Higan stride away from me and I wasn’t able to do anything. I was left by myself with emptiness looming in my heart as I feel like a distant or a gap started breaking as us apart. Even if she had stayed, I don’t even know what I should say to give her comfort.
From the start, I couldn’t understand what’s shackling her. It was there, her affection for me and everything, I can feel it strong as ever but for some reason, she is holding it all inside. The tip of my fingers just grew colder as I think of the pain she is enduring.
As I was looking at Higan’s figure walking away, someone suddenly blocks my line of sight that slightly startled me.
“Whoa!”
“You!”
The girl earlier with Higan, Folga, and Miss Izuna shows herself in front of me.
She has a long fluffy, ruffled, fluffy hair that grows past her waist. Her eyes are red in color which gives a strong, and dignified look…if it wasn’t round and cute. Her fangs are visible and added another charm to her face that has seemingly soft cheeks. She dons a cute and fluffy red and black one-piece dress with frills on the shoulder strap and at the hem. She wears a belt around her waist for fashion it seems and lether boots.
What seemingly different about her is that she has cute round ears that can be found on lions and a tail that matches the color of her hair. There’s an intimidating air around her but it’s barely recognizable since I’ve been bathed in a more dreadful intimidation before.
I find her cute with that angry eyes and gritted teeth that shows her fangs. She even placed her hand on her waists.
“Um…may I help you?”
“You! Who do you think you are? Carelessly approaching Beast Queen like that!”
“Eh?”
“Ah, yes! You are King Ashfon’s sister! But I do think that there’s nothing more worthy of anything to speak of! Why did the Beast Queen choose someone like you!”
“Ahaha…yes?”
I’m suddenly at lost for words…
Come to think of it, my adventures with Higan was more of an incognito. The first and last time we appeared together in the Beast Kingdom would be our battle with Begol, one of Folga’s son. There’s nothing weird if she doesn’t know what happened in the battle that happened here, especially regarding me.
My power is to be kept hidden from the public, but I do wonder how much publicity I made with it. Seeing that this sassy girl doesn’t know about me means that my exploits are nothing but a fairy tale if I told her about it.
She stares at me angrily. She even started bending her body forward and steer her face closer to mine. I can see her undeveloped breasts hanging…
“W-What with this sassy kid?”
“Kid!? Aren’t you a kid yourself?! How dare you to call me that!”
That slipped out of my lips, though I am not wrong that she is a sassy kid.
Ah…
Her cheeks are inflating adorably in anger.
But seriously, who is this sassy kid?!
“Um…who are you…?”
“Ha! I’m glad you asked! I am Daisy Aestasia! I am Beast Queen Higanbana’s number one follower! In the future, I hope to be someone next to her, a councilor overflowing with knowledge that will help her! You better remember that!”
“Daisy is it? Nice to meet you!”
“Arrgghh!! Don’t greet me like I am just making a friend! I don’t like you!!”
What a difficult girl.
She has this attitude that I generally don’t like but for some reasons, I couldn’t hate her myself. Appearance is a big factor though…
She leans back and blabbers those words. She crosses her arms angrily talks to me.
Now that I realized it, her gait is trembling a little…
When I look down, I can see her feet tiptoeing a little to match my height. I realized that there was a difference in height earlier but suddenly, she caught up to my eye level.
What with this girl!?
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“Daisy, we didn’t come here to pick that kind of fight.”
“Ah, Father!!”
All of a sudden, Folga picks her up from her scruff. She tried to resist but seeing that her father is a two-meter tall and lion-faced, she wasn’t struggling much. She can only swing her hands and legs.
Wait…
WAIT!
“Father?! This girl…she is your daughter!?”
“You betcha! Kind of fierce right? Forgive her as she is young and innocent.”
“I can tell. Anyway, I thought you only had sons, King…I mean Sir Folga.”
“Nay, I have sons, but I haven’t mentioned my one and only daughter, the youngest to boot. She got most of my fierceness but forgot to pick up some mild attitude.”
“I think she is kind of adorable in a way.”
“Gahahaha!! Ain’t she?! Well, we got to go. I’d like to seat with you and drink some tea and talk some of your adventures but time is pressing.”
Folga turned around and walks away with the dangling Daisy in his hand. I wonder why she suddenly fell quiet when Folga and I talked. She’s really noisy…
As Folga left, Izuna immediately followed, however she stops momentarily and glances at me.
“Asagao…”
“Good day…Miss Izuna…”
“Please…please forgive Higan. Please…don’t turn your back on her…”
“That’s not going to happen!!”
“Thank you. As her mother…I am ashamed that I can’t do anything about her…”
She immediately walked away with a distressed face. I can’t even start to imagine how painful is it over Izuna to see her daughter like that…
With nothing else to do, I hurriedly return to where Fonfon and the others are.
I passed through the door again where Higan and co. go through and find myself in a deserted congress hall with some staff cleaning. I immediately stride towards the exit meant for us.
As I passed through the door, I noticed in the hallway two figures talking.
It was Fang and Mimi…a meeting of guardian beasts…in human form. From afar, Senya and Fonfon are talking seriously.
Right, I did remember that Senya’s intention is to create allegiance with us. Violetta and Ishtal are present there too. I wonder where did Alstroe and Topaz go?
As I was about to show myself, I heard him, Fang, shouting at Mimi.
“What do you think you are doing?!”
“Buh! Unlike you, I got bored in that forest~!”
“You just can’t go and say it like that!! We are titled the guardian because we guard it! I tolerated you mixing with the maids but I can’t tolerate your actions now!”
