After hugging Drake for some time, Aria separated from him. Her eyes had the same level of fanaticism that he saw in Yumi's eyes when he first saw her.
She knelt in front of him. Maria got up with difficulty, walked towards her daughter, and like her knelt in front of Drake. Her eyes were the same as her daughter.
They turned their heads toward each other, smiled, and turned back. Then in unison, they said, "Thank you, my lord, for deeming us worthy to stand by your side. We offer you our eternal allegiance, pledging to serve you for all eternity and beyond."
"I accept."
"Thank you, my lord," they said, again in unison.
"Get up."
Both of them got up together. The rest of the fox women had no idea what was going on. Initially, the bull-men were torturing the human, then Aria suddenly lost her mind and killed three of them and their leader ended up running away in fear. Then their leader and her daughter pledged their allegiance to a human.
Even if with their superior intellect, they could not understand what was happening. Of course, that superior intellect was rusted because of living like dolls and not using their natural gifts. So that might also be a reason for them to not able to understand what was happening.
Meanwhile, Yumi returned while dragging Torix behind her by his horn. Drake had told her to catch and bring him back. He gave her explicit instruction that she was not allowed to kill him or hurt him much. After all, he was still needed for the next phase of his plan.
"Leave me you b*tch. Let me go. My tribe leader is Extraordinary, and he is also my distant uncle. If he finds that I didn't return, he will skin both you and that loudmouth human alive" Torix said feeling pain as his back was scratched from being dragged back to the fox tribe. He felt his horn would rip off if that human woman dragged him for a few more meters.
"Thanks, Yumi, for bringing him here. I was about to go find him. He dared to hurt Young Master, I will make him regret being born," Aria said as she walked towards Torix menacingly.
She had changed the way she referred to Drake. She called him young master just like the twins.
As she moved towards Torix, she was pleasantly surprised that Yumi nodded back as a way to acknowledge her thanks. Yumi had already noticed both Aria and Maria's changes, hence the change in her treatment of Aria.
"Wait, Aria," Maria said as she stopped Aria from killing Torix.
Aria stopped and looked back at her mother in confusion, who just gave her a gentle smile. She knew that her mother had no intentions of sparing Torix as she could the fury hidden beneath the gentle smile.
"Dear, young master has helped us to see the light and cleared the darkness in our lives. Don't you think our fellow tribe members deserve a chance to the young master's light," Maria said as she gave a gloating look to Torix. He felt chills run down his spine seeing that look.
Aria had a moment of realization about what her mother was implying. She smiled and turned back to Torix.
"What do you want to do? How about you let me go and I will not tell anyone about your betrayal? I will just say that a monster killed my companions," Torix implored as he was getting afraid of what might happen to him.
Aria didn't listen to him and brought a few long and sturdy vines. She tied Torix to a tree using the vines.
"What are you doing? Let me go. Let me go," shouted Torix hysterically as tried to break himself out but the vines were too tight and didn't budge.
"Everyone, do you want to be treated as livestock by the beast-human?"
"Do you want to be treated as someone less than even a slave?"
"Do you want to live under the oppression of the bull tribe and in extension the whole beast-humans forever?"
"Do you want to forever suppress a part of your being that defines you?
"All that, just because some useless king was afraid of us taking over his throne and kingdom?"
"Now all of you have a chance to write a new chapter in your lives. You have a chance to embrace your true self. You have to just take a step forward. Can you do it?"
After giving her motivational speech, Maria quieted down to let everyone soak in what she said.
The tribe members' processors were rusted because of not using their brains to their full potential, but that could not hide the fact that all of them had the latest generation of processors installed in their brains. Their eyes widened as they understood what Maria was suggesting.
Everything that Maria said resonated with them. But like Aria, they didn't have the guts to go against the innate fear they had against the bull tribe. So nobody moved.
"Maria, have you lost your mind? First, your rebellious daughter killed three members of the respected bull tribe. Now you are suggesting we hurt and kill Lord Torix. Quickly release him this instant and then both of you commit suicide immediately to appease him," Willow screamed like a banshee.
Initially, her mind was a mess as she saw the scenes that she never imagined in her life happening in front of her. She was in too much shock to respond before. Only after listening to Maria's speech did she come to her mind.
