Reincarnated As A Lion In Another World-Chapter 86: Envy

"Okay then, I just felt that we should appreciate him for his effort. But since he is not going to be around for long, I guess we can just ignore him." Ruda said.

"No, we are going to show appreciation, this is to keep him complacent and unaware that we will replace him at the chance we get," Kael said, to which Ruda nodded.

’I’m becoming more like those corporate bosses I used to despise.’ Kael thought.

As he dragged the six vine cocoons, he looked at the blue sky, a look of detachment and realization coming over his face.

There came times in a man’s life when his flaws were placed bare for him to see. Unfortunately, this time usually came near the end of a man’s life. Most times, these flaws cannot be resolved.

There were times when Kael would remember some innocent but costly mistakes he made in his past life and he would feel like going down on his knees to cry.

This desire to cry wasn’t from sadness, it was pain, it was the pain he felt whenever he thought of his mistakes.

The emotional pain needed to make a grown man cry was hard to imagine, talk less of a man who had difficulty expressing his emotions.

Alas, most of the people who could relate to Kael’s feelings were either old, dead, or suffering from extreme depression.

Once in a while, he would imagine what would have happened if he hadn’t been reincarnated and he would come to a brutal answer, nothing. Nothing would happen.

His mistakes and death were detrimental to his way of life but in the grand scheme of things, it was insignificant.

Before, in the past, he would hate his bosses.

His bosses were in their own sense, mostly incompetent. If they weren’t, then they were authoritative, or they were insensitive.

There were so many things wrong with them yet the best way to avoid their radar was to just get their work done.

Kael had never been on their bad side as he wasn’t that kind of employee. As he was unambitious, quiet, and reserved, he never really got on anyone’s bad side at work.

Yet, he had despised his bosses. He thought he hated them because of the way they acted, only now did he understand himself better.

He despised them because of the sense of powerlessness they made him feel. He and everyone that was there always felt incompetent and not up to the bar.

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The bosses outclassed most people in terms of finance, physique, and sexual achievements.

To the Kael of that time, their ideals and morals were somewhat unacceptable. The lack of emotion and indifference they expressed made him consider them the opposite of good.

But today, after this small talk with Ruda, he realized why he truly despised them.

It was nothing but envy.

Not many people can accept that they feel envious of something because of their ego, Kael was not one of those people until now.

He envied the bosses because he wished to have what they had deep down. He wished to have their confidence, their backing, their money, their status.

He wished he could do the things they did but even he didn’t know what he truly wanted back then.

So what if they bossed people around, so what if they acted like gods, so what if they spent a lot of money on luxuries, so what if they could explore degenerate fantasies that he could only imagine?

It didn’t change the fact that he had been jealous.

But society didn’t encourage people to express their jealousy and envy, so people adapted to demonizing everyone better than them.

When celebrities get sudden fame, there would always be a set of people out there ready to claim the said celebrities sold their souls to some demon or cult.

When a businessman becomes a billionaire, some people would complain that such an amount of money is too much for one person and shout for wealth redistribution

It was the same for models, the same for athletes, same for top students.

Most of society was unwilling to accept that they envied what these people had and would look for a way to demonize these people.

They usually went by a popular term, ’Haters.’ But this envy was what usually kept people on the right track to success as it could serve as a strong push to achieve many goals.

For Kael, this envy had been a message, a sign for him to sit up and get his life straight. Envy could also serve as a natural motivation to work harder to get the lifestyle others had.

Unfortunately, Kael paid no heed to these signs. He merely dwelt on his feelings of envy like most people would.

He had video games, he had comic books, he had enough food, and he had a good television with interesting channels and subscriptions. He had everything needed to live a complacent life, and he remained complacent until he died.

’Maybe, just maybe, if others on earth heard my story, they won’t make the same mistakes I made…’

A strange thought found itself in Kael’s head all of a sudden. Then he shook his head to get rid of the thought.

If people on Earth learned from his life before his death, he didn’t see how that would affect him in this world. Better to focus on himself now rather than such thankless imaginations.

’I don’t need to envy any boss, because today, I am my own boss. I can treat the spirit wolf just the way those bosses treat their employees, and I can be better than them.’

Kael refocused on the task at hand, getting these water lions to the den.

Ruda who was looking at Kael’s back noticed how Kael seemed to straighten his back subtly. There was a new air of confidence and even his chin was raised slightly.

The duo eventually reached N’bayé’s den where Diane, Zabita, and Priya were resting.

Currently, Priya stays upright with her eyes closed. There was a grey light around her body and her fur ruffled slightly in the wind.

Kael could feel the mental pressure just by looking at her, not that he was affected in any way.

Priya was meditating and Kael was aware of what she was trying to do. She was attempting to evolve into a tier 3 lioness on her own.

Since there were no available tier 3 hearts for now, Priya was doing the next best thing.

However, this needed a lot of luck and hard work. There was a nine out of ten chance that she would fail and Kael had already prepared his mind.

He just didn’t know how to comfort Priya if she was to fail.

Kael walked to the side and placed the cocoons next to each other, under the watchful gazes of the lionesses.

At this time, N’bayé also walked over in her lioness form to see the six cocoons herself. She too was interested in these water lions that she had never seen before.

"Where did they come from?" She asked about loud to no one in particular.

"That’s what we are going to find out," Kael said as his golden claws elongated out of his fingers.

He waved his claws, causing a golden glint to reflect off them. The claws easily tore the vines of the biggest cocoon.

The cocoons opened up to reveal Burdo’s unconscious form curled inside.

Kael waved his hand, causing the vines of the five other cocoons to loosen up and release the five water lionesses inside.

’’I could have just done that,’

Kael observed Burdo up close, taking note of how similar yet very different he was to other lions.

Burdo reminded him of Silax, the fifth Primordial Lion who lived among the Air Lions.

Just like the water lions, the air lions also didn’t have fur like regular lions. Instead, they had feathers mixed with a little bit of fur.

The water lions had scales instead of fur which was understandable. The Heart type would usually alter the creature down to the genes, it was normal for them to change drastically in appearance.

Kael guessed that the scales were for underwater living. He was quite intrigued by how the gills on their necks worked because they still had a regular lion nose for air breathing.

The runes on N’bayé’s body glowed and a red magic circle filled with runes appeared beneath the unconscious water lions, trapping them within its circumference.

A grey light softly flew out of Kael’s eyes to rest in the bodies of the water lions.

Groaning, Burdo flipped his eyelids, revealing his black and green eyes, like an amphibian’s.

He slowly got up from the ground, his limbs shook as he tried to reconnect with them.

He looked around to see his lionesses also groggily waking up. He saw the glowing red circle beneath him, although he had no idea what it was.

In front of him was a tall two-legged creature that he had never seen before. There was something about this two-legged creature that seemed familiar, something about his aura…

There were also four lionesses surrounding them. One of them was the purple lioness that he had seen before when they were trying to escape from those piranhas.

The others looked familiar but the one that surprised him the most was the large lioness with strange tattoos on her body. This lioness was even larger than him, she looked down with an indifferent gaze, merely showing slight interest.

Now that Burdo looked closer, he realized that he knew three of these lionesses.

’Isn’t this my sister?’ He thought, not knowing that Ruda had a name.

’And that’s that muscle-head, isn’t this uncle’s child?’ He wondered, referring to Zabita.

The way these lionesses looked at him was not friendly, there was also no animosity, just a mix of interest and indifference.

"Tell us something, Burdo." Kael said, allowing Burdo to instantly identify who his humanoid was, "Where are you coming from?"