Morning After ✨ Lovers 23 - 24
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23 Decisive Battle; Cranbert Company 3.
From where we stood, there was a
terrible sound of the cage being battered down.
‘The wolfe is going crazy!’
The building seemed to rock with
the impact as well, with the ceiling lamp shuddering with each bang.
It had begun.
The staff ran towards us,
calling for Mr Cranbert.
‘Sir, the beast!’
‘Permission to use a sedative.’
‘It’s impossible, we can’t get close!’
‘Sir, Mr Cranbert!’
Wasn’t it just a mess? Despite
having anti-rampage weapons, the staff were sitting on their hands.
‘Try to take it down quickly with
our strongest sedative!’
Cranbert commanded as he rushed
past me back in the direction of the den, but there was such an awful howl from
I don’t know what beast it was that made everyone crouch down and cover their
ears with their hands.
What kind of place does Cranbert
company run? Why were there no contingency plans?
For the time being, I needed to
look after myself. I had to get out of the breeding den to the guys outside
quickly. I rushed back to the cage area to see what Lucas and co. were doing but
as I did so, I saw the box of high quality pheromones. I could use this in an
emergency, I packed as many as I could in my pockets and held one bottle in each
hand. Actually, where was Chris? He should have been here. I looked around and
found a figure walking shakily down another passage. He was escaping, but why
was he trembling?
‘Chris? How could you leave your
guest and run away?’ I called out to him.
‘Mi-mi-mi Mira I’m sorry!’
‘Whatever, you only think about
yourself anyway.’
‘I wasn’t running away, I was
trying to find the emergency exit.’
I ran to where he was, the place
where he pointed was in a tense situation; Lucas and the beast were in battle.
‘You want to run but can’t.’ I said
to him.
Chris gulped from the sarcasm in my
tone.
‘This is a safe place until
Cranbert gets the sedative.’
‘I don’t think this place is safe
either, the other beasts seem to be getting caught up in the rampage.’
‘There are magic circles for that…’
There had been two black Yaja
tigers in other cages. Perhaps inspired by the chase wolfe, they were also
excited. One of them was climbing up the walls of it’s cage and roaring. It
seems the unfamiliar roar that I had heard earlier was from the tigers.
Unfortunately, the aforementioned magic circles did not hold up, they quickly
dissipated.
‘I need to try and help. Keep
safe.’
Eugene had opened the doors which
he had indicated to me earlier. As I moved towards the cages, Lucas and Douglas
were driving the chase wolfe towards it. He seemed to be wearing gauntlets to
parry the chase wolfe’s attacks. Lucas roared back at the beast.
Wow! Lucas was so amazing!
His roars were
just as menacing as the chase wolfe and the tigers. It was not exaggeration to
say he was rather beast like. He seemed to be fine, so I really should not get
in the way. It wouldn’t be good if I did.
I finally understood the meaning of
the brigade members’ jokes; it was really cool to see. But this wasn’t the time
to enjoy this sight. Still tried to burn the memory of his powerful movements
into my memory. Oh, I’m dying~ The
clenching and unclenching of his arm muscles are the best!
‘Wait with me, Mira!’
While I was fascinated by Lucas, Chris
grabbed me, clinging to my back maybe intending to use me as a shield.
I pulled him off me in anger and
pushed him to the floor, ‘Hasn’t this all happened because of your greed? Doing
terrible things to an innocent beast!’
I felt more powerful than usual. I
may not be anywhere close to Lucas, but Chris was in shock.
‘I can’t forgive that you used your
factory technology to milk all you could from that beast.’
Chris looked awkwardly at the
bottle of pheromone I was holding. Purifying chase wolfe estrus pheromones was
prohibited. He was the lowest of the low.
‘Grrr, you don’t understand.’
‘What don’t I understand?’
‘You were always confident. Made me
so frustrated to look at you! You saw me as an unreliable man, didn’t you?’
Oh, that was what it was. I had
been fuelling his inferiority complex, but I don’t think that it was
justification for cheating and calling me a poorly made sex-doll.
‘That is not an excuse for
committing a crime.’
