In the brief moment of rune activation, all the women felt the effects, and the pretense of being under control dropped. It lasted only a second until they lost their autonomy, but it was enough for Anfi to sense something wrong.
"Hm?" He looked at the three women he had chosen with doubt in his eyes. "They... seem to be different..."
Then, another man spoke lightly. "They don't have beastly bloodlines and have some cultivation, very different from those human beasts that..." He stopped, feeling Anfi's penetrating gaze, almost letting slip something he shouldn't.
The elder, who was Anfi's grandfather, didn't imagine that his grandson had the ability to hide something from his senses. They covertly kidnapped some female beasts in human form and took them to the underground. Of course, for this to work, the elder couldn't suspect or focus entirely on them, but so far, everything was going well.
