Reincarnated As A Lion In Another World-Chapter 78: She’s Scary
It had been a few hours since Olivia followed Kael into the cave and Nbayé had also walked in.
The sky was dark and a white moon hung in the sky, providing light to the world below.
Zabita, Diane, and Priya were lazing around, not particularly doing anything important.
Ruda the purple lioness was sleeping soundly beside Zabita, if not the place would be a lot more noisy.
"Mum, what are we going to do for the next one month? I’m already bored," Zabita said with a bored expression.
She lay on her side and her head stared blankly at the moon.
"We wait, Zabita. Once Nalii, Eidel, and Katari evolve, we will be able to speed up our progress in taking over the mountain." Priya said with a thoughtful expression that seemed to always be on her face.
Although Zabita and Priya were mother and daughter, the relationship between them was of equals at best.
"I know, but are we just going to hang around and do nothing for the month?" Zabita asked.
Diane scoffed, "We’ll go around and beat up anyone that tries to disturb our territory."
Priya laughed at Diane, causing the matter to frown. Diane didn’t like people laughing at her and Priya would be in serious danger if she was not part of the pride.
"You’re always looking for a reason to fight, aren’t you worried that you could die?" Priya laughed in the middle of her chuckles.
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"Of course not, fighting is the only thing that gets me pumped up. I feel so alive when I see the blood I spilled, it makes me feel like I’m on another plane, like I’m enlightened." Diane puffed her chest out and she spoke truthfully.
"Instead of that, we could work on our communication, talk with ourselves, and use our words. Life isn’t all about fighting, you know." Priya returned.
Diane looked at Priya like she had just said the most heretic thing. "Let’s use our words?" Her eyes twitched uncontrollably.
Watching this from the side, Zabita wore a casual smile.
"What? Muscle heads like you won’t understand that a lot can be achieved without spilling blood." Priya looked at the muscular lioness with disdain.
"Are you saying you don’t want to fight for Kael?" Diane suddenly asked with a sly smile.
Priya choked on her saliva when she heard this question, "What do you mean?"
"When Kael wants his enemies destroyed, are you going to argue about it? Are you going to use your words?" Diane asked.
"Of-of course not… I…I…" Priya tried to gather her words.
"Humph, you weren’t stammering before, what happened?
And you also kill when you want to eat, don’t be hypocritical." Diane edged on, satisfied with Priya’s reaction.
"Dialogues will be necessary in some areas of life. I said life’s not all about fighting, I didn’t say we won’t have to fight at all okay," Priya answered with a dissatisfied frown on her face.
Diane instantly flared up, "Shut up, what do you know about life?" She suddenly lunged at Priya.
Priya calmly stepped to the side, easily dodging the playful attack, "I’m smarter than you, so I know more than you."
Diane turned around, only to receive a slap with Priya’s tail. She instinctively opened her mouth and bit hard on the tail.
"Ouch!" Priya shouted. Luckily, Diane had held back just in time.
Priya threw paws and rapidly landed multiple slaps on Diane’s face. It soon turned into a harmless tussle with Diane mostly overpowering Priya.
Zabita watched this with a bored look. Her metal claw aimlessly ran through the dirt ground, an action of hers to entertain herself.
She heard footsteps and looked to the cave entrance to see who was coming out. Her eyes widened when a funny smell entered her nose.
Out from the cave came Olivia. Olivia seemed to have difficulty walking, even though she had four limbs.
Her legs wobbled and her eyes showed signs of exhaustion. On her neck was dried-up saliva and some bite marks.
Diane and Priya stopped what they were doing to look at Olivia, who looked like she had been beaten up.
Despite her appearance, the smile on her face had never been so wide. "Hello guys…" Her voice was weak, like she wanted to sleep.
The three other lionesses didn’t say anything. They could smell the funny scent from Olivia, something that they had only perceived in N’bayé before.
They guessed what had happened without asking. But why?
They watched Olivia collapse to the ground and instantly sink into a deep slumber.
