A Silent step.

A soft, vibrant wind whispered through the northern woods. Dry leaves flitted about the crackling fire, casting an ominous glow on Dadali's malevolent visage. "Dadali," she asked, "are there any more rabbits nearby?"

"Yes, my lady. There are three rabbits around this area. One is near that tree," he gestured towards a barely discernible shape in the darkness,

"and two are about a ten-minute walk from here."

The girl looked at the boy with raised eyebrows as he fiddled with the grass, his body hunched over.

While turning to Dadali, she said, "Take care of him for now,"

and with a raised eyebrow, added, "And stop making those annoying faces!"

Dadali looked at the boy and softly replied, "As you wish, my Miss!"

He then stood up and went to the branches where the rabbits were.

Carrying them all in one hand, he gave one to the lady and one to the boy.

He looked at him, his eyes trying to mask him anger. "Here, take this...now!"

The boy was oblivious to what was happening around him, too engrossed in examining the intricate patterns of the grass blades with his fingers.

Immediately, Dadali turned, his jaw clenching in anger, and slumped back onto his seat in frustration.

"My Miss, this damned boy," he gestured, his eyes flashing with anger as he looked at the lady, "he's mocking me now! He needs to know his place!!"

The lady gazed at him indifferently, her cerulean eyes as still and reflective as a lake mirroring a cloudless sky.

She calmly took what he was holding and went to the boy whose fingers were still tracing the earth.

She sat with her legs crossed in front of her and tilted his chin up until their noses almost touched. "Eat this..."

He lifted his dark pupils towards hers, which were as still as a pond.

Time seemed to stand still between them.

Angry eyes glared at them.

How could this be? This insignificant boy wanted to destroy all that he had built over the years. It would never happen!!

Never! In this moment of crisis for Dadali, as she stood between two worlds, a white foot pierced the darkness, its steps echoing through the luminous grass. "Hush!"

"Hoho~ hahaha... What a beautiful sight! I never thought the lady who rejected my offer would stoop so low!"

His voice stretched like taffy, tinged with a rough edge.

"Rice?!" I can't bear to have this scoundrel in our midst. He must be banished from this place before catastrophe strikes!

"Rice! You must vacate these premises! This area is reserved for the...

That boy named Rice completely ignored Dadaly's warnings. With a casual wave and a welcoming smile, he turned and called out,

"Come on in, everyone! Make yourselves at home!"

Sweat broke out on Dadaly brow as he fixed his gaze on the three shadowy figures emerging from the darkness.

"Oh no!, oh no!, oh no…"

Rice looked towards Dadaly with half-closed eyes that seemed to glow like crescent moons gradually opening like a carnivorous flower.

"Irritating Dadaly~! Look at my friends, do you feel a little better?!"

Another bead of sweat snaked down the other side of Dadaly's forehead, and his eyebrows began to knit together.

"Humph! This damn kid wants to provoke me! I shouldn't engage with him but rather divert him! His sneaking into our territory means he doesn't care about the rules and barriers we've set. Damn you, you brat!

"Rice, stop your childish behavior! The agreement was that each group would stick to their own territory. Have you forgotten that?!"

"Haha, yes, yes! Come on, gather around this fire, it's cold outside!"

Rice mocked Dadaly and started talking to his three companions, while his pupils stared at Dadaly with a sarcastic challenge to what he was saying.

Dadaly's nerves started to flare up, starting with his fists clenching tightly and his jaw jutting out.

"Rice! Is this the lady you told me about? She looks beautiful among the ugly ones... If she isn't their beauty queen, hahaha isn't that right, Rice!"

Rice's smile descended towards disgust as if a filthy worm was trying to cling to his foot. Dadaly, whose anger had reached its peak and a weak woman had now intervened in the situation, couldn't remain calm.

At this moment, he roared angrily,

"How can you speak with such a filthy mouth towards the Miss?! Today I will put you in your place, you dirty cursed one!!"

