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

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

"Yeah..."

nodded from the side before

enough evidence to believe that Ren and the demoness over here have signed

a clause that stated that neither party

She then crossed her arms together and tapped

and the curse broke, 'she', the demoness, suffered from the backlash of the curse and

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

is in

and Natasha, Angelica's eyes opened

even explain the situation, the two of them had already figured

however. One was the elven queen while the other was the

jobs because of luck.

Ren's forehead, Natasha

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

halted mid-sentence as she glimpsed in Angelica's direction. The pause was brief, as she quickly

me that he's made it past the round of sixteen of the tournament we can exclude rank

Natasha's analysis reached this point, her brows

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

This time her face had a little

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

her daughter had reached rank, but rank? What

even more prominent from the fact that she knew that

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

exactly like you thought, he indeed rank is

Didn't he get eliminated from

her head to the side,

how should I say this...he eliminated

would he

a smile,

that he was

behind Ren's elimination, Amanda who had been listening throughout their whole time, powerlessly sat back down

that happened was because

currently a mess as she felt many different things at

by what Ren did. After all,

time, she was also

hated the way Ren did things. She hated

was exactly

told her the situation from the start, Amanda would've

unreasonable. Ren had never

likely didn't know about the fact that the demon he

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

how he met her

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

eyes, Amanda bit her

that Ren still did

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

"Oy!"

out of her thoughts was

was, she saw

"M...mom!"

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

can tell that you're

"Eh?"

her hand, Natasha

"Ouch!"

***

flicked, my eyes snapped

moment I opened my eyes, the 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 because I was able to instantly recognize the woman before me. She may have looked like

"Looks like you're fine."

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