The Symbiotic Relationship Between The Rabbit And The Black Panther [EN]: Chapter 65

Rabbit and Black Leopard’s Symbiotic Relationship 12

About four hours ago, Evelyn hastily moved Bibi and Russell, who had fainted upon seeing her face, to the academy’s infirmary.

Lying in bed, the two were asleep with expressions as if they had seen the most terrifying thing in the world.

Grasping her chest, which was pounding as if it would burst out, Evelyn quickly turned away. She needed to inform Ahin, the person who was searching for the rabbit, more than anyone else.

He stopped abruptly as he threw open the infirmary door. His trembling gaze fixed on Bibi, who was stretched out and lying down.

“…….”

Evelyn cautiously approached again and looked down at Bibi, who had doubled in size compared to a year and a half ago.

How did the rabbit spend the two bitterly cold winters? Her mind, which had been filled with only Ahin’s joy, was gradually covered with pity for Bibi.

The human form she had glimpsed showed that the round face had become quite thin, and seeing that her true form had changed, it seemed she had undergone humanization in the meantime. For some reason, she seemed to be attending the academy now.

Thinking that she had overcome everything on her own, the resentment towards Bibi, who had not appeared even after searching the entire continent, disappeared like snow melting.

Her pale, chilled fingertips brushed over the white fur without daring to touch it.

Suppressing the surge of emotions, Evelyn hesitated to leave and wandered around the infirmary.

What if she disappeared again, just like that day a year and a half ago, while she turned her back to call Ahin? Bibi’s motionless figure seemed to fade away like a faint watercolor painting.

‘I finally found the rabbit, but…’ Evelyn’s hands were clammy with fear.

When she came to her senses, she was already carrying Bibi’s small backpack, its strap so small that Bibi’s body was wedged into it.

And now.

Evelyn clenched her fist anxiously as she confirmed that the carriage had passed through the Grace family’s main gate.

Her whole body ached from maintaining a straight posture for nearly four hours, but she had no time to feel the pain. She had committed the most absurd and reckless mistake of her life as an aide.

The mistake was the small creature currently sleeping in the backpack, and the price of the mistake might be her own head.

She should report everything to Ahin, who was sitting across from her, but strangely, her lips wouldn’t part.

What if Bibi didn’t want to meet them yet? What if she had come all the way to the Grace mansion because of her momentary impulse?

“Evelyn, why are your legs shaking all of a sudden?”

“It’s because I haven’t been sleeping well lately, thanks to someone.”

“Do you want to sleep forever?”

“I’m sorry.”

Evelyn, who dealt with Ahin as calmly as usual, wiped the sweat from her hands on her pants.

Reason was ordering her to side with Ahin unconditionally, but her heart had already leaned towards Bibi long ago.

‘Hoo….’

Fortunately, or unfortunately, there was still a chance to make up for her mistake, even if only slightly.

The fact that Lillian Fayant was currently at the Grace mansion was definitely a stroke of luck.

Lillian couldn’t possibly not know that Bibi was attending the Belhelm Academy.

Even if she didn’t know the details, it was obvious that the two had some kind of connection, so if she could hand Bibi over without being caught by Ahin….

“……!”

Evelyn, who was making various plans, straightened her back. It was because she felt a subtle wriggling in the backpack that was transmitted through her back.

‘She’s not awake yet.’

Fortunately, the carriage, which had been gradually slowing down, came to a complete stop.

‘Now is the time to act as usual. The one in front of you is a hyena-like black leopard,’ Evelyn muttered, perfectly assisting Ahin and bowing deeply at the entrance of the mansion.

“I apologize, but I will step down first. I need to get some sleep today so I can see tomorrow’s sun.”

Evelyn, who raised her head, was sweating profusely. It seemed that Bibi had completely woken up, as she could feel the backpack on her back wriggling.

Meanwhile, Bibi, who couldn’t stand the stuffy heat and opened her eyes, waved her front paws. The soft cloth that Evelyn had wrapped around her only brought a heat as if she were in a steamer.

Not only had she just woken up, but the heat was so intense that it blurred her mind, and Bibi couldn’t even tell if it was a dream or reality.

‘…Where am I?’

More than that, she would really become a roasted rabbit if this continued. Bibi, caught in a terrible imagination, struggled to push away the unknown cloth.

