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.

Kevin confirm her words, Natasha pursed her lips

of the situation. I'm sure you also have

"Yeah..."

from the

believe that Ren and the demoness over here have

in the contract, there was most likely a clause that stated that neither party could harm

outwardly. She then crossed her arms together and tapped onto the right side of her arm with her

the backlash of the curse and as a result broke the boy broke the contract with 'her' and was thus put into

figure, Natasha

his soul is in the state that

and Natasha,

could even explain the situation, the two

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

jobs because of luck. They

over Ren's forehead,

still alive, we can already assume

halted mid-sentence as she glimpsed in

ranked between [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

this point, her brows proceeded to knit

that would mean that he would be ranked around in order to survive the contract

head snapped in Ren's direction. This time her face had a

proper analysis of the situation, she suddenly realized something. And that was that the only possible way for Ren to have survived the situation was for him to have reached a rank of

that possible? She was already shocked by the fact that her daughter had reached rank, but rank? What kind of monster was this youth before

the fact that she knew that he was around the same

Maylin, hoping that perhaps her analysis was wrong, but instead, Maylin's next words caused the shock inside of her body to

thought,

that possible? Didn't he get

twitched. Turning her head to

how should I say this...he

would he

smile, Maylin

that he

were discussing the reasoning behind Ren's elimination, Amanda who had been listening

happened was

currently a mess as she felt many different things

even touched by what Ren did. After all,

time, she

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

it was exactly

told her the situation from the start, Amanda

wasn't unreasonable. Ren had never taken part in

that Ren most likely didn't know about the fact that the demon he had contracted with was the one responsible

feeling that the demon Ren contracted with was in fact the same demon that had contracted with Elijah, the

so, how he met

it was only now that she understood that Ren had taken care of

Amanda

her that Ren

it did not discourage her. This was only natural. Especially since they hadn't known

"Oy!"

her

her head to look in the direction of where her mother was, she saw her with her back bent and her face a few inches away from

"M...mom!"

became flustered at the sight as she stood up from her seat. However, her mother's following words

I can tell that you're awake. You can

"Eh?"

hand, Natasha flicked

"Ouch!"

***

forehead flicked, my eyes snapped

my eyes, the first thing I saw was a familiar-looking face a couple of inches away from mine. Caught off guard

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

"Looks like you're fine."

It was then that I was able to see the current situation