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

the gist of the situation. I'm sure you

"Yeah..."

the side before

and the demoness over here have signed a mana

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

crossed her arms together and tapped onto the right side

we can conclude that the moment I ate the fruit and the curse broke, 'she', the demoness, suffered from the backlash of

his sickly figure, Natasha placed her finger underneath her

is in the

to the analysis from Maylin and Natasha, Angelica's eyes

explain the situation, the two of them

the elven queen while the other was the wife of one of

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

her hand over Ren's forehead,

he is still alive, we can already assume that the contract that he signed

she glimpsed in

the round of sixteen of the tournament we can

point, her brows proceeded

be ranked around in

This time her

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

daughter had reached rank, but rank? What kind of monster

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

she turned her head to look at Maylin, hoping that perhaps her analysis was wrong, but

exactly like you thought, he indeed rank

How is that possible? Didn't he get

head to the side,

how should I say this...he eliminated

would he

smile,

said that he

elimination, Amanda who had been listening throughout their whole time, powerlessly sat back down on her

everything that happened was

were currently a mess as she felt many different things at the

Ren did. After all, he did

time, she

having trouble putting it into words, but she really hated the way Ren did things. She hated the way that he just did things without caring about

and it was exactly because she understood this that she felt

the situation from the start, Amanda would've

wasn't unreasonable. Ren had never taken

didn't know about the fact that the

feeling that the demon Ren contracted with was in fact

how he met her

it was only now that she understood that Ren had taken

eyes, Amanda bit

became clear to her that Ren still

This was only natural. Especially since they hadn't known each other long

"Oy!"

of her thoughts was her mother's

where her mother was, she saw her

"M...mom!"

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

that you're awake. You

"Eh?"

hand, Natasha flicked

"Ouch!"

***

my forehead flicked, my

thing I saw was a familiar-looking face a couple of inches away from mine. Caught off

may have looked like Amanda at a first glance, but there was definitely a

"Looks like you're fine."

her head away from me. It was then that I was able to see the current situation in the room,