Tung, tung.

The cotton ball began to thrash around as if it would break through the cloth. It was like a furious beast’s struggle.

‘Rabbit-nim [term of endearment, like ‘Miss Rabbit’], please, please-….’

‘Please endure for just thirty seconds,’ Evelyn sobbed inwardly, unable to show her back to Ahin. The backpack was moving madly on its own.

Ahin suspiciously scanned Evelyn, whose behavior was somehow hasty.

‘Something’s wrong.’

It was true that she hadn’t been sleeping well lately, so maybe she was sick from sleep deprivation. Looking at her flushed face, it seemed like she had a fever.

“T-Then, rest well.”

Evelyn, who stuttered unusually, took off her backpack and turned her back to Ahin.

“Stop.”

A low voice pierced his back.

“Turn around.”

Ahin quietly ordered, pressing the tip of his sword against Evelyn’s back.

‘It’s all over.’

Evelyn reluctantly turned around, willy-nilly. At the same time, the backpack lid opened forcefully, and rabbit ears popped up.

* * *

It was still an excessively luxurious bedroom. The expensive jewels displayed instead of ornaments, the carpet where it was hard to find even a speck of dust.

It was a place I had endlessly drawn in my mind. But now that I had actually come, I was filled with a new kind of emotion rather than joy.

After poking at this and that with my front paws, I eventually lost strength in my legs and collapsed.

It was home.

As soon as I realized it, my whole body became languid, as if the time I had spent on edge had been for nothing.

The excitement of being able to see everyone soon and the thought of wanting to enjoy this feeling and rest for now conflicted.

“Don’t touch anything, or I’ll hand you over to the chef.”

Just then, a cold voice was heard from behind.

When I stiffly turned my head towards the bed, I saw Ahin lying diagonally, supporting his face with his arm. He was ready to sleep, dressed in a light shirt and casual pants.

‘That incorrigible playboy.’

I secretly gnashed my teeth, feeling displeased.

Even if he knew I was just an animal, how could he bring a strange rabbit into his bedroom?

It was fortunate that he was properly dressed, but if he had been wearing his usual gown, I would have been greatly angered and kicked him with my hind legs.

“I’ll send you back to the academy when it gets light, so go to sleep. Don’t bother me.”

Currently, Ahin believed that Evelyn had stolen a rabbit that looked like me from the farm for him, who was lost in thought.

What was even more absurd was that Evelyn knew about Ahin’s misunderstanding but didn’t explain that the rabbit was me.

Seeing her send a signal that she wanted to secretly keep it a secret… it seemed that she thought I wanted to hide that I was Bibi.

It wasn’t a wrong judgment, but what good was it now that I had come all the way here?

‘Everything will be revealed anyway when I turn back into a human.’

He brought me here without permission, but he was a very funny beast.

‘Ugh.’

I hated Evelyn to death, but seeing that I wasn’t getting angry, it seemed that I didn’t dislike the current situation so much at heart.

In fact, it was a place I had wanted to come to so much that I could cry.

I came here as a rabbit for the first time, and I came here as a rabbit for the second time. I guess there can’t be a touching and dramatic reunion between Ahin and me.

Having no choice, I decided to reveal my identity and turned around on the bed.

“Lower your eyes.”

That rude beast. As time passed, the arrogance in his eyes had doubled.

I lowered my eyes and turned my gaze to the dressing room. It would be better to go there, get dressed, and come out.

‘Please open this door.’

When I jumped and pointed to the door leading to the dressing room, a sharp voice rang out from behind.

“You can’t go there, it’s Bibi’s. Get your dirty paws off.”

‘If he’s only going to say such mean things, why did he bring me to the bedroom?’

I was dumbfounded, but my heart was pounding at those words.

Was it because all the jewels in the dressing room had become mine, or was it because I heard Ahin’s voice calling my name after a long time?

‘Still, I have to go into the dressing room….’

I couldn’t turn back into a human in front of Ahin while wiggling my hips.

Let’s talk first. As soon as I decided to reveal my identity, I wanted to express it as soon as possible and ran to the bed.

‘Lift me up.’

I stood up, holding onto the bed, and looked up at Ahin earnestly.

However, Ahin’s red eyes, which were half-lowered, had a surprisingly cold light.

