It's true, Apple doesn't fall far from the tree and novel doesn't deviates from the author, ain't you an evil one. Started locking chapters from the lemon đ hmmm..... you smart baiter.
Just wondering about what that girl said about time dilation, When doing a plank for a minute you feel like a lot of time has passed, Imagine if the time dilation side effect happened then.. Pain. only that, literal Hours on planks feeling like days
The one in the cover might be someone with a beast contract spell used on a contracted beast... The most likely one is Marla or some unintroduced character... Let's see