Don't Touch My Thorn (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 6
The place we arrived at was the dining room.
Perched on the table, I vigorously twitched my nose up and down.
Is this a meal? Come to think of it, I haven’t eaten in a long while.
“Bamsongi. I’ve prepared a special treat just for you.”
At Idrish’s words, the chef brought out a plate covered with a lid.
What could it be that even needs a lid?
I sniffed and snuffled, but not a single scent came from inside.
“May you enjoy a delicious meal.”
The chef lifted the lid.
White, elongated things wriggled and squirmed in heaps.
“A special dish of live stag beetle larvae!”
All the wriggling creatures turned to look at me at once.
Aaah! What is this! I hate it!
“Keeek!”
I shrieked and leaped up and down wildly. My hind legs tangled, and I thumped down hard on my plump bottom.
Flailing about, my four short legs thrashed helplessly in the air.
Just then, one of the stag beetle larvae escaped the plate and crawled toward me.
I fiercely bristled my spines from forehead to tail-tip and dashed frantically across the dining table, slipping several times.
In an instant, I’d taken shelter right in front of Idrish. Still feeling as though those dreadful bugs were chasing me, I burrowed into Idrish’s sleeve.
“Hey. That’s prickly.”
Idrish grabbed my hind leg.
Let go of that!
I kicked his hand away with my hind legs and burrowed deeper inside. Only when I was fully hidden in his sleeve did I finally catch my breath.
Huff, huff… I hate bugs…!
“A hedgehog afraid of larvae? Well, I suppose there’s nothing for it. Let’s clear that away now.”
Really? I quietly focused on Idrish’s words.
I heard the clinking sound of dishes being cleared away.
After a while, I cautiously poked my nose out from the sleeve. I peeked outside before stepping out, but the larvae were gone.
Phew.
“You’re not a hedgehog shapeshifter, yet you can’t eat larvae?”
Idrish looked down at me with a mocking smile.
Hmph.
I raised the spines on my forehead and scowled fiercely.
“If you dislike live stag beetle larvae that much, you’d better reveal your true identity soon. Otherwise, at this time tomorrow, you’ll really have to eat them alive.”
With those words, Idrish stood up from his seat.
I had just barely returned to my room and caught my breath when someone knocked gently and opened the door.
The one who entered was a tiny child.
“Hey, monster!”
Huh? Was that meant for me?
I carefully examined the little brat who’d spoken so rudely upon first meeting me.
A small frame, about seven years old, with silvery curly hair and blue eyes.
Ah—anyone with blue eyes and white tiger heritage was unmistakable.
Rodrio Artigrado. Idrish’s younger brother, born bearing a tremendous fate.
The Servian clan of serpents possessed the gift of prophecy—and they had received an oracle that their lineage would be annihilated upon the appearance of a blue-eyed white tiger.
Because of this prophecy, the child would eventually meet his death.
From that moment onward, the novel’s plot would race toward its climax; narratively speaking, his death was absolutely necessary.
Facing a child destined to die left me with a strange feeling.
Of course… it wasn’t my place to interfere. I had no intention of helping a villain. Right now, all that mattered to me was my own safety and comfort…
“Wow, you really look weird.”
At his teasing words, I scowled and raised my spines.
Poor as he may be, his manners were truly lacking.
“But why are you in this room?”
It’s not like I wanted to be here.
“Idrish won’t even let me into this room! Then why does he let in an ugly monster like you?”
The more I heard, the more absurd it seemed.
I flared my spines fully. I had no interest in listening to a child’s jealous, rude remarks.
But unexpectedly, Rodrio’s eyes widened in astonishment.
“W-wow… Do it once more!”
Do what? Raise my spines?
Feeling uneasy, I calmly lowered my spines, then raised them again.
“Wow!”
I lowered and raised my spines a full forty-nine times.
Rodrio, who’d first called me a monster, seemed to think I was some kind of transforming robot—and soon became utterly enchanted.
He even claimed he finally understood why Idrish kept me in the room.
Kid, surely Idrish didn’t keep me around just to watch me raise my spines? Though, admittedly, I didn’t know his real reason either…
Still, thanks to this, I managed to leave the room. The child, being just a child, quickly cheered up after a bit of play and offered to show me around the mansion.
“That’s the study—where Grandfather usually stays. But don’t go there. The master is scary.”
Some of what he said I already knew, but there were also new facts—and useful information for escaping.
“Here…”
Rodrio stopped speaking in front of a black door in the hallway.
“I don’t even know what’s in there. They never told me, and they strictly forbade me from ever entering.”
Oh-ho.
This definitely smelled like something I needed to know.