She immediately shouted for them to stop. She was so close to becoming the next tribe leader. There was a chance that Lord Torix would have taken a liking to her so that her following days would be smooth sailing. She wouldn't let them ruin her plans. She thought that the situation could still be salvaged as long as both of them died.
But no one gave her any heed. Frustrated she went towards him herself to untie him.
"Thank you, I knew I could depend on you," Torix said with hopeful eyes.
"It is my duty, my lord," said Willow excited to be recognised by Torix.
Torix looked hopeful when he saw her coming towards him. He thought that when he returned to the tribe, he would bring back all the best fighters of the tribe and level the entire fox tribe to the ground. Even the foolish fox who was helping him.
But his eyes lost his soul as he lost all hope because of what he saw.
*THUD*
Willow's head fell to the ground. Aria beheaded her when she reached too close to Torix. No one believed that she would even kill fellow tribe members.
Brooke, who saw Willow's end started in fear. She silently started backing away intending to run away.
*GASP*
Suddenly, she stopped as she saw the tip of a knife peeking out of her stomach. When she was backing away one of the fox women quietly went behind her and impaled her with a knife.
Then she pulled back the knife and pierced it in her neck from the side. She pulled out the knife and Brooke dropped dead.
She calmly walked towards Torix with an icy expression.
Both Maria and Aria were impressed by her actions.
"No, no, no. Stay away from me," Torix shouted in fear he saw her coming towards him.
She stopped in front of him. She traced her knife at various parts of his body like arms, legs, stomach, neck, etc. Torix was covered in cold sweat. He felt his heartbeat increasing whenever the knife came near his head or heart.
Finally, her knife came to the base of his d*ck. His eyes widened thinking of the possible consequences. She traced the knife to the tip of the d*ck.
"No, no, no, don-"
"AAH"
Torix's voice was cut short as she sliced off a piece. He screamed in agony.
Then she did something that made him wish to die. Like slicing a cucumber in circular pieces, she sliced his d*ck. With each cut, he would be relieved of the previous pain, but it would immediately be replaced by a new pain.
After she was done cutting off his d*ck, she moved back. Then she turned to Drake, and said, "That was for you boss".
Drake laughed out hard when he heard that. He understood what she was implying and said, "Thank you very much", while still laughing.
She nodded back and stood aside silently still with an icy face.
After laughing, he asked, "What's your name?"
"Ruby," she replied.
"Good name. I will remember it."
Ruby just nodded in return.
Drake didn't care about her attitude. Her loyalty told him the truth. That was just her personality.
Name: Ruby Wildfang
Loyalty: 96 (Fanatic)
Ruby was the fox woman who trembled when she heard the name Bullar. Her immense hatred for him and in extension for the entire bull tribe was due to the incident that happened last year.
Last year Bullar and his group came to the fox tribe as bull tribe representatives.
He ordered both Ruby and her mother to serve him. But because of being too drunk, he was too rough with them, much more than how rough bull-men normally were.
That was the most painful sexual experience of her life. Her mother after seeing her in discomfort and pain, tried her best to stop him from violating her. Whenever he wanted to fuck her, she would seduce him to divert his mind to her. That would not have worked if he was clear-headed but he was too drunk and horny and only had sex in his mind.
Her mother received all the pain and torture alone for the entire night. Then the next morning the bull-men finally left.
She could never forget her mother's gentle smile as she said, "Live well, my dear" and took her last breath. Her smile never lost her face.
She found her mother bleeding heavily from down and had suffered multiple internal injuries. Her mother only held on to pure willpower as she knew that if she gave up and died, her daughter might face the same fate. So she held on till the bull-men left and then died satisfied that her daughter was saved from harm.
From that instant, she held immense hatred for the bull tribe that she hid deep in her heart. She wanted to kill Bullar and was even ready to die together with him. But she never did that as that would be disrespectful to her mother who sacrificed herself so that she could live her. So, for her mother's last wish, she kept all the hate, sadness, and bitterness in her heart.
But Drake gave her an opportunity. An opportunity that was grabbed as soon as it was shown. It was an opportunity that allowed her to take her revenge while still fulfilling her later mother's wish.