Early in the morning, the sun was rising from the horizon.

In a house, a short catkin named Kuro was walking through the corridor towards one of the rooms. She reached the door and opened it.

"Sis! You need to get up! It's ti-."she stops at the midway, when she sees what's in front of her.

"Sorry!"she yells and closes the door with a bang.

Echo, being woken up by Kuro, opens his eyes and sees an unfamiliar ceiling.

'Where the fuck am I ......Right. I and Sky stayed here yesterday.'

After having figured out where he is, he looks to his right and sees Sky still sleeping. He turns his head to look at the ceiling and tries to puts his left hand onto his forehead, but can't, because something is on his arm. He turns to his left side and sees Nina there, awake and staring at him. They look at each other and Echo says in English"Nice."

"Nice?"she asks him, as she doesn't understand what that word means, because there is no English in this world.

He doesn't reply and just looks at the ceiling again, to think about yesterday.

'We were drinking yesterday a lot and we got really friendly because of the alcohol. Somehow it turned into a flirty and then......I don't remember anything, beside a lot "Nyaa-s".'

He just groans a little and then Skyeza asks"What's wrong Echo?"

"Look at the other side."he tells him in Elfish and so she lifts her body and sees Nina there, snuggled against her lover. She isn't mad at all and when she remembers the last night night, she asks"Did you enjoy it?"

"Yes....Wait I mean I'm sorry. I did it with your lover."she starts to apologize while panicking , which only makes Skyeza smile. After looking at the panicking Nina for a while, she says"It's okay. I allowed it after all."

Nina hearing her, stops panicking and asks"What do you mean. His your lover."

"Yes. His my lover, who I can't handle alone. So I needed a little help."she tells her and Nina, who now is confused, doesn't say anything.

But after a while, she wants to say something, before Kuro bursts into the room and yells"Guards are here! What to I do?!"

She keeps panicking and Echo says"Huuuh. I'll go deal with it."

He gets up from the bed, naked, which makes Kuro scream, as she sees him naked. She runs out of the room, completely embarrassed. Echo himself puts on his pants and leaves the room, leaving the two woman on the bed.

As he walks down the stairs, he feels a stinging pain all over his upper body. So he looks at his body, to see a few scratch marks on his body. The scratches are in a group of five lines. Those were obviously made by Nina, last night during their fun time. He can also feel a little pain on his shoulder.

"Fucking hell."he mutters, after finally reaching the door. He opens the door, to see a squad in guards metal armor. He looks at them between his long bangs, that were currently covering his face.

"What do you want?"he asks them, while he leans onto right side of the door frame.

"Where's the catkin, who killed the Earl?!"the one, who looks like a guard, asks him in a loud voice.

"No catkin here. So fuck off."he tells them and crosses his arms, while staring at them. He could show them his card with a royal crest, but the card is in his bag, which is in the bedroom.

"Man. Move in!"he orders them, seeing that Echo won't give him an answer. But before they could enter the building, Echo blocks the doorway with his hand. Echo looks at the guards, who he is blocking.

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"You're protecting a criminal and that makes you one too."the leader says and then orders"Get through him. Lethal force is allowed."

When they hear the order, they draw their swords and Echo just sighs.

"Kuro. Bring me my shoulder bag."he tells Kuro, who is hiding behind the counter and staring at him. So when she hears him, she nods and runs upstairs.

For some reasons, the guards hadn't attacked yet, so he decided to start the fight.

He punched the nearest guard in the head, tending the helmet and sending the man flying into another man.

"Get him!"the leader orders and all of the guards attack him at once. They run up to him with their swords and spears, which he easily dodges. While he dodges, a sword is thrusted at him and it gets too close to dodge, so he blocks the blade with his card.

"What the hell?"the guard mutters, and he sees his blade being blocked by a playing card.

"[Wind Push]."Echo chants and strong wind blows every guard away from him and all of them fall onto the ground. He picks up the spear into his right hand and walks over to the leader. He moves the spear near the guards throat and looks at him.

