The Symbiotic Relationship Between The Rabbit And The Black Panther [EN]: Chapter 50

The Rabbit and the Black Panther’s Symbiotic Relationship 9 (50/75)

Late in the evening, Grace Manor was thrown into an uproar because of the beastkin riding the black panther.

A white-haired woman clung to Bara’s back like a piece of luggage.

Having returned from an outing with Ahin, Mayme turned pale upon hearing the description. She regretted not staying at the mansion and, blaming herself, quickly set out to find Bibi.

Ahin surveyed the chaotic mansion, the disarranged bedroom, and Queen, confined in her cage, and pinched the bridge of his nose. He was starting to fear leaving Bibi alone, even for a short while.

“I told you to protect her, not to sit in a cage eating strawberries.”

He opened the cage and picked up Queen. Queen, with strawberry fragments smeared around her beak, avoided his gaze.

“Living as a pet, have you really become bird-brained?”

One swipe of her claws could bring down Bara, but this overprotection was too much. Feeling wronged, Queen chirped in protest. Ignoring her, Ahin opened the terrace door and said tonelessly,

“If you don’t find her in ten minutes, you’ll be Bibi’s breakfast tomorrow.”

The hawk, facing a life-or-death situation, soared high into the sky.

“Ahin.”

As Ahin glared at Queen, who was flapping away, Ivelyn approached him quickly from behind.

“We’ve received a report that she’s in the indoor greenhouse.”

“I’ll go.”

Ahin crossed the terrace railing without using the door.

Thump, thump. As he ran towards the indoor greenhouse, his insides twisted and turned.

Without even having Perenium [a substance that helps beastkins transform], how did she turn into a human? Could she have been affected by someone’s pheromones?

If she had turned into a human, why couldn’t she wait a little? He couldn’t understand why she had escaped the bedroom riding Bara.

He almost wanted to applaud Bibi for thinking of using a black panther as transportation; she was becoming quite the escape artist.

She had him on edge in such a short time, yet she was calmly in the indoor greenhouse.

Anxious and angry, Ahin knew that his anger would melt away as soon as he saw Bibi, especially if she was in human form.

“Felton, what exactly was wrong with Toto?”

“Enough, from the moment you start worrying about that, your aesthetic sense is ruined.”

“Toto?”

Ahin, who had arrived at the entrance of the indoor greenhouse, caught his breath. The shocked security guards straightened up.

“W-We greet the future head of the family.”

“Th-That just now…!”

Having realized that Toto was Bibi, Ahin passed through the entrance without delay.

“She went out….”

The security guard’s words, unheard by anyone, vanished with the night breeze.

* * *

As night fell, lamps brightly illuminated the interior of the greenhouse.

The person Ahin was looking for was nowhere to be found. Instead, a sixty-eight-year-old fake Bibi, wearing Bibi’s cloak, was sitting at the tea table.

He scanned the scene warily and stood before the tea table.

“Where’s Bibi?”

“She just left; we must have crossed paths. Could you give her this cloak?”

“…Why are you wearing it, Grandpa?”

“The conversation got long, and she said she was hot and covered me with it. By the way, how dare this impudent girl look only for the rabbit even when her grandfather is here?”

“I hope you didn’t say anything unnecessary.”

Lillian shrugged her shoulders in a hateful manner and sipped her tea. Ahin, who had no time for arguments, turned around.

“What if you pierce her delicate neck with your fangs? It’ll leave a scar.”

Suddenly, criticism struck him in the back. Turning his body slightly, Ahin wore a surprised expression.

“You saw it?”

“It would be strange not to see it from where I was.”

“You’re more composed than I thought. I expected you to be furious.”

“Honestly, with that way of speaking, does this grandfather seem like such an old-fashioned person?”

“You know yourself well. Shouldn’t the first thing you say be, ‘What are you doing with that unknown rabbit?'”

Ahin raised one corner of his lip.

“Since when have you welcomed Bibi so much that you’re now weighing things [considering the pros and cons]?”

Lillian, who had nothing to say in response, simply drank her black tea.

Like Bibi, who had left the greenhouse, he too was unable to sort out his complicated feelings.

There was no cure for seizures caused by dominant pheromones. Even when Idis was alive, Valens had searched the continent to find a solution, but to no avail.

