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.

class filled with prodigies like Kevin

This was not correct.

other students, in terms of ranking, she

a monster tamer. A profession that grew

not notice, she

needed to understand

your kind words, but I'm

"Don't reject me jus—"

head and muttered in a low voice. She once

Tiiriing— Tiiriing—

to respond,

'What now…'

for a

take

tightened. Checking the foremost notification, I noticed that the

I buy for Kevin's birthday? Can

"…"

head, I turned off

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

thing I forgot to mention when giving

"What is it?"

join, this will

from my dimensional space, I gently placed

"A flute?"

she looked at the flute on

any regular

I handed Ava the

"T-this..."

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

you're seeing it right. This is your ticket to

up, the edged of

enough to entice her to join,

opportunity to change her fate, Ava wouldn't

I would join without even flinching. Looking at Ava whose eyes did not leave the flute once, I once again

you still wish

***

At the same time.

going to ignore

grumbled as she

an hour ago, she had sent Ren a text. It was regarding Kevin's gift. Despite agonizing over

of desperation, she decided

to reply to

he definitely ignored

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

do?', placing her hand on her chin,

bothering to text her back, Emma

Amanda can

Emma's eyes lit up. Amanda could

she decided to ask

she had still not gotten a response from

decided to

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

—Knock! —Knock!

door that lead to Amanda's

"Hm, no response?"

minute after knocking, Emma got

—Knock!

she perhaps not hear me

Plausible. Emma knocked again.

no one

as she shook her head, "What do

for a solid minute, Emma lowered her

she chose to give up and return to her room. She'll try to ask

***

9:48 P.M.

you're saying that she rejected your

"Yeah"

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

her

guess the offer wasn't tempting

of Artemis as well as the lucrative contract,

caught me off

was confident in what

my head around the fact that Ava

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

item that would make any

what are your plans now that

Smallsnake asked.

through. What about you? How's the situation

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

"Haaa...That's great"

a piece of

recruit Ava this morning, my mood had soured quite a

least I could take this piece of news as

there are times when

was just how life went. Nothing was ever going

just loved to

to go. Call

"Alright"

closing my eyes, I hung up the

—Tak!

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

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

"Angelica"

"What is it human?"

her eyes

ask

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