The Author's POV

"Uwa! Uwa!"

A newborn infant's cries reverberated in the background as two gentle hands wrapped around the small frame of its body in an attempt to soothe its cries.

"Hush, Kevin, don't cry. Mommy's with you."

'Is this what it feels like to be a newborn human?'

Kevin's crimson eyes stared at his two small hands that were reaching out, grasping the air above him for some unknown reason.

In the instant that Kevin was born, he already knew his mission.

From the moment he felt the gentle embrace of his mother's warm hands as she wrapped them around his body and surrounded him with warmth, he was aware of the purpose behind his existence as well as the mission that he had to complete.

'Defeat Jezebeth.'

The cancer that the records were afraid of. The one singular entity that was disrupting the balance of the universe.

…That was his sole and only purpose for existing.

"Why is his hair white, and why are his eyes red?"

Kevin, who had just been born, heard his parents' shocked and bewildered voices as they drifted gently in and out of his field of hearing.

When he looked up, he saw the faces of two people, one male and one female, looking down at him with curiosity.

'These must be the people who have birthed me.'

Kevin pondered as he observed the two humans, who were staring at him with confused expressions. They had relatively delicate facial features, but their clothing appeared unremarkable, and they appeared somewhat filthy.

From what Kevin could gather, their names were Margaret and Johnathan. At least, that was what they seemed to call each other.

In spite of their filthy appearances, they had friendly expressions, and the sight of their smiles was not displeasing to the eyes. At least to Kevin, but he didn't seem to care all that much about it.

In his mind, these were the two beings that would help him gain a foothold in this world before he could finally mature and leave on his own.

He didn't have any particular attachment to them.

"The DNA test says that it is our child; maybe he was just born with some strange illness or something along those lines? ...I'm not entirely sure."

The man on the left, who appeared to be his father, was seen tenderly caressing the woman, who was described as having brown eyes and long black hair.

Her features were soft, and Kevin couldn't quite put his finger on what it was that made her smile so compelling.

Nor did he care to understand.

"But if there is one thing that I'm sure about..."

As Kevin's father leaned in to give him a kiss on the cheek, the top of Kevin's head dampened.

"...it's that he's our son."

***

"I'm sure it was an accident. He definitely didn't do it on purpose."

Kevin stood by and watched as his mother pleaded in front of three people.

The subject of everyone's attention right now was a young child who stood in the middle of the other two adults and appeared to have tears forming in his eyes.

"An accident?"

A round woman with curly yellow hair and an angry and repulsed expression on her face pointed an accusatory finger at her young child while raising her voice.

"How are you going to explain this?"

Her finger touched the child's eye, which was currently black.

"Your delinquent child punched my child for no apparent reason! How can you explain to me the black eye on his face?"

"That..."

Margeret looked at the eye for a moment, and she turned to look at Kevin. Biting her lips, she asked.

"Kevin, did you do this?"

"..."

Kevin remained silent and simply looked at her the whole time.

He had never actually punched the child in the first place. It was another bigger kid, but the victim decided to lie and shift the blame for the attack onto Kevin out of fear for the bigger kid.

Kevin could tell right away that saying anything would be pointless; it would probably go to death's ears.

The people here weren't looking for the real culprit but for someone to blame the situation to.

With Kevin being the preferred target due to his background.

In addition, because this establishment was in a rather poor condition, there were no cameras to provide evidence to support his claim.

Talking was a waste of energy.

"See, your child isn't even denying it!"

The woman yelled and pointed angrily at Margaret, whose face suddenly turned pale.

"He...he didn't even say anything. How can you just―"

"Oh, stop it! We both know your autistic son did it!"

As soon as the word "autistic" was mentioned, Margaret's face immediately froze, and she began to bite her lips more forcefully while murmuring in a voice that was only audible enough for Kevin to hear.

son is

going to make up for

up and slowly stood up. She took a deep breath and turned

convey the words, 'Everything is fine; I'll handle this,' but it looked more forced than anything to Kevin, who simply stared

"How much?"

"How much what?"

crossing her arms. Margaret repeated herself, pulling out a small, worn-out purple

are the hospital fees.

wallet, her hand attempting

short while, during which she stole a quick glance at the cash that was being removed from the

I'll let this matter slide if you

"5..500U"

stiffened, and her face

Kevin once more before reaching into her wallet, pulling out a banknote, and slowly passing it to the other woman,

"I'll take that."

to Kevin that this was the woman's real goal from the very beginning and

matters

and walked away with

is she

he looked at his mother with a puzzled expression

reason why her mother would go to such

not required to pay the money. The worst-case scenario was that he would be expelled from kindergarten, but it wasn't a big

he avoided them on purpose so they wouldn't become too attached, as he didn't care about

'Why is that?'

Kevin wondered.

"C..ome, let's go Kevin"

exterior, where a man dressed in rather soiled clothes and a bright green construction uniform appeared, running up

had a rather anxious look on his face

it…is there anything wrong with

managed to sort out

forced

looked at her husband and

from your clothes, you must've directly rushed from

of. I told my boss that there was an emergency with Kevin. He's understanding. At most he will

top of his head before

worse had they seen the clothes that I'm wearing. Those kids might even end up bullying Kevin for

"You're right…"

face. Tugging Kevin

how about we

was then that it

around them, and the ground beneath them visibly

Beep―! Beep―! Beep―!

to a red color, and the alarms of the cars

"What's going on?"

"What's happening?"

the ground, the first thing the couple did was bring Kevin

with looks of

suddenly permeated the air,

"It's the demons."

his voice monotonous and his crimson eyes gleaming under the moonlight. His parents showed startled looks

"What did you say?"

are you

and continued to stare at the sky with an emotionless

"Kyaaaa!"

quickly in the form of a dark humanoid creature that appeared in the air and

the atmosphere as buildings started to crumble right

"Haaaaa!!"

"Someone help me!"

Rumble―!

complete anarchy—flames that seemed to burn endlessly consumed everything

a normal, peaceful day in a small village located not too far away from

of minutes, the world crumbled apart, and all hell broke

Fwuap―! Fwuap―!

in the air and arrogantly watched as some humans set fire

them exemplified hopelessness in its purest

parents through the streets of the village in a solemn and hushed manner as they ran along the

"Huff...huff...Honey, quick, over here!"

building, Johnathan gestured with

after that, the couple saw a modest house off in the distance,

Crash―!

forcefully break through a wooden door that led to the small house, and then he immediately hid inside the house after he

put his finger on his mouth and looked at Kevin with a serious expression on his

sure you don't make a

"There is no p—"

remain quiet

her hand over Kevin's mouth

make

expressions on his parents' faces, he merely closed

silence

'What pointless actions.'

to tell them that staying here would only prove fatal, but seeing that

feel anything out of the

silence did not

Booom—!

explosion occurred in the neighborhood of the house where they were all together,

shock caused the windows of the house to shatter, which led to the destruction of a

"Get down!"

Kevin and his wife

"khhhh...ahhhh"

after the explosion went off, and it continued for some time after

"Ugh...Kh..."