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Swan had long accepted that she would never be able to walk normally, but faced with the idea of a way to cure her leg, she got excited, and her excitement overflowed from her eyes.
She stared at her husband full of hope, and Gale caressed her hair, “I’ll start searching for the best beastman healer, but you have to wait.”
“I can wait!” Swan had been enduring the pain in her leg for more than a decade, waiting was not a problem for her.
“Good. You’re quite strange for a royal princess, you know that?”
“S–strange?” Swan feigned her innocence as she didn’t want to be discovered. “W–what is strange about me?”
“I’ve been in contact with many princesses from human kingdoms, and many of them are either stubborn or scheming. I’ve never been at ease around them,” Gale said. “But with you, I can be at peace,” Gale smiled, before chuckling awkwardly. “I guess that’s a given, because you’re my mate, right?”
Gale waited for Swan to say yes, or at least nod to confirm that they were mated. He wanted that false sense of security between them, despite him being unable to identify
his mate at all..
But Swan stayed silent, mostly because she had understood the gist of his curse just by talking to Rock before.
Rock didn’t have a curse like Gale, and he could only mark one mate for his entire life, but Gale would mark many in the future.
So, Swan knew that she definitely wasn’t his fated mate.
“Swan?” Gale frowned. “Why aren’t you saying anything?”
“Mm…” Swan nodded weakly before looking down, and it was enough to assure the Beast King.
Swan fiddled with her fingers nervously.
She wondered if the reason Gale was being so intimate and loving to her was because he genuinely liked her, or maybe she was just a placeholder until the more beautiful woman came into his life, or when he finally found his fated mate.
‘Ah, why do I have to think about it? The answer is no, of course. I’m not even a
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princess,
there’s no way I’d be his fated mate Swan shot herself down. ‘I wonder what he will do once he finds out that I’m not the real prize he deserves for defeating Holy Achate.’
Since Lady Jade had suspected her, she guessed that her time in this world wouldn’t be long, ‘He will probably kill me out of rage. But.. that’s alright. I will never forget that I was sent to die anyway.
Gale left the kingdom at night, as he still had things to do.
Luckily, he didn’t leave to suppress another beastmen tribe rebellion, or human kingdom that wanted to attack his territory.
He left for the coast where the fishmen tribes lived under his protection.
Gale stood on a rock, facing the open sea. He stomped his feet three times, creating ripples on the water surface which sent a signal to the fishmen king to come and greet
him.
Gale saw the fishmen king, who had a different body structure than a regular
beastman.
The upper half body was fully that of a human, but his lower half was a fish. They called themselves Merfolk, but Gale didn’t care about that as he only needed to talk to the
fishmen king.
The young 6
king emerged in front of Gale with only his upper half body showing, bowing politely and asking, “Salute to the mighty Beast King. May I, Mako, know the reason for your summons?”
“Do you know something called pearl?”
“Oh yes, the oysters produce them inside their body. Humans usually collect those oysters only for their pearls. We don’t have any use for them, so we just allow them to take them,” Mako, the fishmen king replied. “Do I need to do something against those humans, Your Majesty? My people can always drown them if you want to.”
“Ignore those humans, I just want you to collect as many pearls as possible within a month.”
“Collect the pearls? We can do that, but may I know why?” that, but may know why?”
“My mate wants them,” Gale’s reply was short but concise, and Mako was genuinely surprised.
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“Congratulations on finding your mate, Your Majesty. Please bring her to the beach, we can prepare a celebration for her.”
“If she wants to, I will bring her here. For now, I want those pearls,” Gale repeated.
“Do we need to empty the West Sea for it, Your Majesty?” Mako asked.
“Will your people suffer if you do that?”
“Not at all. We don’t have any use of those pearls.”
Gale was considering it for a moment. Surely he could simply empty the pearls of the West Sea for Swan. But what’s the point of doing that if many of them would be of a bad quality?
“Just give me a full sack of the best pearls you can find in your sea. Make sure that no humans are allowed to gather those pearls for now. I need to ask her if she needs. everything,” Gale ordered.
“Your wish is my command, Your Majesty. We will return in a month with the best pearls the West Sea has.”
“Good, that’s all I want. You can leave now.”
Mako, the fishmen king excused himself and disappeared into the depths of the sea.
Gale stared at the vast west sea. He sighed as his body remembered the bitter battle he had against the fishmen on this beach.
The fishmen had the sea as their advantage, so they used it by doing a hide–and–dive tactic to him. He had to shapeshift into his true giant wolf form and use his blood–moon eyes to stop them from swimming.
It was a victory, but the price for shifting into his true form was too great as it would trigger extreme pain all over his body.
The last time he did it was in the meadow near the Holy Achate Palace after he was enraged by King Tyrion’s devious war tactics
After he killed more than half of the enemy soldiers, including King Tyrion in one sweep of his giant claw, he rushed to the palace of Holy Achate and demanded his prize just to humiliate that bastard king more.
“I’m glad Swan didn’t see me directly in the eyes when I was in my true form in the palace. She would’ve died instantly.
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