The Author's POV

A small smile spread across Amanda's face as she sipped her coffee cautiously.

When it came to smiling, she didn't do it very often, but today...she just couldn't stop herself from doing it.

Particularly after what had just happened half an hour earlier.

'On second thought, don't take the flowers.'

Amanda's hand trembled as she recalled what Ren had said when he stopped her from taking the flowers.

Despite accepting the fact that she liked Ren, she didn't expect to feel so delighted when he expressed his jealousy as clearly as he did.

'He was definitely jealous.'

As observant as she was, Amanda could easily tell from a glance what Ren was feeling back then.

His furrowed brows, his firm grasp on her hand, his stern voice...

They were all obvious indications to Amanda, and her heart raced unknowingly.

"Hey, Amanda."

"Uh, ah?!"

Amanda's thoughts were jolted by Ren's voice.

In light of her current state of mind, she could not help but be startled as her hand shook and her coffee spilled resulting in a few coffee stains appearing on the tablecloth.

Leaning forward, Ren asked.

"Did I surprise you?"

"…A little."

Amanda honestly replied as she put the coffee down.

"Fortunately, you didn't seem to have spilled on yourself."

"Yes."

Amanda softly replied as her eyes were drawn to the small stains on the cloth.

There was a twitch in her hand.

'I can endure it.'

Taking her eyes away from the stains, she smiled.

"I was just too deep into my thoughts. It's nothing big."

While she spoke, Amanda tried not to glance at the stains, but her attention kept drifting toward them as she curled her toes.

Putting her arm over the stains, she pursed her lips.

In an instant, her shoulders relaxed and she felt better.

'I can do it.'

Breathing a sigh of relief, she looked at Ren.

"So, what did you want to talk about?"

"Ah, nothing."

With a shrug of his shoulders, Ren leaned back on his chair.

"I just wanted to know if you wanted to eat yet."

"...Eat?"

Rubbing her tummy, Amanda thought for a moment before she nodded her head.

"Sure."

She was indeed feeling a little hungry.

"Great."

Trying to attract the waiter's attention, Ren raised his hand.

In no time at all, the last waiter arrived. They were greeted by a different waiter than the previous one.

This was to be expected.

there was no way that the previous waiter would have the

can I help

face, the

up the menu and pointed his finger

I would like

his excitement, while pointing at the menu, Ren's elbow came into contact with his

"Ah, crap."

he pushed his body back and avoided the

actions clearly startled the waitress as her body jerked back

that her

Ren scratched the

we have the cloth

wait

a nod of her head,

the departing waitress, Ren leaned back on his chair

"What luck."

"Thank you."

however, that Amanda spoke. A warm feeling embraced her as she gazed toward

'You noticed, didn't you?'

she could clearly understand the intent behind

to look at her, Ren

"For what?"

smile grew brighter, Amanda

"...Nothing. Just thank you."

***

feature from

find Ren after he followed the point on

been ignoring my calls, I've got no choice but to go to you. The same

as she seemed to

no interest in going to

quite a distance from where he was, and he wasn't particularly eager to

his priorities, and his priorities currently urged him to take whatever happened not too long

he felt before was still lingering

bad

true. The feeling he just experienced was the clearest one he had experienced

paused there, he checked the map one more time. After that, he

***

"Where is this?"

the side of his head, Liam looked at a small piece of paper in his hand. Written on

Northern District, Phillion Street

be

indeed in the right place, he crumpled

that, he stared at the enormous warehouse in

looks kind

of fact, it was quite distant from the city, and Liam wouldn't have made the trip if

That being said...

does the letter come

city that he found the letter in his pocket. If he had to be honest, he had completely forgotten about it and therefore

spite of that, after deliberating over it for a couple of hours, he decided to

must

to regret my

scrutinizing the warehouse in the distance, Liam was starting to feel that perhaps coming here was

and badly maintained, with crevices on the side of the building, and spiderwebs covering the windows. In other

the crumpled paper

here, I might

he stepped forward, he began to walk toward the building. While silently murmuring to himself,

I hope they

be a pity if the opponents were

***

you want to go

"This looks nice."

I presented Amanda with different spots we

a lot of fun places to go to. One such example was the ice skating ring

popular location to go

"Hm, Ren."

choosing our next location that I

look at

"What is it?"

guy that

his mention, my mood soured a

"What about him?"

"Have a look."

On it was the image of an individual

rank Hero, and the rising start of the Starlight

could be said for Amanda who leaned her body forward to get a better look at the image displayed

only a couple of inches apart. Since Amanda's focus was on the image on her phone, she