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?"

of seconds, Angelica shook her

no matter how much I try to remember, I can't seem to recall why I was

interlocking my hands on the desk and resting my chin on it, the

"hm...strange"

for a couple of seconds, I leaned back on my seat and

wanted to hear, this one was probably on the bottom

'I can't remember'

was what she said...

'was she lying?'

trying her best to recall, I lightly tapped on

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wasn't sure...but I doubted

out when proposing for it to

The real question was...how?

perhaps have a hand in this? Or was

was true...hence it could only mean one thing. Someone had a hand

my face became solemn. Turning towards Angelica, I carefully

last thing you remember

could regarding what had happened prior to targeting me. As she spoke, from time to time she

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

Angelica, I couldn't

"A picture of me?"

her head, Angelica

picture...but I remembered them saying something like the

"huuuu..."

to Angelica speak, I couldn't help but take a deep

This news was shocking...

...Someone was targeting me.

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

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my desk, I realized that Matthew wasn't the only one that could've

else that

talking about demons...it

demon that I had come in contact with back in the dungeon...but at that time I was wearing a mask, so chances of him not finding out

I have a

Everblood see my face back in

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

and he found

indeed be one of the people

sitting on her seat, I couldn't help

and not come

Everblood that was targeting me,

for a long time and coming up with nothing,

to find out who the real culprit was...but that didn't matter. It only meant that I had to

needed to be more cautious

beyond the plotline would start targeting me

at all times...especially for when the

I have

*Sigh*

and lightly stretched my neck. Glancing at Angelica

that's enough talking for now...I will come back later

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