"IS IT TRUE?" Harmon grunted at the back of his throat, making a scary grumbling sound with it like a predator, growling to intimidate their prey. Even the beasts within the crowd could clearly hear it. They shook like a leaf.
The two beast-men threw into a panic and started vigorously shook their heads, their speech slurred and their tongues jumped onto one another.
"No! No Master Harmon!"
"It wasn't true, it wasn't true."
"It was what madam had said was the truth, please, spare my life."
"Yes, please, spare me."
Viosus face darkened. All of them knew they were lying but three mouth saying lies was more powerful than one truth. And it appeared that anyone within this circle was also in their loop, none would dare to let out a peep.
Slowly feeling his temper building, Viosus sighed and rubbed his thumb into the gap between his eyebrows. The sight was steadily giving him a headache.
"HUff..." Harmon exhaled quite violently, his eyes still filled with murderous intent but now it had landed back onto the outsider. "You heard them, better own up to your actions like a real beast-man, and take your worthy punishment!"
"And what is that you are suggesting?" A deep raspy voice calmly came behind the crowd. The authority in the tone itself had silenced everyone around it, including Harmon who was the most intimidating.
The crowd of beasts started to make a path for the owner of the voice to come forward. With every step that he made, the beasts folded over their body, some even kneeled to the ground, showing him the utmost respect.
Little to no surprise, Viosus lifted his sharp green eyes to see a young black-haired beast-man walked toward him. He didn't want to make a big deal out of the issue but it seemed like everything had gotten way out of hand at this point.
Viosus shook his hand lightly, his pride as a fox-clan member, and as a beast-man couldn't let him hide under the authority of Porsogon. Who they had been indebted to for the help.
"Ahhh! Just in time, now that the head is here, he can be our judge!"
Harmon squeezed out a fake smirk before patted onto Porsogon's shoulder as if they were allies. The man shamelessly continued to show off his mistreated wife and demanded Porsogon to give them justice.
After listening to their side of the story, Porsogon's expression hadn't change one bit. His icy blue eyes would often look directly onto Grindy's face, making her jolted in fear and immediately hid from his gaze. There was something about his eyes that made it felt like he could see through them all.
Though only knowing Viosus for a short amount of time, Porsogon could sense that the fox wasn't the type of beast to caused trouble like Harmon claimed him to be. Only one thing in his mind that mattered was Yilas, and they both knew that very well.
"Going as far as that outsider did, if he wasn't the head's guest, he would be immediately executed..." Harmon grunted and glared at Viosus many times during his long speech but it bore him no mind. Seeing Porsogon raised one of his eyebrows at the word execution, Harmon knew he had touched a wrong nerve. Almost instantly, he tapped his spouse and signaled her with his eyes.
"Oh no, Master, Master Porsogon!" As Grindy shrieked up her sour voice, clinging onto Porsogon's leg and begged for mercy "I am no saint but no lives shall be waste for such a trivial life of mine. But for a beast-man to touch me in such a manner without becoming spousal, it would not only ruin my reputation as a female but also stain my family's name."
Grindy cried, her tears were big like pearls rolling down onto Porsogon's skin. Suppressing his disgust aside, Porsogon hunched down and lifted her face by the chin, staring the deceitful dead in the eyes.
"So how does the madam of Lion's family would like to be settled?"
Porsogon's tone was kind and altruistic, however, the look on his face proved otherwise. Grindy was scared to the point she had closed both of her eyes shut and immediately take cover behind her big burly spouse. Though she had still peeked out a little to state what she wanted.
"The beast has to become my spouse, it would only suffice to keep my reputation clean..."
"Hahahahah...!" Somebody burst out laughing and it was no one else besides Viosus. He laughed so hysterically to the point he had to bent over and cover his stomach.
Grindy and Harmon looked obviously displeased with the reaction, especially Grindy since she knew he was laughing at her. At first, she liked the male beast because he was handsome and his action was elegant but now, his ridicule's laugh made her blood boil.
"What's so funny?" Grindy pouted her lips and crossing arms in annoyance at Viosus's reaction. She looked like a spoiled child not getting things her way, throwing tantrums for attention.
"Hahaha...!" Viosus couldn't stop laughing, he hated to bring them the bad news but all their plans would be for naught. "Sorry to break it to you, but I already have a spouse, lady."
"N-No way! Why would someone do you did if they had a spouse?" Grindy refused to believe in what Viosus had to say, she shook her head from side to side and look to Harmon for validation. Only to find his face scrunched up even uglier. "YOU ARE LYING! LIAR! LIAR!" Grindy yelled over and over, at this point, only to convince herself.