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 toward

situation. I'm sure you also have

"Yeah..."

the side

and the demoness over here have signed a

most likely a clause that stated that neither party could harm

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

the backlash of the curse and as a result broke the boy broke the contract with 'her' and was thus put into this type of

sickly figure, Natasha placed her finger underneath

soul is in

and Natasha, Angelica's eyes opened up

the two

this, however. One was the elven queen while the other was the wife

jobs because of luck. They were quite competent

hand over Ren's forehead, Natasha

is still alive, we can already assume that the contract

halted mid-sentence as she glimpsed in

the round of sixteen of the tournament

reached this point, her brows

that would mean that he would be ranked around

Natasha's head snapped in Ren's direction. This time her face had a little shock in

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

had reached rank, but rank? What kind of monster was this youth

that she knew that he was around the same age as her own

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

like you thought,

possible? Didn't he

twitched. Turning her head to the side, she softly

I say

would he

smile, Maylin

that

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

that happened was because

as she felt many different things at

did. After all,

same time, she

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

and it was exactly because she understood this that

situation from the start, Amanda would've

had never taken part

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

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

he

wondered why that demon had not targeted her again, but it was only now that she understood that Ren had taken

her eyes, Amanda bit

her that Ren

realization 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

"Oy!"

Amanda out of her thoughts was

mother was, she saw

"M...mom!"

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

tell that you're

"Eh?"

hand, Natasha

"Ouch!"

***

having my forehead flicked, my eyes

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 looked like Amanda at a first glance, but

"Looks like you're fine."

from me. It was then that I was able to see the current situation in the room, and when I did, I almost