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 back

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

"Yeah..."

from the

have enough evidence to believe that Ren and the

contract, there was most likely a

Natasha plucked her lips outwardly. She then crossed her arms together and tapped

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

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

also explains why his soul is in the state that

analysis from Maylin and

explain the situation, the two of

however. One was the elven queen while the other was the wife of one of the

didn't get their jobs because of luck.

over Ren's forehead, Natasha further

can already assume that the contract that he

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

the tournament we can exclude rank [I] and [II] contracts, leaving

point, her

be ranked around in

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

the situation, she suddenly realized something. And that was that the only possible

possible? She was already shocked by the fact that her daughter had reached rank, but rank? What kind of

fact that she knew that

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

exactly like you thought,

Didn't he get eliminated

twitched. Turning her head to

should I say this...he eliminated

...Why would he

smile,

said that he

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

everything that happened was because

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

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

time,

hated the way Ren did things. She hated the way that he just did things without caring about

it was exactly because she understood

situation from the start, Amanda would've

never taken part in

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

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

so, how he met

it was only now that

eyes, Amanda bit

Ren still

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

"Oy!"

out of her thoughts

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

"M...mom!"

her seat. However, her mother's following words caused

I can tell that you're awake.

"Eh?"

Natasha flicked

"Ouch!"

***

having my forehead flicked, my

Caught off guard

because I 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."

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