episode_0035

1.

Between night and morning.

dawn.

A chilly atmosphere unique to the time zone without sun hangs around, and the once green forest turns black.

Today, under the unusually bright moonlight, I find a place to step.

“…Was it greed?”

One of the most common misconceptions people make.

Today will be different.

Tomorrow will be different.

They forget their repeated failures and repeat the same mistakes.

In addition, a self-centered attitude is added to this, and we repeat the vain delusion that things would be different if we were them.

It’s similar to the principle of spending money even though you know that the odds of winning the lottery are lower than your odds of dying today.

Maybe this time?

no way?

I always have high hopes and get betrayed.

Now I have been betrayed by myself.

-Bam!!

He kicks the branches that are rolling around as a vent of his anger.

“Oh my.”

Despite coming out so triumphantly, the situation is boringly repetitive.

I stayed up all night with Yuli, and even though I was out on patrol for 24 hours, nothing had changed, so I was being greedy and hoping to gain something from this patrol.

I want to get into the warm blanket that Yuli has wrapped around me right now.

This kid’s sleeping habits have gotten a little better lately, so it’s good to use him as an attachment doll, or rather, an attachment sword.

But the result of putting on airs is running away instead of going astray.

My pride won’t allow that.

‘Ugh…’

I was so caught up in this contradiction that I had no choice but to just let time pass by.

…

Dusk dawn.

That is, the dawn, approaching daybreak.

Today, I came out to the Rukia River after a failed attempt and finished preparing to wash my body.

“Keuuung……”

I’m sleep deprived.

My eyes are dim and I feel like I could fall asleep at any moment if I lean my head back.

But I know that if I sleep now, I’ll just end up more tired.

To overcome sleepiness, I first soaked my feet in the river.

The cold air from the river rises from my feet to the top of my head.

“Whew!”

Srenya comes here around dawn… so there’s still time.

Based on Caselina’s experience, I would predict that it would be nice to go for a walk in the early morning before the sun rises and it will start to get a little warmer.

Since she washed her body when the sun came out, wouldn’t Srennia be similar?

“Ugh, I’m waking up…”

Anyway, it’s time to start the day now.

I wash my face to get some sleep.

Fill both hands with water and rub it all over your face.

“Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!”

right.

…didn’t worship.

When you stand there with your legs spread wide and unable to do anything.

“Huh?”

I saw ‘it’ between my legs.

With blood on the corner of his mouth.

Looking at me with a cold gaze.

That’s what I’ve been desperately looking for.

“Sighㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ!”

The moment it catches your eye.

I got up.

And before I even noticed the change in me.

He turned his body and bowed.

Bend over so that your knees touch the floor and your right heel points toward the sky.

Fold your thighs and calves so that they touch, and place your hands firmly on the floor.

And when it recognized me.

I stepped on the truth.

Like a water pipe that has been frowned upon to its limit exploding with power.

The folded body unfolds in an instant and kicks both the water and the ground at the same time.

-Whoaaah!!!

Water droplets splash and spray like a grenade exploding on the surface of the water.

My body was turning towards it as if folding space.

When it feels threatened and tries to turn its body.

It’s late.

Because the cold, hardened eyes are fixed on it.

-Pfft!

Stretch out both arms and grab both wrists.

And he pushed his wrist into the ground, no, he actually pushed it into the ground.

He just covered it up.

I climbed on top of him, holding his wrists in my hands so they couldn’t move.

Yes, I’ll see your face for the first time in a while…

“…………Taina?”

?

Why are you here?

It was dark in the early morning so I couldn’t see it clearly, but when I looked right in front of my nose, I could tell who it was.

My pointy ears are glued to my head and my tail is curled between my legs.

And big eyes.

Those crimson eyes are moist.

He is trembling pitifully as if he is instinctively afraid of this situation and will burst into tears at any moment.

One of the heroines of Akama.

And the child we are familiar with as a descendant of Altina.

Taina Shukeros.

That kid is here floundering around as a suspect for the Demon King.

‘What, what???’

When you can’t continue talking in a situation you don’t understand,

Taina opened her mouth.

“Ke, kaeaaang… Kang! Kaeaaang…”

You said you opened your mouth, but you didn’t say you spoke.

Just as a boy raised by wolves only lets out wolf-like howls, Taina only lets out howls that sound like a fox.

“Keep! Kkeang! Kkeang!”

Then he started barking as if protesting something.

It looks like a mixture of human and beast.

I have completely lost my reason, and only my instincts as a beast remain.

