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.

was exposed to 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.

in terms

a monster tamer. A profession that grew much slower than

notice, she

needed to understand

words, but I'm

"Don't reject me jus—"

her head and

Tiiriing— Tiiriing—

about to respond, my phone suddenly rang. My

'What now…'

for

take

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

need your help. What gift should I buy for Kevin's birthday? Can you tell

"…"

I turned off

was not the time for me to deal with this. Turning my attention back to Ava, I decided to

thing I forgot to mention when giving

"What is it?"

this will be

green flute from my dimensional space,

"A flute?"

asked Ava as she looked at the flute on the

regular flute, have a

I handed Ava the

"T-this..."

taking the flute, I watched as Ava's eyes opened widely. Holding onto the flute, Ava's hands

seeing it right. This is your ticket to

chin up, the edged of my

should be enough to entice her to

with the opportunity to change her fate, Ava

would join without even flinching. Looking at Ava whose

do you still

***

At the same time.

still going to ignore my

grumbled as she looked

was regarding Kevin's gift. Despite agonizing over this issue for a whole

desperation, she decided

to reply to

he definitely ignored my

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

I do?', placing her hand on her

bothering to text her back, Emma

Amanda

up. Amanda could

she decided to ask for Amanda's

text Amanda today, she had still not gotten a

to directly

the same building, it didn't take long for Emma to arrive at

—Knock! —Knock!

lead to

"Hm, no response?"

after knocking,

—Knock!

she perhaps not hear

Plausible. Emma knocked again.

again, no

probably out" Emma muttered as she shook

Amanda's room for a solid minute, Emma

end, she chose to give up and return to her room. She'll try to ask Amanda again

***

9:48 P.M.

that

"Yeah"

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

her the

I guess the offer wasn't

Artemis as well as

caught me

confident in what I had

I couldn't wrap my head around the fact that Ava

her position, I would've immediately have agreed to

of Artemis. A cheat like item that would make any monster tamer drool at

plans now that you

Smallsnake asked.

think things through. What about you? How's the situation with Ryan

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

"Haaa...That's great"

least this was a

Ava this morning, my mood had soured

the very least I could take this piece of news

guess there are times when things just don't work

went. Nothing was ever going to go as I

to throw curveballs

I have to go. Call me

"Alright"

my eyes, I hung up the

—Tak!

proceeded to head to the

grounds, I looked at Angelica who was sitting crossed-legged in the middle of the

"Angelica"

"What is it human?"

opened her

I ask

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