Chapter 206: Cruel and Unusual Punishmen (1/2)

“Woof…woof…?” Neanderke barked, voice trembling with every woof he uttered.

Sinmosa nodded and barked back at the Cerberus. As if right on cue, Sasani came up from behind and gave the stunned Cerberus a triumphant look before pointing all three of his noses high into the air and snorting proudly. Ever so deliberately, he strutted up to his wife and gently but intimately rubbed against her.

“Awooo!!! Seeing Sasani, his bitter rival, snuggle so blatantly against Sinmosa, Neanderke immediately flew into a rage and howled like an angered wolf.

Just as the incensed hellhound was about to pounce however, Sinmosa barked gently at him. “Aroo woo woof.”

Hearing her response, the anger in him immediately dissipated and so did his contorted expression. What remained instead was forlorn look, as if there was nothing worth living for in this cruel world.

While I might not understand the tongue of the hellhounds, a convoluted and messy relationship like theirs, a relationship that could probably give those korean drama shows a run for their money I might add, wasn’t all that hard to figure out by filling in the gaps with one’s imagination.

Simply put, in the midst of hunting for food, Neanderke stumbled on what might have been an actual enemy in the past, judging by the anger he displayed on first sight. However, he found Sinmosa soon after and that anger faded. Unfortunately, before he could approach her, he found a certain little puppy hanging around her. To his horror, he found out she was their child…

Unable to accept a shock like that, not to mention that timely snort from Sasani, he immediately flew into a rage but was abruptly stopped by his goddess once more. At that point, she probably said this to him: “You’re a good man(dog), I’m sure you will find a better girl(female dog) in the future.”

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The moment she said that, his entire doggy heart crumbled.

This wasn’t just a matter of meeting one’s rival in love and being exceptionally angered, this was but nothing cruel and unusual punishment! Inhumane even! In fact, he wasn’t even a human but a dog…

Still, the fact that his goddess had married and even given birth to a child was already a done deal. After a moment to calm himself down, he finally came to terms with this cruel reality.

This time, Sasani chose to stand aside so as not to incite his rival any further. Neanderke and Sinmosa then proceeded to converse together. Honestly, there really wasn’t much to talk about now. All she did was to explain to him that they were merely passing through and wouldn’t cause any harm to the clan.

Clearly out of it, Neanderke merely gave a few cursory responses before drifting away with an ashen look on all three of his dog faces. Before leaving however, he barked one last time. Naturally, I still didn’t know what he said but the words left Sasani in a shock.

Looking at the slowly disappearing and slumped figure of Neanderke, I couldn’t help but feel a little curious so I asked Sinmosa: “What did that hellhound say just now? Sasani seemed rather agitated by his words.”

“I asked Neanderke not to pass on news of our presence to the clan but he said that it was his duty to report anything of note to the elders…” Having explained that, Sinmosa gave a helpless shake of her head to Sasani. While it might have looked like she was addressing Sasani, she instead spoke in the tongue of the devil: “What has to come will come in the end, we can’t avoid it.”

‘Looks like they really didn’t want their kin to know of their return…’

‘Honestly, what they did was truly a debacle for the clan. They should’ve known what kind of response it would trigger…but I guess sometimes men(dogs) just can’t control themselves, especially when it comes to matters of the heart…’

While Sinmosa might not have given too much details on how they got together, I could roughly discern some information from the way Neanderke acted just now.

Their departure from the clan was definitely planned well in advance and neither planned to give the clan any warning about it; they probably thought that they wouldn’t ever return to the clan again.

Thus their kin probably assumed that they had gone missing or had gotten into trouble. Given that assumption, was it any wonder that Neanderke was so excited when he saw Sinmosa? As for that hostile reaction to Sasani, I was pretty sure that it had more to do with the two of them being at odds with each other.

I wasn’t planning to stick my head into the affairs of their clan either way so Neanderke’s departure really didn’t matter to me. If we left Sasani behind and rushed off towards the east…

Not long ago after Neanderke left, a visibly anxious Sasani could be seen pacing around incessantly. He must have really wanted to leave for the clan territory right away, out of fear of something bad happening.