What on earth is inside this woman’s head that she can say such things so casually?

Seeing her say such things, it was clear she didn’t love Hugrey as a man either.

Is it just the desire to possess an alpha, and nothing else?

No, what she wanted wasn’t just any alpha. That woman wanted a strong alpha. And she thought she could kill anyone for that purpose.

A monster. Isn’t that woman the real monster? A monster to whom all life is merely a means to her own ends. Because of that monster, she herself could die, and Hugrey could die too.

Hugrey too…? That can’t happen!

With this sudden realization, her body began to boil with heat again.

“We’ll be in a hurry to bring him before the Traskan Emperor kills Duke Ulpaz. Come to think of it, he really might kill him. Hans, kill this woman now.”

But at that moment, Reina Tilbeth ordered again as if finishing a chore, and as soon as her order fell, Hans swung his sword.

Swish.

“Ah!”

A scream burst from Chloe’s mouth, and soon after she rolled on the dirt floor. The thought flashed that her body would be cut in two by the sword, but strangely, she felt no pain. When she opened her eyes, which she had unwittingly closed, Lord Joyce was standing in front of her, blocking her, bleeding. He had a diagonal slash wound on his chest.

“Lord Joyce!”

Chloe screamed, looking at Lord Joyce’s chest. Lord Joyce had taken the sword instead, shielding her.

Having come from the imperial palace without even a sword, Lord Joyce had faced him with his bare body.

Why now! After bringing her here to be killed by Reina Tilbeth, why did he!

Chloe felt like her chest would burst with anger she didn’t know who to pour it on.

“Run away. I’ll hold them off. That woman… doesn’t deserve to be Your Excellency’s mate… Hurry and escape.”

Lord Joyce said, coughing.

You fool. Did you only realize that now! That woman is insane! Why did you make things like this, you idiot!

Tears burst out uncontrollably.

“What a touching scene. Well then, die together in harmony.”

As Reina Tilbeth sneered, the man called Hans raised his sword again.

No! You bastard! You…

“Die!”

With a shout, Chloe felt as if her body was exploding. The next moment, she was already tearing at Hans’s body.

‘Die, things like you should die!’

She kept shouting. But her words came out as strange cries, and Hans’s body was already torn to shreds. Joyce, who had picked up the sword that had fallen from Hans’s hand, was now staggering to his feet, walking towards Reina Tilbeth.

“These damn things.”

Reina Tilbeth muttered. The next moment, Chloe saw her body transform into a wolf.

‘…!’

More shocking than the fact that she had become a tiger was the bizarre sight of a human transforming into a wolf right before her eyes. Her clothes were torn to pieces, and in the blink of an eye, she had become a wolf standing on four legs.

The wolf immediately lunged at Joyce, who was running towards her. Joyce, who was already having trouble keeping his balance, staggered and dropped the sword, and the wolf bit him.

Chloe threw aside Hans, whom she had been biting, and rushed at the wolf. It wasn’t a conscious action. It was just an instinct that she had to attack that wolf. And strangely, she felt certain she could kill that wolf. It was the tiger’s instinct within her.

Grrrraaargh.

As a strange roar burst from her body, she leapt towards the wolf that had pounced on Joyce’s body. Her body, left with only instinct, seemed to move faster than the speed of thought.

When she finally came to her senses and looked down, there lay Joyce and Hans, who seemed already dead, and a wolf writhing and coughing.

Should I kill it?

If she bit the wolf’s neck one more time, she could kill it right now. She was certain.

That wolf is Reina Tilbeth. The one who tried to kill her and drove Hugrey into danger.

She had spared her once, but the result was another betrayal. So this woman deserves to die. She learned the lesson that when it’s time to kill, one must kill quickly through this woman.

Ah! Hugrey!

Chloe, who had been feeling murderous intent while looking at the woman who had become a wolf, suddenly remembered Hugrey, whom she had forgotten. The fact that he was fighting Calcus in the Moon Garden.

She had to save Hugrey. As a tiger, she could save him. Chloe started running across the Sun Garden towards the Moon Garden.

It was a strange thing. There was no need to worry about direction. All her senses were already guiding her to where Hugrey was.

In the darkness, the wind was brushing against her skin, no, her fur.

