A Guide to Raising your Natural Enemy

chapter 49

49. Being Truthful and the Banquet

Ever since there was one more bead in his stomach, Shu Shu always felt uncomfortable from head to toe, and he also felt a little guilty when facing Edgar.

Having a guilty conscience plus thinking about the people in the class who were smitten with Edgar and had been vilifying him all day long made Shu Shu quite depressed. All he wanted was to hide from Edgar.

It's just that when he returned home after attending school for a whole day, he actually missed Edgar. Moreover, there were only he and Edgar at home. After hiding from Edgar, he was obviously left alone. Wouldn't he get bored?

Shu Shu got caught up in a quandary.

Edgar naturally found out about Shu Shu's tangled emotions, but because he himself was also a little slow and not overly expressive, he did not know what he should say to Shu Shu.

When eating dinner today, Edgar saw that Shu Shu looked uneasy. He recalled that it had been several days since Shu Shu last played the snake-killing game . . . . No, it's trying-to-overcome-the-fear game. Edgar finally thought of a subject and asked, "Do you want to play the game?"

Shu Shu thought of those snakes and, trembling all over, quickly replied, "Don't want!"

"Why not?" Edgar asked in puzzlement. Hadn't Shu Shu been very determined to make himself become unafraid of snake?

"I've told you before. Snakes were really horrible, and I don't want to see them at all . . . . So, I'll just continue being afraid of snakes, okay!" Shu Shu declared. Now that he had passed through the inner demon tribulation, he did not want to see those snakes any more!

Not only that, but after recalling the scenes he had seen during the inner demon tribulation, he seemed to be even more afraid of snake . . . . This was truly a sad fact.

Edgar also felt very sad. He had been a snake for so many years; how did he, of all people, end up falling for a partner who was afraid of snake?

"Do you want to play other games then?" Edgar asked again.

Shu Shu shook his head. Being engrossed in games was bad; he thought he was quite good for not wanting to play games all day long.

"How about I take you out for a stroll?" Edgar said. "Is there anything you want?"

"I don't lack anything . . ." Seeing Edgar keep being concerned about him, Shu Shu felt more and more guilty and more and more embarrassed. Finally, he couldn't help but said loudly, "Edgar! I'm sorry! I made a mistake! I lost the red bead you gave me!"

Edgar was shocked, and his face changed. He quickly asked, "Where did you lost it?" If his beast bead was picked up and ingested by another sub-beastman, that sub-beastman would be his legitimate wife . . . . Although sub-beastmen generally wouldn't eat a beast bead of unidentified origin, but there was always an accident, wasn't it?

"I didn't lose it somewhere. When I took it out of my food pouch, I accidentally swallowed it down into my stomach. Then it became gray right away." Shu Shu directly confessed. After he was done speaking, he felt much more relaxed.

"So it's like that. Never mind. If you ate it, it'll indeed become gray," Edgar said. A beastman's beast bead would be damaged after being ingested by another beastman, which was pretty normal. "It's already useless. You just throw it away, okay."

"Oh, okay." Shu Shu breathed a sigh of relief. Edgar was really great; he actually didn't investigate the situation at all!

Since the bead was useless, Shu Shu didn't need to worry. As for having it stay in his stomach indefinitely . . . . He didn't feel any discomfort anyway, so if the bead wanted to stay, then just stay!

When the bead was willing to come out, then he would return it to Edgar.

Shu Shu finally loosened up. Edgar nevertheless remembered what 006 had said earlier, that when Shu Shu went to the toilet a few days ago, he stared at his excrement and watched it for quite a long time.

Edgar reckoned that his beast bead was already expelled . . . . He felt a slight sense of loss, but he didn't feel too distressed. His attention was quickly put on Shu Shu again.

Shu Shu was truly honest. Having done something wrong, he did not know how to lie to the other party.

Shu Shu solved the big trouble in his heart, and the whole person became cheerful. Edgar, on the other hand, began to unobtrusively enhance Shu Shu's favorable impression of him.

It was at this time that the banquet in the Imperial palace was going to commence.

Synthia kept saying that it was all right as long as Shu Shu took him in, but it was impossible for Shu Shu to pick him up. Therefore, Shu Shu still gave him an invitation card that allowed him to bring along a partner to attend the banquet.

Holding the invitation card, Synthia was extremely excited. But after that, he kept muttering miserably for half of the day because he had no partner whom he could take along with him.