However, a healing pheromone that might be the key to that distant problem was running around Ahin’s vicinity.

If they could only figure out the range of the healing ability, it might be the best insurance for Ahin, who was always at risk of having a pheromone seizure.

The more Lillian thought of the round, purple eyes, the more selfishness and guilt clashed.

The selfishness of wanting Ahin’s life to be complete, and the guilt of having to tie Bibi down for his sake.

“Which family’s young lady is she? Her etiquette is clumsy; she can’t be just a commoner from some territory.”

“Here you go again, talking about marriage.”

“Just answer the question.”

“A mid-level noble. But I ruined them.”

“Y-You crazy bastard…!”

What on earth did he do to make that happen! Lillian, who had been holding back her anger, finally expressed it and then coughed, realizing her mistake.

“-I see, a mid-level noble should have a decent bloodline. Yes, not bad at all.”

“Are you going to pretend you didn’t say that last part?”

“What did I say?”

Lillian, feigning ignorance, fiddled with the innocent teacup.

She had only given Bibi minimal information, as if telling an old story, but it was essentially a secret of the Grace family.

Bibi, who was not suitable but had a sharp side, could not have been unaware of this. She must have guessed the weight of the secret and the fact that it might tie her down.

Fortunately, Bibi’s heart was currently leaning towards Ahin. The assumption of Ahin’s death would hold her feet once more.

‘I don’t feel good about this.’

Lillian had already lost a child once. And she couldn’t lose Ahin for the same reason.

Problems like different clans or status were meaningless in the face of survival.

If Ahin ever had a seizure, Bibi’s presence alone was likely to bring a different result than with Idis.

However, it might be a thorny path for Bibi, who would have to stay here even if she didn’t want to.

The scale, wavering between guilt and selfishness, slowly tilted towards selfishness. Burying her thoughts, Lillian gestured towards the mansion.

“I heard you’re going back to the bedroom with two black panthers chasing your tail.”

“…….”

“Aren’t you going?”

Ahin suspiciously scanned Lillian, who was trying to act affectionate.

As he was about to leave the indoor greenhouse, his steps strode back towards the tea table. Snatching the cloak, Ahin said with cold eyes,

“Don’t ever wear this again, even if Bibi offers it to you. It’s disgusting.”

“You rascal!”

Lillian, who could no longer hold back her anger, roared, shaking the indoor greenhouse.

* * *

Bibi kept missing Ahin, as if playing hide-and-seek.

One knight said he went up the central staircase, and the butler said he passed the opposite hallway. In the end, she didn’t encounter him until Ivelyn led Ash and Bara in front of the bedroom.

While Ahin was in the indoor greenhouse, the employees had cleaned the bedroom neatly. It was as if they were too competent and had cleaned Bibi away as well; Bibi, who was said to have entered the bedroom, was nowhere to be seen.

Queen, standing on the terrace railing, pointed to the desk with her wing.

Drawing the curtains to block Queen, Ahin walked towards the desk. He could see the hem of a light purple dress peeking out from below.

With just that one thing, the anxiety and unease washed away like a tide. Ahin bent his knees.

“Bibi.”

Bibi’s face, hidden under the desk, was covered in tears.

Whether she was a rabbit or a human, she still didn’t cry out loud. Even in the midst of it, her effort to pinch her nose to stop the tears was admirable.

The fact that he could see her complete expression smoothly lifted the corners of Ahin’s lips.

“I told you, that doesn’t stop the tears.”

Bibi seemed as if Ahin was tightly packed inside a square box.

Quietly taking her hand off her nose, she bit her lower lip hard enough to draw blood. Nevertheless, she resented the tears that filled her eyes.

She wasn’t a rabbit, but she hated that she couldn’t break the habit of unconsciously hiding in a corner when she was scared or upset.

Bibi’s lips were gradually swelling red from the pressure of her teeth.

“Your lips will get hurt.”

Ahin’s hand, which had unconsciously reached out, was slapped away by Bibi. Surprised by her own action, Bibi looked at her own hand with wide eyes.

Ahin also stared blankly at the back of his hand, which had been blocked by the sharp defense. It felt like facing a rabbit cornered and extremely sensitive.

Did Lillian say something unnecessary to her? He took a shallow breath and sat down on the spot.

Thump, Ahin’s tilted forehead touched the edge of the desk. Unlike Bibi, who was comfortably settled, his sitting height made it impossible to enter the desk.