‘Shut up! So annoying. Aren’t you
getting full of yourself even though you’re just a clerk?!’ He jumped up with
his arms swinging. The cornered rat finally baring its fangs.
‘I think you’re still into me, even
though you say you’re with the commander!’
‘Absolutely not! I’m happy we broke
up. I like Lucas, he treats me as an equal.’
Chris was furious but he was
flailing his fists like a child. I punched him up from under his chin, catching
him by surprise. Beasts are weak under their chin, but this was also effective
for people. He staggered back and glared at me. But I dealt with beasts daily,
I was not afraid of him.
His face was a mask of rage, and he
was drooling. He wiped his mouth with the sleeve of his shirt. It was the first
time I had seen a handsome guy get so angry he became ugly.
But then I noted his eyes weren’t
on me but on my hand. The bottle…oh no! The lid was gone and the bottle was
empty.
‘Chris, is that saliva?’ (Zuben:
that happened with magic?)
‘What did you make me drink?!’
He tried to use his hands to scrape
the liquid out and spit out. The lid must have come up while we were struggling
and somehow gotten into his mouth. (Zuben: Somehow, plot convenience but
somehow) A whole bottle of high quality estrus…it was too scary to imagine. His
dick might burst.
‘Oh dear, I’ll be going! Get out before you attack anyone.’ I laughed as I ran away leaving him behind. If I didn’t escape, Lucas wouldn’t be able to concentrate fully. Let Chris feel what many buyers of the pheromones would have done to other women.
But it was an accident.
Truly!
✨
Lucas
Damn it, where was Mira?
I looked around while guiding the
chase wolfe out. Did she escape?
She had gone off distracting
premature ejaculator Chris and Cranbert to another room. I suspected it was the
refining lab, but it was an unexpected development for her to go alone.
That was why I accelerated the plan
and showed the female chase wolfe something special.
She reacted immediately, growling.
Douglas injected a syringe of
stimulant while she was distracted. He told the staff it was a nutritional
drug. We didn’t want to make her uncomfortable, but it was for her benefit.
What I had showed her was a cloth
soaked with Geist’s estrus. There was no doubt she considered him her mate,
because when she smelled it, she rose with her tails swinging and she gave a
happy snort.
‘She has a good reaction to the
scent of our chase wolfe.’ Douglas explained to the technicians.
Even though she was chained, they
didn’t assist us. They seemed to be wary of the chase wolfe's temperament during
their heat. No one wanted their arm torn off. It was the correct course of
action, this chase wolfe hadn’t been raised amongst humans like Geist, so she
was very wary.
After waiting for a while, the
female began to change. The stimulant had begun to work; she was bristling, baring her fangs and growl menacingly at us. She rose and roared and
began to fight against her chains. The technicians ran off in fear, leaving us
by ourselves.
We pretended to hold her down while
breathing the restraints.
‘Eugene!’
He should have opened that door
by now. He appeared, pointed at the half open doors and raised two fingers.
Huh?
The beast’s roar was too loud to
hear anything.
Hmm, two?
The doors were two?
I left the beast and ran to the
doors and kicked it with all my strength. I continued to kick it until the
doors loosened and opened with a dull grumble. Either way, it was being
obedient.
‘Guide the female with Douglas,
I’ll find Mira…’ I was telling Eugene when I spotted Mira running out of a
hidden corridor. There must be a path for the workers there. She looked safe
and unharmed.
‘Commander, stop the chase wolfe
from running away. Please!’
As I was about to get to her, Cranbert
rushed up to me, sweaty with fear. I pushed him back with an exasperated sigh.
‘What are your keepers doing?’
‘They’ve never handled a chase
wolfe before…hiii! Hiii! The black tigers!’
I could only think of it as an
auspicious cry. The tigers broke out of their cage and were in frenzy. It was
now a commotion. Though I specialised in taking down beasts, the situation
right now was a little bad.
24 Howling of beasts
I left Chris and headed for a door
that looked like an emergency exit. The black tiger was running about chasing
the keepers who were running helter skelter with no plan. Lucas seemed to by
talking to Cranbert, but he didn’t seem to know what to do as person in charge.
