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.

Natasha pursed her lips before turning her attention back

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

"Yeah..."

from the side before

Ren and the demoness over here

a clause

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

at his sickly figure, Natasha placed

is

and Natasha, Angelica's eyes

the two of them had already

that surprised by this, however. One was the elven queen while the

jobs because of luck. They were quite competent in

her hand over Ren's forehead,

he is still alive, we can already assume that

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

round of sixteen of the tournament we can exclude rank [I] and [II] contracts, leaving me with no choice but to

point, her brows proceeded to

ranked

head snapped in Ren's direction. This time her face

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

fact that her daughter had reached rank, but

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

turned her head to look at Maylin, hoping that perhaps her analysis was wrong, but instead, Maylin's next words caused the shock inside of

like you thought, he indeed rank is

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

twitched. Turning her head to the side, she

should I say this...he

would he

a smile, Maylin

said that he was

who had been listening throughout their whole time, powerlessly sat

everything that happened was

mess as she felt many different

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

at the same time, she was

was having 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 himself or what

way he did, and it was exactly

he told her the situation from the start,

unreasonable. Ren had never taken

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

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

so, how he met her

had not targeted her again, but it was only now that she understood that Ren had taken care of

Amanda

that Ren still did not trust

saddened 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 trust between

"Oy!"

out of her thoughts was her

saw her

"M...mom!"

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

that you're awake.

"Eh?"

hand, Natasha

"Ouch!"

***

my forehead flicked,

moment I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was a familiar-looking face a couple of inches away from mine. Caught off guard by the sudden situation, I felt my cheeks warm

was because I was able to instantly recognize the woman before me. She may have

"Looks like you're fine."

was then that I was able to see the current