“Did you hear something strange from Grandpa?”

As if his words were a signal flare, Bibi’s eyes welled up with tears.

“Grandpa.”

Sob.

“Strange words.”

Sob.

Having examined the unspoken signals, Ahin was able to easily find the cause of the tears.

‘So that’s the answer.’

He frowned, guessing that she had heard about Idis or the dominant pheromones. A subtle smell of blood was felt.

His quickly roaming red eyes stayed on Bibi’s hand, which she had placed on her knees. It was a wound caused by her nails digging in as she clenched her fist.

“Why is your hand like that again?”

“…….”

“Bibi, please answer me. I’m about to get angry.”

Bibi, thinking that she was the one who had done something wrong, slapped away Ahin’s hand that was approaching her wound again. Facing his expressionless face, which had lost its smile, Bibi forced her lips open.

“…Why didn’t you tell me.”

Ahin, blinking several times, tilted his head. Bibi’s face came into his view in more detail.

“I’d appreciate it if you could explain the situation properly.”

Like a broken faucet, Bibi’s eyes were constantly filling with tears.

Ahin, who was laughing inappropriately, curled up the corners of his mouth.

Her nose was red. Her braided hair, which clearly contained Lillian’s old-fashioned sensibilities, was a mess and undone.

He reached into his pocket to wipe away her tears, but then stopped.

Realizing that he didn’t have a handkerchief, Ahin took off his jacket and handed it to her. The even more ferocious rabbit fiercely rejected it.

“When…!”

Bibi, realizing that her pronunciation was off, stopped speaking.

Hanging her head, she deliberately pulled at the corners of her eyes. She felt like she wouldn’t be taken lightly and questioned unless the tears stopped.

‘If it’s a healing pheromone, it might be able to stop pheromone seizures.’

‘To put it bluntly, I need your pheromones.’

Lillian conveyed her wish that the healing pheromone be handled as soon as possible and become a talent of the Grace family.

The words implied within were no different from telling Bibi to stay by Ahin’s side and take care of his well-being.

‘What is your relationship with my grandson?’

She was not unaware that they were trying to use her heart, which was leaning towards him, as a means. The various emotions that rushed in at once shook Bibi’s heart in confusion.

She was angry but also understanding, and she was happy that she was needed but also thought that it would ultimately lead to exploitation.

And, Ahin was so hateful that all of these things became trivial.

Bibi, who had been reasoning, suddenly raised her head.

“Since when?”

Ahin’s pupils trembled slightly at Bibi’s sudden movement.

“…What?”

“I asked when the pheromone seizures started happening.”

Bibi’s voice gradually became agitated, despite her efforts to remain calm.

“You said that Ahin’s father died because of a pheromone seizure. But Grandpa didn’t seem to know that you also have seizures sometimes. Why didn’t you tell me?”

Ahin, who had anticipated the questioning, sighed lowly and rubbed his face dry.

Bibi, thinking that it seemed like a resigned attitude, clenched her fist tightly.

Ahin’s red eyes followed the momentary movement. Her nails dug into the already irritating wound again.

“Hand.”

“Is this the time to worry about that? Okay, let’s say it was hard to say. But I know. You should have told me at least, that it could lead to d…!”

Bibi, who had been speaking like a machine gun, suddenly stopped moving.

“D-!”

“D?”

Ahin asked back casually in a monotone voice. Her purple eyes trembled visibly.

“To death….”

Realizing that she had become too agitated, she put her half-raised butt back on the floor.

“That it could lead to death.”

Bibi’s lips trembled as she barely managed to continue speaking.

“Why didn’t you tell me….”

Tears fell in drops, darkening the light-colored dress.

Only the sound of her heavy breathing echoed in the quiet bedroom. Her eyes, which she had rubbed with the back of her hand to stop the tears, were red.

Ahin stared blankly at Bibi, who was stuffing her sobs.

Bibi was good at pretending to wipe away tears, but she cried as if she didn’t know how to cry out loud when she actually cried. Did she know that this made the person watching feel uneasy?

“Why…!”

Bibi expressed her unfulfilled frustration by slamming the floor.

Ahin, looking down at her insignificant hand movement, smiled faintly.

