Chapter 67 - 67 - Raging Beast

"RAIJIN.... RAIJIN..." Long Ki shouted.

Yukiya gazed at him with a sorry smile.

"Oh, you told me to be quiet right. Raijin... Raijinn.." he whispered.

Shaking her head, she walked ahead of him.

Her heart felt heavy for lying to him. 'I should help him too,' she thought.

But her stupid pride was stopping her.

On her way, she noticed something moving in the nearby rock. She squatted down next to it and slowly lifted it.

"Raijin?" she whispered.

But there was only a shivering little mouse hiding behind it.

Sighing, she placed the rock back.

Then she noticed something moving inside a hole in the nearby tree.

She darted towards it. Putting her face inside, she whispered, "Raijin, is that you?"

A little chipmunk sprang out of it and bit her nose.

"OWW," she screamed and backed away from the tree.

Thankfully, the bite did not break her skin. Sighing, she slumped on the tree.

She noticed something moving under the fallen leaves.

"Raijin? Is that you?" she whispered and shuffled thorough the leaves.

A little salamander squeaked and rushed under another leaf pile.

'Why am I so useless?' she thought with a pout.

Ling Ki watched all of this from the distance. Raijin had always told woman are complicated but looking at his fiancé he realized it was true.

At first she didn't want to help search for his pet, but now…. now she was searching every nook and cranny.

He even found her actions to be little…. "Cute" he whispered.

Chuckling softly, he walked up to her and whispered, "You know, Raijin is not that small to fit under those crevices,"

She gasped. "Don't ever sneak up on me," she said.

"But I was not. 'Sigh' Raijin is about yay big without his fur. He won't fit in that hole. Besides, I cannot sense him nearby," Long Ki said with a sigh.

Yukiya gazed at him in confusion. "You can sense him? How?"

"Well….. Because of this" he held out his open palm.

There was nothing in his hands. "Of your palm?" she questions with a frown.

"No silly, because of THIS," he said. A small Rune circle appeared in-between his palm. "When he is nearby, I can feel him. Even now I can feel his emotions," he said, holding his chest.

He could feel Raijin's fear and anxiety. 'I hope you are safe, Raijin. I'm coming for you,' he thought, clenching his fist.

While Long Ki was deep in thoughts Yukiya was deep in shock.

She held his open palm close and glared at the swirling rune. "A contract?"

In his open palm was what people call a contract circle. Most of the time humans use it to enslave beast as their mounts.

Sometime even stronger beast enslaves other beast through this contract.

The contracted beast loses control of their actions. It has been said that a contacted beast would also get too attached to the contractor. Sometime they even go to the extent of sacrificing their lives on command.

But she always looked down upon that practice. Because she believed that any spiritually aware beast is equal to a human.

Yukiya glared at him. 'How could he enslave someone cute as Raijin? This is madness,' she thought, gritting her teeth.

"He is your contracted beast!!" She whispered with a glare.

Unaware of her stink eye, he nodded his head and chuckled, "Yes, he is. You've met him, right? Isn't he super cute? I found him when he was just a cub in the nether realm. He was just the size of my palm." He said cupping his hands.

Yukiya glared at him even more. 'This gut enslaved a cub!! I knew it! He is a bastard,' she thought.

By now Long Ki also noticed her weird glare. "What….What's wrong? Why are you glaring at me for?" he said.

"You… you are a scum... a dirty scum. How could you?" she shouted and punched his shoulder.

Long Ki gazed at the enraged woman in confusion. 'What is wrong with this woman? She is sweet one second and a raging beast another. I guess I can never understand this woman,' he thought, shaking his head.

Yukiya saw him shaking his head and burst out in anger. 'So he doesn't even accept that he is a scum. This… this…. douchbag,' she thought, biting her lips aggressively.

He gazed at her bleeding lips and frowned. "Why are you biting your lips? It's not a good habit to hurt yourself," he said and pulled her bottom lips from in-between her teeth.

Startled, she pushed him away and covered her mouth. "Don't touch me!" she shouted as she ran deeper into the forest.

Long Ki scratched his head and gazed at her retreating back. "What is wrong with her? Is it her time of the month?" he whispered.

The second those words flowed out of his mouth, a raging figure ran to him and punched him on his face.

"Scum!" she shouted and darted away again.

Lying on the cold hard ground, Long Ki gazed up at the sky and whispered, "No I take back what I said. She. Is. Not.. Cute. Nope! She is a raging beast, ah!"