Gentle Beast

The car traveled down the winding mountain road, accelerating then flowing into a free drift.

When Ryan said he could help her drive last time, she thought he was just saying it casually and hadn't taken it to heart.

Even if he could, it should only be as skilled as she was.

But now, he had only been behind the wheel for half an hour and after adjusting to it, he was completely at ease with it. . .

How did he learn?

When did he learn how to drift???

J Xio u stared at Ryan in the driving seat and felt rather bad.

Luckily, she didn't promise to let him drive in the city, she thought, or she'd be scared to death.

Ryan loosened his right hand on the steering wheel and stretched it out to J Xio u's face, lightly touching her dropped jaw, and he asked with amusement, "Is this it?"

J Xio u closed her mouth and turned to look. It was the cliff above the tree engraved with "1001."

She nodded and turned big eyes at Ryan, remembering her questions, "Ryan, how did you learn to drive?"

Ryan opened the side door and circled around to pull J Xio u from her seat and said honestly, "I didn't learn."

J Xio u hugged his neck and found it difficult to understand, "Then how do you drive so well?"

Ryan: "It said in the box the other day."

J Xio u was silent, then realized that Ryan meant the TV by "box."

But when did she set the channel to one about driving?

Ryan saw she looked confused and closed the door then set her on top of the car, taking a bite, "When you gave the stupid cat a bath."

". . ." J Xio u recalled it and finally understood how it happened.

That night she broughtGn Gn back, she had casually turned on the TV and went to the bathroom. Because Gn Gn was so lively, the sound of the TV stabilized everything.

Later, when she went tot he bathroom, she didn't pay attention to the program.

Now that she thought of it, it seemed to be a professional rally?

J Xio u looked at Ryan's eyes and glowed, her dark eyes bright, "Did you understand it?"

Ryan raised his brow and said it was easy.

This thought had such a great impact, J Xio u didn't think anything else could top it.

Then Ryan took out a rectangular case from the trunk and J Xio u asked, "What is it?"

Ryan opened the case in front of her and said placidly, "A gun."

. . .

!!!

When J Xio u saw the thing in the box, her whole body was shocked frozen.

The box held three guns, their dark barrels exuding the unique coldness of the weapon.

Although J Xio u's understandings of guns wasn't that deep, she could recognize a pistol, a rifle and a sniper rifle. . .

The case was well equipped and there were two grenades in the corner.

"Ryan. . . where did you get this?" J Xio u's voice changed and she asked incredibly.

Ryan pulled the pistol and tucked it into his waist, then left the rest in the case, "Black market."

J Xio u: "You even know the black market??"

Where had he gone in the real world?

She remembered that he had always been with her and hadn't gone out alone!

Ryan leaned over her little face and kissed the corner of her mouth, "Scaring you?"

J Xio u nodded honestly, really afraid, "That. . . how did you buy it?"

Even if J Xio u hadn't been to the black market, she also knew that the transaction price wasn't low, and Ryan was a beastman from another world, so he wouldn't own any kind of currency.

Ryan said calmly, "Didn't buy it."

J Xio u widened her eyes, "How did you get it?" Did he steal it?

Ryan curved his index finger and knocked it to her forehead to stall the chaos in her head. Of course, robbing wasn't impossible, but the world's legalities were too much. One error and it would involve J Xio u, and he didn't want to cause trouble for his little one.

Ryan: "Exchanged for it."

J Xio u: "Exchanged what?"

Ryan no longer answered, his deep voice full of temptation, "Be obedient. You do not want to know."

The black market was free of the market's natural laws. In that place, pillaging, killing, trafficking and violence ran rampant.

There were more ugly things there than in the beast world.

Standing under the "1002" tree, they were once again looking at the distant Camuda Valley spread out before them. J Xio u actually had a treacherous illusion.

She and Ryan had been away for one and a half months, and it was still a cold winter. The rolling mountains were covered in snow and the whole of Bornia was still a vast expanse of white.

The snow blew on the wind and J Xio u's nose was frozen red in an instant. Her hands and feet were tucked into Ryan's embrace.

Ryan took off his overcoat and wrapped it around her, blocking her from the wind and carrying her toward the leopard tribe.

A man was standing on the lookout at the entrance of the race and saw a man wearing strange clothes coming towards him. He thought it was the wolf clan's conspiracy and immediately raised his spear, stabbing it forward as he said, "Stupid wolf, get back to your race!"

Ryan stepped to the side and extended his arm to throw the spear aside and his eyes narrowed.

"Fool, open your eyes and see who I really am."

The other looked up at Ryan's blue eyes and was surprised, "Chi-Chief?!"

. . .

During the time Ryan was away, everything with the leopards was normal.