The tears she shed because of him were not bad. Her flushed, feverish face, and the hair that was stuck to her face because of the moisture. And her lower lip, which had swollen because she kept biting it to stop the tears.

Thinking that it would be nice to just watch her cry like this, Ahin felt a heavy tightening in his lower abdomen.

His half-lowered gaze stayed on Bibi’s hand.

The faint smell of blood emanating from her wounded hand filled the space under the desk. The scent of Bibi, who was scattered due to her agitated emotions, was also mixed in.

It was a dangerous smell. Stimulated by that vivid and familiar smell, he unconsciously took a languid breath.

Meanwhile, Bibi, who looked up at Ahin with his back to the light, felt her hairs stand on end.

The sensation of having a hungry beast in front of her gnawed at her reason.

The blurred vision caused by the tears quickly regained focus. Fumbling, Bibi’s hand roamed the desk wall.

Only then could she realize the contradiction. The underside of the desk was safe from the outside, but there was nowhere to escape.

All sides were blocked, and the only exit was blocked by Ahin, who was subtly different from usual.

“If I tell you, what can Bibi do?”

The canines revealed as Ahin’s lips opened aroused Bibi’s instincts. She couldn’t take her eyes off the sharp area that easily pierced the skin.

Run away. A resonance arose as if someone was whispering in her ear.

Her gaze, which had been fixed on the sharp canines, gradually rose and stopped at his faded eyes, and she felt her heart drop to the floor.

She had to run away. Bibi’s back was blocked by the desk wall as she stepped back.

“…Bibi?”

“……!”

Bibi unconsciously cowered as if protecting her body. It was an action based on primal instinct.

Thump, thump. As time passed, her heart, which had been beating erratically, gradually found its speed.

When she removed the arm that had been blocking her vision, she saw Ahin’s harmless face, which was no different from usual.

Thump, the vivid fear that had been shaking her insides until just now scattered like a dream. Slowly lowering her arm, Bibi breathed heavily without moving.

It was a fear that she had not been aware of at some point.

Having lived together, there was nothing particularly different, so why couldn’t herbivore beastkins and carnivore beastkins get closer than a certain distance? She had often thought about it recently.

The knights she had been so afraid of were actually easygoing when she faced them, and the strict butler and maid were just people who followed rules and principles. They were just beastkins who were slightly bigger, but they were the same beastkins as Professor Jinan and Russell.

That complacency gradually grew, and after returning from Rabbit Territory, she had the illusion that she was really a black panther.

If other herbivore beastkins also felt this way from time to time, she understood the invisible line between carnivore beastkins and herbivore beastkins.

“Bibi, you look pale.”

Bibi finally came to her senses at Ahin’s low voice.

“Uh…, how far, how far did we talk.”

“If I tell you about the pheromone seizure, what can you do?”

“I, what….”

She couldn’t keep her eyes on him and rattled off incoherent words.

“Ah….”

Bibi, whose mind had gone blank in that short time, touched her forehead.

Ahin, who was looking at her with her eyes on the floor, took his forehead off the edge.

His silver hair, which he had swept back carelessly, fell lightly on his forehead.

“Are you afraid of me?”

It was impossible for him not to find the sudden awkward behavior strange. Bibi’s shoulder, which trembled slightly, became the answer to the question.

“Because I have fangs?”

Ahin, who had always been at the top of the food chain everywhere, had never experienced such fear.

He would never experience it in the future, so it was impossible to even understand fear from the beginning.

However, he knew that Bibi’s reaction was different from simply being frightened and shaking her head.

Her pale skin, trembling gaze, and cowering body were a familiar kind. It was a reaction commonly seen in those just before they were killed.

Ahin’s mouth felt bitter when he estimated that the emotion Bibi had felt for him at that moment was just that level of fear.

“I’ll tell you later.”

Judging that it was better to create distance than to stimulate her any further, he placed his hand on the floor. As he moved to leave, Bibi reached out and grabbed Ahin’s sleeve.

“…Where are you going? We haven’t finished talking yet.”

“Is it possible?”

“What is.”

“Talking to me right now. It shouldn’t be possible.”

Ahin, who was kneeling down, looked down at Bibi. Her physique felt even bigger, and Bibi’s hand, which was holding onto his sleeve, was clenched tightly.

“You haven’t heard my answer yet.”

“What answer?”

