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.

amazing class filled with prodigies like Kevin and the others, she had

This was not correct.

the other students, in terms

shockingly however was that she was above average whilst being a monster tamer. A profession that grew much slower

she and the others did not notice, she was in

needed to understand

words,

"Don't reject me jus—"

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

Tiiriing— Tiiriing—

respond, my

'What now…'

me for

take

tightened. Checking the foremost notification, I noticed that the

What gift should I buy for Kevin's birthday? Can you tell

"…"

I turned off my

was not the time for me to deal with this. Turning my attention back to

there's one more thing I forgot to mention when giving you the

"What is it?"

you join, this will be

from my dimensional space, I gently placed it on

"A flute?"

she looked at the flute on

any regular flute, have

I handed Ava

"T-this..."

taking the flute, I watched as Ava's eyes opened

right. This is your ticket

my chin up, the edged of my

should be enough to

opportunity to change her

even flinching. Looking at Ava whose eyes did not leave the flute

you still

***

At the same time.

he still going to ignore

as she

text. It was regarding Kevin's gift. Despite agonizing over this issue for

she decided

had yet to reply to

he definitely ignored

Ren had not

should I do?', placing her hand

bothering to text her back, Emma had

Maybe Amanda

up.

of her room, she decided to

she did text Amanda today, she had still not gotten a response from her which

Emma decided to directly

same building, it didn't

—Knock! —Knock!

the door that lead to Amanda's room, Emma

"Hm, no response?"

after knocking, Emma got

—Knock!

not hear

Plausible. Emma knocked again.

no

shook her head, "What do

front of Amanda's room for a solid minute,

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

***

9:48 P.M.

that she rejected

"Yeah"

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

you showed her the artifact

guess the

Ava the flute of Artemis as well as the

me

blindsided me as I was confident in what

around the fact that Ava had rejected

to have been in her position, I would've immediately have agreed to sign

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

plans now

Smallsnake asked.

have to think things through. What about you? How's

still hasn't signed the contract yet, Leopold and I

"Haaa...That's great"

a

this morning, my mood

the very least I could take this piece of news as a

when things just don't

was just how life went. Nothing was ever going to go

loved to throw

I have to go. Call

"Alright"

I hung up the

—Tak!

phone inside of my dimensional space, I proceeded to head to the

looked at Angelica who was sitting

"Angelica"

"What is it human?"

opened her eyes

ask you

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