“No one but Bibi can be here either.”

He even flicked his finger and knocked my front paw off the bed. Losing my balance, I fell to the floor.

I, Bibi-nim [term of respect], can’t even use Bibi’s place.

I blinked blankly as I lay there, then jumped up. If I used the rabbit’s jumping power, I could get up on my own.

‘I’m going.’

Tung, tung, I put force on my hind legs and kicked off the ground, jumping high.

And I crashed into the bed frame and fell out miserably. It seemed like I saw stars in the sky for a moment.

As I shook my head and tried to come to my senses, I was grabbed by the scruff of my neck and lifted into the air.

“…What have you been doing since earlier?”

Soft bedding touched my feet. It was thanks to Ahin, who had shown mercy for once and put me on the bed.

Surprised by the excessively close distance, I slipped into the blanket. Even though he was a defenseless beast, his subtly mature face was enough to stimulate the lust of many rabbits.

After suppressing my lust, I carefully poked my head out, and a rag doll came into view instead of Ahin.

‘Why did he put something like that on the bed?’

Judging by the cotton sticking out, it looked like a doll….

“Don’t touch it, it’s Bibi’s doppelganger.”

How is that me? Even if I conceded a hundred times, it was a mutant that could never be seen as a rabbit.

My face turned red and blue, and I lay down and glared at the doll to death. The small purpose of revealing my identity was fading due to the tearfully ugly doppelganger.

“-I think I’m going crazy.”

After a while, Ahin made a unique languid voice and tapped my nose with his finger.

“Every time I see a white rabbit, I have to check if it’s Bibi or not.”

‘…….’

“Right now, it feels like you understand what I’m saying.”

The finger that had been on my nose slowly stroked my head. I blinked languidly, feeling as if I had returned to the beginning when I met Ahin.

“If I had known this would happen, I wouldn’t have wished for that kind of thing as a birthday present.”

Birthday present? As I pondered Ahin’s words, I soon recalled an unforgettable phrase.

‘If something happens that I do wrong first, forgive me unconditionally at least once.’

At the time, I couldn’t understand that ambiguous request, but now I knew what kind of wrong he was talking about.

He must have said that with death in mind.

To ask to be forgiven for dying first, no matter how I thought about it, it was a very hateful remark.

“How can I ask you to forgive me for almost killing you?”

Many emotions were buried in the suppressed low voice. I rolled over and grabbed Ahin’s finger that was stroking my head with my front paw.

I know you were scared as much as I was. Because I know that the heart of the person waiting is more anxious and scary than the person leaving.

Maybe he’s even more scared than I am now. I knew better than anyone else because it was the feeling I felt while living as a rabbit, watching the backs of people closing the door.

Feeling something strange, Ahin’s red pupils trembled slightly.

At the same time, a pure white light began to rise from my body. Because the time I could endure in my true form had ended, I was automatically turning back into a human.

Eventually, I became a human in the blanket and pulled the blanket up to my neck.

Ahin, who was lying face to face, was silent and stiff. He had been chattering to himself just a moment ago. But I didn’t know what to say first, so I rolled my eyes.

What wonderful things should I say when I meet Ahin? I couldn’t remember any of the things I had written in my notebook in the backpack.

“…Hello.”

In the end, I smiled shyly and blurted out a silly word.

* * *

After saying the greeting that I had put my heart and soul into, my brows gradually furrowed. Ahin was as silent as a statue erected at the academy. He was just repeating the act of closing and opening his red eyes while stiff and blank.

I know he’s surprised, but can’t he show even a little bit of joy? As the silence grew longer, my thoughts increased and my confidence decreased.

I was reminded of the desolate feeling of the blanket touching my bare skin.

Why do I always end up showing such a rude appearance? I quickly hardened my expression and began to slowly steal the blanket that Ahin had covered himself with.

At the same time, he jumped up at a speed that was hard to follow with his eyes.

“Oh, I don’t have any clothes…!”

I reflexively screamed and made a flustered expression.

“…….”

“…Yo.”

Why are you making such a pathetic excuse there? Instead of stomping my feet, I pulled the blanket up to my eyes.

My wavering gaze reached Ahin, who was sitting up. And the already wavering vision vibrated as if an earthquake had occurred.