A thread of air passed, with sparks crackling in it.

Dadaly stretched his foot in a long step and ran towards it, but in his second step, his Miss grabbed his hand, saying, "Stop this nonsense..." She raised her elegant eyebrows sharply and coldly, completing,

"I didn't ask you to act with this foolishness!"

That lady advanced, taking that boy's hand with her right hand and the other hand holding Dadaly, who was agitated...

After a few minutes of that scene...

The moonlight began to gently touch the tops of those crowded trees with long necks, and the wind stopped rustling through the leaves.

The lady raised her calm eyes and said in a steady, quiet voice,

"I have violated the rules set by the group leaders..."

Rais tried to interrupt her, saying, "The ink on the rules that were written has not dried yet!..."

The girl tossed a piece of wood into the fire, interrupting his words with a "Tch!"

She looked at him with one eyebrow raised and the other nearly touching her upper eyelid, her voice low and trembling with anger as the rising flames slowly subsided.

"When the shepherd speaks to the dog, the sheep should be grazing!"

Rice's face appeared distorted with a mixture of anger and disgust as he struggled to control his violent rage.

He glared at the young man, who was about 23 years old, as if demanding an immediate response. A cold, one-sided smile appeared on his face, with a slight redness on his cheeks.

Inside him, he said, 'May the curse of hell be upon you, oh beautiful serpent!

Hmmmmm~! I feel like a lost man in a winter forest, and the curse of women accompanies me!

A suppressed laughter inside him slightly overflowed to the surface.

After a moment of silence, while thinking with lust and cruelty, the young man spoke in that voice that screams with nobility and wisdom:

"Do not be angry, O Rais, be more rational. We are the ones who violated the rules, therefore we must be patient and enduring!"

He shifted his dry, green eyes towards the Miss and continued, "We were exploring this area and it just so happens that you own it. Hahaha! What a coincidence!"

His eyes were penetrating the lady's body while he was talking to her, but she didn't notice that.

His thick eyelashes were hiding his eyes, so even the careful lady didn't discover what was going on behind those lashes.

But among Mrs. Wadadali, there was an eye that nothing was hidden from it.

Those lessons were not nonsense, they were embodying these human beasts word for word! It was as if she was preparing me for this moment!

If there was no threat to my life, then this insect will never step outside its boundaries!

That quiet boy was like darkness, speaking inside his belly while Dadali looked at him with murderous eyes.

He said resentfully while putting his hands between his arms,

"Askaskay, you are right in one matter,

We found this cursed child inside that earthly prison on the third level, we don't know anything about him yet, but as the saying goes~, when you care about shit, its stench spreads!"

Asksaskay chuckled quietly as Dadali's mocking laughter rose. The girl quickly joined in the amusement.

The boy remained impassive, and even the Miss watched Dadali and the boisterous girl with a frigid gaze.

Rais gave a cold, icy chuckle.

"Asksaskay, don't you think it's time we revised the rules?"

The place fell silent as some eyes flickered between anxiety, craftiness, and tranquility."

The girl with the electric blue hair sprang up like a tawdry flower,

"Heehee, sir, please hold on a sec. I need to do something personal~! Before we delve into those complex issues!"

Asksaskay waved his hand dismissively, affecting a cheerful tone,

"Take care of yourself, Cola!"

"Heehee, alright! I'll make it up to you when we get back!"

Cola vanished into the deepening shadows...

Rais leaned in close to Asksaskay and whispered into his ear,

"You must kill that damned thing or else... don't blame me for what my mind wrestles with!"

Asksaskay pulled away and leaned into Rais' ear, whispering cunningly, while Mrs. Wadadali watched them both with astonishment and curiosity.

"If you ever want to roar like a furious tiger, you should stay away from a lion's ear."

Those words weren't said with a light-hearted Eskiska tone, otherwise, Rice's face wouldn't have contorted with anger like an enraged bull.

Rice placed his solitary hand on his face and began to chuckle hysterically.

