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 before turning her attention back toward

the situation. I'm

"Yeah..."

nodded from the

believe that Ren and the demoness over here have signed a mana

and in the contract, there was most likely a clause that

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

the demoness, suffered from the backlash of

and staring at his sickly figure, Natasha placed her finger underneath her chin

his soul is in

the analysis from Maylin and Natasha, Angelica's eyes

the situation, the two of them had already figured

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

their jobs because of luck. They were quite competent in

hand over Ren's forehead, Natasha further

is still alive, we can already

glimpsed in Angelica's direction. The pause

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

analysis reached this point, her

ranked around in order to survive

once more, Natasha's head snapped in Ren's direction. This time her face had a little shock in

already come up with 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 her daughter had reached

more prominent from the fact that she knew that he was around the same age as her own

open as she turned her head to look at Maylin, hoping that perhaps her analysis was wrong, but instead, Maylin's next words caused the shock inside of her body to

like you thought, he indeed rank

he get eliminated from the

head to the side, she

I say this...he eliminated

...Why would

smile,

he said that

who had been listening throughout their whole time, powerlessly sat

happened was

currently a mess as she felt many different things at the

After all,

the same time, she

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

and it was exactly because she understood this

the situation from

had never

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

feeling that the demon Ren contracted with was in fact

so, how he met her

always wondered why that demon had not targeted her again, but it was only now

her eyes, Amanda bit her

to her that Ren

realization saddened her, but it did not discourage her. This was only natural. Especially since they hadn't known each

"Oy!"

of her thoughts was her mother's

look in the direction of where her mother was, she saw her with

"M...mom!"

stood up from her

tell that you're awake. You can stop

"Eh?"

hand, Natasha flicked Ren's

"Ouch!"

***

flicked, my eyes

first thing I saw was a familiar-looking face a couple of inches away from mine. Caught off guard by the sudden situation, I felt my cheeks warm up a little as

was able 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."

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