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.

the world I lived

a world where Kevin

say that this is a world where the Demon

The Monolith also didn't exist, and no one had ever heard of

and the

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 over the

That wasn't all.

of the people here was drastically lower than in the world that

such power, but despite my best efforts, I was unable to find any humor

This world…

made no

I take

"Huh, yeah, sure."

and

my arm, I

this world? There must be a reason… and how

all of this without a reason. There

you perhaps wondering why you've been sent

ears, and my body tensed. The voice… It was somewhat familiar. I just couldn't quite remember to whom it

looked toward my right. Immediately, my breath

face that

to a guy whom I used to regard as my best friend. The same one that

"M,matthew?"

***

Angel Wing Guild.

he looked at the screen in front of him. Two other men were standing behind him, and

incredibly tense at the

uttered a single word as everyone gazed in the direction of the screen in front

place in the past were played over and over again. It showed a young person with short black hair, and deep blue eyes, looking around

had been about the twelfth time that Edward watched, and yet, he couldn't understand how that youth managed to disappear from

it some sort

how was

were practically impossible to get, and those that did have it were the most

he had to sacrifice a hefty sum to acquire a

must be some sort

uttered. He had long

I'm sure we would've known about it. There's no

"I agree."

He had a fairly large stomach, dark hair that was beginning to thin out toward the back of his head, and

escape from the detection of the captain.

"Yeah."

"Hmm."

he heard their

he'd agree with them. It was practically impossible for someone that young to know a skill and yet be

there were only a finite number of skills in the world, as the most powerful Guild in the world, they would undoubtedly be the first to learn of any newly discovered

has been secretly

him frown, and he turned his

have

"No."

older man shook his

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

"Hmm."

deepened further at the

starting to

there absolutely nothing

"Actually, there is something."

out a tablet

the base system, we were

"Oh?"