"Lion! Oh, oh, oh, oh, lion! Lion!!"...

A sarcastic and malicious glance from between his pinky and ring finger sent shivers down Dadali's spine, who was looking at him anxiously.

Damn it! What did he say to make him so angry? This crazy boy shouldn't be provoked, or else the consequences will be dire!

Rice stood up and raised his widely spread hands to the sky while stepping backward with a rising hysterical laughter. Dadali couldn't stop his worried thoughts about what was going on inside Rice's head, who he considered a source of evil that could bring disasters with him.

"He's a bit of a reckless boy, he'll calm down soon, hehehe..."

Askskay's forced smile faded from his face. His eyebrows shot up as the woman tossed another piece of firewood, her indifferent gaze fixed on him, seemingly oblivious to his friendly gestures.

She slowly withdrew her hand from the fire as she spoke.

"Rule number one: No competitor shall initiate a conquest without first notifying the other party and informing all other team leaders.

Failing to comply with these conditions,

the conquered territory will not be recognized as being under their control,

and the remaining leaders will have the right to attack and divide their possessions and land.

Rule number three..."

The girl rose slowly, straightening her regal posture. A gentle breeze played with her fiery red hair.

Her eyes, bright with the firelight, fell upon the gleefully smiling Askskay.

With haughty eyes and silent anger, she continued her speech.

"Every team is required to draw lines marking the boundaries of their own territory. This is to prevent any team from crossing into another team's territory without the owner's permission.

What you have done today is a blatant violation of the law, isn't it Aska?

In that moment, when the situation seemed decisive for both parties and Askskay had nothing to say, his lustful eyes were intently examining what was covering the girl's chest.

I feel a wild beast roaring inside me! She's a real woman, oh what beauty!!

Askskay's blatantly lustful gaze at the woman's body was met with a swift kick that sent his long hair flying.

Her foot met his hard face with such force that his body was sent tumbling out of the light like a ball.

On his second roll, Askskay planted his palms on the ground and jumped up skillfully, his stony eyes fixed on the woman with a slight anger.

In another place, not far from the woman's private area,

Kola was standing, glancing around anxiously and nervously, as if she didn't want anyone to see her in that dark gloom.

She quickly took off her pants and bent down until her bare buttocks touched the tops of the grass.

The air was suffocating, devoid of any vitality, and the trees surrounded her like a scattered herd.

"Hah~ Damn men!! Can't women live in peace without a man trying to devour her?! I'm terrified~!"

She threw her chin back and touched something that women weren't supposed to know about.

"If it weren't for you, you damned thing!! I would continue with my coquetry and weakness that doesn't suit him to become a girl who spends her red nights with Lord Askah~!"

"Why does this happen to me? I'm a beautiful girl too! Don't stop, I'm a girl!"

One part of his mind was thinking about that beautiful woman with feverish desire and wild lust,

while another part was behaving like a delicate woman with constant sighs, a macho man hiding behind a silk robe.

Kola raised his head with a strained face, veins bulging from his head, and breaths coming out in ragged gasps, followed by a sound that :

"Fuurrrd!!"

"Hah~! Hah~! Hah~!"

Refreshed breaths rose and a weary smile graced his face. He breathed out in boredom and opened his blue eyes, saying,

"Why do I have to do this shi...?"

At that moment,

Kola noticed a yellow eye fixed on him, as if it were piercing through his heart which had gone silent for seconds.

His eyes started to shake and twitch, gradually becoming faster

A chilling cold seized his body, numbing his knees, which began to tremble violently. He collapsed onto the spillover from the well situated between the two mountains.

His head lolled downward like a paralyzed man's, his body heaving.

His eyes widened, as if anticipating the inevitable death.

His eyes widened, as if anticipating certain death.

"You want to be a sweet girl? Well, let's do that!"

Breaths quickened, a tempest of fear and dread churning within.

"No! No!! Save... AAAAAAAAGH!!!"

To be continued...