The Author's POV

"The world looks peaceful, doesn't it?"

While I trailed Matthew from behind, I looked around at everything that was going on around me. The world, as he pointed out, was quite different from the world that I lived in.

People running around with smiles, no gates or demons to worry about…

It was extremely peaceful. Enough to make me jealous.

'Is this how the world would've been if Jezebeth and the demons never existed?'

It was rather good.

"You think too much."

Matthew smirked as he looked at me.

"True, the world looks peaceful, but that's merely what you're perceiving on the surface. Reality is, the world is a lot less idealistic than you'd imagine."

He continued forth, and I followed from behind him. He didn't elaborate further, but he seemed to be hinting at something.

I honestly didn't understand his words. When I looked around me and saw the world, which appeared to be in much better shape than the war-torn world that I was a part of, I had a hard time believing that this world could be as terrible as he hinted at.

'Merely what you're perceiving on the surface…'

Was he hinting that something big was happening in the shadows?

"We're nearly here."

The first thing that caught my eye in the distance was a familiar skyscraper. It was a building that I had frequented in the past, and its appearance in this world was identical to how it appeared in the world that I belonged to.

'The Union Tower.'

"We want justice!"

I heard faint chants in the distance.

'At least, that part of the Union Tower didn't change.'

Be it my world or this world, there'd always be a couple of people protesting there.

The further we went, the louder they got, and it wasn't long before I had a better grasp of what they were yelling.

My expression changed a little.

"Life imprisonment!"

"Sentence those criminals to the death!"

"Kill them!"

Hearing the contents of their words, my brows slowly furrowed, and I looked toward Matthew.

"What's going on?"

Were some big time criminals being persecuted?

The reaction seemed rather extreme.

"You'll see."

Matthew merely smiled at my question and continued moving forward.

I decided to follow him closely and no longer said

"Kill those traitors!"

hanged in the streets

"Murderers!"

stood before a large group of people carrying signs and speakers,

shouted all sorts of profanities while

"We want justice!"

"We want justice!"

"We want justice!"

throughout every nook and cranny of the square beneath the Union Tower.

"We're here."

to the crowd and

I stopped beside him.

what you were trying

The riot?

there something special

Matthew smiled.

a couple of minutes. You'll get

"Okay."

of getting any clues, but there didn't seem to be

I didn't have to wait too long to

"Someone is finally out!"

"Judgment will finally prevail!"

"Justice!"

The effect of his power was immediate,

'…He's still the same.'

it this world, or the

He never changed.

has

calm voice reached the ears of

surroundings as

observing their demeanor, my interest in the matter increased, and I couldn't help

what this

He soon continued.

of the evidence, and a lot of discussions, we, the Union, have come to the conclusion that the following three individuals are guilty of the

moment he extended his hand, three pictures materialized next to him, and my entire face went completely

at the

time to focus on it as all the noise

in the images presented by

"H,how is this possible?"

It didn't make sense.

the Keiki style, and a former honorary member of

Grandmaster Levisha, sole creator of Levisha style, and a former

creator of Graver style, and a former

slowly, Octavious turned his head to stare at the

declare that the three of them will be

"Waaahhh!"

"Wooooooohhh!"

of cheers reverberated throughout. People were comforting one another by

from joy, while others started praising the Union

at Matthew, who smiled at

still think that

just happened, but it finally dawned on me that something seriously messed up was happening somewhere in

be the Heroes of my world suddenly become such

it was that was happening, was definitely something that Kevin wanted me to

am I supposed to do

me and left me