Tuk, tears overflowing from his red eyes flowed down Ahin’s cheeks. Traces of water streaks were drawn on his smooth cheeks.

“……?”

After rubbing my eyes and checking again, the water droplets hanging from his chin were not an illusion.

I covered my chest with the blanket and sat up in a fluster.

“…Ahin, are you crying?”

I’m not even crying, why are you crying? I bit my lip tightly, feeling upset because I had broken tear ducts.

I held onto the blanket and reached out my other hand towards his face. My trembling fingers were stained with moisture. But as if wiping it away was useless, the tears that welled up again soaked his cheeks.

Surprised, Ahin belatedly came to his senses and pushed away my hand, moving his face back. He then immediately covered his mouth with the back of his hand.

“Don’t touch me.”

Surprised by the cold low voice, I stopped reaching out my hand again. I couldn’t find any joy about the reunion in his deepened red eyes.

A moment of disappointment was fleeting, and I could understand Ahin’s attitude of covering half of his face.

He’s probably thinking the same thing right now. The scenes of the moments we had to be apart were drawn in front of my eyes like a panorama.

‘…It’s okay.’

Because I didn’t spend my time in vain wandering around the herbivore territory.

‘Bibi-nim’s fear of beast-type demi-humans is probably due to the fact that she couldn’t undergo humanization late. Her instincts will be much stronger than other demi-humans.’

Fortunately, Professor Jina’s hypothesis was correct.

After humanization, the more time I spent as a person, the less fear I had of everything, and the habit of hiding under the desk at the sound of a loud noise disappeared. I knew that I wouldn’t die even if the servant dropped something.

I accepted my grandfather’s proposal to enter the academy not only for the purpose of learning, but also to prioritize adapting to beasts above all else.

“Ahin.”

Because I had that process, I’m okay. I reached out my hand again to express that, but Ahin avoided even that and turned his back on me.

We already ran into each other once at the academy. But Ahin was so busy hiding the evidence of the beast that he couldn’t think properly right now.

As I faced his broad back, my heart gradually became complicated.

‘This is not the time for this….’

I don’t want to, but my gaze lingered on the back of his body, where the bones of his back were revealed outside his shirt. Even though his whole face was red and he was crying, Ahin was even beautiful when he quietly shed tears. The suppressed lust kept raising its head.

“It’s all showing.”

“…What?”

“That dirty look.”

Confused by Ahin’s meaningless words, I poked my head out. My wandering gaze stopped at the mirror installed a little far from the bed.

In the mirror, a perverted rabbit with a dirty look, barely covering his naked body with a blanket, was reflected as it was.

“I didn’t do that?”

A healthy adult is going to have some unhealthy thoughts. I pretended not to know, but I couldn’t help but feel embarrassed, so I glared at Ahin’s back with a sulky expression.

“…If you’re not going to talk, I’m going.”

“Where to?”

“You said you’d send me back to the academy when it gets light. I have a lot of places to go now. There’s Professor Jina and Russell, and I made a close classmate named Hendri, and…,”

I was a little frustrated as I folded my fingers and listed the places to run away to.

Wasn’t my personal connection short except for the noblewomen I met while wandering around the herbivore territory? As expected, I heard Ahin snorting.

I couldn’t turn around, but I was provoked by that arrogant attitude, so I threw a strong move.

“A-Alan, there’s a beast chasing me these days.”

“Alan?”

“I said Alan.”

“-Alan is a little surprising.”

Only then did Ahin show a little reaction and tilted his head slightly. As I met his red eyes revealed under his disheveled silver hair, my back straightened on its own.

“So, the conclusion is that it’s okay to look at your fangs now, right?”

“…….”

“Didn’t you miss me?”

I lowered my head, feeling shy only after throwing the question out there. The pure white bedding filled my vision. The rustling sound of Ahin shifting his body while holding onto the bedding made my hearing sensitive.

After an eternity of silence, a low, subdued voice was heard.

“Can I go?”

With that question, the painful time when I couldn’t reach Ahin came to mind.

The pain of my throat being pierced, the fear of reaching the brink of death. The sadness of having to push away those who worried about me, the farewell that was as difficult as the love I felt.

But if it hadn’t been for that process, I might never have heard that voice again.

I raised my gaze and met Ahin’s eyes.