“…The answer to my question about what I can do even if I hear about your pheromone surge.”

Ahin didn’t have high expectations when he brought it up, but now that he had read Bibi’s fear, he was even more skeptical.

Ahin, who hadn’t said anything, raised the corner of his lips. Bibi’s gaze sharpened as she noticed it was a sneer.

“…Do you not know? I’m not sure about when you turn into a black panther, but when you had a pheromone surge in the rabbit territory, you were clearly calmed down by healing pheromones. Right?”

“That’s right.”

“Then why are you saying it like that? The problem I can help with…,”

“Don’t be conceited.”

Ahin’s usually relaxed voice turned sharp in an instant. Startled, Bibi stiffened and tightened her grip on his sleeve, afraid he might shake her off.

“You, who haven’t even gone through humanification yet, are going to overuse your abilities to treat my surge?”

“…….”

“Do you think you’ll never have a surge? It hasn’t even been half a year since you had a surge in Endelus.”

Ahin loosened Bibi’s fingers, which were curled so tightly that his clothes were wrinkled.

“Besides, you’re so afraid of me that you even forget to breathe for a moment. What are you going to do with that?”

“That’s…!”

Ahin, who had completely shaken off her hand, looked down at Bibi with arrogant eyes.

“Take care of your own well-being instead of trying to help others.”

Each word was a dagger and pierced Bibi.

Ahin, facing her wavering expression, closed his mouth. He turned his eyes away from the face that softened his heart, thinking she would back down at this point.

“Today,”

As Ahin was thinking of something to change the subject, he failed to notice the purple eyes flashing.

“How did you happen to be in human form…,”

Suddenly, caught off guard, Ahin was pulled by the collar and dragged under the desk.

Ahin’s body was forcibly contorted due to his physique, and he banged the back of his head against the desk wall. The attack, which he couldn’t even defend against, brought more pain than he had expected.

When he regained his sight after groaning, a ferocious herbivore burning in the darkness was right in front of him.

‘Did I hit my head too hard?’ Ahin, who couldn’t face reality for a moment, twisted his body. However, the narrow space made the movement stop at a slight struggle.

Ahin, leaning diagonally against the desk wall, looked up at the beast that had pounced on him.

Bibi was not only positioned between his legs but was almost crushing him.

*Thump-* She even strongly tightened Ahin’s collar to prevent him from escaping. Her purple eyes gleamed as if blue flames were shooting out.

The walnut-shaped wrinkles on her jaw, which were right in front of him, were visible. Wrinkles that revealed her anger. His intention to hope she would back down appropriately had the opposite effect of stimulating Bibi.

Ahin, realizing that he had stepped into the territory of a dangerous herbivore, hardened his expression.

The excessively close distance strongly suppressed his breath. The scent emanating from Bibi immediately made his instincts wriggle.

‘…Bibi, please.’

He forcibly swallowed his rough breath and recalled Bibi from just before.

A pale complexion, frightened eyes, and fear from the bottom of her heart.

Each one became a lingering image and flickered.

Ahin, holding onto his thinning reason by repeating her name, turned his head away. However, Bibi, whose eyes had turned over, grabbed both cheeks and turned them back to their original position.

Ahin, feeling an insane thirst for the smell of blood and pheromones on her approaching hand, opened his lips.

“What on earth are you doing?”

“You asked me how I turned into a human,” Bibi said clearly.

“I transformed purely by my own power. By raising my pheromones myself.”

“…You?”

Ahin asked back as if he couldn’t believe it. Then his eyes turned cold. The way she raised her pheromones, which were not yet refined, meant that she had struggled in pain to become human.

“You!”

*Slap,* Bibi didn’t allow Ahin’s mouth to utter criticism.

“Yes, as you said, I still haven’t gone through humanification.”

He, who had even suffered the ordeal of being kissed, blankly looked up at her.

“But as of today, I can transform into a human and control going back to a rabbit. And pheromone surges only happen when I use more pheromones than necessary or swallow drugs like gray powder.”

Bibi paused for a moment and continued.

“But what about Ahin? If you could control it like me, you wouldn’t have had such a surge. Since it happens unexpectedly, you must have collapsed even in the rabbit territory. It’s a clear fact that my pheromones relieved the pain at that time.”

“…….”

“You can’t even control it, so you should take care of yourself!”

