Chapter 205: The Reason for Being Together (2/2)

“Awoof!”

Both sides gave out a warning howl. However, since I couldn’t really tell the two apart, I almost mistook the new Cerberus for Sasani. Had it not been for the fact that Sasani was clearly the one standing nearer to us, and that his soul aura was familiar to me, I might have really mixed the two hellhounds up.

“What’s up with those two?” I pointed at the two Cerberuses and turned around to ask Sinmosa who had just rushed over after hearing Sasani’s howl: “Aren’t you guys from the same clan? Why is Sasani acting like he just met an enemy?”

“The one facing off against Brother is Neanderke, he used to be…” All three of her lips curled into a bitter smile having said that. “He used to be my suitor…the most fanatic kind as well…”

“Ohh…”

‘So that’s why….come to think of it, if I was fanatically chasing after another girl, but that girl ended up eloping with her own brother instead…I would’ve probably lost my mind there and then.’

‘I totally get where that Cerberus is coming from now. I bet he and all the other suitors were thinking something along the lines of: at least choose one of us, anyone is better than your own brother! Or perhaps something along the lines of: are you siblings messing with us or something?! Perhaps even something the lines of: I treated you as my older brother-in-law and yet you stole my goddess from me?! Well, I’m out of perhaps for now…either way the moral of the story is, poor Neanderke…’

“Mama, looking at those two Cerberuses reminds me of a saying…” Mo Na furrowed her immaculate eyebrows and thought hard for a moment before enunciating the phrase, word by word. “Men are naught but fortune’s fools”.

“…”

Soon after that stormy greeting, the Cerberus known as Neanderke discovered our position as well. His attention, however, was immediately captured by someone else entirely: Sinmosa. The moment she trotted into view, outsiders like us were completely erased from his sight.

Tossing aside his hated love rival, he galloped towards the nearby Sinmosa and though his three dog faces still looked foreign to me, I could tell that they had on blissful smiles at the moment.

Neanderke must have really liked Sinmosa. Really. He liked her so much, he even ignored the fact that she was already happily married. He liked her so much, he threw aside everything the moment he saw her and galloped right to her side, only to have his dream shattered right away…

Standing right next to Sinmosa was not only me but also Mo Na, and in Mo Na’s arms was a certain puppy known as Cinderel.

To a hellhound like Neanderke, there was no way he wasn’t able to detect the combined scent of Sasani and Sinmosa on the unknown little puppy.

Just based on that alone, one could, beyond any reasonable doubt, judge that she was a child of those two.

If I had to describe the poor hellhound right now, a certain song verse came to mind:

I thought staying behind wasn’t wrong

I thought my hard work would be understood

Yet even the falling leaves are mocking me

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(TL:<> Go youtube it yourself.)

(TL: Not going to translate the whole song because he wants to make up his word count…)

Truth be told, I really pitied Neanderke. From his doggy dog faces, I could feel the immeasurable sorrow oozing out of them. It was as if the entire world had abandoned him despite all he had done. He probably thought that they would never meet again in this lifetime but fate decided to play a cruel trick on him. Not only did he meet his goddess once more, he even met the child she bore with his hated rival…

‘Oh heavens, please send down your heavenly wrath to strike this d*mned love triangle…’