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.

confirm her words, Natasha pursed her lips before turning

I get the gist of the situation. I'm sure you also have

"Yeah..."

from the side

evidence to believe that Ren and the demoness over here have

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

crossed her arms together and tapped onto the right side of her arm

the backlash of the curse and as a result broke the boy broke

his sickly figure, Natasha placed her

soul is in the

analysis from Maylin and

could even explain the situation, the

surprised by this, however. One was the elven queen while the other was the wife of one of the top executives

of luck. They were

her hand over Ren's forehead,

still alive, we can already assume that the contract that

glimpsed in Angelica's direction.

me that he's made it past the round of sixteen of the tournament we can exclude rank [I] and [II] contracts, leaving

reached this point, her brows proceeded to knit

that he would be ranked around in

This time her face had a little

suddenly realized something. And that was that the only possible way for Ren to have

the fact that her daughter had reached rank, but rank? What kind of monster was this youth

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

her head to look at Maylin, hoping that perhaps her analysis was wrong, but instead, Maylin's

thought, he indeed rank

is that possible? Didn't he get

Turning her head to the

should I say

...Why would he do

a smile,

that

Ren's elimination, Amanda who had been listening throughout their whole

that happened was

a mess as she

what Ren did. After all, he

time,

hated the way Ren did things. She hated

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

her the situation

wasn't unreasonable. Ren had never taken part in her

wasn't exactly sure, she could tell that Ren most likely didn't know about the fact that the demon he had contracted

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

he met her

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

Amanda

that Ren still did

her, but it did not discourage her. This was only natural. Especially since they hadn't known each other long enough to develop a

"Oy!"

of her thoughts was her

the direction of where her mother was, she saw her with her back bent and her face a

"M...mom!"

at the sight as she stood up from her seat. However, her

I can tell that you're awake. You can

"Eh?"

hand, Natasha flicked Ren's

"Ouch!"

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flicked, my

Caught off guard by the sudden situation, I felt my cheeks warm up a little as a bitter smile

to instantly recognize the woman before me. She may have looked like Amanda at a first glance, but there was definitely a

"Looks like you're fine."

I was able