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.

Ava was exposed to such an amazing class filled with prodigies like Kevin and the others, she had started to

This was not correct.

the other students, in terms

whilst being a monster tamer. A profession

notice, she was in fact a

to understand

for your kind words, but

"Don't reject me jus—"

and muttered in a

Tiiriing— Tiiriing—

I was about to respond, my phone suddenly rang. My

'What now…'

for a

problem, take

Checking the foremost

I

"…"

my head, I

the time for me to deal with this. Turning

forgot to mention when giving you

"What is it?"

join, this

dimensional space,

"A flute?"

asked Ava as she looked at the flute on

just any regular flute, have

handed

"T-this..."

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

you're seeing it right. This is your

up, the edged of my lips curled

be enough to entice

the opportunity to change her fate, Ava wouldn't reject me,

Looking at Ava whose eyes did not leave the flute once,

do you still wish to

***

At the same time.

he still going to ignore

grumbled as she

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

of desperation, she decided

had yet to reply to her

he definitely ignored my

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

should I do?', placing her hand

to text her back, Emma had no

Maybe Amanda can

up. Amanda could

of her room, she

today, she had still not gotten a response from her which was

decided to

the same building, it didn't take long for

—Knock! —Knock!

the door that lead to Amanda's

"Hm, no response?"

knocking, Emma got no

—Knock!

not

Plausible. Emma knocked again.

no

out" Emma muttered as she shook her head, "What do

Amanda's room for a solid minute,

return

***

9:48 P.M.

you're saying that she rejected

"Yeah"

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

her

guess the offer wasn't tempting

the flute of Artemis as well as the lucrative

me

me as I was confident in what

around the fact that

her position, I

after seeing the flute of Artemis. A cheat like item that would make any

what are your plans now that

Smallsnake asked.

things through. What

well. Though he still hasn't signed the contract yet, Leopold and I

"Haaa...That's great"

a piece

this morning, my mood had soured quite

least I could take this piece of news

guess there are times when things just

this was just how life went. Nothing was ever

life just loved to throw curveballs

have to go.

"Alright"

I hung up

—Tak!

inside of my dimensional space, I proceeded to head to the training room inside

to the training grounds, I looked at Angelica who was sitting

"Angelica"

"What is it human?"

opened her eyes

ask you

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