"You what!?" A beautiful woman with silver hair down to her thighs and a thick black mane of the same harpy-like feathers around her neck, almost identical to Aruru, suddenly shouted when we entered the village's most extravagant and clean hut.
'Why does she shout with such an angry voice when the colours she shows are that of joy and delight from the moment she saw me?'
'Even her pride was starting to glow brightly.'
'No... that look, she knows who I am... Or rather who I was...' His eyes looked at the Runic Board, and as he thought, the current thoughts of her mind were.
"Why is the Argent Prince here!? Didn't he die when Versace fell!?" These were the thoughts written as her eyes passed over his.
Grendel was rather pleased with the gift from Ra but ever vigilant towards her, worried that one day there might come a cost or price he had to make for this blessing.
'Well, as long as it's not my life or those I love...'
"Aruru! You are the princess of the Lionetta tribe—how can you pair with just any male? He has not been through the proper trails nor faced the Test of Might!"
An annoying brunette who looked a bit older than Aruru, but her neck didn't have the feathers, and she was just like a lion-girl...
Although her voice was clear and polite, somehow I couldn't like this "Second Princess." Especially the way she smelt like a cheap whore...
The dark colour of lust, greed and envy stained her entire being... Grendel almost felt the taste of her perfume flooding into his mouth when he looked at her.
'Disgusting...'
'Imagine a mere beast woman calling the former Crown Prince of Versace "any male" Haha...'
"Shut up, Eruda! Grendel is worthy of me more than your lousy husband and his pathetic brother!"
"Silence, Aruru! DO NOT INSULT HIS MAJESTY!"
"Hmph... a mere clown that sought to drug me and drag me down." Aruru's voice was extremely quiet, but Grendel and her mother looked at her, one with a smirk, the other's eyes widened, her pupils dilating as her hands gripped the wooden chair tightly.
"Enough!" Their mothers roared with a deep growl, silencing everyone sitting in the large room.
Because she was told off, Eruda began to complain and act like a baby with her future husband faking her tears as the blue-haired male with a decent face frowned, his fingers playing with a blue logo, likely his royal emblem.
The attempted pressure on Aruru and her seemed futile as they started arguing again, ignoring the bean sprout with no muscle.
Ignoring the arrogant woman that started to argue with Aruru, Grendel looked around the room and noticed that the smartly dressed human seemed to be her husband and that prince that planned to get rid of Aruru using his brother.
[Crown Prince of Zeuras]
Name: Alonis Li Zendrim
Age: 22
Allegiance: Zeduras (Small Human Kingdom East of Lionetta), Lionetta (2nd Princess, Fiancée in name only.)
Level: 19
Skills: [Sword Mastery - Lvl 2], [Assassination - Lvl 2], [Betrayal - Lv8], [Acting - Lv6], [Cuckold - Lvl 9]
Weakness: Because his brother is the original favourite, many ministers and knights still believe in his brother Derek.
Thus, he plans to ruin his brother's reputation and steal the throne completely.
He enjoys letting many of his retainers sleep with his future wife.
***
His information was extremely spicy, causing Grendel's gaze to look at the woman insulting his cute new spirit wife.
'Nothing compared to his older brother, a weak body, weak heart and corrupt mind... Greed, envy, pride and sloth... all dominate his body...'
Quickly so, nobody noticed his extended gaze. Grendel turned away and looked at the Lionetta Queen, who kept smiling at him, her teeth were like a beast, but Grendel didn't dislike it.
Rather he found her attractive and now understood where Aruru's beauty came from...
His eyes started to glow with a faint blue light, and he was about to use his spirit eye when she waved her hand as the effect shattered, causing a slight pain in his eyes as he recoiled back.
The moment he looked again, she giggled, ignoring her daughter's fighting and mouthed to him silently, "Be careful when looking at a lady's age—some are a little shy~ my son-in-law."
'How?' He then saw Moko standing beside her whispering...
'It's you!?' Grendel wasn't angry—he just laughed as Aruru's actions would probably be told to the queen, which might be amusing.
'Well, the Spirit marriage isn't that big of an issue; even if she died, it doesn't mean I would die, but rather the Primal Harpy spirit would be infused into me completely, and I would no longer take on a partial spirit form.'
However, that didn't mean he could kill her as she couldn't die in any way that was his fault—the biggest issue was the fact each time they transformed. Their affection and feelings for each other would grow stronger, more intimate and connected like the red velvet strings of fate.
That was why when they transformed, they flew around, flirting and kissing each other with their beaks.
Not that Grendel didn't mind the feeling of connecting to someone with his empty mind, and he didn't want to feel that loneliness again...
'Well, let's see how things go—Aruru's face when embarrassed is extremely cute... It makes me want to tease her.'
He didn't put much importance on that, as Ra just said it was an old custom that spirits had a different idea of marriage than humans, and it involved the Pact of Spirit Marriage, which the two had performed by sharing their souls.
Grendel leaned back in the comfortable seat.
He looked at the decor and brightly coloured hides of various monsters. It was rather pretty; it seemed like the Lionetta, like most Beast Monsters, were nomadic or rural.
His eyes closed for a moment, blocking out the sound of the other's mind as if floating in a large ocean... In the ocean, there was a vibrant breeze and a gentle voice.
It felt like Aruru when she was in her Harpy form... gently brushing against him and fluttering around the ocean with a beautiful cry.
Grendel tried to go further... To touch those memories related to Grendel the Argent Prince, however, the closer he swam through the ocean of memories and murky feelings, a sharp pain came to his mind as if to stop his traversing.
'Good thing I don't care about my past too much... Only that voice and figure, that elven girl, refuses to leave my memories... Her name... Au....'
'It's no good—the static hurts my head and eyes...'
"Enough, be quiet..." With a loud bellow, Aruru's mother stood up and spread her arms with a roar that sounded through the entire village.
"IF you want to complain so much, Eruda! Then he may take the Test of Might now! I, the current Chieftain and Queen of the Lionetta tribe, accept his participation!"
"Mommy is the best!" Aruru chirped as she jumped into her mother's arms, pulling her tongue out to Grendel before snorting, "Hmph! Hehe~ Mommy is best!"
"Mother!? How can you... just because he's attractive....!" Eruda complained with a gloomy face and sharp eyes, looking at Grendel, her tail slamming against her seat in a huff.