She gave back the same words and breathed heavily. Ahin still maintained a dazed state.

As she waited for an answer that didn’t come back, Bibi’s reason, which had been clouded by anger, gradually returned.

Ahin’s face, which had been regarded as a piece of wood, was finally seen properly. The expression, which had always been relaxed whether it was pretense or sincerity, was frozen numbly.

Bibi’s mouth gradually widened into a rhombus shape, and she lowered her gaze with her hand. The area holding his collar was crumpled to the point where the shirt buttons could have been torn off.

‘I’m crazy…!’

Bibi, who released her hand with a snap, stepped back, but she was soon blocked by the desk wall.

‘God, give me courage.’ Bibi, who had her back against the wall, sought the beast god she didn’t even look for well.

“The, the conclusion is,”

She barely opened her mouth, borrowing the power of God.

“Let’s find a way together… That’s roughly what I mean.”

“…Find a way?”

Bibi, swallowing hard, nodded.

“A way to stop the surge. I’ll also try to handle pheromones properly as soon as possible. So, I’d appreciate it if you could tell me what you know, like how long you’ve been experiencing it or if there’s a cycle…”

“…….”

“…Please.”

Bibi, who spoke persuasively, pursed her lips tightly.

‘Ahin is the one whose life is in danger, but why am I speaking in a pleading tone?’

‘I haven’t even gotten over the resentment for his nasty way of speaking, as if he doesn’t care about such things.’

“Bibi.”

He, who raised the corners of his lips purely, asked.

“Haven’t you ever thought that I might be keeping you around to use your pheromones?”

Even with one word, Bibi frowned and flared up.

“…If that was the only purpose, Ahin wouldn’t have expressed that I was a woman he was attracted to.”

“…….”

“Even if that was the purpose, it doesn’t matter. It’s also a fact that I survived thanks to you, and I can help Ahin. In the first place, there’s also the fact that I didn’t want to borrow the power of healing pheromones because I thought you might think that way-”

She trailed off, belatedly realizing how audacious she was being.

“I, I think there is….”

Silence fell. Bibi, who felt the subjective time of several seconds like several hours, nervously grabbed the hem of her dress. As she became aware of the close distance with Ahin, she finally realized what crazy짓 [짓 is a Korean word that can be translated as ‘짓’, ‘doing’, or ‘act’] she had done.

“If you can’t find it.”

She was startled and raised her head at the sudden low voice.

“If you can’t find a way, are you going to help me every time I have a surge?”

“I wouldn’t have brought it up if I didn’t intend to do that.”

“Forever?”

“Forev-”

Bibi, who was unknowingly following his words, felt her heart sink. She was afraid that if she answered like that, her feelings would come to the surface as they were.

Ahin, who was still sitting diagonally, straightened his body. However, he still had to bend his waist, and the top of his head touched the desk wall.

Regardless, he slowly grabbed Bibi’s wrist.

“While trembling like this?”

Her hand, including her wrist, trembled as if convulsing. Bibi, whose fingertips were tingling, tightly closed and opened her eyes.

Ahin didn’t particularly stop her hand, which had begun to move slowly.

Soon, the hand that reached his lips slightly lifted his upper lip.

The exposed fangs vividly gleamed even under the dark desk.

“…Look.”

Bibi, who timidly pressed the pointed part with her thumb, squeezed out her voice.

“I… I’m not fainting anymore, am I?”

How had it been so far? Fainting at the sound of emergency rations. Fainting after putting her forepaws in her mouth. Fainting, fainting, fainting. Ahin had asked if fainting was her hobby, she had fainted so many times.

“If I try, I won’t be afraid of fangs in the future.”

This was a complete lie.

“…Maybe.”

Bibi intuitively predicted that she would be afraid of fangs until she died.

“As you know, I’m gradually controlling pheromones, and now that Grandpa has agreed to help, it will be easier to handle them over time.”

‘Queen and Evelyn are also a handful.’ A momentary confidence beyond pride flashed across her pale face.

“…I know you deliberately spoke badly because you were worried that I would overuse my abilities. You don’t have to do that. My life and safety are the most important things to me even if Ahin doesn’t do that much.”

Ahin’s red eyes trembled faintly.

He had expected her to say that she wanted to help him even if her own well-being was in danger, given the flow of the conversation.