Didn’t Kael always behave like he wasn’t attracted to them sexually?
They remembered that they had thrown multiple hints at Kael to let him know they were ready. Yet, he acted like he didn’t see anything.
Then they saw him engage in the act multiple times with N’bayé and it really broke their hearts. Then N’bayé told them that Kael seemed to only be interested in a humanoid figure.
Maybe, if they advanced to tier 3 and got their humanoid forms, Kael would be sexually attracted to them.
This was one of the reasons they were downcast when Kael gave that wolf heart to Eidel.
Now, they were just confused. Priya was the first to recover, she wore a calm gaze and walked away, apparently going on a stroll. This was her way of letting them know she needed space to think.
Zabita stared at Olivia’s sleeping body with interest. Her droopy eyelids rose higher the more she confirmed what was on her mind.
Diane thought about it for a moment then gave up. She lay down to rest since there was nothing else to do.
None of them tried to get into the cave to confirm their guesses with their bodies.
Ruda slept quietly through this, electric sparks sometimes flying through her fur.
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Inside the cave, Kael and N’bayé stood up in their humanoid forms, breathing hard.
Runes flashed on N’bayé’s body, magically wiping off the stains on both their bodies.
"Thank you," N’bayé muttered. Kael simply nodded before walking deeper into the cave.
"So, how was it? I saw wolves patrolling around." N’bayé asked.
"It was fine. It didn’t go exactly as we planned but we succeeded. Thankfully, my brute force could overpower Bibi III’s skills." Kael answered.
"And what about the bear?" She asked.
"Hmm, did you know that she had two cubs?"
"Yeah,"
"Anyways, I let her stay in the condition that she pledges allegiance to us. It’s very risky but her cubs were the bargaining chip.
I’ll have to find use for her as soon as possible."
N’bayé nodded in agreement, "What about the heart of Bibi III." She asked.
Kael didn’t answer, he just continued walking until they reached the end of the cave.
There, lying on the ground, curled up like massive infants, were three lionesses.
One had vibrant green fur and two horns on her head. The second one had lustrous fur that was turning darker, space seemed to bend around her, and lightly twisted.
The last was an orange-red lioness, the temperature around her was rising and Kael could feel the heat waves coming from her.
The three lionesses were spread apart with Katari in the middle, Nalii on the left, and Eidel on the right.
They were growing, albeit very slowly.
"In approximately a month, we’ll have three tier 3 lionesses in our ranks. By then, with our combined power, who would be able to stop us on this mountain."
Kael could not help but let out a suspiciously evil laughter. He felt like a villain plotting the downfall of the hero in the dark.
Of course, this was just a fleeting feeling.
N’bayé ignored his monologue and had her eyes trained on Katari’s body. Katari, as if subconsciously sensing someone looking at her, twitched slightly.
N’bayé hurriedly took a step back to stand behind Kael. Kael was confused by this, then he realized something.
"Are you scared of Katari?" He asked with an intriguing smile.
"No," N’bayé said with a frown. "She…"
"She scares you. I know, she scares everyone." Kael said casually.
"She’s going to be scarier once she evolves," N’bayé admitted.
"Yes, the best part is that she’s going to be on our side."
"Our side?" N’bayé questioned.
"Yes,"
"No, she won’t be on OUR SIDE, she’ll be on YOUR SIDE. Anybody that isn’t you is not safe around her." N’bayé stated.
Kael smiled at her words, "Don’t worry, as long as I’m here, you’re safe."
N’bayé couldn’t tell whether Kael just said it casually or he actually meant it, "Okay," but she responded.
"We need to make good use of this month’s time. Maybe you can teach me magic.
Magic is the only ability that I actually have to learn in order to use it."
N’bayé became a bit excited by this, "Yes, I can teach you magic. We can even learn a lot from each other."
The simple topic of sharing knowledge got N’bayé so excited that the runes on her body flashed repeatedly.
Kael happily engaged her in this discussion as they walked away from the three evolving lionesses.
