Chapter 52 - Caught (4)

"Sorry." Randell briefly apologized, but Nida didn't respond since she was focused on adjusting the seat of the car for her to comfortably drive the car.

They rented a car and planned to visit the site where Nida disappeared into her world and entered the other world.

Nida knows what Randell is apologizing for, which is why she chose to be silent.

Even though he is not visibly trembling anymore, Randell cannot drive the car because his body is not yet fine from all the traumatic and near-death experiences he had.

Nida knows exactly what it feels like. That is why she let Randell slowly adjust to his situation. 

"Sleep or lie down. I will wake you up once we reach the place." she suggested. 

The place they are going to take an hour to reach. That is why she suggested he rest comfortably, forgetting that she's the reason Randell develops anxiety.

"No, I'm fine," he said as he held onto the seatbelt tightly. 

"Ah! right!" She snapped her finger, realizing her role. "Don't worry, I heard from Daniel that it was only uncontrollable in the first transformation, but the next one is safe." she assured him.

She really doesn't believe this fact at first, but now that she thinks of it, Randell in her world has been using his werewolf powers in full control.

'Does it require training?' she asked herself internally, thinking whether she could use her werewolf powers now.

"If you're still wary of me, I'll tell you about a werewolf weakness."

"You have?"

"Of course! You just have to take out our core, eat it or crush it, then the werewolf will die! "

She carelessly shared, trusting Randell wouldn't randomly kill her by taking out her core.

"How will I know you're telling the truth?"

"Daniel knows it too. You can confirm it to him." Nida was talking about her world's Daniel.

"Daniel again? Who is he? Your boyfriend in your world?"

Daniel asked as he kept hearing the name from Nida. He assumed Daniel was his boyfriend since Nida confidently talked about him rather than the Randell in her world.

"Nope. Why would I date a clean freak? Anyway, he is a very kind person. He always helps and rescues me, so he is more like my savior. "

"Ah."

Randell blandly replied, ending their conversation and making the atmosphere inside the car extremely awkward.

"How's the Nida in this world? I bet she has a happy life, with no suffering at all. " She claimed that changing the subject would eliminate the awkwardness between them.

"What do you mean she doesn't suffer? Why would you say that? Is your life on the other side a paradise? "

Nida frowned as she kept her eyes on the road.

"Paradise? I suffered for a decade because of yo-" She paused for a moment, trying not to be frustrated with this world's Randell because he was not the Randell who ruined her adolescent years. "Ehem! I mean, my life wasn't easy at all. I was just thinking that the Nida here is not dealing with something problematic." She thinks since the werewolf Randell is not present in this parallel world.

"Not at all. If you are saying that, maybe your parents are not the same as my girlfriend. "

"Parents?" She thinks of her parents and wonders if there is something wrong with them. "Ah, my politician and perfectionist father, is he like that here too?"

"Yes, but why are you talking like it was nothing? "

"Well, I deal with it. I got used to him, so I don't think he is much of a problem now."

"You got used to him? How? " Randell leaned in to her, which surprised her and made the car wobble.

"Ah! I'm sorry."

"No, it's okay." 

Randell went back to his seat while Nida put the car in the right lane. Luckily, the road is quite empty.

"Isn't our father strange?"

"Yes, he is weird. How dare he lock his daughter in a prison-like room every month!"

Nida laughed at herself after realizing that they were talking about two different things at the same time.

"Yeah, you're right." She said it in the end.

....

"There's no rail road here." Randell said as he looked around at where Nida had brought him.

"No, I am sure this is the right way." She closed her eyes and tried to draw the images of her world.

Randell just followed him behind as she walked the path she remembered.

"Hmm?" she opened her eyes when her toe bumped into something.

"A shrine?" Randell commented as he crouched down to look at the mini shrine in front of them.

The shrine is the size of a mailbox and was surrounded by paper talismans. 

"Is this the shrine for Mila? Why is this too small? " She asked, as she looked at the inside of the mini shrine.

"Who is Mila?"

"She's a goddess. A slightly forgotten goddess. "

"She's a goddess of what?

"wolf, werewolf."

"Can she help us switch you back to your world?"

"Maybe? since she's the one who brought me here. "

She picked up the mailbox-sized mini shrine and fearlessly shook it to make anyone inside come out.

"Hello? Anybody home? Let me talk to the goddess Mila." She said this as she continuously disrespected the shrine by shaking it.

"Ack!" she suddenly let go of the shrine and it fell to the ground upside down.

Randell didn't check on her if she was okay, but he reflexively stood up and got away from Nida, making a distance from her.

Randell was scared. Nida's reaction to pain was the same when she experienced extreme chest pain before she transformed into a wolf.

With her one eye open, she disappointedly looked at Randell because he didn't have any will to help her.

"Ugh!" she loudly groaned again as her heart started to pound loudly.

Did I overdo it?

She starts to regret being disrespectful and grabs the mini shrine again.

"I'm sorry! Sorry! I won't do it again! Aaaaaa! " She screamed in pain and pounded the ground with her fist, indicating how painful it was.

step step step

She looked at Randell again as she heard his slow steps.

The pain Nida was feeling doubled after she saw Randell's expression. 

He is scared again.

Randell took a few steps back, but once he saw her transforming into a wolf again, he ran away back to the car, forgetting that the keys were with Nida. 

"Rande—." she was about to call him but she really is in pain and cannot move to ran after him.

She looked up at the clear blue sky and the blinding hot sun.

"It's not night time! There's no moon! Why am I transforming?" She shouted as she watched the silver fur pop out of her skin again.

"Mila, stop this right now!" she disrespectfully called the Goddess, ignoring the fact that she might get punished more.

ggggrrrr

She's growling like a real wolf. Again, losing control over her body.

No! No! Nooooooooo!

Nida screamed inside her wolf self.

She angrily looked up at the sky, resenting the goddess.

Her clothes were ripped once more after being overgrown by the transformation.

And her wolf self starts to sniff and track the path Randell took.

Nooo nooo nooooooooooooooooo

She repeatedly shouted at her wolf self, hoping it would listen to her.

"Don't you hurt Randell again? Stop! "

She, as expected, is unable to control herself.

grrrrr

She growled once she finally caught up with Randell.

Randell is panicking and forcing the car to open, but it will be useless anyway since he can't drive it away.

Randell Ran!

She shouted, even though she knew Randell wouldn't hear her.

Her werewolf self kicked the ground with such weight that it shook the ground slightly, then set off as if she was flinching.

BAM!

She landed on the rented car, making a huge dent in its hood.

Randell hurriedly got away from the car and ran into the forest.

Their tug of war begins there.

Randell ran as fast as he could, ignoring whether the branches scratched his skin from running over them.

BAM!

"What are you, frog?!" Nida's angry shouts echoed in her wolf self as she watched herself keep jumping so high that it effortlessly caught Randell.

Randell was cornered when he ended up running towards the cliff.

grrrrr

"Get away! Go! " Randell tried to shoo the wolf away lamely with his stick that he randomly picked up.

His whole body is trembling in fear, being scared of the wolf and the cliff that is going to bring him death.

He keeps switching his gaze between the cliff where he is standing on the edge and the growling wolf.

He gulped his own saliva as he counted to three.

1

2

3

At the count of three, he runs in the direction of the wolf, wrestling with her while enduring the pain he is feeling because of her claws.

"Gotcha!" Randell shouted back with a smile, even though his scared look was still on his face.

"Gotcha?" She repeated his words, puzzled by his words, but soon realized.

"Oh, no! My core! "