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 her attention back toward

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

"Yeah..."

from the side before

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

likely a clause that stated that neither party could

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

moment I ate the fruit and the curse broke, 'she', the demoness, suffered from the backlash of the curse and as a result broke the boy broke the contract with 'her' and was thus put

at his sickly figure, Natasha placed her finger

is in the state that

Maylin and Natasha, Angelica's eyes opened up

explain the situation, the two

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

their jobs because of luck. They were quite competent in

Ren's forehead, Natasha further

he is still alive, we can already assume

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

me that he's made it past the round of sixteen of the tournament we can exclude rank [I] and [II] contracts, leaving me with no choice but

this point, her brows proceeded to

be ranked around

in Ren's direction. This time

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

fact that her daughter had reached rank, but rank? What kind of

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

perhaps her analysis was wrong, but instead, Maylin's next words caused the

you thought, he indeed

How is that possible? Didn't he get eliminated

mouth twitched. Turning her head to the side,

I

would he

a smile, Maylin

that

were discussing the reasoning behind Ren's elimination, Amanda who had been listening throughout their whole

that happened was because of

as she

was grateful and even touched by what Ren did. After all, he did just

time,

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

the way he did, and it was exactly because she

the situation from the start, Amanda would've

had never taken part

she could tell that Ren most likely didn't know about the fact that the

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

he met her made

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

Amanda

that Ren

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

"Oy!"

out of her thoughts was her

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

"M...mom!"

she stood up from her

I can tell that you're awake. You can stop

"Eh?"

hand, Natasha

"Ouch!"

***

having my forehead flicked,

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

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

"Looks like you're fine."

It was then that I was able to see the current