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.

like Kevin and the others, she had started to

This was not correct.

students, in terms of ranking, she

however was that she was above average whilst being a

and the others did not notice, she was

to understand

kind words,

"Don't reject me jus—"

and muttered in a low voice. She once again tried to

Tiiriing— Tiiriing—

I was about to respond,

'What now…'

for a

take your

Checking the foremost notification, I noticed

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

"…"

I turned off

time for me to deal with this. Turning my attention back to Ava, I decided to unravel

one more thing I forgot to mention when

"What is it?"

this will

from my dimensional space, I gently

"A flute?"

Ava as she looked at the flute

any regular flute, have a

handed Ava the

"T-this..."

eyes opened widely.

you're seeing it right. This is your ticket

edged of my lips

be enough to entice her to

change her fate, Ava wouldn't

even flinching. Looking at Ava

do you still

***

At the same time.

still going to ignore

as she looked at

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

desperation, she decided to

yet to

he definitely ignored my

phone away. There was no way Ren had not seen her message

should I do?', placing her

her back, Emma had

Maybe Amanda can

lit up. Amanda

she decided to ask for

had still not gotten a response from her which was

decided to

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

—Knock! —Knock!

that lead to Amanda's

"Hm, no response?"

after knocking,

—Knock!

perhaps not hear me

Plausible. Emma knocked again.

again, no

muttered as she shook her

of Amanda's room for a

to give up and return to

***

9:48 P.M.

that she

"Yeah"

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

after you showed her the artifact

I guess the offer wasn't tempting

of Artemis as well as

me off

was confident in

head around the fact that

to have been in her position,

like item that would make any monster tamer drool at its

are your plans now that you

Smallsnake asked.

through. What about you? How's the situation with Ryan

contract yet, Leopold and I have already met

"Haaa...That's great"

a

this morning, my mood had soured quite

I could take this piece

guess there are times when things just don't

but this was just how life went. Nothing was ever going

loved to throw

Ren, I have to go. Call me

"Alright"

closing my eyes, I hung up

—Tak!

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

led to the training grounds, I looked at

"Angelica"

"What is it human?"

opened her eyes

I ask

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