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 started to subconsciously think that she was not

This was not correct.

to the other students, in terms of ranking,

being a monster tamer. A

the others did not notice, she was in fact a prodigy

needed to understand

kind words, but

"Don't reject me jus—"

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

Tiiriing— Tiiriing—

as I was about to respond, my phone suddenly

'What now…'

for

problem, take your

Checking the foremost notification, I noticed that

I buy for Kevin's

"…"

my head, I

with this. Turning my attention back to

more thing I forgot

"What is it?"

join, this

dimensional

"A flute?"

asked Ava as she looked

any regular

handed Ava the

"T-this..."

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

it right. This is

my chin up, the edged of

be enough to

to change her fate, Ava wouldn't reject

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

you still wish

***

At the same time.

still going to ignore my

grumbled as she

she had sent Ren a text. It was regarding Kevin's gift. Despite agonizing over this

of desperation, she decided to

yet to reply to

definitely ignored

her teeth, Emma put her phone away. There was no way Ren had not

her hand on

text her back, Emma had no idea

Amanda can

eyes lit up. Amanda could definitely

room, she decided to ask

not gotten a response from her which was strange since she would always

to

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

—Knock! —Knock!

that lead to Amanda's

"Hm, no response?"

knocking, Emma got

—Knock!

perhaps not

Plausible. Emma knocked again.

again, no

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

Amanda's room for a solid

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

***

9:48 P.M.

that she rejected your

"Yeah"

of the balcony of my room with my phone on my ear,

showed her the artifact

guess the offer

of Artemis as well as the lucrative

caught me off

as I was confident in what I

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

I were to have been in her position,

item that would make any monster tamer

your plans now

Smallsnake asked.

through.

contract yet, Leopold and I have already met him once. He

"Haaa...That's great"

a

recruit Ava this morning, my mood had soured

I could take this piece of news as

guess there are times when things just don't

just how life went. Nothing was ever going to go

loved to throw curveballs at

have to go. Call

"Alright"

eyes, I hung up

—Tak!

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

doors that led to the training grounds, I looked at Angelica who was sitting crossed-legged in the middle of the

"Angelica"

"What is it human?"

her

ask

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