“I’ll go to you.”

Now, we’ll never be separated again. I made a vow to myself as I wrapped myself in the blanket and crawled towards Ahin.

Ahin was pushed back against the headboard as I forcefully pressed forward.

With his back blocked by the headboard and me sitting firmly in front of him, he curved his eyes gently even in this predicament. It was the breathtaking smile I hadn’t seen in a long time.

“You’re going to regret coming to me.”

“Hearing you say that makes me feel a little regretful….”

“You should say you won’t regret it in times like these.”

His strong arms completely wrapped around my waist. I widened my eyes as I was trapped between Ahin’s legs.

“You didn’t even recognize me.”

I carefully reached out and wiped away the moisture still clinging to his eyes. And just as I was about to take my hand away, his cold hand wrapped around my wrist. Ahin pulled my wrist back and placed my palm against his cheek. The soft sensation touched my palm.

“I met you too easily, so I thought there was no way.”

“…Why can’t we meet easily?”

“Because it has to be harder than with Bibi.”

Today, Ahin was a crybaby. Watching the tears falling like beads, I began to understand little by little why he kept telling me to cry for him. I looked at the moisture flowing down my hand and wetting my wrist, trying to suppress my dark thoughts.

“…Bibi, your eyes have been dirty since a while ago.”

“I, I was thinking about how the dressing room is mine.”

My face flushed, and I desperately made excuses, afraid that he would find out about my perverted feelings. He glanced at the dressing room for a moment and lightly licked my wet hand. The soft sensation made the hairs on my body stand on end, and I widened my eyes.

“I’ve been thinking about it since before, but you like jewels more than I thought.”

Ahin, with his arms around my waist, pulled me closer and lowered his eyes halfway. His unique fragrance came closer.

“It’s probably not the jewels themselves, but the funds needed in case you have to stand alone. If you can hide your pheromones from me, you can handle healing pheromones completely skillfully, so it seems like you could even open a clinic.”

“…….”

“Aren’t you thinking of graduating early from the academy too? If you get a diploma from the Bellhelm Academy, it will be easier to get a job regardless of your status.”

As Ahin continued to speak, my mouth gradually opened. I thought he was spacing out, but his incredibly sharp senses were returning.

“In the meantime, you got lonely and had an affair with that bastard Alan.”

“…….”

“You didn’t have a dance affair, did you?”

His eyes were red and he was rubbing his cheek against my hand like a puppy, but the accusations coming from his mouth were all terrifying.

“Actually, Alan…,”

As soon as I mentioned Alan’s name, his red eyes flashed fiercely.

“T-That bastard…!”

Only then did the corners of his lips curve up in satisfaction as I changed my words.

Suddenly, I felt wronged by this situation and furrowed my brow. I’m always being accused of being a 바람둥이 [playboy/playgirl], but this time I had a lot to argue about.

“Ahin, you were having a 바람피우다 [cheating] time too.”

“-Me?”

Ahin lowered his gaze and raised his eyebrows disapprovingly.

“You took an unknown foreign rabbit to the infirmary, brought it to the bedroom, and even,”

I slammed the bed sheet roughly, feeling triumphant.

“Here! This place! You even put it on the bed!”

“It was you in the end.”

“That’s…!”

“That’s?”

“…That’s right.”

I had no other words to refute. As my momentum subsided sharply, Ahin pulled me closer, trapping me with the blanket in his arms.

‘I’m crazy.’

I stopped breathing as my body was almost touching his, and I looked up at him.

Perhaps it was because he was a beast-type 수인 [human-animal hybrid], or perhaps it was because it was Ahin, but his body and physique, which had become more solid in the year and a half, were overwhelming.

After a moment of silence, a languid voice flowed out.

“I told you.”

“…What?”

“The dressing room is Bibi’s, and the bed is Bibi’s place too.”

Following his words, my gaze lingered on the dressing room and then moved to the bed.

“The bookshelf only has books that Bibi reads. I’ve been wearing clothes with pockets for years because of Bibi, and all my subordinates have fallen for Bibi.”

Realizing a new fact, I fidgeted with the blanket in my hand. Come to think of it, Ahin had never worn a jacket without pockets, and he only put the 크라바트 [cravat/necktie] in when I was human.

