The Author's POV

Chapter 830

Emma couldn't explain it in words, but the moment her gaze fell on the man that stood behind her, she found herself unable to speak.

It was as if something was stuck at her throat, preventing her from speaking, and the empty feeling that she had been feeling for quite some time suddenly started to resurface once again.

It drained her completely.

"Y..you… Who are you?"

She stumbled several steps back, staring at the smiling figure that seemed all too familiar to her, yet, at the same time, distant.

No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't recall him at all.

It was just blank.

Her mind was completely blank.

'J..just what is happening? Who is he? Why do I feel this way?!'

Her mind was a total mess, and she could barely think properly.

The more she glanced at the figure, the more her mind became a mess, and she continued to step back.

It wasn't out of fear, but due to the weird feeling that was eating at her chest.

"Ah.. haa…"

Something trickled down the side of her cheeks as she held onto her head with both hands.

"That... who, just...?"

"Emma, calm down. It's me."

"Don't!"

He tried to reach out for her, but he was quickly stopped by Emma, who slapped his hand away from her.

She glared at him fiercely.

"...Don't take a single step toward me; stay where you are!"

At this point, she was at the point where she was practically screaming, and the pain in her head was starting to grow worse.

She didn't know what was going on at that moment, but sudden images started to flash within her mind, and her head started to throb even more fiercely.

Her hand reached for her shirt, and she gripped it tightly.

'J,just what is happening?'

The longer the situation dragged on, the more she found herself wavering.

"No."

Clenching her teeth, Emma gripped her short swords at her hips and, in one swift motion, pointed them toward the man that was standing opposite her.

"You…"

Mana started to flow out of her body as power started to radiate from her. Glancing at the fog that was surrounding her, she had a sudden idea.

"I get it now."

It was the only explanation that she could think of at the moment.

thing that could explain her sudden panic attack and reaction to the unfamiliar man that she had never seen before in her

manifestation of

didn't speak further

in hand, she pressed her foot

no time for her to arrive

Swoosh―!

pity that her weapon completely passed through the man who kept smiling at

"I knew it!"

had passed through the man. Without

'It's an illusion.'

She reassured herself.

reason, deep down, she felt a little disappointed at

you swing at me? Let's

said while looking down at her, his smile looking extremely sincere. It was such a gaze that made the empty feeling in Emma's heart grow,

"Shut up!"

shouted, swinging her other short

was only a projection, the very fact that he was there unnerved her. He had to disappear.

Swoosh!

his body, but Emma didn't

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

attacks would keep passing through his body, and he seemed relatively unharmed by whatever she was doing, but Emma just couldn't stop

at the moment, and each of her swings started

Boom—!

them tore apart, and the fog moved

"Huh?"

where it was despite the disappearance of the fog, and her feet came to

"Haaa..haaa… haaa.."

but her gaze never wavered away from

why.. who

things that she wanted to ask at that moment, but that was all she could manage to

at him in hopes of him

explain the emptiness that she had been feeling for

had believed that she had been able to subdue it, but at this very moment, it reemerged more powerfully than it had ever been, and she desired nothing more than

what was this emptiness, and why did it grow stronger

"My name is Kevin."

just

A simple name.

Yet…

moment he uttered those words, as if something within her snapped, a flood of memories

Thud—!

fell to her knees, and a blank look appeared on her

"W..wha..how… wha?"

appeared to have a look on her face that suggested she had just seen a

Her mind…

in the right state, as she

"H..K..evin? How?"

and something within

Swoosh—!

She didn't seem to notice him as her face

"Who would've thought."

voice suddenly changed to a raspy one, and his figure started to fade, revealing the features of an elderly demon with a long white goatee and

used to assist him in maintaining

was currently drawn toward Emma, and his eyes flashed

"Who would've thought…"

as soft as

would've thought that her body contained traces of the power that his

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