Upon seeing the message, Donald was ready to throw in the towel and roll over while pretending nothing existed. Of course, the sixth wave started as soon as the system imposed the new penalties. It wasn't giving them time to properly react and get used to the changes. Since they were inside the building, they couldn't see what was going on outside, and he didn't want to.Nicole seemed to recover enough of her senses to break free from Arthur's grip and land a blow. The man grunted when her elbow dug into his gut, causing him to let go of Donald's hand. She then kicked his thigh, narrowly missing his important parts. Donald reflexively flinched at the sight, but he otherwise didn't react as his mind was unable to process anything new after the sudden information the system gave them.She scowled at having missed her intended target and glared at Arthur as she now stood at Donald's side. Donald had enough sense to drop his arm instead of keeping it up and looking like an idiot. However,

Ignoring the internal crisis Donald was going through, Arthur said, "I can assume you can't talk about it. It must have something to do with that guy's power."Arthur's words were enough to bring Donald out of his thoughts about how Arthur would react to his relationship with Nicole. It made sense that a power was involved. He wanted to say it wasn't possible, but he couldn't confidently say there was no such power. All kinds of powers existed, so powers that were kind of demonic or beyond their understanding existed.However, Nicole proved them wrong by shaking her head. "It's not his power. I can't tell you much, but it's definitely not Walter's power."There were several assumptions they could make based on her sentence. One of them was that someone else in Walter's group had used their power on her. If that was the case, then it had to be someone close, or someone that Walter thought wouldn't betray him at least. Another was that Walter's power wasn't remotely close to anything me

"You need to be careful not to aggravate your injuries unless you want them to get worse," the doctor said as the duo were leaving."I will," Donald said, waving farewell to the doctor.The man had actually been a doctor, and not someone with some experience treating injured people. Donald briefly wondered if that man had been forced to join the group against his will, but he quickly decided it was best not to think about it. Nicole still refused to talk about what she talked to Arthur about in order to convince him to let him live.Donald sighed. The only way he was going to get that information was if he approached Arthur instead, but he doubted he would get any straight answers either or if Arthur would want to make a deal for the information. It wasn't worth trying to confront the man. Besides, he wanted to avoid being alone with the man for any period of time. Who knew if the guy would attempt to brainwash him?"So how long do we have to stay here?" he asked. "Also, are we going

As Donald stared at the messages in front of him, he wondered how he got into the mess. It was one thing to know that the Fighting Executioners had intended to register him as part of his group. So why was the system telling him that there was an error as he had been registered for at least two other groups? How was that even possible? Shouldn't the system have stopped it from happening?"What now?" he asked as he was still trying to process how he was considered part of three groups.[The system is uncertain as this is unprecedented.][You're the only one that has been registered three times by three separate groups.]"I can see that," he dryly said as he looked back at the three names in front of him.Donald recognized one other group as Elizabeth's group. He hadn't expected to see the ridiculous name again, but why had she added his name to her group? Had she gotten the wrong idea about him and thought of him as part of her group? He was pretty sure he made it clear he wasn't going

Five minutes quickly passed, and everyone received the first set of scores. Everyone ravenously scanned the list to see how the groups were faring. Unsurprisingly, Arthur's group was in the lower section of the scoring because they had missed their chance. It seemed no one had tried to kill another person to boost the score. Most of those that were tied for last place didn't have any points whatsoever.Donald couldn't imagine how Arthur would react to the results, and he was glad he wasn't in the same group as him. He took a moment to check in with his system to figure out what was going to happen now. While he wanted to enjoy the brief reprieve between the sections, he couldn't since he was officially part of three groups. He needed to see if he should head to the next location."What's the verdict?" he asked.[It is up to the user.