“Even the crazy guy is Bibi’s.”

“…….”

“So how can I 바람피우다 [cheat]?”

His soft lips lightly touched my forehead and then fell away. In an instant, the fact that I had conveyed my feelings just before injecting healing pheromones into Ahin flashed through my mind.

My reflection was in his clear red eyes. When I was first picked up from the basket, he had eyes that seemed like he could kill me at any moment. But now, I was sure he couldn’t.

I had always been proud that my heart was bigger. The emotions I felt from his arms, which looked relaxed but never let go, were anxiety and impatience.

His lips landed on my forehead, the bridge of my nose, and my cheeks in succession.

‘It’s dangerous.’

Belatedly realizing that I was naked, my expression hardened. At this rate, I might really put Ahin in danger.

“Ahin, let’s go to the dressing room first.”

“Why?”

“…We can’t just stay like this.”

“…….”

“…We can’t.”

I stiffened my neck and pointed to the blanket with my chin. After looking down at the blanket following my lead, Ahin, who faced me again, folded his eyes playfully.

“You don’t even need to wear it.”

‘That’s true.’

…No, it’s not.

I almost naturally agreed, but I wrapped the blanket tightly around myself.

“Isn’t that right?”

How could he say such things so nonchalantly? He was a bewitching black panther, seducing his prey with a gentle smile.

The distance where our noses touched and our breaths mingled made my lips dry.

As I leaned back slightly, I could finally see Ahin’s face properly, where shadows were cast. The dim lamplight deeply colored his red eyes.

The languid eyes, the protruding Adam’s apple, and the firm arms around my waist were clearly different from a year and a half ago.

Also, the curved body that could be felt even through the blanket proved how difficult the conflict with the wolf clan had been.

I thought it was an exaggeration when I saw his portrait alongside Rune’s in the newspaper. The external changes, with almost no boyishness left, felt new and unfamiliar.

‘I can’t look at him….’

As I licked my dry lips with my tongue, his gaze touched my lips for a moment.

I had expected that the relationship might change the moment we met again. As a 수인 [human-animal hybrid] with sexual pheromones, there was no need to suppress my primal instincts.

My trembling gaze lingered on Ahin’s clear eyes, nose, and lips in turn.

I wanted to pounce on him, but I was worried about whether I could handle a beast-type 수인 [human-animal hybrid] twice my size. At the end of my 고민 [worry/deliberation], all that remained was tension and confusion.

It was hard to endure this precarious silence any longer.

I averted my gaze slightly and squeezed out my patience, moving my lips.

“Ahin.”

“Tell me.”

“You said… you would crawl under my feet.”

Ahin blinked a few times at the sudden words and soon replied in a playful voice.

“I’m crawling.”

Where exactly?

“You also said you would be well-trained.”

“Yeah, I’m doing that.”

In what part?

I glared at him, but as soon as I found the long sword standing next to the bed, I straightened my raised eyebrows.

From the perspective of a crazy guy who draws his sword at the slightest provocation, wasn’t he being submissive enough?

Even now, Ahin seemed to be trying his best not to show his fangs.

“…Then you should listen to my demands first, right?”

“I’ll listen to everything except for you saying you’ll have an affair with that bastard Alan.”

“Why is Alan coming out here… no, why is that bastard’s name coming out.”

“You have to be more than just a 바람둥이 [playboy/playgirl].”

Even as time passed, there was no sign of that unfair accusation being cleared.

I glared at him with fierce eyes and began to slowly back away. To calm this 음심 [lewd thoughts], I had to go to the dressing room.

“Anyway, I’ll put on a negligee or… Ack!”

Ahin grabbed my ankle, and I lost my balance and slammed my nose into the bed.

I wouldn’t give up. I thrashed around, but it was just a pathetic struggle.

“I was just saying it, but I’m upset because you keep trying to run away.”

His voice, which didn’t sound upset at all, rang out from right above me.

“I’m upset, so I won’t listen to you today.”

Plop.

Next to my face, Ahin supported himself with his arm, and the bed sank.

I forgot to even breathe and couldn’t bring myself to turn over. My face must be red and a mess.

“Bibi.”

“Yes… ?”

Swish, Ahin swept my disheveled hair to the side, revealing my hidden neck.

