Days after leaving the Orc village, Cam, Leo and Sylvia continue their journey. Cam, lost in thought, walks silently. Sylvia asks "Still thinking about what Thraxus said?", Cam looks at her and says "How could I not? I just got my first lead in months and it's saying my mom was a monster!". Sylvia says "We can figure out if it's true, when we find her.". Cam nods and they continue their walk.
That night, at their camp, Sylvia notices a strange occurrence deep in the forest and goes to investigate. She runs through the forest and comes upon a group of criminals trafficking rabbit beastmen. Sylvia, fast as a serpent, jumps out of cover and launches her assault on the criminals. She continuously slashes at the criminals' necks, but is stabbed in her shoulder with a spear. Before they could deal the final blow, a muscular figure quickly kills all of them in mere seconds. Sylvia looks up at her savior, only to see a silver haired, cat beastman standing above her. "S..Seruda?", she wonders to herself.
As more and more of the criminals' reinforcements arrive, more cat beastmen jump out from above the trees and Cam joins the fray. The battle escalates and eventually ends with the criminals retreating. Seruda orders the other beastmen to retreat to the trees. Before Sylvia could call him over, he jumps up into the trees and Sylvia, with Cam on her back, follows.
When they get to the top of the trees, Cam and Sylvia see a massive treetop village built by the cat beastmen. They walk in, only to see Soma and Silva training in the training grounds. They stop when they see Sylvia and tearfully run to hug her, as they share a deep hug, Soma says "S..sister? Is it really you?", and Sylvia nods, saying "Yes, I'm.. back.". Silva, crying, says "We missed you so much, Syl.". Their emotional reunion is cut short as The village elder calls for Sylvia's attention. She walks up to the elder, bowing and asks "What is your order, Alpha?", but the elder hugs her, saying to the village "Our lost child has returned.". The village cheers loudly, however Cam notices Seruda standing, looking at Sylvia with a mean glare. The village decides to host a feast in celebration for Sylvia's safe return.
That night, Cam walks around the village, aquainting himself with the villagers, when suddenly he hears the sound of fighting from the training ground. He runs off to investigate, only to find Seruda and Sylvia locked in an intense fight. Seruda throws a quick punch at Sylvia's face, knocking her down. Cam rushes to her aid, and Seruda shouts "Leave, Child! This doesn't concern you!". Cam shouts "What are you doing!? She's your sister, why are you fighting!?". As Cam shouts, Sylvia pushes him away, saying "It's okay, this is between us!"
The fight starts again with a punch from Seruda, which Sylvia dodges and she returns with a hard kick to his jaw, knocking out his tooth. As they clash, the room shakes from the intensity of the fight asthey run around the room, exchanging blows, until Sylvia takes a blow to her stomach, and she falls to her knees.
"You're nothing but a filthy deserter!", Seruda shouts. "You left us to die as you escaped!". But Sylvia knocks him down with a punch to his nose, screaming as she beats him down "I gave everything I had to get back to you! Everyday, i thought of our family, our people! How proud you would've been!". Cam separates them as Sylvia pants in exhaustion, Seruda lays on the ground, saying "Sylvia..You were..", but Sylvia stops him, saying "I guess I'm just always gonna be a disappointment to you..", as she walks out of the room. However, Seruda follows her and hugs her from behind, saying "I'm.. sorry, I.. didn't know..". Sylvia quietly says "No, you didn't.., you chose to hate me over worrying about me..". Seruda says "I did, and I'm sorry. Please, let me make this right..". Sylvia turns around and hugs her beloved brother back.
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As the days pass, Cam grows more accustomed to his new surroundings and the villager get used to seeing Cam frequently, even offering him combat training.
One day, the villagers are alerted by the village elder, who says "The Raiders, they plan to attack our village.". The atmosphere is interupted by the sound of explosions from below the trees. The Raiders set up multiple explosives around the trees, and the villagers evacuate. The warrior beastmen spring into action, fending off the Raiders. Cam and Sylvia jump down and join in the fight.
As the battle rages on, Cam notices that the raider are kidnapping the children of the village. "They're taking the kids! Somebody stop them!", Cam yells as he fights on. Sylvia runs with astonishing speed towards the kidnappers, but is kicked in the stomach into a tree, by a mysterious human man in a red jacket, wielding a black blade. "You're not taking our Catch!", the man screams as he draws his blade.
Sylvia gets ready to fight and launches at him, and the man slashes at her, and she dodges. She launches a flurry of attacks at the man, but he effortlessly avoids all of them. The man slashes at her, severing part of her tail. Sylvia winces in pain and scatters the soil, to create a smokescreen. She uses her claws to slash him consecutively and on all his vitals. However, the man remains standing, and slashes her shoulder, leaving a big gash on her shoulder. "Ugh!", she groans in pain. But the man doesn't stop his assault, he aims for her head, but Seruda leaps in, slashing at the man relentlessly. The fight between the man with the black blade and Seruda rages on, until Seruda manages to disarm the man, leaving him wide open. He slashes at his neck, and he gasps for air, squirming on the ground.
"Are you okay?", Seruda asks his beloved sister, as he helps her up. Just as they lower their guard, Cam lets out a guttural scream "Sylvia!". Sylvia looks above them and sees a part of a village house falling on them, before Sylvia could move, the man, with his black blade, stabs Seruda through his chest. Sylvia could only watch as her brother chocked on his own blood, just before the debris fell, Cam pushes Sylvia out of the way, letting the debris fall onto him. Sylvia watches in horror as Seruda, on his last breath, screams viscerally "RUN!". The man launches another attack, and Sylvia, consumed by rage, slashes the man's head off before he could react.
As the rest of the beastmen ended the battle, Sylvia digs through the rubble that fell on Cam , crying loudly and sorrowfully. The other beastmen mourn Seruda's death, but Sylvia keeps digging through the rubble until she sees Cam's unconscious body. "Cam! Cam? Wake up, please!", she begs as she shakes him. Just as she loses hope, Cam weakly says "Are..you..okay?". Sylvia says "You're alive!", and the remaining beastmen tend to all those injured in the battle.
Cam wakes up in a bed, surrounded by wounded beastmen in a charred room. "Huh? What..happened?", Cam asks himself. He tries to stand up, but falls to his knees, as he notices his broken leg. Using a stick to support himself, he goes to a ceremony for the dead beastmen. He joins the ceremony to see Sylvia, Soma and Silva at the center, mourning Seruda's death. Soma and Silva cry sorrowfully, as Sylvia holds them tightly. Cam stands by Sylvia, holding her shoulder. "I'm.. sorry.", Cam says. Sylvia says "It's.. my fault, I.. should've been stronger.., strong like him..", as she whimpers. However, Cam says, quoting her, "Stop, don't blame yourself!". Sylvia and her sisters cry in Cam's arms. Cam thinks to himself "In that moment, I wasn't just feeling sadness, sorrow or regret, I felt all of them. I..couldn't save them all..I fought my hardest, and I felt so...
Useless..