The Author's POV

"Mhm."

Hearing her mother's words, Amanda nodded her head.

Staring at Ren who was lying down on the bed, Amanda turned her head to look at Angelica. A complicated look flashed across her face.

She still couldn't quite come to terms with the fact that the cat that had been following Ren all the time was in fact the same demon that had cursed her mother, but she felt that there was more to the story than it was let out.

"Are you sure about this Natasha?"

Maylin asked while turning to look at Natasha. The icicles in the air trembled slightly.

"This is the same demon that stopped you from seeing your daughter for fifteen years. Are you sure that you want to let her go just like that?"

With her eyes locked on her daughter, Natasha sighed.

"What other choice do I have. Just take a look at my daughter..."

Waving her hand, all of the icicles that were aiming at Angelica vanished out of thin air.

"...Okay."

Giving a cold glance to Angelica, Maylin added.

"Just because I'm not killing you right now doesn't mean that I won't be doing it later. I'm only doing this for her sake."

"..."

Under Maylin's pressure, Angelica kept her cool.

She wasn't a count-ranked demon for nothing. Despite the fact that she had been subjected to the power of one of the strongest people in the human domain, she was able to remain unfazed.

"Let her be Maylin."

Natasha's voice rang throughout the room as she stepped in front of Maylin. Then, turning her attention towards Angelica, she took a deep breath.

Memories of her past surfaced inside of her mind.

She could still remember getting chased and threatened by her, and it honestly frightened her. But, for the sake of looking strong for her daughter, she remained composed.

"...C.can you explain the situation?"

There was a faint tremble in her voice as she asked Angelica her question, but following that, her words became more concise and the tremble vanished.

Turning her head, she looked at Ren.

"What happened for him to turn this way?"

There was an awkward silence following her words.

"You don't have to hide anything. I can tell that it is somehow connected with my awakening."

A complicated look appeared on Angelica's face as she heard her words. It wasn't long before she eventually opened her mouth.

"You're correct."

Lowering her head, Angelica lightly glanced in Ren's direction.

"The reason why he's in that state is indeed due to the fruit that he gave you."

"I see."

Rather than being shocked, a look of understanding appeared on Natasha's face. She then turned to look at Kevin.

"If I don't remember wrongly, you previously said that if something happens to her, the boy over here will die, correct?"

"...Yes."

Kevin nodded his head as his brows furrowed.

her lips before turning

situation. I'm sure you also have

"Yeah..."

the side before

to believe that Ren and the demoness over here have

most likely a clause that stated that neither

the room, Natasha plucked her lips outwardly. She then crossed her arms together and tapped onto the right side of

that the moment I ate the fruit and the curse broke, 'she', the demoness, suffered from the backlash of the curse and as a result broke the boy broke the contract with 'her'

toward Ren and staring at his sickly figure, Natasha placed

also explains why his soul is in the

from Maylin and Natasha, Angelica's eyes opened

she could even explain the situation, the two of

wasn't that surprised by this, however. One was the elven queen while the other was

didn't get their jobs because of luck. They were

her hand over Ren's forehead, Natasha further

is still alive, we can already assume that

words halted mid-sentence as she glimpsed in

[I] and [III]. Since Amanda previously told me that he's made it past the round of sixteen of the tournament we can exclude rank [I] and [II] contracts, leaving me with no choice but to believe that he signed a tier [III]

Natasha's analysis reached this point,

he would be ranked around in order to

Ren's direction. This time her face had a little

was that the only possible way for Ren to have survived the situation was for him to have reached a rank of

was that possible? She was already shocked by the fact that her daughter had reached rank,

of thought became even more prominent from the fact that she knew that he was around

perhaps her analysis was

thought,

How is that possible? Didn't he get

twitched. Turning her head to the side, she softly

should I say

...Why would he do

a smile, Maylin

said that he

had been listening throughout their whole

that happened was

as she

even touched by what Ren did. After all, he did just try to

the same time, she was

Ren did things. She hated the way that he just did things without caring about himself or what

acted the way he did, and it was exactly because she understood this that she felt

her the situation from the start,

never taken part in

could tell that Ren most likely didn't know about the fact that the

the demon Ren contracted with was in fact the same demon that had contracted with Elijah, the elective representative back at

he

it was only now that she understood

Amanda

her that Ren still

not discourage her. This was only natural. Especially since they hadn't known each other long enough to develop a full sense of trust between

"Oy!"

out of her thoughts was her

direction of where her mother was, she saw her with her back bent

"M...mom!"

sight as she stood up from her

can tell that you're awake.

"Eh?"

her hand, Natasha flicked Ren's

"Ouch!"

***

forehead flicked, my eyes snapped

face a couple of inches away from mine. Caught off guard by the sudden situation, I felt my cheeks warm

to instantly recognize the woman before me. She may have looked like Amanda

"Looks like you're fine."

from me. It was then that I was able to see the current situation