"Oh, before you speak, I need to remind you that you are already in my debt, I''ve spared your life many times already, so keep that in mind."


    Alex suddenly spoke, and his words caused re to purse her lips.


    But then she nodded her head.


    She knew what Alex was talking about, but the same couldn''t be said for the others.


    "What do you mean?"


    Alex asked in confusion as she looked at Alex.


    Alex tilted his head as if he was wondering something before his eyes widened in realization.


    "I didn''t tell you guys??"


    He asked the question to not only Alice and Ann but to himself as well.


    "What did you not tell us?"


    Ann was now curious as well.


    "Nothing serious, it''s just that she had been keeping an eye on us since the time we started clearing gates."


    Alex just waved his hand dismissively.


    For him, what re did was not actually something serious, after all, there were many people keeping an eye on him.


    But it was not the same for Alice and Ann.


    "What?!"


    Alice and Ann both eximed with wide eyes as they looked at re.


    "I knew it, I''ve been feeling as if someone was keeping an eye on us for a while…."


    Ann then muttered as she looked at re with a frown.


    The first time Ann felt it was during the press conference, but then she dismissed it as there were many reporters there, it could be anyone.


    Then it was recently, that she started feeling the same thing, however, just when she would try to look for the person, they would vanish as if they were never there.


    "So, it was you…"


    Ann stared at re, and re just held her head down.


    re knew it was her fault again, but she didn''t have any other choice, after all, her sister that she had been searching for turned out to be here.


    She couldn''t just barge in here, so she observed them for a while. She only moved in for the request after she judged the situation to not be that bad.


    "Who do you work for?"


    It was then that Luna asked another question.


    re stared at Luna for a while before she answered.


    "No one."


    Her answer made Luna, Alice, and Ann frown.


    "You should''ve asked, ''Who did you use to work for?''…."


    Alex spoke as he looked at Luna, but by the time he reached the end, he was looking at re.


    re''s body trembled a bit under his eyes.


    She felt like the moment she lied she would die, it could just be her imagination as well, but she would rather not take chances.


    "I used to work for Argon Hart before he went missing."


    re answered truthfully and as expected, Alice, Ann, Noctura, and Luna''s eyes sharpened.


    "Why did you work for him? What rtionship did you have with him?"


    Ann asked two questions one after another while the others just stared at re.


    "I had no rtionship with him, I was bound by a contract, but now I know the truth about the contract..."


    As soon as the word ''contract'' was heard, all of them couldn''t help but frown.


    Every person here knew what a contract was, after all, they had all experienced it and seen it with their own eyes.


    "Contract? What was the contract about?"


    It was Alice who asked those questions with a serious expression.


    re looked at everyone who was looking at her, and then she turned to look at her sister, who just like others was looking at her, but re could see worry deep in her clear eyes.


    re just smiled at her sister before she turned toward Alice and spoke.


    "I don''t know what kind of contract it was and where he got that from, but the contract was about my sister.


    When I arrived in this world, I didn''t know how, but within six months, Argon found me.


    He knew about my origin, so I thought of eliminating him, but then he muttered my sister''s name.


    He told me that if I killed him, my sister would die.


    With no choice left, I followed behind him, and the first thing he did was make me sign a contract."


    re exined, but when she reached this part, Ann interrupted her with a frown.


    "You just believed in him and signed the contract?


    You never doubted that he might be someone who was trying to scam you?"


    Ann didn''t understand how re could just sign the contract so easily.


    "I was new in this world, and no one knew my real identity, but he somehow knew about it.


    He was weak sure, but that didn''t mean he couldn''t harm my sister. I just didn''t want to take risks that could somehow put my sister''s life in danger."


    re defended herself.


    "And you believed that he had your sister even without any proof?"


    Luna suddenly questioned before she added.


    "By the time he contacted you was probably after the time I picked Num- Cecil up, so that means he was simply bluffing, and you couldn''t tell that?"


    re was feeling ashamed about her actions but it was what it was, and she won''t be able to change it.


    "I was scared, all right? I didn''t know that my sister was in your hands, he had some of her clothes, he threw them at me and said, ''It is up to you whether you believe me or not, but I have your sister, and the only way you can ever hope to see her again is by signing the contract.''


    How could I have known that he was an expert bluffer?


    I took his words as truth and signed the contract."


    re told them the truth.


    She was just scared at that time.


    Her powers were suppressed, her sister was missing, she didn''t know if her enemies could follow her here or not, she was worried about her sister, and many other things.


    So, she was in a very bad situation, so even a small hope that Argon''s bluff gave her was enough for her.


    "But Argon didn''t have your sister, so how were you still working for him?"


    Ann didn''t understand this simple thing.


    Argon never had Cecil on her, so why did re still work for him?


    "He told me to do one task, and when the task isplete, he will let me leave with my sister, and I believed him…"


    re muttered in a low voice.


    Now that she found out the truth, she was feeling quite ashamed about her past self''s actions.


    "And you believed him…."


    Alice shook her head at this.


    "The task was probably for you to keep observing us, wasn''t it?"


    Ann raised another question, and re just nodded her head lightly.


    Alice and Ann just shook their heads at that.


    "What do you mean by your words when you said that now you know the truth about the contract?"


    Luna questioned suddenly and that question caused everyone to look at re again with their brows raised.


    "I was about to ask that as well. What did you mean by those words?"


    Ann nodded as well.


    re didn''t need to think much about it, so her reply was instant.


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