The Author's POV

Chapter 232

After calling Ava and setting up an appointment with her, I asked Smallsnake to send me an official contract.

Today I was planning on recruiting Ava.

The location of our meetup was the same cafe' Amanda had brought me a couple of months back.

It was fairly secluded and was ideal for these kinds of deals.

"Over here, Ava"

Not long after I entered the cafe and sat down, I spotted Ava's figure entering the place. Standing up, I called out for her.

Spotting me, Ava headed in my direction.

"Thank you for coming"

"Ah-h, no problem Ren"

Lowering her head, Ava shyly sat down on the seat opposite of me.

"Would you like to order anything? It's on me"

I offered as I handed her the menu.

"No, thank you" Ava shook her head, "So...what did you want to talk about?"

'Straight to the point, I see...'

Well, it was understandable.

The relationship between Ava and I could only be considered to be as 'close acquaintances'

We weren't really friends, and given Ava's shy nature, I more or less understood why she wanted to get this over with quickly.

"Here"

Taking out a stack of papers from my dimensional space, I slid them over to Ava.

In it were the details of the contract that Smallsnake had sent me.

It had all the information regarding the salary, working hours, benefits, and other things that she would get if she worked for me.

"What's this?"

Looking at the papers, Ava tilted her head to the side.

"Just read it"

"Okay..."

Taking the papers, Ava started to read them.

After a couple of minutes, I watched as Ava's brows knit together tightly.

Lifting her head up, she asked in a soft voice,"Y-You're trying to recruit me?"

"Indeed" I smiled, "I want to recruit you to my mercenary group. Are you willing?"

"..."

Ava didn't respond immediately. She proceeded to flip through the papers one more time.

"...Sorry"

After a short pause, Ava closed the papers and pushed them back in my direction. Putting my hand on the papers, I raised my other hand.

"Before you refuse, listen to what I have to say"

Watching her push the papers back, I wasn't disheartened one bit.

From the very beginning, I was prepared to be rejected.

A 16-year old boy recruiting you to a newly established mercenary group that barely had any members.

No matter how you look at it, this deal looked shady.

I understood that.

That was why negotiations existed.

"Ava, you're talented. No, to call you talented would be an understatement. You are extremely talented"

Smiling, pushed the papers back, and started praising her. In response to the praise, Ava's face turned red.

"M-me?"

"Yes, just the fact that you can contract with two beasts at once is proof enough"

Typically monster tamers could only tame one beast at a time. This applied to even the strongest monster tamers on earth.

However, Ava could tame two at the same time.

This alone proved that she was extremely talented in the art of monster taming. She needed to understand this.

"B-but, they won't listen to my orders"

"You're too hasty Ava"

"What do you mean?"

"Don't compare yourself to the others. Just the fact that you're rank is enough proof that you're talented. If you compare yourself to other people then, of course, you will look a lot less talented compared to them. However, keep in mind that you're a monster tamer"

Monster tamers tend to develop at a much slower pace than the others.

This was because they mainly focused on training their pets rather than themselves. Their slow progress was in every right, understandable.

such an amazing class filled with prodigies like Kevin and the others, she had started to subconsciously think that she was not

This was not correct.

to the other students, in terms of

she was above average whilst being a

and the others did not notice, she was in

to understand

words,

"Don't reject me jus—"

had to say, Ava lowered her head and muttered in a low voice. She once again tried to reject

Tiiriing— Tiiriing—

to respond, my phone suddenly

'What now…'

for a

problem, take your

furrowed brows tightened. Checking the foremost notification, I noticed that

I need your help. What gift should I buy for

"…"

I

me to deal with this. Turning my attention back

forgot to mention when

"What is it?"

you join, this will be

dimensional space, I gently

"A flute?"

looked at

just any regular

I handed Ava the

"T-this..."

flute, I watched as Ava's eyes opened widely. Holding

right. This

up, the edged of my lips

be enough to entice

to change her fate,

her position, I would join without even flinching. Looking at Ava whose eyes did not leave the flute once,

you still wish

***

At the same time.

still going to ignore my

she

was regarding Kevin's gift. Despite agonizing over this issue for a whole week, she still couldn't figure out what gift

of desperation, she decided

yet to reply

he definitely ignored

teeth, Emma put her phone away. There was no way Ren had not seen her message yet, in all likelihood he

should I do?', placing her

to text her back, Emma had no

Maybe Amanda

eyes lit up.

of her room, she decided

today, she had still not gotten a response

to directly go to

same building, it didn't

—Knock! —Knock!

the door that lead

"Hm, no response?"

after knocking,

—Knock!

not

Plausible. Emma knocked again.

no one

out" Emma muttered as she shook her

room for a

give up and return to her room. She'll

***

9:48 P.M.

that

"Yeah"

the balcony of my room with my phone on my ear, I responded. On the other side of the

her the

I guess the

of Artemis as well as the lucrative

caught me off

as I was confident

my head around the fact that Ava

been in her position, I would've immediately

like item that would make any monster tamer drool at

are your plans now that

Smallsnake asked.

sure, I'll have to think things through. What about you? How's the

Everything is going well. Though he still hasn't signed the contract yet, Leopold and I have already met him once. He came to

"Haaa...That's great"

a

morning, my

least I could take this piece of news as

are times when things just

life went. Nothing was ever going to go

to throw curveballs

I have to go. Call me if you

"Alright"

eyes, I hung up

—Tak!

my phone inside of my dimensional space, I proceeded to

that led to the training grounds, I looked at Angelica

"Angelica"

"What is it human?"

her

ask

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