“Eh? You knew?!”
“Of course! Even Senya do! We didn’t just say any words about it!”
“Well, that doesn’t change anything! I am already bounded to Asagao as her minion!~”
“You think this is joke?!”
“What!? Are you getting angry?! Do you think I will never ever look back at that place again like what Alpha Wolf did?!”
“The real Alpha Wolf may have left his pack but there’s a lot of his pack there! What about you?!”
“Me?! I was bored! Deathly bored at that place! I am sick of the everyday life! I am not like you! I want to see the world outside the forest! Asagao’s promise is what made me do the first step! I don’t want to be bound in that place forever!”
“So you thought it’s fine?!”
“No!! I fell in love! I fell in love with the freedom! I fell in love with the beauty this world has shown me! And most importantly, I fell in love with someone! If you think those are empty words, let’s fight this one out!”
“You’ve always been the weakest, among the three of us guardian, you always fell behind! And now that you tasted that indulgence, you dare roar at me, Behemoth!”
“That’s right! I’ve learned stuff! I may be weak as you said, but I am growing strong in heart! Unlike you!”
Fang stops momentarily. His expression changes from enraged to a passive but cold. His anger instead leaks out from his presence that becomes hostility.
He grabs Mimi’s collar and lifts her up. Mimi was raised up due to the difference in their height in their forms, she can only hold onto Fang’s hand and stare back at him.
“Uuuggh…Kuh…!”
“What’s wrong? Aren’t you going to show me that strong heart that you have?”
For some reason, Mimi refuses to fight back.
Fonfon, Senya, and the others noticed what’s happening. I also started moving to intervene in their fight and step up to stop Fang.
Before anyone of us could do something, someone else grabs Fang’s arm.
It’s Topaz.
“You…the devil from before…!”
“I’ll admit, I was scared of you at first…really scared. Even now, I am scared. Back then, all I could think of is to run away or hide at someone’s back…”
“……”
“But…but…! Right now…I can’t just sit back and watch you bully someone important to me! Please let go of her, let go of Mimi!”
“Oh? I heard that she tried to kill you once.”
“I forgave her.”
“You probably did, but I don’t.”
“Please forgive her.”
“It’s circumstantial. It’s not easy to forgive the acts she has committed. We made oaths and promise to our true master, Astlan Lionheart. She betrayed those oaths and she need to dearly pay for it.”
“Please forgive her.”
“Like I said…”
“Please…forgive her.”
Because of Topaz’s pleading, Fang was flabbergasted that he loosened his grip on Mimi’s collar.
At that moment, Topaz brings her knees on the floor and bows down with her head on the floor. As Mimi saw this, she tried to rebuke Topaz’s actions but stops herself from doing so. Instead, she imitated Topaz and bows to Fang too.
“Please forgive me…”
“Please forgive her, forgive Mimi.”
Fang loses all hostility at the sight of the two bowing down.
“A strong heart entails to a calm and peaceful resolution? At the very least, someone has taught you that, Behemoth.”
“Fang…?”
“You are a friend of mine. I might have been a little envious of you. You may have been the weakest among us guardians but it is never too late to grow wise.”
“Then, Fang…!”
“I won’t forgive you. I am a beast, not a human. For sake of dignity, I won’t lash out at you anymore. However, know this that my forgiveness won’t come cheap. Someday, you need to pay the price if you want to still ask my forgiveness. It’s up to you whether that is relevant anymore for you or not.”
“What if I brush it off as something irrelevant?”
“Will you?”
“…No. After all, you are also a long life friend of mine.”
“Hmph.”
Fang turns around and started walking away without any words to say. Topaz and Mimi never lifted their head from the floor as long as they knew that Fang is still there.
Thinking back, Mimi left the forest without mentioning it to Fang. Fang may have known about it but if I put myself in his position, I’d be angry too. There’s also the thing about their oath and promises.
Too angry to grab Mimi on the collar. It’s kind of wrong to see Fang, a tall handsome guy in his human form, lifting up Mimi who is a lot shorter and in a form of a girl. Well, knowing their true identities, it may not even be considered a scuffle.
But what surprised me that most were that Topaz stood up for Mimi. Even though she is scared at Fang, she held it in together and resorted to a peaceful method of dispersing the situation.
I can already see her growth, both mentally and physically.
After a few moments, Senya together with Mimosa followed Fang. Senya then slaps Fang’s back playfully but considering the sound of the slap and how strong Senya is, it must be really painful.
“Way to go tiger! I didn’t know you have such a shy side!”
“That’s not it Miss Senya! It’s just that!”
“Oh? You’re so shy and precious, Fang!”
“No! Like I said…!”
Their voices started trailing off and I couldn’t hear their conversation anymore.
Confirming that Fang is nowhere near anymore, the two stands up from their places.
“Mimi…”
“Thank you…Topaz!”
“Bad!”
“Why?!”
“You wanted to start a fight earlier. We can’t.”
“But it’s in my nature to do so when intimidated!”
“If you and he fight, there will be a lot of damage. If that happened, they might reduce the food cost for us for the repairs.”
“Eh?! Well, aren’t you too economical?!”
“And it’ll be sad if you get hurt again.”
“Well, I’m sorry.”
It seems that Mimi’s problem wasn’t entirely solved but there’s a solution presented.
Her companionship with Fang wasn’t worsened but rather, they may have reached an awkward closure without forgiveness.
It made me think…what about me and Higan?
What should I do to give a solution to an unknown problem?