The Author's POV

Sunlight filtered through the canopy of trees, gently bathing my body and enveloping it with a thin layer of warmth.

The birds chirped, and a gentle breeze lingered in the air.

It felt nice outside, but as I sat down on a wooden bench in a familiar park, everything around me seemed so intrusive.

"I want it, mom!"

"No, that's enough sweets for today."

"Umhhhh!"

My gaze never left the pair of mother and daughter in the distance. They were quite close to me. About a hundred meters.

…Yet, they never felt so distant before.

"Nola, you better behave. I already told you that you can't have any more candy for today."

"Why!?"

"Because I said so."

I couldn't help but crack a smile as I watched the two of them argue from a distance. It was a sight that had been seen plenty of times before. One to which I have been accustomed for a considerable amount of time.

"Is there something that you need, young man?"

Apparently noticing my gaze, the woman turned her head to look at me.

She looked the same, maybe a bit older than in my memories.

I smiled at the two.

"No, don't mind me. You guys just remind me of my family."

"Oh."

The woman flashed me a smile before patting Nola on the head.

"Is your sister as naughty as her?"

Lowering my head to look at Nola, I laughed.

"…You can say so. Perhaps even naughtier."

"You must have it tough then."

The woman spoke with sympathy before taking Nola's hand. She was currently glaring daggers at me, and I couldn't help but laugh once more.

"It's getting late. We have to go. It was nice knowing you."

"It was nice knowing you too."

I murmured while staring at their departing backs.

I didn't have to wait for very long before I lost sight of the two of them, and when that happened, I leaned back against the bench that I was sitting on.

"This is fucked."

The whole situation was fucked.

"Why did you do this, Kevin?"

I had an idea at first, but it only became clear to me after a while.

was not the

where Kevin and

this is a world where the

didn't. The Monolith also didn't exist, and

and the other races

was also very different from what I remembered, with Ashton city still existing but the four great cities having disappeared from the world's map and being replaced by many other major cities all

That wasn't all.

overall strength of the people here was drastically lower than in the world that I was used to. In this world, the highest

than Octavius who held such power, but despite my best

This world…

no sense to

take a

"Huh, yeah, sure."

scooched to the side a little and allowed

my arm, I took a

purpose in sending me to this world? There must be a reason… and how do I

did all of this without a reason. There must've been one, but just what was

you perhaps wondering why you've

my body tensed. The voice… It was somewhat familiar. I just couldn't quite

and looked toward my right. Immediately, my

a face that

used to regard as my best friend. The same one that I had killed a

"M,matthew?"

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Angel Wing Guild.

in front of him. Two other men

was incredibly tense at the

a single word as everyone gazed in the

past were played over and over again. It showed a young person with short black hair, and deep blue

and yet, he couldn't understand

some sort

was that

those that did have it were the most

hefty sum to acquire a single

be some

uttered. He had long gray hair and

he really did have a skill, then I'm sure we would've known about it. There's no way our information network

"I agree."

that was beginning to thin out toward the back of his head, and

must've used some sort of trick to escape from the detection of the captain. Since he boldly entered the place,

"Yeah."

"Hmm."

he

was practically impossible for someone that young to know a skill and yet

were only a finite number of skills in the world, as the most powerful Guild in the world, they would undoubtedly be

that has been secretly groomed

possibility made him frown,

guys have anything

"No."

man

I got nothing. No family history, no DNA, no date of birth, nothing… It's as if

"Hmm."

further

starting

there absolutely nothing

"Actually, there is something."

taking out a tablet

the cameras and the base system, we were able

"Oh?"