Their first monster! (part 1)

"Ah! The Pride's girl?! She will attend after all?!"

"I've heard that she suffered from the same sickness that befell her mother but it must have been a lie..."

The people in the audience were whispering to each other, sharing the bits and pieces of knowledge they each had on the girl that no one has seen nor hear about since three years prior.

"Big shoes to fill – are you worried?"

Zombie smirked and asked glancing back at the red-haired girls standing right by him in the middle of the arena.

"Ha...? Worried about what? The honor of the Prides? Pffft...!"

Cranberry furrowed her brows, shook her head, and snorted, all in response to her familiar's words.

"I only wish that mom and that could have been here to watch me – but that's not going to hold me back."