Arc 0 My first mission: I’ll keep you

Vierre plopped on her butt and trembled all over. The hairs of the costume raised and even some of her actual human hair had turned to spikes. One could only imagine how afraid she was.

"I'm not tasty at all. You'll get pimples and blisters if you eat me." Vierre spouted what she prepared for Ling Feng last time.

"Pimples? Blisters? What's that?" His handsome face drew nearer her face and even his nose touched the tendrils of her hair. He inhaled the scent of the rabbit and the unique scent of an unfamiliar beast on her. This rabbit is very weird. Her face didn't have a hair, it was smooth and white. He poked the rabbit cheeks and immediately bounced. There was not a speck of hair on the skin. So weird.

"It's a disease!" Vierre stood still under his unabashed touch. She was personally angry at his rude manners however some part on her seemed to manipulate her emotion turning her fury into fear. It is so frustrating. She really turned into a pathetic fearful rabbit!

Ren Yu leaned back upon her words. Disease? This rabbit is sick? Come to think of it, he found it drowning near his lair. Did it find the disease too excruciating to take its small life? Is it also because it's sick that it's so weak?

"Are you dying?" Ren Yu asked. His eyes expressed dissatisfaction at her state.

'Will you let go of me if I'm dying or will you eat me before dying?' Vierre faced a difficult situation in front of her. This jerk, just his mood swings tormented her greatly and even his lack of emotion brought her stupefaction. "I'll be weak if I don't eat. If I die I…will explode and turned this place into a wasteland." Ah! If my colleagues will hear me spouting nonsense I wonder what their reaction will be.

Vierre thought he would be afraid but contrary to her expectation, the jerk actually gripped her neck in one hand and strangled her. She couldn't utter any words as a result.

"What a cunning rabbit! Uttering such lies in front of this king!" Ren Yu said those words with abhorrence. His eyes turned into golden hues.

Vierre grabbed his hand that was choking her and tapped it repeatedly.

"Hiss…" Ren Yu showed his tongue that was similar to a snake.

Vierre finally found out why her every muscles voiced fear. This jerk is actually a snake! What animal did Vierre fear the most? Of course it was this specie in front of her. Her inherent fear of this creature and in addition to the automated emotion of this useless system's bunny costume is inducing was overwhelming that to the pint that her whole body was shaking.

"Wahhhh…." Vierre immediately wailed. The tears in her eyes landed on Ren Yu's hand.

Ren Yu felt the hot liquid from the rabbit's eyes and furrowed his brows. "Stop!" He ordered and the hand gripping the rabbit's neck loosened a bit.

Vierre was under emotional turmoil that she didn't notice the changes. She continued to wail and put on a pitiful appearance. The rabbit ears of the bunny costume drooped along.

"Wahhh… Hic….Hic…."

Are all rabbits this annoying? Ren Yu didn't like the noise the rabbit made. He wanted to make it shut up but the rabbit doesn't have any intention of stopping even when he yelled. It kept going on until his hand was damp by the hot water. Although the expression on his face was full of irritation, the hand that was holding the rabbit had already slackened, but despite it, the rabbit actually kept on crying.

Ren Yu endured for another minute before pushing the rabbit on the ground.

Without the hand of the snake jerk, Vierre's cries died down however she still hugged herself and occasionally whimpered and hiccupped.

"I said stop! You're so annoying!" Ren Yu spoke. His hand was raised and was threatening to hit her.

Vierre's spine shivered and the dam on her eyes opened again letting the tears spilled.

Ren Yu didn't like that hot water in the rabbit's eyes at all. It's making him uncomfortable. Its quivering lip was also another thing that was bothering him. What was more baffling was that he couldn't get angry at all.

"Stop doing that." He spoke and this time the tone of his voice had lowered a lot.

[Affection points at 10. Look at this, I told you rabbits are the cutest specie in the world even a natural predator would fall for our charms.]

Vierre's mouth twitched at 337 shameless promotion. She didn't feel a bit good at all. She was only reminded by the miserable fact that she was included on this guy's menu.

"Cry again and I'll consider eating you!" Ren Yu said.

Vierre hiccupped once more before biting her lips to block the sounds from coming out. Still, some tears leaked falling on her pink cheeks. Ren Yu narrowed his eyes and something flashed within them.

'Hold on, did he just find this rabbit's pitiful look pleasant?' Ren Yu once again sized its ears and ordered in an extremely rude manner. "Cry once more."

Vierre was once again filled with fear under his pressure. The ears on Ren Yu's palm stiffened and eventually she lost control of her emotions and cried again. The glistening teardrops trickled down from the rabbit's misty eyes landing on its hairless smooth cheek then at the corner of its mouth and finally dropping on the stalk of grass. The pair red of lips quivering was full of moisture. In between her brows there would be constant creases whenever the rabbit drew breath. No matter how he look at it, the rabbit's expression resembled his prey when they were begging for their lives, but Ren Yu could not make himself think of this rabbit as another prey. His grip on the rabbit's ears tightened.

"Ow.." Vierre groaned in response. Her voice was tinged with pain.

Ren Yu's eyes transformed into golden slits. He tugged the rabbit's ears again and heard the fascinating sound coming from it.

Vierre once again groaned. Her voice was a bit hoarse from the nonstop crying.

Ren Yu was fascinated for he found another interesting fact besides the rabbit's softness. It seemed it can also produce such numbing sounds. He felt his spine tingled whenever it repeated the painful moan.

"Interesting…" Ren Yu mumbled and looked at the rabbit's despondent face deeply.

"I'll keep you."

That sentence caused Vierre to look up and heard another system notification.

[Ren Yu's affection points at 15]