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

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

"Yeah..."

the side before

have enough evidence to believe that Ren and the demoness over

and in the contract, there was most likely a clause

She then crossed her arms together and tapped onto the right

demoness, suffered from the backlash of

and staring at his sickly figure,

is in the state that it

and Natasha, Angelica's eyes opened up

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

wasn't that surprised by this, however. One was the elven queen while the other was the wife of one of the top executives in

luck. They were quite competent in their

her hand over Ren's

still alive, we can already assume

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

Amanda previously told me that he's made it past the round of sixteen of the tournament we

reached this point,

be ranked around in

more, Natasha's head snapped in Ren's direction. This time

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

shocked by the fact that her daughter had

prominent from the fact that she knew that he

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

exactly like you thought, he indeed

is that possible? Didn't he get eliminated from the

mouth twitched. Turning her head to the side, she softly

how should I say this...he eliminated

would he do

smile,

he said that he

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

happened

a mess as she

After all,

same time,

was having trouble putting it into words, but she really hated the way Ren did things. She hated the

why Ren acted the way he did, and it was exactly because she understood this

the situation from

wasn't unreasonable. Ren had never

about

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

so, how he

not targeted her again, but it was only now that

her eyes, Amanda bit her

to her that Ren still did

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

"Oy!"

her thoughts was her mother's

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

"M...mom!"

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

tell that you're awake. You

"Eh?"

her hand, Natasha flicked Ren's

"Ouch!"

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flicked,

mine. Caught off guard

may have looked like Amanda at

"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 did, I almost wished