I Raised the Beast Well

ack leopard that she met for the first time. Then Death.
Reincarnation.
The time when she lost touch with him.
Then, the time when they met again and spent time happily.

“Ah….”

She managed to get up and move slowly.
Her head was spinning.
She stumbled and leaned against a tree to catch her breath.

At that time, the moonlight poured down replacing the endless darkness.
When the grim sky shone brightly and her blurry vision became clearer, Belinda finally came to realize:

“….Aymon?”

A black beast that was covered in darkness.

“Aymon!”

She ran frantically to him and hugged the leopard’s neck.
He was lying down as if he were dead, but he was alive.
She could feel life from the pulse beneath his neck.

Belinda could not believe it for a long time and then, way later, an overwhelming sorrow just suddenly poured down on her.

“Aymon.
Aymon.”

Misery and despair made her break into tears.
She sobbed and recited his name as if she was chanting a spell.

Her mate was definitely alive, but she was deeply anxious for some reason.
She couldn’t tell exactly where that anxiety stemmed from.

Belinda finally understood everything.
The existence in front of her was a memory that connected the past and the present.

He was her life, her dream, her past and present.

“Aymon…Aymon…..It was you all along.
It was you….My cat….”

She finally met him after a long time, yet she was not able to recognize him before now.
She blamed herself for not realizing it sooner and only shed tears.

How much did she cry under the moonlight?

When some of the hot tears fell down on the beast, he opened his eyes once more.

Belinda felt Aymon’s subtle movement.

“Aymon?”

She was surprised and straightened her back.
Then she got up and stared at the lover she finally met again.

However.

Grrrr…..

In front of her was a black leopard flaunting its fangs like a hungry beast toward her.
The beast, who lost his intelligence, was radiating cold hostility toward the unfamiliar human.

“Ah….”

Belinda’s eyes shook violently.

A sharp glow coming from Aymon’s blue eyes as he lost both his divinity and memory.

He emitted a strong killing intent, so much so that it wouldn’t be strange if he rushed into her and bit her neck to death right away. 

“Aymon….”

She called out his name breathlessly and managed to raise her hand.
She grabbed the beast with her trembling hands and rubbed her cheek against his stiff muscles.

She leaned on him as if she wasn’t afraid of his sharp fangs and blade-like claws.

Her whole world turned upside down at the thought of her lover forgetting her.
That couldn’t be possible.
Even her tears had stopped in shock.

Aymon bit her body and dropped her forcefully.
He then crouched on the ground and growled, revealing his fangs at her, who was staring blankly at him.

However, the reason why there was no blood even when he bit the human in front of him was because a vague and strange instinct had kicked in.

You mustn’t hurt her.

An instinct that warned each and every cell he had.

“Aymon, please….”

Belinda begged with trembling lips.
However, even after hearing her sorrowful voice, Aymon didn’t flinch at all.
A blue flame sparked in the eyes of the beast who lowered its neck dangerously.

The beast, who had been staring at her for a while, soon turned his back and left her.

“No, No!”

Only then did Belinda, who came to her senses, stumbled to get up.
However, the black beast had already disappeared into the dark forest.

“Aymon, please! Don’t go!”

We just met.
I barely found you again.
We finally met after another cycle of reincarnation.

Belinda moved her feet frantically to follow Aymon’s bloodstains.
The forest was densely covered with trees, and it was dark without any light.
After going through the dark path, she stepped on damp fallen leaves.

“Aymon! Aymon!”

Tears fell down every time she took a step strenuously.
Even his blood, which had been scattered everywhere, disappeared.

The deep night was slowly going to sleep and dawn approached.
The mountain birds flew up at Belinda’s cry.

Aymon might die

Belinda continued to run even when the branches scratched her body and blood was dripping here and there from the freshly newly made wounds. 

Aymon was full of injuries too.
It was too much for a beast to handle.
He’d be driven into death soon with that wounded body.

As she wandered through the forest barefooted, her feet started to be covered in blood.
The divine power, which was not fully established yet inside her, went out of control and ran through her body.

“No, no, Aymon….”

She muttered like a crazy person and eventually tripped over the tree roots and fell.

She laid there, still, and swallowed her endless tears.

I lost him again.
I lost my cat again.

She didn’t even cry.
Even silence was filled with a deadly despair now.

After a while, Belinda covered her face with her hands and sobbed.
Tears spilled down from between her fingers.

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T/N  : Once again, another heartbreak.
T.T 
PR/N: My cry for despair is different.
I’m sorry for all the heartbreak and all, but author-nim annoyed me A LOT in that chappy! Author-nim is always forgetting important details like Aymons’s transformation and then just mixes up human body parts words for when in beast form and vice versa when in human form.
So we just never know when he transformed or IF he is still in beast form doing all the things only humans are supposed to be able to do… (like hugging a person while running, mmh!!??! T__T lemme cry in the corner with my bad headaches this Proofreading left me with…