The Author's POV

Thump—!

A silver steak tore through the air and directly pierced through one of the targets that were located some distance away.

"…One more."

If one looked closely, one'd notice that next to the arrow, were several other arrows.

They were all distance just about the same distance from each other and covered each one of the rings above the bull's eyes mark.

The only spot left was the bullseye.

So long as she got that, she'd get the perfect score…

Khhhh—!

Amanda drew her bow.

It was a big bow. Significantly heavier than any bow she had ever used before in her life. It was also a great deal more powerful than the majority of them, with the exception of her current bow.

A gentle breeze flew past the area around her, bending the grass ever so slightly.

She didn't pay attention to her surroundings.

Her sole focus was the target in front of her. More specifically, the bullseye. The only area that she didn't fill yet.

…Her OCD was flaring up. She needed to hit the target and fill the empty spot.

She couldn't afford to miss.

"Huuuh."

She inhaled deeply and focused on bringing calm to her mind. As time passed, everything that was once moving around her became completely still, and the only thing that she could see was the target.

The wind blew once more, scattering her hair lightly.

She paid it no mind.

She was waiting for the breeze to subside.

The wait didn't last for long. The surrounding turned still, and her fingers raised.

The arrow was about to leave the string. It was just an inch away…

Clank—!

"Amanda are you here?"

Someone suddenly entered, and Amanda's concentration broke.

Thump—!

A whistling sound arose.

The arrow flew through the air at a tremendous speed and struck the target dead on.

Only that…

It didn't hit the bullseye.

Amanda blankly stared at her bow before looking back at the target.

"Oh, it looks like you're training."

Ren, who had just walked in, turned his attention to the target, totally oblivious to what he had just done. A storm was brewing.

"Looks like you've improved a lot."

He was rather impressed.

"Anyways, I'm here to tell you that we're about to leave soon. We need to leave in a couple of hours since it'll take us a while to get to the right plac—"

Bang—!

Amanda abruptly smashed her bow against the ground.

"Damn it! Fuck!"

She let out a string of curses before turning her gaze to Ren, who looked at her with a combination of utter dread and horrified fascination.

several

"Let's talk about this…"

***

Crunch—!

down her chin. Throwing the apple in her

"…"

at Jin who was meditating not so far from the tree

Crunch—!

nth

his eyes and cast her a

supposed to

"I am."

of the

then why are

"Can't I be?"

Crunch—!

was rather

doing this

started to change. Lowering his head, he glanced at

over a dozen apple

"Huh."

had to take a

months since he had arrived on this planet, and the one thing he

that day, she hadn't

lately… it seemed like

sighed when he thought that

If not, I don't know for how long I'll be able to

had since

"Want an apple?"

only for Jin to wave his

"I'm good."

afraid I poisoned

"Yes."

"How rude."

Her every movement exuded boundless charm, but it had no

couple of

thought

"Again with that?"

his spot and covered his face

If you want some, come to earth. If not, be on your

patted his body and prepared to

"You're leaving?"

time here is

a bit relieved that the

and improved quite a lot here. Especially with the demonic energy lingering

he wanted it out of his

bit too much for

is it only now that I learn that

seem to take the news

for the past four months, I

"Did you, now?"

recall was her bothering

apples being bitten or the constant nagging about

really looking forward to

look,

hope we don't

disappeared after that,

"This… t,this…"

clenching very hard against each other as she muttered through her clenched

"Ungrateful bastard."

this his idea

helping him so much over the last

it not been for her, he would've never been able to control his demonic

the main reason he

if I see you

stopped halfway through her sentence. Turning her head, she caught a

like you have

to

It was rather light.

for the

She stopped halfway.

"…"

box, she realized there was nothing