“You even went through humanization without me,”

His cool fingertips brushed over the 열꽃 [heat rash] scar on the back of my neck.

“And when I finally ran into you, you pretended to be a rabbit. And if that wasn’t enough, how do you think I feel when you try to run away like that?”

“You must be very upset….”

“Why are you doing this when you know so well? Are you going to make me cry again?”

His approaching silver hair brushed against my shoulder, which was exposed outside the blanket. Soon, his soft lips touched my shoulder and fell away.

‘Is this really…!’

I was trying to protect him by exerting my indomitable patience. There was a limit to enduring his seductive temptation.

While I was holding the blanket tightly and enduring, his hand, which had been moved, stopped at the 송곳니 [fang] mark on my neck. The traces that Ahin had bitten were gone due to the healing pheromones, and it was the bite mark left in the shanty town before that.

“Did it hurt a lot?”

For a moment, Ahin’s fingertips trembled slightly. It seemed like he thought it was the trace of when he had bitten me so hard that my life was in danger.

‘That scar has already disappeared.’

Recalling the pain I had to endure alone, I grumbled, wanting to whine.

“It hurt re-ally bad.”

“How much?”

“Enough to make the sky look yellow.”

Ahin carefully caressed the curved scar area. I wanted to check his expression, but the moment I turned around, something irreversible might happen.

“…Should I pull out my fangs?”

“What?”

The small whine brought about a terrible conclusion. I was flustered and hurriedly added.

“But when I came to my senses, I was almost completely recovered, so I don’t really remember…!”

Ahin didn’t say anything and caressed the 송곳니 [fang] mark that remained as a trace.

‘Surely he’s not really going to pull out his fangs, is he?’

I was horrified and belatedly realized that he didn’t believe my excuse that I had recovered quickly.

Because Ahin doesn’t know yet that I can heal my own wounds with healing pheromones.

“Bibi.”

I tried to continue the explanation, but Ahin started speaking one beat faster.

“There won’t be such a thing anymore. Even if such a moment comes, I will take my own life.”

“Don’t say such nonsense,”

“So don’t disappear again.”

At that time, I might really become a 빌어먹을 [goddamn] beast as you said, a subdued bass voice tickled my ear.

At the same time, a large, bony hand unexpectedly dug into the blanket.

The rough sensation that touched my bare skin made all the nerves in my body stand on end. Every time the calloused palm, hardened from holding a sword, brushed against my skin, a sultry breath flowed out involuntarily.

“Heut,”

The invading hand began to rummage through a place that no one had ever touched before. Even my mind became hazy with the considerate yet impatient movements. The irregular, moist voice that flowed out was unfamiliar even to myself.

“Ahin, wait a moment,”

“-Why?”

Unlike the slow reply, his hand was steadily leaving its mark.

The lips that landed on the back of my neck due to my feverish body felt rather cool.

Soon, pheromones that I had never experienced before spread and heated my lower abdomen. The languid scent scattered in the bedroom was undoubtedly the sexual pheromones that Ahin had released.

I wriggled and barely turned my body around, glaring at Ahin with narrow eyes.

“…….”

“I told you, I get excited when you glare at me like that.”

His smile deepened as he picked up a strand of white hair and kissed it. Clear lust was evident in the red eyes hidden behind the smile.

“…You used to tell me not to release sexual pheromones.”

“I never did. I’m just annoyed that you learned that fact from another bastard.”

Ahin made an expression that was momentarily insensitive, as if he was still angry.

The sensual pheromones exuded by his abstinent face brought a dangerous sensation that made the hairs on my body stand on end, rather than disharmony.

“Bibi, you just looked at me with 음흉한 [lascivious] eyes again.”

“When did I.”

“…….”

“…Did I.”

I feigned ignorance and averted my gaze, but soon narrowed my brows.

Come to think of it, isn’t it contradictory to hear such words from a bewitching beast? I, reborn as one brazen rabbit, met Ahin’s gaze again.

“What’s wrong with me looking at my stuff?”

This Bibi-nim can sometimes be a little sly. Ahin, who was frightened by my confident attitude, blinked blankly.

An indescribable silence passed.

Just as I was about to feel embarrassed for being so brazen, he let out a short groan and swept my eyes with his thumb.

“Why are you crying when you say that?”

“Ah, this is…,”