He was just shouting at Lucas.
Douglas and Eugene were drawing the
female out, her tail disappeared out of the strangely distorted doors. Douglas
and Eugene would be alright, the others were out there.
We had to do something about the
tigers.
One of the keepers had decided to
sit in a corner watching the melee,
‘Why is this happening? Why hasn’t
there been a magic circle of protection deployed?’
‘Someone cancelled all of the magic
circles!’
‘What? Why isn’t there a failsafe
in place? What about the crisis management guide?’ (Zuben: Who’s the inspector
for Cranbert?)
Even if Joanne was outside the city
walls, what was the person in charge of inspecting doing? To get permits to
breed large carnivores, stables have to go through a very strict inspection
with many magical and physical failsafes in place. I really wanted to see that
fat man’s papers, it was likely that they didn’t have any permits.
I waved at Lucas trying to catch
his attention. I didn’t want to shout just in case I caught the attention of
the tigers. I continued to wave desperately, but it seemed impossible that I
would get his attention.
Lucas wielded a lasso with a
familiar hand forcing the forcing one of the tigers back into the cage with a
worker who seemed to have found his senses. But he couldn’t do it alone. The
other keepers had run out. The tiger was struggling to get out, clawing and
headbutting any gap. I measured the distance between the other tiger still
having a field day out and Lucas, and I and saw the danger. I shouted for
Lucas.
‘Lucas, bite its nose! It’s a big weak point.’
Lucas did not hesitate. He bent
over and bit the tiger’s nose.
I think I am falling in love with
him more and more.
He was so awesome, unlike these
useless keepers who don’t understand the responsibility of keeping beasts.
Beasts weren’t just cute!
With a feline yowl, the tiger
bounced back and ran to its bed.
‘Lucas, catch!’
I threw the other vial I had in my
hand to him. It was a little off, but he caught it.
‘There is a distillation machine in
the next area!’
‘This is?’
‘Use it if something happens!’
Lucas grinned. It was only an
aphrodisiac, but it could be useful.
‘Mira, escape quickly! I’ll subdue
the other tiger.’
There were no more flailing keepers
to chase and the tiger was trying to choose between either Lucas or me for
chase.
‘Yes!’
There was nothing more for me to
do, I ran up the stairs and outside. A few of the keepers followed me, but I
didn’t pay them any mind. The female chase wolfe was outside, and there were
herbivores out there.
‘Don’t take it out!’
‘But we can’t keep it here!’
‘It’s excited because there’s food!
Who the hell put cows and horses near a breeding den?!’
What a catastrophe. The members of
the brigade were in no situation to protect me. Now that it was no longer penned
in, the chase wolfe was running around and barking. Every time it ran forward,
it dragged a brigade member. Everytime it tossed it head, a worker was blown
away.
‘Sedatives!’
‘There are too many drugs in its
system, if we use a sedative it might die.’
‘Let’s run her until she’s tired
and then capture her?’
‘We’ll take turns. Douglas and
Eugene rest. Boris and I will carry on.’
‘Understood!’
As I watched them carry out their
plan, I wondered if a chase wolfe was as powerful as a dragon; it couldn’t fly,
but it was agile, cunning, with destructive claws and deadly fangs.
The chase wolfe barked and howled
as it ran around. It wasn’t menacing. It sound like it was calling for other
wolves. No, that wasn’t it…this was a cry for its mate. (Zuben: Girl, you said
you’ve never met a chase wolfe before. How you know?)
As I watched I noted a familiar
cloth caught on her fangs. It was the cloth soaked with Geist’s scent that
Lucas has brought with him. She was looking for Geist!
There was nothing I could do
staying here, so I might as well go. I raced to the place we had left the horses,
and found Lucas’ grall horse. I had to go get Geist because I was certain she
would not relent until she found Geist. The proud kind of the forest would not
give in.
The area was crowded with Cranbert
workers and escaping customers. With all this commotion, it wouldn’t be long
until the police are involved. Before that happened, I needed to get Geist
here.