I am familiar with it.

“…Beast transformation?”

It’s a beast flower.

Yeah, beastman.

A disease in which a person’s reason dies and he or she is transformed into a beast whose body is governed only by animal instincts.

Taina is in a state of beast transformation.

…But the beastman I know isn’t like this?

“Caeng…?”

When I didn’t do anything because I was curious, Taina tilted her head.

Normally, the line would have been “Huh…?”, but even that was replaced with the fox’s cry.

Then, as if the tension had naturally been released, he began to show the characteristics of a fox with his body.

No, it’s like playing a beast with a human body.

“Sniff sniff, sniff sniff…”

He wrinkles his nose and tries to check my scent.

And then he smiles sinisterly.

With a creepy stream of blood dripping from the corners of his lips.

And the owner of that blood is lying next to Taina.

-Thump thump!

Oh, okay.

It’s a trout.

That bloodstain we thought might be the Demon King’s blood was actually trout blood.

The situation culminates in Taina being spotted by Srenia while out fishing, or rather hunting, at dawn, while suffering from beast transformation.

This is ridiculous.

“Kaaa…..”

As I was thinking that and shooting a bad look at her, the beast-like Taina started to squirm.

While shaking my head.

Even if you say you don’t like it, there’s nothing you can do.

Even on Animal Farm, no animal likes being rescued, and it’s no different now.

The capture must continue until the situation is resolved.

“Kyaaeng! Kyaaaaeng… Kkiing…”

But Taina is not an animal, she is a mermaid.

There is still some human aspect left.

When I looked closely, I saw that he wasn’t doing anything but looking at my wrist from side to side.

Is it because I’m holding on so tightly that it hurts?

But if you release my wrist like this, I might be able to run away…

While I was lost in such worries,

“Kaeheuk… Keerrur… Keheuk…”

He began to cry even more sadly.

In the end, I shed a single tear.

Then he lowered his head weakly.

As if she were a pitiful heroine who would eventually give everything to evil.

‘I, I feel like I’m a bad person!’

Even the expert at Animal Farm would give up on capturing him with this level of facial expression.

I too could not ignore that sympathetic expression and gently removed his hand.

“Kaaang……?”

Well, he’s also a descendant of Altina and a student.

There didn’t seem to be any hostility.

And I had a plausible plan to grab her shoulder if she tried to run away.

“KANG!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

-Pfft …

Until I got my testicles chopped off.

“Keueueueueueueung…!!!!!!!!”

Everything I saw was smoke.

‘Another betrayal…!’

Taina flinched not because she was afraid, but because she was ready to be kicked.

The kick was to gain momentum and knock the enemy down.

Taina turned her body in the same direction she had lowered her head.

He runs away from me, his feet stretched out towards me and his hands digging the ground like a fox’s paws.

Seeing such a natural sequence, I realized that it was all an act from the beginning.

I was fooled.

To the cunning fox.

‘Fuckfuckfuckfuck!!!!!!’

My body dries up like a worm, spitting out curses.

Just as a star becomes a black hole, it seems like my two eggs have burst and become one black hole.

Because the body becomes twisted around the center and suffers extreme pain.

“Kaaa …

Taina was already moving away.

I realized that I had fortunately not crossed the line of no return.

It’s a good thing it didn’t explode.

The remaining pain was replaced by anger.

I had assumed from the beginning that he might be able to escape since he was a descendant of Altie, but I just didn’t know how to get there.

Get into a crouching start position, still in the fallen position.

And then step on the true light,

-Pot!

Beyond the speed of sound,

“Kang……?”

I followed behind Taina, who was looking at me in surprise.

-Paaah!!!!

He just attacked Taina.

Where are you running away to?

We caught Taina, the suspect of the Demon King of the Grass Forest.

This time, instead of grabbing it from the front, grab it from behind.

So, it’s a posture where you cross your hands behind your back and press down as if you were kneeling.

As if trying to resist this immobile stance, Taina continued to bark.

“Keep! Kkaeaeng! Kkaeaeng!”

“Mom! Be quiet! The place you hit me still hurts…!”

Taina continued to cry, feeling resentful and angry.

“Kaaa …

But I’m still not satisfied with my anger.

However, there is no more mercy for the person who betrayed the one who tried to show pity, and who tried to run away after beating up the person’s feelings.

This time, he held her tightly without letting go.

“…”

What should I do now?

Kai sat in an awkward position, lost in thought in the deep forest at dawn.