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 subconsciously think that

This was not correct.

in terms of ranking,

she was above average whilst being a monster tamer. A profession that

she and the others did not notice,

needed to understand

words,

"Don't reject me jus—"

lowered her head and

Tiiriing— Tiiriing—

to respond, my phone suddenly rang.

'What now…'

me for a

take

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

gift should I buy

"…"

head, I

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

there's one more thing I forgot to mention when

"What is it?"

join, this will

my dimensional space, I gently placed it on the

"A flute?"

she looked at

not just any regular flute, have

I handed Ava the

"T-this..."

eyes opened widely. Holding onto the flute, Ava's hands

seeing it right. This is your ticket to the

edged of my lips curled

enough to entice

opportunity to change her fate,

Looking at Ava whose eyes did not

do you still wish

***

At the same time.

he still going to

as she looked

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

she decided to ask

yet to reply

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

I do?', placing her

text her back, Emma had no idea how

Maybe Amanda

up. Amanda could definitely help

out of her room, she decided

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

such, Emma decided to directly

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

—Knock! —Knock!

before the door that lead to Amanda's room, Emma

"Hm, no response?"

after knocking, Emma got no

—Knock!

perhaps not hear

Plausible. Emma knocked again.

again, no one

shook

room for a solid minute,

and return to her room.

***

9:48 P.M.

saying that she rejected your

"Yeah"

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

her the

guess the offer wasn't

Artemis as well

me off

blindsided me as I was confident

now, I couldn't wrap my head around the fact that

have been in her position,

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

plans now

Smallsnake asked.

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

contract yet, Leopold and I have

"Haaa...That's great"

least this was a piece of good

this morning, my mood had soured quite a

the very least I could take this piece of news

are times when things just

was just how life went. Nothing was ever

life just loved to throw

go.

"Alright"

I

—Tak!

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

doors that led to the training grounds, I looked at

"Angelica"

"What is it human?"

her eyes

ask

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