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.

words, Natasha pursed her lips

gist of the situation. I'm sure you

"Yeah..."

nodded from the side before

that Ren and the demoness over here have signed a

likely a clause that stated that neither party could harm the

up toward the ceiling of the room, Natasha plucked her lips outwardly. She then crossed her arms together and tapped onto

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

toward Ren and staring at his sickly figure, Natasha placed

his soul is in the state

analysis from Maylin and

could even explain the situation, the

elven queen while the other was the wife of one of the top executives in

luck. They were quite

over Ren's forehead, Natasha further

we can already assume that the

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

he's made it past the round of sixteen of the tournament we can exclude rank [I]

reached this point, her brows proceeded to

be ranked around in

This time her

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

her daughter had reached rank, but

became even more prominent from the fact that she knew that he was around the

hoping that perhaps her analysis

like you thought, he

How is that possible? Didn't he

twitched. Turning her head to the side,

how should I say

...Why would he

a smile,

that

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

happened was because

as she felt many different things

did. After all, he did just try to sacrifice his life for the sake

time, she was also

hated the way Ren did things. She

way he did, and it was exactly

situation

wasn't unreasonable. Ren had never taken part in her mother's

most likely didn't know about the fact that the

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

he met her made

targeted her again, but it was only now that she understood that Ren

her eyes, Amanda bit

her that Ren still did

not discourage her. This was only natural. Especially since they

"Oy!"

of her thoughts was her mother's

mother was, she saw her with her back

"M...mom!"

flustered at the sight as she stood up from her

I can tell that you're awake. You

"Eh?"

hand, Natasha flicked

"Ouch!"

***

having my forehead flicked,

saw was a familiar-looking face a couple of inches away from mine. Caught off guard by the sudden

me. She may have looked like Amanda

"Looks like you're fine."

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