The Author's POV

"...and this is your new room"

Stopping before a door, a butler wearing a slick black suit turned around and handed me a white card. Without hesitation, I took the card and thanked the butler.

"Thank you"

"No problem, welcome to the Leviathan building"

Today was the day I moved into my new room.

A couple of days have passed since I had killed Gerrard and his father. During those days, a lot of things had happened.

Like wildfire, the death of Gerrard and his father spread all over the news. This was natural since Gerrard's father was the CEO of one of the biggest companies in the human domain.

The autopsy reports said that their deaths were due to an attack by a demon. This was easily discernible from the fact that demonic energy lingered on their bodies upon their death.

After investigating further, it was later found that Gerrard was being targeted by four individuals.

Four of the five tyrants.

This was all due to the timestamps that I had asked Angelica to steal.

Stealing them wasn't actually that hard.

Given that they had to be redistributed around to the other members, they were put inside of a separate dimensional space that was given to a distributor who would redistribute them.

Only after distributing all of the timestamps would the distributor give the remaining ones to the tyrant.

The identity of the distributor was naturally a secret that only a few individuals knew, and only after spying on them for the past month or so was able to find their identity and have Angelica directly steal their dimensional space.

That was how everything started. After that, I did what I did with Gerrard and his father.

...and given the tyrant's background, putting the pieces together, the four of them became prime suspects.

Although everything linked to the fact that it was a demon who had killed them, it wasn't uncommon for people to hire a demon to do the dirty work for them. Such was the case for Thobias Church.

Taking advantage of the situation, all of the victims of their bullying and suffering came forward and reported everything to the authorities.

As a result of this, the four tyrants were now under the heavy scrutiny of the public.

'...and checkmate'

Like a trapped king with no spaces to move, the four tyrants crumbled overnight as their crimes became public for the world to know. Their parents weren't exempted from public scrutiny due to their involvement in covering up for their children's crimes.

In just one night, everything that they worked so hard for crumbled. I naturally profited from this as I had made arrangements months prior to this event. Just a little bit of stock manipulation.

'There's also the Lock situation...'

Besides the four tyrants, the Lock also started facing heavy scrutiny. With this event and the previous incidents added together, the Lock became the prime target for the media and the public.

[Is the Lock a safe haven like the government made us think it was?]

[Problem after problem after problem, the truth about the Lock]

[Can they really secure the future of our children?]

Papers and news outlets criticizing the Lock began spreading everywhere. The more light was shed on the matter the angrier the masses became.

'How could we let our children enter such an academy when they can't even keep them safe?'

'What are all of those S rank heroes in the academy doing? Are they getting paid to sit on their asses all day?'

Anger.

That was what the public felt. They felt cheated.

How could the top academy in the world allow for such things to happen? Just how dysfunctional was the academy? Where were all their taxes going towards?

The public wanted answers.

In response to this, the academy held a press conference and vowed to be stricter and increase the security even more. This naturally wasn't enough to appease the angry masses, but this was all they could do at the moment.

With the headmaster currently being outside of the academy, they could only respond this way.

*

"You must also warn the guards beforehand about any possible outing in the middle of the ni..."

Leaning against the wall of the hall, I absentmindedly listened to the butler giving me a rundown of the rules of the building. Unfortunately for him, my mind was currently elsewhere.

'Things are going to get quite troublesome for the next few days...'

As the perpetrator of this whole incident, I knew that for a bit things were going to become troublesome. However, I didn't regret it.

Not only did I manage to secure myself a lot of money, but I also managed to sort out the Manticore building situation.

'Leo and Ram should be doing better now...'

With the five tyrants no longer being a thing, they should have a better life. Especially since there would no longer be anymore five tyrants in the future.

I didn't just get rid of the five tyrants, I also made sure to eliminate any possibility of more tyrants showing up.

If I just got rid of the five tyrants, new ones would certainly show up.

This was just how the world worked. Once the strong guys were gone, the next strongest guys would take the empty position and act like the next five tyrants. It was an endless cycle that could not be stopped.

After a lot of consideration, making this public was the most appropriate method to get rid of the problem from its roots.

Fortunately, it worked.

With the Lock enforcing stricter rules, there would no longer be any more five tyrants in the Manticore building. My plan was a success.

I no longer needed to worry about Leo and Ram as I made my way to the Leviathan building. Thus leading to my current situation.

'”Fwua

Taking out a timestamp from my dimensional space I showed it to the butler before me.

"By the way, you said that there is a time regressor machine here. How does that work? Do I have to get time stamps or is there another way to access them?"

This was the most important information I needed to know. With barely any time to train, I needed to use the time regressor machine desperately.

Especially since the tournament was coming up soon. I needed to increase the mastery of my arts. Especially since my enemies were only going to start getting stronger from now on. I couldn't remain stagnant.

In response to my question, the butler nodded his head and calmly explained.

"Good question, you don't have to worry. There is no need to use timestamps for the time regressor machine. You may use it whenever you want. However do be careful, usage of more than five hours can be very harmful to the body as..."

'”Clank!