Lucas’ horse noticed me and raised
its head, perhaps because I smelled like Lucas. I stroked its nose before
untying the reins.
‘I need to get to the Rejude
Brigade, can you take me?’ I said to the horse. It snorted and stamped its foot
gently. It looked like it was fine.
Being a tall horse, climbing onto
the saddle was a difficult task unless you were accustomed to it. A few minutes
of heaving and ho-ing, I got on to the saddle and breathed. The horse neighed
gently, I stroked its nape,
‘I’m fine, thanks.’
I pulled at the reins and guided
the horse out from the stable to the road. I couldn’t reach the stirrups
because they were for Lucas’ legs, so I had no choice but to guide the horse
with my heels against its sides.
It wasn’t that I was short, it was
that Lucas just had uselessly long legs!
‘I’m holding on. Let’s get to the
brigade at full speed!’
I only knew how fast a grall horse
was from documentation. I never could have imaging what it was like at full
speed.
The horse understood and speed up,
and kept speeding until the streets were a blur.
Air rushed into my mouth as we
went. I couldn't pinch the horse’s body with my legs because they weren’t strong
enough, I could only entwine the reins around my arm and lean down to hold onto its mane.
The horse jumped over people as we
went. I heard someone should I angrily, I could only apologise to the wind.
‘Safety first,’ I said to the
horse, ‘We don’t want any accidents!’
✨
After subduing the second tiger, I
turned to look back at Cranbert who was clinging to a cage while panting roughly.
‘Hey, responsible person,’ I called
to the only worker who had helped me.
‘Y,yes!’ He was also tired.
‘Get the magic circles deployed.’
‘Yes, I’ll do it quickly.’
I wiped the sweat dripping down my
face. It was difficult to manage two tigers, but I was able to make it, thanks
to Mira. I really didn’t want to bite their noses, but I couldn’t hesitate in
such an emergency situation.
They were docile cats after that.
‘Mr Cranbert.’
‘Yes. Commander Rejude, tell me
anything.’
He was completely afraid of me
after watching me subdue his tigers. There was no need to hide our true
purpose, but would he play ball?
‘That chase wolfe’s heat seems to
have been induced. Do you have any idea of how that came to be?’
‘Oh…that…yes..’
‘Of course, there is no mistake
that you do since you have a refining lab right next to the den.’
‘Yes.’
‘And the person who made the distillation
machine was that slimy fellow…Danning?’
‘Commander…’
This man was being stubborn. He was
still planning on buying my compliance. I took the vial out of my pocket, and
he began to talk,
‘I-it was just a trial. We were
planning on refining only during the period of heat; so we wouldn’t burden the
beast. Y-your fiancé, Miss Mira, she seemed to be very interested in it. You
can continue to use it in the future.'
‘Shup up.’
‘Hiii!’
‘Mira isn’t interested in such a
thing. We came here to save the beast you were milking and abusing to satisfy
your greed and people’s desires. Do you know what that means, Cranbert?’
I walked up to him and he stepped
back until he was backed up against a wall. No one was trying to stop me. It
seemed that he was being abandoned by his subordinates.
He was pathetic.
‘In order to get this much, you
must have hurt the beast a lot.’
Cranbert was quivering in fear, so
much so that his teeth were clattering and his belly giggled.
I laughed at him.
‘I hear your accomplice also had a
taste of this.’ I said him as I opened the vial and thrust the opening into
Cranbert’s mouth. I clamped over his mouth as he tried to spit it out.
It really wasn’t intentional, I
just wanted to poke the contents into his mouth.
‘How is it? It looks like you’re
thirsty. It must be delicious.’
I don’t know what would happen if
it was drunk. The effects would soon be seen. I left Cranbert trying to vomit
the aphrodisiac on the floor, and headed out to there the female was rampaging.
Like Geist, she would be inexhaustible, my guys would be having a hard time.
I could hear her sorrowful howls.
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I'm really enjoying this - thanks so much for your hard work. I've noticed several typos but I don't know if you want them pointed out. If you do, I'll be happy to be specific. Finally, this page and the page before have broken links for the "index/next".
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