"She really likes you, little missus! This one is named Bella!"
The man guided the horse forward, and Talia waved at Mark happily.
"Come on, big brother! Join us."
Mark felt a little skeptical about that. No matter how strong that horse looked, it was impossible for it to carry three of them together. Instead, Mark decided to take another horse. Mark looked around the stall with a dull gaze and noticed that all the horses seemed to be moving away from his sight once he looked at them. Were they scared of him?
One of the helpers around the stall tried to bring out a horse for Mark, but the horse planted its feet on the ground and refused to budge while giving Mark a fearful look. It was almost like their animalistic instincts were telling them not to go near Mark.
Mark didn't know this, but after gaining the Demonic Void Apostle constitution and using Fear so many times, he was now releasing a constant wave of bloodlust that most animals could sense with their animalistic instincts. This made the horses fear him.
Mark turned away from the horses and almost gave up until he saw a particular horse that was segregated from the others. It was in a cage and had a chain holding it down to the ground. Its coat was pure black and it had glaring red eyes. This horse was obviously different from the others, and when Mark stared into its eyes, he raised a brow when it stared right back.
The stall helper came out and spoke to Mark quietly.
"Oh, not that one, Mark Vanitas. We brought it here thinking it would behave, but it injured the last person who rode it and has been lashing out against the other horses for a while now. We're going to send it back to be re-tamed soon."
Mark hummed.
"I'll take it."
"But..."
"Do you think it will injure me?"
Mark gave the stall helper a look and the man suddenly seemed to remember who he was talking to. He quickly shook his head and told someone to open the gate. Mark walked forward as the gate clicked open. He kept his eyes right on those of the horse.
The horse huffed aggressively and stamped its hoof against the ground multiple times in an effort to intimidate Mark, but the blank gaze never left Mark's eyes until he was right in front of the horse.
When Mark finally stood before the horse, the horse seemed to calm down a bit. It sniffed Mark a few times and prodded him with its hoof calmly before eventually bowing its head in front of Mark submissively.
Mark finally smiled and patted the horse on the side of its head.
All the other riders that were on the track as well were rushing off the track to prevent an accident as the speeding horse flashed past!
"Hurdle! Mark, there's a hurdle! Mark!"
Arit closed her eyes tight as she saw a hurdle coming up on the track and she could feel her heart rate spike in fear as she thought that they were going to crash! But there was a sudden jolt as the horse lifted off the ground and the sudden feeling of flying filled her entire body! Arit's eyes opened in wonder as she felt all the air leave her lungs!
'We're flying.'
Boom!
The horse landed back on the ground like a comet and Arit felt her entire body shake as she lurched forward! It was only Mark's grip around her that prevented her from falling and she held on tight to Talia to make sure the little girl was also not going to fall!
They finally started to slow down as they came back to the start of the running course and Arit put her hand to her chest to catch her breath as she heard Mark and Talia laughing happily. Talia wanted to go again and Arit immediately glared at Mark to make sure he didn't agree! She would die if they did that a second time!
Mark just chuckled at her reaction and pecked her on the forehead once more before telling Talia that they had a lot more stalls to see.
"Let's find another fun one, alright? Big sister Arit might have a heart attack."
Talia turned to Arit and stuck out her tongue at her.
"You're just a scaredy-cat."
Arit blushed at the jab and she tickled Talia until Talia was laughing breathlessly!
The three of them finally decided that they had enough of the horses and left to do something else.
The stall owner immediately came over to the stall handler who gave Mark the horse and told him to put the horse up for sale while showing him a picture that was taken when the three of them were riding.
"The demon horse that was tamed by GHOST himself! We're going to make thousands off this horse! Hahahahaha!!"
"Holy shit, we're rich!"
The black horse just deadpanned in disappointment as it went back to its cell while shaking its head at their foolishness. Later, the tabloids would talk about the demon horse tamed by GHOST that refused to be ridden by anyone else ever again.