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.

pursed her lips before turning her attention

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

"Yeah..."

nodded from the side before

that Ren and the demoness over here

contract, there was most likely a clause that stated

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

the curse broke, 'she', the demoness, suffered from the backlash of the curse and as a result broke the boy broke the contract with

and staring at his sickly figure, Natasha

his soul is in

the analysis from Maylin and Natasha, Angelica's eyes opened up

she could even explain the situation, the two of them had

queen while the

jobs because of luck. They

her hand over Ren's forehead,

he is still alive, we can already assume that the

she glimpsed in Angelica's direction. The pause was brief,

[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

reached this point, her brows proceeded

he would be ranked around in order to survive the

direction. This time her

was that the only possible way for Ren to have survived the situation was for

had reached rank, but rank? What kind of monster

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

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

exactly like you thought, he indeed

that possible? Didn't he get

mouth twitched. Turning her head to the side, she

I say this...he

...Why would he

a smile, Maylin

he said that

who had been listening throughout their whole time, powerlessly

happened

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

did. After all, he

the same time, she was also

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

did, and it was exactly because she understood this that she felt the way she

told her the situation from

wasn't unreasonable. Ren had never taken

likely didn't know about the fact

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

how he met her

her again, but it was only now that she understood

Amanda bit her

Ren still did not

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

"Oy!"

out of her

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

"M...mom!"

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

tell that you're awake. You can stop

"Eh?"

Natasha

"Ouch!"

***

having my forehead flicked, my eyes

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

woman before me. She may have looked like Amanda at a first

"Looks like you're fine."

mother muttered before 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 did, I almost wished