439 About my mother... [5]

"...Actually, there might be a way." 

Angelica said with a complicated look on her face.

Her words reignited hope within me, however, that was quickly dashed away when I realized that there was no free lunch in this world. 

Indeed, there may have been a way, but there was most definitely going to be a cost associated with that way. 

Closing my eyes and taking a deep breath to collect myself, I opened them up again and asked. 

"What is the way? Breaking the contract?… You know that's not really possible."

Mana contracts, regardless of the party's will could not be broken. The reason for this was unknown, the same went for skills, no one really knew why they existed…well, that was back in the past, I now knew. 

It was because of the Akashic records. They were the entity responsible for creating the laws of the world, and in this case, the law that they had set was that mana contracts couldn't be broken.