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 steps

"Let's talk about this…"

***

Crunch—!

her hand and catching it again, Priscilla soon took another

"…"

was meditating not so far from the tree branch

Crunch—!

the nth time, Jin's left eye

eyes and cast her a

supposed

"I am."

bite of the apple and further irritating

why are you still

"Can't I be?"

Crunch—!

apple was rather

doing this

expression started to change. Lowering his head, he glanced at the area around

over a dozen

"Huh."

to take a

on this planet, and the one thing he deeply

that day, she hadn't stopped hounding

just the cigarettes, but lately… it seemed like she

when he

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

patience was running thin. Well, whatever patience he had since he

"Want an apple?"

offered only for Jin to

"I'm good."

I poisoned

"Yes."

"How rude."

hopped off the tree branch and moved toward Jin. Her every movement exuded

of inches away from

you finally thought of a

"Again with that?"

spot and covered his face with

want some, come to earth. If not,

body and prepared

"You're leaving?"

My time here

that the

quite a lot here. Especially with the demonic energy lingering in his body, which increased his perception over his mana control,

it out of

was a bit too much for him

only now that I

take the news

each other for the past four months, I think I deserve to

"Did you, now?"

recall was her bothering

sound of apples being bitten or the constant nagging about selling her the cigarettes, she'd find a new way to find

looking forward

last look, he waved

don't see each

disappeared after that,

"This… t,this…"

hard against each other

"Ungrateful bastard."

his idea of

a heartless human. Especially after helping him so much

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

main reason

I

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

looks like you

moved up to

It was rather light.

take him for the shy type.

She stopped halfway.

"…"

she realized there