I leaped out of Rodrio’s hands and scratched furiously at the door with my front paws.
“You want to go in there? No way! I’ll get in trouble!”
Never mind—just open it. I’ll take a quick peek.
“But we really shouldn’t…”
Rodrio glanced around. He sensed no one nearby. He bit his lip tightly.
“Fine… but just for a moment.”
I quickly nodded my nose. Rodrio picked me up again and grasped the doorknob.
Creeeak.
The door opened with an eerie sound.
Beyond it lay a staircase descending downward.
The stairs stretching into the basement were as dark and ominous as the maw of a cursed dragon.
“Hey, this doesn’t feel right. Let’s go back, Spiky. It’s too dark for us, and if Idrish finds out, I’ll really get in trouble.”
Just wait a moment.
Bravely, I went down the stairs first—though truthfully, I more or less just tumbled onto the step below.
I turned and looked back at Rodrio. Under my urging gaze, he hesitated, repeatedly clenching and unclenching his fists. Then, as if making a firm decision, he squeezed his eyes shut and opened them again.
“Alright, I can do this too.”
Rodrio’s feet trembled as he stretched them downward.
We quickly reached the bottom of the stairs.
“We should go back up now. Hurry and climb onto my hand!”
Rodrio urged me, but I was too busy looking around.
The entire basement was filled with shelves, densely packed with glass bottles. Most were tightly sealed and filled with black powder.
Every spine on my body stood rigidly upright.
“Spiky, let’s get out of here quickly.”
Unaware of what the bottles contained, Rodrio gently held me with both hands and hurriedly climbed the stairs.
But I knew exactly what they were.
They were the explosives Idrish had prepared to burn the world.
I froze in shock.
Boom! Kaboom!
The ground exploded with a deafening roar, and buildings collapsed. All the beastkin screamed and fled for their lives—but there was no safe place. The explosions erupted in a chain reaction.
The scene of Zaika, the rabbit beastkin protagonist, fleeing in terror was vivid in my mind. The sight of beastkin desperately running for their lives had been so horrifying that even I couldn’t sleep that night.
In a single day, the peaceful city became ruins. Beastkin were burned by fire or crushed beneath buildings.
Those glass bottles had caused that explosion.
My mouth went dry. Fear overwhelmed me, and my four legs stiffened.
There was a vast difference between vaguely knowing that person was the novel’s villain and actually seeing it with my own eyes.
I must have grown numb to Idrish’s presence—whether from seeing him groaning as if about to die last night, or lounging lazily while chuckling to himself.
Or perhaps I’d simply felt it was something distant and abstract.
But now, seeing these nearly filled bottles of gunpowder, it seemed Idrish’s day to shatter the world was drawing near.
“Spiky, what’s wrong? We got out without being caught, so don’t worry too much.”
Rodrio spoke worriedly, then hesitated briefly before gently stroking the spines on my back. My spines, which had stayed rigidly upright the whole time, slowly settled under his kind touch.
But that didn’t make me feel any better. After all, Rodrio himself belonged to the white tiger clan.
“If you’re still scared, I’ll protect you.”
Rodrio said it with innocent sincerity.
At that very moment—
“Protect who?”
A cold voice made my spines snap upright again. It wasn’t Rodrio’s voice.
I buried my face deep among my spines. All I could see were large feet approaching with heavy steps.
“I-Idrish.”
“Didn’t I clearly tell you not to go into the basement?”
“Well…”
“And you even brought that Bamsongi along?”
“I was showing Spiky the mansion and wandered in without realizing…”
Unlike when speaking to me, Rodrio sounded utterly cowed, his voice barely audible.
Idrish’s footsteps drew closer. I curled myself tighter into a ball, while Rodrio stood frozen, unable to move.
Without hesitation, Idrish picked me up.
“Rodrio. Do you not know what happens to those who disobey my words?”
Rodrio just blinked his large eyes, speechless. He looked so terrified he might burst into tears at any moment.
“I’ve ended all their lives. Did you think you’d be an exception?”
His words to his own younger brother were unimaginably cold and harsh.
Rodrio didn’t reply, but he was surely trembling violently.
“Return to your room immediately. Await your punishment. I won’t let this slide.”
“Okay…”
I heard Rodrio’s choked, tearful reply and the sound of his footsteps fading away.
Once Rodrio had left, only Idrish and I remained in the hallway.
When yandere male lead believes she loves him — but she never did
“How dare you!”
“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!?
“I will never accept that.”
“I will never let you return to him.”
“Even if I have to burn myself to ashes.”
“Even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul.”
“I will never let you escape me!”
This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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Oh, the situation is so funny, he’s treating him like a horse, “Go, my horse!” 😂😂