The imperial garden of Elaion, which had seemed so large and wide when walked with a human body. The imperial garden traversed with a tiger’s body was small enough to pass through in the blink of an eye.

She was already in the deepest part of the Moon Garden, and before her eyes unfolded the sight of a lion and a wolf fighting as one.

No, no. This wasn’t fighting. It was the sight of a wolf being unilaterally torn apart by a lion.

Hugrey!

It must have been quite some time since Hugrey and Calcus had started fighting. Both beasts were already torn and bitten all over.

As much as the wolf was in a mess, so was the lion’s condition. But she could tell. That Hugrey was now perfectly in heat, and in a state where he couldn’t use his strength. Two strange pheromones were emanating from him.

Something she couldn’t smell as a human, but now she could feel it. Around him, attack pheromones and seduction pheromones were intertwined.

How did he endure until now in that state? It must be difficult to even stand properly.

The lion lunged at the wolf again.

Ah…! Calcus never intended to let Hugrey live and go from the start! He was trying to kill the weakened duke like this!

‘Calcus!’

She called out to Calcus. Her voice turned into a tiger’s roar, but at her roar, the lion momentarily stopped moving.

‘Stop! Let Hugrey go!’

As she shouted again, both the lion and the wolf stopped moving, looking at her.

At that moment, she saw the wolf’s legs staggering.

The lion looked back and forth between her and the staggering wolf, made a strange cry once, and then pounced on the wolf again.

You Calcus, you bastard!

Feeling as if her heart was being crushed, she rushed at the lion.

You bad bastard, Calcus. You agreed to let him go. You did, so what is this! What is this!

She hurled her body with all her might towards the lion’s neck, spewing out resentment mixed with tears.

Why are you making me bite you! You bad lion bastard!

The sounds of three beasts mixed together, and Chloe did not let go of the lion’s neck until the end.

You bad guy, you who insisted on killing Hugrey, you bad guy.

The lion did not resist her attack. It was just suffering, its neck being torn.

At some point, Chloe realized that the lion would not attack anyone. Not because it couldn’t attack, but because it had lost the will to attack. Feeling as if her whole body was filled with tears, she finally let go of the lion’s neck.

The lion lay still with its torn body, but its eyes were following her.

Leaving the lion’s gaze behind, Chloe went to the fallen wolf. She lay down, overlapping her body on the wolf’s body. Strangely, she felt her body getting cold.

Am I becoming human again now?

The distant noises were getting closer. It seemed people were gathering, having heard the beasts’ roars.

What should we do when people gather? They’ll see us. They’ll find out we’re beast-humans. What should we do?

She finally realized that her clothes had already been torn in the Sun Garden.

What to do, what to do…

The sound of people’s footsteps and murmuring was getting louder and louder, but her consciousness started to blur again, just like last time.

Why aren’t Hugrey and Calcus turning back into humans? If they stay like that, they’ll soon be discovered too. A naked woman and a wolf, and a lion. Then people will know about the existence of beast-humans too.

She felt warm fur wrapping around her body, which was getting cold.

The wolf was covering her with its body. Soon after, she felt fur with a different texture settling on one of her calves that the wolf hadn’t completely covered.

The wolf and the lion had perfectly covered her body.

Ah, it’s because of me.

Finally realizing that they weren’t turning human or hiding their bodies from this place because of her, Chloe closed her eyes.

After that, there was no memory, no consciousness.

The rumor that a beast had appeared in the Moon Garden surrounding the imperial palace in Lyon, the capital of Elaion at the heart of the empire, spread beyond the Elaion Empire to the entire continent.

Naturally, the beast or monster sighting rumor that had briefly circulated and then died down about a month ago at the emperor’s coronation celebration had now changed to a beast-human theory. There were too many witnesses. Even if the imperial palace servants’ mouths were sealed, rumors leaked out, and it became accepted as fact that the bloodline of the lion beast-humans, thought to be extinct, had actually been passed down to the imperial family, and that Duke Ulpaz was also likely a wolf beast-human.

Moreover, the rumor spread that the woman who was surrounded by the lion presumed to be the emperor and the wolf presumed to be Duke Ulpaz was Chloe Lionelden, the princess of Tigrium. Since Tigrium was a kingdom founded by tiger beast-humans, people agreed that the woman must also be a tiger beast-human.