However, Bibi’s statement, which put the importance of her own life first, made Ahin’s heart inwardly complicated.

“Still, how can I stand by and pretend I don’t know? …Will Ahin just stand by and watch if I have a pheromone surge?”

“Do I look like that kind of trash?”

“Uh-huh.”

“…….”

“A little.”

Ahin decided to believe that she had become so skilled at speaking that she could even make mischievous jokes. It was a misjudgment that he had overlooked the fact that Bibi had to say what she had to say even as a human, just as she swung her hind legs vigorously when she was a rabbit.

“It’s the same for me. I’ll use healing pheromones whenever you have a surge, and even if Ahin doesn’t tell me anything, I’ll find a way on my own, so don’t stop me. No matter how you act, I’ll never leave until the surge stops.”

‘I finally said everything.’ Thanks to pouring out her inner thoughts, Bibi felt relieved and slightly removed her thumb from the fangs.

She was about to completely withdraw her hand, which was holding her soft cheek, but she was blocked by Ahin, who grabbed her wrist.

The wrist and palm, where their skin touched, were hot.

Ahin, who moved his lips, lightly licked the wound on her palm. Bibi, who was so surprised that she almost slapped him, trembled.

He, who put the bitter taste of blood on the tip of his tongue, asked in a subdued voice.

“How should I accept what you’ve said so far?”

“Uh, how should you… literally,”

“In that case, if I never stop having surges, shouldn’t Bibi be by my side forever?”

Bibi, who heard Ahin’s own interpretation, widened her mouth into a rhombus shape again.

‘She might die because of the surge. Who in the world would ask such a question with their life on the line?’

While she was thinking all sorts of things, her nerves were focused on the sensation of licking the wound. The wound tingled every time his soft tongue brushed against it.

“Is it wrong?”

‘This enchanting black panther is trying to seduce me now.’ Unlike her determination not to fall for it, Bibi was steadily falling for it.

“…The enchanting one must be Bibi.”

Bibi’s light purple pupils, which had her inner thoughts read, vibrated violently.

Ahin, who moved slowly, leaned towards Bibi. He supported his leaning body by placing his hand on the floor.

Bibi, who had come to look up at Ahin, automatically stopped breathing.

“Who would have known that I would end up crawling under the feet of a rabbit I picked up? Don’t you think?”

‘Even in this situation, he’s talking nonsense again.’ Bibi felt a surge of resentment, but she couldn’t bring herself to say it. Her face was so close that their breaths were already mixing, and it was difficult to even hold her breath.

Bibi’s eyelashes, facing Ahin, fluttered.

“…You’ve never crawled under my feet.”

“Haven’t I?”

“No. Just yesterday morning, you said you were going to mix me with salad,”

Ahin’s lips briefly touched and fell from her round nose.

Gazes crossed in the air.

‘…He’s definitely a bewitching beast.’

Her cheeks flushed red, and she narrowed her eyes.

“Then I’ll crawl from now on.”

Ahin, who let out a low laugh, folded his eyes into crescents.

Just as Bibi was thinking that she didn’t know whose heart was pounding, a soft touch met her lips.

Ahin, who lightly touched his lips, took his face away. Bibi, who was quite nervous, stiffened her back.

Ahin looked down at her, who had completely closed her eyes. Despite gathering her hands in embarrassment, her plump lips were pouting.

Ahin, facing the sly rabbit who was even subtly sticking out her neck, turned his head away. It was too funny.

“……?”

‘Why is it so quiet?’ Bibi slyly opened her eyes when the expected thing didn’t happen. She thought they were facing each other, but he was covering his mouth with his head turned to the side.

‘Could it be.’

Ahin’s fingertips trembled palely as if he were coughing up blood.

“No!”

Bibi, who momentarily mistook it for a pheromone surge, jumped up.

Ahin, who was laughing, hurriedly reached out and pressed the top of her head. He barely avoided the phenomenon of hitting her head and blinked in disbelief.

“What suddenly isn’t okay?”

Bibi, who examined the extremely healthy Ahin, soon made a face like a demon. He was laughing.

‘…Yeah, what am I going to do with this beast.’

With a black panther who has no match in the world for being flighty.

Herbivore beastkins often ridiculed carnivore beastkins as barbarians who were faithful to instinct and greed, but Ahin now was completely nonsense.

“Move aside.”

