The Author's POV

"..."

As soon as I posed the question, the room became tense.

Staring at Angelica straight in the eyes, I asked her something that had been bothering me since last week.

...why did she target me and how did she find out that I was the one responsible for killing Elijah when every news outlet and evidence pointed towards Amanda being the one responsible for killing Elijah?

Moreover, this past week I looked through the list of guests that were present in the party and none of them were targeted by her...something just didn't add up.

Staring at me for what felt like an eternity, Angelica slowly said

"Because I could feel how Elijah died...and it wasn't with a bow"

Frowning slightly, I repeated in confusion

"Wasn't with a bow?"

How did she know?

I made sure to hide all of my traces when I killed Elijah...so how was it possible for her to find out something that even the union couldn't figure out.

Noticing the confusion in my face, Angelica explained.

"...when one of our contractees dies, apart from having our souls became damaged, we are also subjected to the pain they experience right before dying"

"Therefore, after Elijah died I was able to tell that what had killed him wasn't a bow...as the hit was far too clean for something that an arrow could do..."

Listening to Angelica explain, the frown on my face deepened.

"Hmm, interesting. I didn't know that..."

I really didn't know.

I don't ever recall writing about something like this in the novel...although I have come to realize that referencing to the novel too much was bad as things tended to become different...It still came as a shock to me to realize that I didn't even know such important information.

Especially since this piece of information was quite important.

Placing my hand on my chin as I fell into deep thought, I eventually looked at Angelica before asking

"...alright, I understand why you didn't target Amanda, but again, why me?"

Opening her mouth, midsentence Angelica frowned. Thereafter a blank look appeared on her face as she looked at me in confusion.

"Well, that's because..hm?"

Noticing the oddity in her behavior, I leaned forward

"Because...?"

After a while, shaking her head, Angelica said

"...I don't remember"

Taken aback, the frown on my face deepened.

"You don't remember?"

a couple of seconds, Angelica shook

try to remember, I can't seem to recall why I was targeting

desk and resting my chin on it, the frown on

"hm...strange"

of seconds, I leaned back

of all the responses that I wanted to hear, this one was probably on

'I can't remember'

was what she said...

'was she lying?'

seemed to be trying her best to recall, I lightly tapped on

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wasn't sure...but

answer out when proposing for it to be in

The real question was...how?

hand in this? Or was her memory

could only mean one

my thoughts paused there, my face became solemn. Turning towards Angelica,

thing you

anything that she could regarding what had happened prior to targeting

subordinates before eventually winning and then--mhh, from there my memories

seriously glancing at Angelica, I

"A picture of me?"

head,

remember, I don't remember who gave me the picture...but I remembered them saying something like the person in the picture was responsible for killing Elijah...from there everything is

"huuuu..."

couldn't help but

This news was shocking...

...Someone was targeting me.

moment was Matthew. He was the only person I could think of that would target me...no

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that Matthew wasn't the only one

else

talking about

time I was wearing a mask, so chances of him not finding out that--abruptly pausing my thoughts there,

have a mask

my face back in

my forehead, I started looking back at the incident in the dungeon. At that time, I recall almost dying at the hands of Everblood's clone...I was too busy trying to preserve my life at that time that I

fall off and

may indeed be one of the

Angelica sitting on her seat, I couldn't help

use her and

it really was Everblood that was targeting me, why

time and coming up

who the real culprit was...but that didn't matter. It only meant that I had to be alert at all

cautious and grow stronger even

things beyond the plotline would start targeting me

times...especially for

on I have to be prepared for

*Sigh*

and lightly stretched my neck. Glancing at Angelica whose face was still cold,

enough talking for now...I will come back later with a mana

you and after you read through the contents you can decide whether you