Hidden Sins

"He… he died!"

Someone finally found his voice and stumbled to his feet, wanting to run away. But he had only taken two steps when he tripped over himself and fell unconscious on the ground.

Curtis: "…" Seems like he had overestimated the humans' stamina.

Bai Qingqing was also startled by that scene and only snapped back to her senses then. She shouted, "Curtis, don't do this!"

Curtis looked up at her, heartache flashing across his eyes. In the next moment, though, the heartache transformed into flames of fury.

Just as Bai Qingqing had said, Winston would at least listen to her, but Curtis wouldn't.

With a sweep of his tail, Curtis toppled all the humans trying to flee. The slim trees in the forest were no obstruction to his tail at all, and they were chopped at their trunks as collateral damage.