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.

some strange reason, Kevin felt a weird emotion while he looked for the

recalled thinking that a quick death wouldn't be

he was sure about, it was that the man needed

it was exactly what Kevin did once he

on the man's face as

didn't care

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

One of utter disgust.

did you get

his tone sounding a lot

to stare at his father, Kevin

picked it up from the

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

you lying to me,

"No."

his head,

the next minute, the two stared at each other without saying anything before Jonathan

is going this far to stop us from leaving,

and went back into the house, leaving Kevin alone with his

smile and caressed him on the

well, Kevin. We won't go

headed for the kitchen. Pulling down her

we have time, I might as well make my

"..."

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

his parents to die. At least, not until

they had been bugging him, and he wanted nothing more than to understand them, for they may be able to, in some way, help

at the wooden door of the

incident happens quite far from here, they should be safe for

it happened while he was coming back from kindergarten, which was quite

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

wasn't affected by the demon attack since it was further away from

least, that was what Kevin

Bang―! Bang―!

Kevin somewhere

engulfed by flames as his body burned to a crisp right before his very eyes and feeling an arm wrap around his waist, dragging him away from his house, which was rapidly getting engulfed by the flames, Kevin felt the world around him move in slow motion as his brain

sure you don't make any

Clank―!

scene but a

standing in front of the corpse of his mother and what little remained of his

knew how long, and something warm trickled down the side of

to touch his cheek, he found that his finger

at his

"Why?"

***

the

again, he was presented

his previous regressions, he died at the hands of Jezebeth. This time, however,

and all it took was a single finger for Jezebeth

and Kevin found himself back in the past

time, he decided to approach things

about his parents and how they died in his previous regressions, Kevin decided to

him for his entire third life, and he

decided to go directly out

out of the city, they would easily be

he was still a lot weaker than the demons. Had it not been for that, he

do you want to go out of the village? Is there something that's going