Bibi, who snorted, twisted her body to get out from under the desk. That purpose ended in an attempt due to Ahin, who leaned his body further towards her.

“Where are you going.”

Bibi pressed down on her chest, which was helplessly fluctuating. Her already breathtakingly beautiful face was excessively close.

“…I have something urgent to do.”

“This is also an urgent matter.”

Ahin, who smiled languidly, overlapped his lips as they were. Bibi, who had turned into a stone statue again, even forgot to close her eyes.

He, who tilted his head diagonally, lightly swept his lips with his tongue. Nevertheless, Bibi’s tightly closed lips did not allow intrusion.

Through Ahin’s vision, who had half-lifted his eyelids, she was seen without even being able to close her eyes, which were wide open.

He, who kept his distance and slightly parted his lips, said.

“Do you hate it?”

Anxiety and impatience were buried in his slow voice.

Bibi shook her head violently, replacing her answer.

‘You can’t fan the flames and end it vaguely.’ Unlike her stiff attitude, her mindset was already that of a beast.

“Then ah [a sound of agreement].”

At the same time as Bibi’s lips slightly parted, Ahin deeply penetrated.

Gazes met with their lips touching. His red eyes, which were narrowly opened, gleamed like a beast that had been starving for days.

Soon, rough palms covered Bibi’s wandering pupils, which had lost their way. She naturally closed her eyes and tightly curled up the hem of Ahin’s clothes.

Starting with him, Ahin’s arm strongly pulled Bibi’s waist. The opposite hand, which pressed the back of her head, recklessly ruffled her white hair.

It was a movement that showed even impatience, unlike the slow start. Ahin, who overlapped his lips without any gaps, relentlessly rummaged through her soft mouth.

“Heu,”

Whenever Bibi, who was running out of breath, slightly pulled her body back, he overlapped his lips as if swallowing her without exception.

Due to the arm that bound her body, they could feel each other’s heartbeats as they were.

Bibi, who unconsciously thought that Ahin’s heartbeat seemed louder, shuddered.

The hand that was pressing the back of her head came down and touched the bite mark on her neck.

The rough thumb persistently stroked the scar that remained. It was a touch that seemed to confirm the traces, rubbing and pressing.

Bibi, who had become dazed, unknowingly scattered her pheromones.

Ahin, who was doing his best not to release sexual pheromones, swallowed curses inwardly. It was already difficult with Bibi alone, but the addition of healing pheromones shook his reason.

Ahin, who reminded himself that she would turn back into a rabbit if she used pheromones even in a hazy state, pushed in his pheromones.

Pheromones, which were denser than usual, filled the bedroom.

Bibi, who was beyond breathless and thought she would suffocate to death, pounded his chest.

Nevertheless, Ahin, who didn’t stop, forcibly parted his lips at the touch of his hand tightly strangling his cravat.

“…Why.”

An ardent voice that was not refined flowed out. Bibi, who intermittently gasped for breath, had sharp eyes.

“It’s too suffocating.”

“It’s originally suffocating.”

She growled, pushing away Ahin’s chin, which was approaching again.

“…I’ll rest for a bit.”

She was a sly rabbit who never said she would stop. He was more than satisfied with her slyness, and he clung to Bibi, who was wriggling. The auricle [external ear] that was revealed when he touched his forehead was red.

Bibi, who looked up at his troubled red eyes, made a disgusted face. Unlike her, who was still short of breath, his breath had no disarray at all.

Ahin, who confirmed her brow furrowing with an untimely competitive spirit, let out a turbid laugh.

“Why do you look so funny?”

He, who couldn’t control his impulse, bit Bibi’s lower lip gently.

Bibi, who felt the tingling sensation that touched her lips, vaguely thought. ‘Could it be a fang?’

Soon, Bibi, who was in Ahin’s arms, drooped. Ahin, who was blankly looking down at her, who had suddenly fainted, shook the arm that was wrapped around her waist.

“…Bibi?”

Bibi, who had already left for an unknown place, was just fluttering like a piece of paper. Her pale complexion contained fear and confusion as they were.

“Ah.”

He then recalled the fangs that had sprouted on his gums and groped his lips.

‘If she was going to faint to this extent, how did she kiss, and how is she going to endure it in the future?’

Ahin thought that he didn’t know Bibi’s courage.