The Author's POV

"How's his condition?"

Kevin's gaze locked onto the elven queen as he asked.

Although he looked unperturbed on the outside, in reality, he was quite shocked by the queen's appearance.

But that wasn't the only thing that he was shocked about. Standing beside the queen was a tall woman with long black hair and beautiful black hair. Furthermore, her looks rivaled that of the queen.

She was stunning.

She looked to be a little bit older than him, and if not for the striking resemblance that she had to Amanda and the fact that Angelica had told him beforehand, he would've never been able to make a connection with her mother.

In fact, he still couldn't quite accept this fact as she looked more like her sister than her mother.

While Kevin was in the midst of his thoughts, the elven queen pressed her hand on Ren's forehead, and a thin green glow suddenly enshrouded his figure.

Staring at him for a couple of seconds the queen's face darkened a little as her brows knit.

Noticing this, Amanda, who was standing next to her mother, worriedly asked.

"Is everything okay?"

Her voice was quite rushed, making it clear to everyone in the room that she cared a lot for Ren who was currently being treated.

Standing beside her, Natasha, her mother, quietly observed everything as her eyes paused on Ren's sickly figure laying down on the bed.

'...Did his condition have anything to do with me?'

She wondered. She wasn't quite sure yet, but her guts told her that the reason he was in that state was because of her situation.

It made sense if one thought about it. There was no free lunch in the world, and to heal something as incurable as the mind-breaker curse, there must've been some sort of big price that one had to pay in order to do so.

Once her thoughts paused there, she looked at her daughter. Looking at how pale her figure was, Natasha felt guilt creep up inside of her mind.

She blamed herself for what was happening. Had it not been for her own uselessness none of this would've happened, and her daughter wouldn't have had to suffer as much as she was suffering.

She had already lost too many people in her life. It wasn't fair on her.

Taking her hand away from Ren, the elven queen placed her hand on her chin. Then, turning to look at Amanda, she shook her head.

"I'm not sure, his soul seems to be heavily damaged."

"His soul?"

Kevin solemnly asked.

Turning to face Kevin, the queen nodded her head.

"That's correct, his soul, and that's what makes this extremely problematic."

The queen turned her attention back to Ren who was laying down on the bed. His breathing was extremely thin.

Waving her hand, the green veil revolving around his body disappeared.

"Had it been any other type of injury, I would've been able to heal him using the elven tear, but he is currently suffering some sort of soul backlash."

A look of worry flashed across Amanda and Kevin's faces as they heard the queen's words. Following this, they both simultaneously asked.

"Is there no way to heal him?"

Thinking for a bit, the elven queen eventually shook her head.

"Like I said, this is a soul type of damage. I don't have anything at my disposal that can help with that regard as a soul is not something one should mess with. Just a simple mistake and you can obliterate their soul, completely destroying their existence."

Before Kevin and Amanda could say anything else, the elven queen continued.

no way to currently heal him, if we find out the source of why he is in such

"Ah..."

Amanda's face bleached even more as she had to sit

She currently felt powerless.

she felt this way. It was a feeling she

looked around the room in hopes of finding any clue that might be able to help Ren in any way, but it was to no

more time passed, the stronger the feeling of powerlessness became as she thought to

nothing that

she thought that the situation was going to be a

paused on him, she immediately noticed

Her brows instantly knit.

sitting on, she supported her body up as

do you know something that we

moment Amanda's words faded, everyone

and scratching the back of his head, a complicated

"This..."

say it now. The more time

added from the

Kevin eventually let out a

say anything, I want you guys to promise

"...Say it."

his head to look at the elven

promise me that whatever happens next the two of you must remain calm and not do anything rash. If you guys act

Nevertheless, they all nodded their heads. They didn't have time to

"Okay."

"Sure."

"That's good."

his head, Kevin turned to look towards the corner of the

wasn't exactly sure about what was going on and whether the two of them would be able to keep their promises, but he had

that was all Angelica

the black cat on the top of the shelf, everyone also turned their attention towards it. Feeling everyone's gazes, Angelica

the ground, a black mist suddenly diffused in the air as an enchanting figure suddenly materialized in front of everyone shocking everyone apart

was wondering when you

as she calmly observed

bracelet indicating that she was

curious about was why she had never done anything since their

'Pudding was a demon?'

her multiple times in the past, and not once did the

suddenly emerged inside of her mind as her mouth opened

finally dawned

Pudding always refused to let her

"Y...you!"

queen could open her mouth,

her mother staring at

'What's going on?'

she looked

a step back, Natasha's face bleached even more as she stumbled back a bit. There was a mixture of shock and fear

"I..it...can't be."

"What's going on?"

wary. Focusing her attention back

speak to me. What's going

of how much she tried, Maylin was somehow unable to calm Natasha down who seemed to be completely frozen as fear

that Natasha was not in a state to communicate, Maylin stopped trying and turned to

ignored it as she continued to look

alternating her gaze between Natasha and Angelica, an

dropped to zero degrees as the mana in

attention toward Angelica, Maylin coldly

was you,

meeting Maylin's eyes, Angelica didn't respond. The temperature of the room dropped a few more

have not been able to sense it since it's a lot purer and more powerful than before, but now that I take a closer