the moment, unless he was pushed to go all out, even a newly promoted rank could beat him.

"Ukh."

Kevin let out another groan and then covered his forehead with his arm.

After regaining his composure with a few long, slow breaths, he was finally able to refocus his attention on the documents that were spread out on the desk in front of him.

As he reached for his pen to put his signature on the papers, he suddenly became aware that the world around him was beginning to warp severely.

"Ha? What's going on?"

events immediately took Kevin by surprise, and he looked around in

his room began to fade as a new background began

himself suddenly standing in the middle of a green patch of grass, in what appeared to be the middle of nowhere, with large towering mountains in the distance, clear blue skies, and all sorts of large trees in the

"This is not earth."

wherever he was, it was not

human influence was sufficient for him to come to the conclusion that he

was simply way

"You're finally here."

resounded inside of the world, and Kevin's head immediately snapped backward as he spotted a figure with long white hair and crimson red eyes happily sitting

"Jezebeth…"

ice cold as soon as he recognized the

say

our two powers. Although I'm talking to you, this is merely a projection. If you try to hurt me, nothing will happen...the same goes for

fixed her gaze on Kevin for a brief period of time before turning his attention back to

would even be capable of doing

need to tell

one bit as he kept his composure and didn't react in

a surprise to Jezebeth, but he quickly grasped the crux of the situation and cracked a

regained a portion of your memory. What wonderful news! Another of my old acquaintances has resurfaced. The world isn't

Kevin to join him and sit down next to him while patting the patch of

in the same place while staring at Jezebeth

you bring me

to the side and

as he did so, and it wasn't long before the furrows between his brows became arched in

"You…"

my question. What did you bring me

Jezebeth before he could

a moment to sort his thoughts out,

much trouble, I just wanted to know the answers to a few questions. Moreover, I am quite lonely. To alleviate my boredom, I wanted to see

Kevin didn't even make an effort to acknowledge the last part of

that you want to

"It's simple really…"

he made his

hand, Kevin did not move from his

not experience any physical pressure coming from Jezebeth's body; however, the moment that Kevin's gaze met Jezebeth's,

body is still

the cause of such a reaction. If it had been a fully synchronized version