...Deny?
I am... denying *them*?
Denying this kind of Werebeast that's as irresistible as a Demonia?
Su'er's blank mind even found it a little funny—was this white-haired Werebeast crazy? Where did he get such a judgment?
"Isn't it right?" Before Su'er could refute, the wolf-like Werebeast continued to talk to himself. "Or you haven't noticed it yourself? That kind of pride in the bones... Who is it, or what race gave the monkey such confidence?"
The white-haired Werebeast was still looking up and down at Su'er, who stood still, and the two white wolf ears on top of his head twitched from time to time. But Su'er didn't understand what this creature, who could tear apart such fragile prey as himself with just one hand, was waiting for.
...What is he talking about?
Isn't it just death? Then come! Ah?!
Su'er was ready.
Looking at the Werebeast who frowned as if thinking about something dangerous, Su'er felt a little amused but also confused.
'You said I was denying him, isn't that too much of a compliment to me? And you said I was denying the entire Werebeast race?'
Even when the chill caused by fear infected his entire body, Su'er couldn't help but want to laugh out loud at this moment.
However,
"—Wrong, I don't think too much of you, I'm just curious about what you monkeys are being kept in captivity now."
When the ridicule lingering in Su'er's heart had not yet dissipated, the faint voice in his ears froze all his thoughts, and even the corners of his mouth that had just slightly curled up twisted.
'My thoughts… were seen through?'
"Yes, I see through it completely." The ferocious face reappeared in front of Su'er. "For lowly beasts like you, this is probably an ability that only belongs to the superior races that you have never even imagined."
Showing a malicious smile full of oppression, the white-haired Werebeast said with an evil grin: "Just as you think in your heart now, all your thoughts... I have seen them all."
A declaration enough to end all last struggles.
"..."
The air grew quiet for a while, leaving only the whistling wind, and the Werebeast also kept silent considerately, as if sweetly enjoying Su'er's despair.
'Reading... mind?'
Hey.
Hey, hey, hey?
Isn't it a bit too much? Even the ability to read minds has appeared?
Su'er surprisingly felt inexplicably relaxed at this moment, and even complained in his heart with a relaxed tone he hadn't had for a long time—Riku, your intelligence book might be missing a piece of information that may never be recorded, right?
It was like a dream.
But, he believed it in his heart.
Compared to people who could change the surface of the earth just by breathing, draw an uncrossable gap on the ground with a wave of their hands, and smash the stars in the sky with just a little effort... a low-level ability like mind reading was just a toy for children.
So—
"Ha, it's really unfair..."
After a long sigh of relief, Su'er suddenly muttered self-deprecatingly as if relieved.
The strength that was enough to support his body gradually returned to his limbs, and even the most instinctive pressure on life seemed to be gone, and he clenched his hands.
*Swoosh!*
Under the red light in the sky, it still reflected a dazzling cold light. It was Su'er's last strength and his last hope, but the target it was aiming at was not the unshakable mountain in front of him—but himself.
Even if it was just his stomach.
Be cut open.
Please...
The only prayer from three years ago to this moment.
However, the short distance between the hand hanging by his leg and his lower abdomen became an unbridgeable gap. Even a second before Su'er suddenly slashed his hand, a hand as hard as an iron tower had already grasped his arm.
Not moving at all.
Just as the wolf-like Werebeast claimed, he saw through all of Su'er's plans and annihilated this last struggle before it happened.
Not only that, the Werebeast even threw away his long sword with his other hand, and grasped Su'er's jaws in a clamp-like manner, stopping the lower jaw that was biting hard on his tongue.
It was all over.
All of Su'er's struggles, all of his plans, all of his delusions.
The pain of his abdomen being cut and his tongue being bitten off confused his mind, and all his plans to prevent the Werebeast in front of him from detecting the secrets hidden in his heart fell through.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaa...!"
Couronne who was trying to maintain the lives of everyone in the colony, Riku who forced himself to lead everyone forward with a cold face, Nonna who smiled sweetly at him, the colony where everyone lived together, Ivan, Credo, Lenny...
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"
As if power squeezed out from the depths of every cell gathered and moved along his already exhausted limbs, Su'er roared and punched the hateful wolf face.
Bang!
Feeling humiliated? Angry?
Bang!
Then come quickly!
Bang!
Come and kill me!!!
Bang!!!
"..."
"..."
His arm fell down weakly.
Until now, he had been silently enduring Su'er's flailing attack. For a moment, the only sound in the air was the heavy breathing that was like a leak.
"...You seem to have some interesting plans... Monkey."
The cruel voice was like a saw cutting his throat. After a long silence, the white-haired Werebeast finally opened his mouth again.
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