"I brought the bag."Kuro says in a scared voice and holds the bag in her small hands.

"Good. Now search for a card in there."he tells her, without looking back at her.

"Uum. Found it. Here."Kuro says, after searching his bag and gives the card to Echos open left hand. He takes the guard and says"Go back."

She doesn't reply and runs back to the building.

"Now then."Echo says in a cold voice and pushes his bangs up, revealing his gray eyes. The leaders face goes pale, as he sees Echos gray eyes.

"Oh no."the leader says, as he is shaking in fear.

"Oh yes."Echo says nad activates the card with a royal crest. The kingdoms royal crest glows on the cards and Echo says"No Earl was killed by a beastkin. This never happened. And you or any other guards will come back here. Is that clear?"

"Y-Yes Sir!"he responds to Echo, who smiles and replies"Good answers."

He moved the spear away from the leaders throat and drops it next to him. He walks away and puts the card into his right pocket.

"Fucking hell. I wake up with a hangover and then some twats appears. Sigh. And I will stay away from the castle for now. I don't want to hear the bitching I will get."he mutters, as he walks upstairs.

He sees Kuro on top of the stairs and pats her head, when he gets there too.

"It's okay now. I dealt with them."he tells her and she asks"Was it because of me?"

"Probably, but I took care of it. No need to worry."He assures her.

"I'll believe you."she walks down the stairs and says"I'll go make breakfast."

"Ok."he replies to her and goes back to the room, to see Nina and Skyeza talking there. Because Echo walks with very quiet steps, they didn't hear him. So in the room, he quietly leans against the wall and listens to their talking.

"Seriously it's okay Nina. I don't mind it and he also doesn't."Skyeza tells her and Nina says back."But still. He is your man. I-I."

"Can't be okay with it?"Skyeza finishes her sentence, to which she nods.

"Well then. There is only one option.... Become his woman."Skyeza turns to Echo and says"You will agree. Right?"

"Is she is fine with it, so will I."Echo replies to her and only now, Nina noticed him. She doesn't say anything and just keeps covering her body.

"Echo. What's that on your shoulder?"Skyeza asks him and focuses her eyes on his shoulder. Echo himself looks at his right shoulder and sees a bite mark. Nina also looks at his shoulder and sees the bite mark. Bite mark which she did.

"Nina. You already did it."Skyeza says with a teasing voice.

"Don't say it."Nina cries out and hides under the blanket.

"You already marked him. Such a quick woman."Skyeza keeps teasing her, making Nina hide even more.

After watching Skyeza teas Nina for a while, he says"Sky stop teasing Nina and explain the mark."

"Beastkins mark their mate, by biting their shoulder. It's to basically tell the other beastkin, that you are taken. So now you two are bonded and have to accept each other."Skyeza explains to her.

"I see."he replies to her and watches the trembling blanket, under which, there was Nina.

Seeing that she won't come out of the blanket any time soon, he walks over to the bed and pulls the blanket off from her.

"Nyaa."

He now sees a naked catkin, who keeps trembling and holding her body. He himself sits down next to her and puts his hand onto her back. He slowly starts to move his hand down her back and stops at the place, where her cat tail is. He looks at it for a few seconds, before rubbing it, which makes Nina let out a loud"Nyaa."

"Nyaa. Stop."she tells him and he replies"If you stop hugging yourself, only then I will stop."he tells her and Skyeza adds"I recommend you do it. He won't listen to your cries in these kinds of moments."

"Nyaa. Fine."she says and opens herself. She now lays completely flat on her back. But because he wants to see her front too, he turns her around.

When he does that, she immediately covers her private parts. Echo looks at her and now sees her completely red face from embarrassment.

He starts to move his hands towards her hands, but before he could do anything more, Kuro yells"Breakfast is ready."

When he hears her, he stops and gets up from the bed. He takes his shirt from the ground and puts it on. He looks at the two and asks"What are you waiting for. Food is ready?"

He then leaves the room, leaving the two woman there.

"Is he always like that?"Nina asks her and she replies"Yep. You better get used to it."