As I was talking to the butler, I suddenly heard the sound of a door unlocking next to me.

'It must be my neighbor', I thought.

Turning my head around, I tried to greet my new neighbor, however, once I turned around and found out the identity of my neighbor, my smile froze. Similarly, looking at me, Melissa who had just returned from an exhausting day of researching froze on the spot.

A heavy silence descended the hall. The first to break the silence was the butler who greeted Melissa with a smile.

"If it isn't Miss Hall, how was your day? I'm currently showing your new neighbor the workings of the building. If you haven't met him, allow me to introduce him, his name is Ren Dover and just like you he is a fist year"

"Khem...kheumm...nice to mee you neighbor"

Awkwardly coughing, I waved at Melissa. In response, Melissa's mouth opened widely. No words came out of her mouth.

'Is that who I think that is?'

Blinking a couple of times to make sure she wasn't seeing wrong, Melissa's mind blanked. She quickly shook her head.

'nonononono, I must be hallucinating. Yes, this is because I've overworked myself. If not for that, I would've never been in such a nightmarish situation. Yeah, this must just be a horrible nightmare that I need to quickly wake up from'

Assuring herself that this was all fruit of her imagination, Melissa shook her head and made her way into the room. Completely disregarding me and the butler.

'Right, even if that guy was to come to this building the chances of him being my neighbor should be slim to none. This is just me hallucinating. Definitely shouldn't overwork myself'

Right as she was about to close the door, she took one last peek at her right side. Once again she froze.

"hi"

Amusingly looking at Melissa, I waved at her once again. This time, Melissa's eyes shot wide open as a blood-curdling scream escaped from her mouth.

"Why!!!!?"

...

It was early in the morning, 8:00 A.M. to be specific and the lectures were about to begin. Sitting next to me, Kevin kept poking my arm.

"Why didn't you tell me that you were moving to the building?"

After Melissa's scream rang out in the building, almost everybody went out of the room to check out what had happened. Be it Kevin, Amanda, Emma, or Jin, everyone found out about the fact that I had moved in yesterday.

I was trying to keep this quiet so that I could have a few days of peace but Melissa ended up screwing everything up.

Now that I thought about it, she was always screwing up my plans. Now I could no longer rest quietly in my room without anyone looking for me.

'Damn her...'

"How could you move in without telling me?"

Still poking at my arm, Kevin kept repeating himself. Since it was getting annoying, I finally answered him.

"Did I have to? It's not like you wouldn't have found out"

"Of course you did"

"Why?"

"So that we can celebrate the fact that you are moving in"

"What is there to celebrate anyway?"

Maybe because I had just moved into a new room a couple of months back, but I honestly wasn't that excited at the prospect of moving into the Leviathan building.

Though it had everything I could ever wish for, it also didn't really feel that different from my old room. Just everything but more enhanced.

'Maybe it's because I didn't get a proper look?'

I wasn't sure. Perhaps once I actually took a proper look at the facilities available I would feel something. But as of right now, I didn't feel particularly excited. On the other hand, Kevin who was next to me thought otherwise.

Smacking my back he exclaimed, "Ren you're taking this too lightly. Entering the Leviathan building is something that is worth celebrating. It means that your efforts have paid off and the academy has recognized you. This is without a doubt something worth celebrating"

"Sure, whatever you say"

Turning my head, I replied in an enthusiastic manner.

What he said was far from the truth.

The Leviathan building was just something used to split talented students from the less talented ones. It was sort of like separating commoners and nobles.

Still, what they were doing was understandable. With the world currently under threat who cared about equality and that nonsense. Strenght and talent ruled above everything else.

'”Clank!

In the middle of my thoughts, the door of the classroom suddenly sprung open widely. Entering the classroom a beautiful girl with orange hair entered classroom.

Instantly the classroom descended into deep silence. Everyone's eyes were drawn towards the girl who had entered the classroom.

She had a rather petite figure and she looked to be about the same age as everyone. However, what set her apart from the regular students was the black instructor uniform that she was wearing. She completely looked out of place.

Even then, no one pointed this fact out.

There was a reason for this. A very good reason at that.

And that was because she was...

Monica Jeffrey, the sunset witch, and 27th on the Hero ranking.

An existence that was deemed to be the next <SS> ranked hero and had a celebrity-like status with almost everyone knowing who she was.

"Not bad..."

Noticing the silence in the classroom, Monica's lips curled up slightly. Arriving before the podium, Monica's cheerful and crisp voice entered everyone's ears.

"Nice to meet you, everybody. I will be your new instructor as of today! I hope that in the following months that I will be here we will learn and have a lot of fun together!"

Pausing, Monica looked at everyone in the classroom. Her eyes soon paused on a few individuals before she continued.

"I see that there are a lot of talented students here. During my brief stay here, I will try my best to make you all into elite heroes who will help humanity in the fight against the demons"

'She looked at me didn't she...'

Staring at Monica who was standing on the podium of the classroom talking, my mouth twitched as I noticed her eyes pausing on me for a couple of seconds.

"Crap..."

This was going to be troublesome.