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?"

towards the middle of her brows, after a couple of

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

my chin on it, the frown on my face

"hm...strange"

Angelica for a couple of seconds, I

wanted to hear, this one was probably on

'I can't remember'

was what she said...

'was she lying?'

Angelica who seemed to be trying her best to recall, I lightly tapped

-Tap! -Tap!

sure...but

could force the answer out when proposing for it to

The real question was...how?

someone perhaps have a hand in this? Or was her memory

the latter was true...hence it could only mean

there, my face became solemn.

you

brows tightly knit as she tried her best to recall anything that she could regarding what had happened prior to targeting me. As she spoke, from time to time she would pause

before eventually winning and then--mhh, from there

glancing at Angelica, I

"A picture of me?"

head,

remember, I don't remember who gave me the picture...but I remembered them saying

"huuuu..."

I couldn't

This news was shocking...

...Someone was targeting me.

person that came to my mind at the moment was Matthew. He was the only person I could think of that

-Tap! -Tap! -Tap!

frantically on my desk, I realized that Matthew wasn't

else

were talking about demons...it would

in the dungeon...but at that time I was wearing a mask, so chances of him not finding out that--abruptly pausing my thoughts there,

I have a mask

Everblood see my face back in the

the hands of Everblood's clone...I was too busy

my mask fall off and he found out

that Everblood may indeed be one of the people that could've been targeting me...but something still didn't add

at Angelica sitting on her

and not

was Everblood that was targeting me, why did he use her instead

a long time and coming up with

culprit was...but that didn't matter. It only meant that I had to be alert

needed to be more cautious and grow stronger

would start targeting

times...especially for when the time that another similar

have to be

*Sigh*

out loud, I stood up and lightly stretched my neck. Glancing at Angelica whose face

for now...I will come

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