The Author's POV

"What, what has gotten into you?"

Margaret looked at Kevin with a helpless expression. Johnatan, who was standing beside her, also wore a similar expression.

"Kevin, you know that we need to work, right? If we can't work, we won't be able to pay our bills and continue living in this house."

Standing in front of the door of the house and blocking the two of them from leaving was Kevin, who still wore the same expressionless look on his face.

If there was one thing that was different about him, however, was that his eyes weren't as detached from reality like in the past.

Of course, this wasn't a change that Kevin was aware of as he currently stood in front of the door and stopped the two of them from leaving.

"Do not go to work today."

"...Can you tell us why?"

Rather than being angry at Kevin's behavior, the two of them bent down and caressed his head.

Kevin's face didn't change at their touch, and he repeated.

"Do not go outside today."

"Yes, we understand that you don't want us to go outside today. But is there a reason?"

Margaret asked, her face completely calm and devoid of any frustration.

The same was true for Johnatan, who sat on the ground outside the small apartment and curiously looked at Kevin.

Seeing that he had gotten their attention, Kevin didn't say anything and hugged Margaret by the neck, startling her completely.

It wasn't just her that was startled; his father, Jonathan, was also startled and also somewhat jealous.

Both of them looked at each other with bewildered expressions.

Their reactions were understandable. After all, this was the very first time in his life that Kevin showed any glimmer of affection toward the two of them, and they were naturally taken aback.

'They might listen to me if I do this...'

On the other hand, Kevin had different thoughts, as the sole reason for hugging them was to manipulate them into listening to his request.

Since he couldn't reveal to them the exact reason why they couldn't go to work today, he could only try this method, which, in all fairness, seemed to be working quite well as the two of them started hesitating about going to work.

Of course, Kevin knew that this wasn't enough for him to convince them completely.

It was hence why he reached out for his pocket and took out a 50 U banknote.

"...I found this outside."

Contrary to Kevin's expectations, the faces of the couple changed completely the moment he took out the banknote and immediately asked.

"Where did you get that from, Kevin?"

"Don't tell me that you stole it, Kevin? You know that stealing is bad, right? Although our financial situation is not good, we would rather starve than steal."

Under the barrage of questions, Kevin merely cocked his head and answered.

"I didn't steal it."

It was actually a lie. This note was, in fact, the same note from the bald guy from a while back.

When everything was said and done, and his mother handed him the money, Kevin secretly found the man and killed him, taking away all of his possessions.

strange reason, Kevin felt a weird emotion while he

wasn't an emotion he was familiar with, but he recalled thinking that a

way, Kevin was still unsure...but if there was one thing he was sure about, it was that the man needed to at least know who had killed

what Kevin

the look of horror on the man's face as he

for him, Kevin didn't care

last moments before his death, Kevin looked at him with the same expression

One of utter disgust.

you get

a lot

stare at

it up from

wasn't necessarily a lie. He had indeed picked up the

you lying

"No."

his head, his face completely

at each other without saying

is going this far to stop us from leaving, I guess

left the room and went back into the house, leaving Kevin alone with his mother, who

flashed a warm smile

won't

watched as his mother stood up and headed for the kitchen. Pulling down her sleeves, she murmured

since we have time, I might as well make my

"..."

a fleeting moment, Kevin started to regret his actions. It was only a fleeting moment,

parents to die. At least, not until he understood the emotions that

wanted nothing more than to understand them, for they may be

the wooden door of the house, Kevin thought to

quite far from here, they should be safe for

he was coming back from kindergarten, which was

to his father's job, which was why they chose to bring him there, but the distance from his house

affected by the demon attack since it was further away

was

Bang―! Bang―!

Kevin somewhere safe!

away from his house, which was rapidly getting engulfed by the flames, Kevin felt the world around him move

Make sure you don't make

Clank―!

but a

standing in front of the corpse of his

in front of them for who knew how long, and

he found that his finger had

at his finger,

"Why?"

***

the village for

once again, he was presented

at the hands of Jezebeth. This time, however, he was

time he had killed all of them, he was already exhausted, and all it took was a single finger for Jezebeth to get rid of

rewinded, and Kevin found himself back in the past

time, he decided to approach

his previous regressions, Kevin decided to approach things differently...he wanted to understand what he felt during

had been haunting him for his entire third life, and he was desperate to know

time, Kevin decided to go directly out

they would easily be

lot weaker than the demons. Had it not been for that, he would've done something himself about

want to go out of the village? Is there something