Chapter 6 - Fight (1/2)

Ch6 - Fight

While Xiong Ye spoke, he sniffed the air.

As a man who awakened as a brown bear, he had a very sensitive nose even when he wasn’t in his animal form.

Based on smell, he could clearly tell that the person in front of him was Shi Li.

But… Shi Li wasn’t like this.

Xiong Ye frowned as he looked at Shi Li.

Shi Li was taken aback when he heard Xiong Ye’s question.

For Xiong Ye to suddenly ask this… He realized that his reactions had made Xiong Ye suspicious.

He artlessly answered, “I said that after we’re together in the future, I will give you the best meat to eat every day.”

This promise was something that Shi Li remembered. After all, in his previous life, after becoming a Beast King, Xiong Ye had made it a point to bring it up, and Shi Li had always felt that this promise of his was particularly silly

Having achieved great strength, who would care about a bite of meat?

However, after saying that promise out loud once again… Shi Li inevitably recalled some of the things that had happened during this period of time.

When he was young, he had indeed liked Xiong Ye very much. Even putting aside his feelings, Xiong Ye had been the best choice at the time.

His mother, younger brother, and he had all been driven out of another tribe. His mother had been very weak, and he hadn’t awakened his animal form yet; they had almost starved to death and also encountered many dangers.

One time, when he was in danger, he had finally awakened his animal form, but he had still been young at the time. His awakened animal form was also that of an immature cub, so he had been unable to hunt at all.

If he had awakened earlier, perhaps his family might not have been expelled from the tribe out of consideration for his animal form, but he just had to awaken a bit too late.

For a child with a newly awakened animal form, no matter how powerful, the animal form was completely meaningless. In fact, he had been even more hungry because he now needed more food.

It wasn’t until he stole Xiong Ye’s fish that he began to have a relatively stable life-the Big Bear Tribe’s territory had been chosen by the Big Bear Tribe’s previous priest. It was near the river, surrounded by many edible plants, and had the relative safety of being encircled by mountains… Finally, they no longer needed to worry about being ambushed in the middle of the night when they slept and end up unable to see the sun rise the next day.

Yet his mother and younger brother were like two mountains that weighed on him, and he had to find a way to ensure they could eat well.

During those years, he had felt especially stifled all the time as he worried about food every single day. During that period of time, only Xiong Ye could make him feel a little more relaxed.

It was young Xiong Ye who had taken him to the river to catch fish and shrimp, and it was Xiong Ye who had taught him what was edible and what wasn’t. It was also Xiong Ye who had given him food several times when he was almost unable to hold on any longer.

At the time, he had been genuinely grateful to Xiong Ye. He had also liked Xiong Ye, so after they both reached adulthood, when Xiong Ye suggested that they become mates, he hadn’t hesitated at all before agreeing.

But later on… Shi Li felt that he had really been quite foolish to return that tiny, little favor with the rest of his life.

He also began to be repulsed by Xiong Ye’s entire existence.

Everyone knew that he had nearly starved to death as a child and that it was Xiong Ye who had saved him.

Everyone felt that without Xiong Ye, there would be no current him.

Everyone thought that he had only become a powerful Beast King because of Xiong Ye.

……

Xiong Ye had always done very well, and everyone around them liked Xiong Ye.

He hated this, and after Xiong Ye died, he even felt like he had been liberated at last.

Xiong Ye had indeed helped him, but he had only given him a few mouthfuls of food, and Xiong Ye had helped others too… Why did he have to be tied to Xiong Ye for his entire life just because of this?

Shi Li truly did not want to live in Xiong Ye’s shadow all his life just like he had in his previous life.

Having been reborn, he wanted to live for himself for once.

Xiong Ye’s heart settled when he heard Shi Li repeat their old promise.

He didn’t know when he had started to like Shi Li, but he knew that while boys of the same age as him were talking about Hu Yue or Xiong Bai or discussing the tribe’s most beautiful woman Lang Yin, he only thought of Shi Li.

Women in the tribe all liked strong or good-looking men. Some men, who couldn’t find women who were willing to be with them, would choose to be with other men.

He knew that there was such a thing, but he never thought he would do something like that too until he was fifteen. After all, he was very strong, and he knew that there would definitely be a lot of women who would want to be with him.

It was just that, since he was young, he had never wanted a harem of women. He only wanted to have a single mate, and then focus on raising their children well…

Of course, those were all matters of the past. When he was fifteen, he discovered that he liked men. He liked Shi Li.

And Shi Li should like him too; they were always together. At the end of the previous year, he had asked Shi Li if he would be willing to be together with him, and Shi Li hadn’t hesitated at all before agreeing.

Shi Li’s strange behavior these past two days might be because he had encountered something-Yang Ying and Yang Su always liked to say bad things about him.

“Shi Li, did you get caught up in something?” Xiong Ye asked.

Shi Li looked at Xiong Ye, then shook his head testily, “No.”

“Here’s half of the Scelidosaurus meat. You should eat better these days. In half a month, we’ll become mates.” Xiong Ye said. Now that they were talking about the mating ceremony, he was rather excited and looking forward to it.

The mating ceremony required them to take on their animal forms. He had decided to eat more so that his fur would be smooth and glossy when the time came.