Chapter 29

Fares held the clothes in his hands, happy about his new creation. He decided to give Mona hers for now and see if it fits.

'By the way, where did Mona go?' He thought looking around.

"Aaahhhh!" In the next second, he screamed in surprise, while jumping to the side placing his hands over his rapidly beating heart. He saw a pair of big round eyes looking at him with interest.

"Big brother, what are you doing?" Mona asked innocently.

"Don't just appear behind people like that." He said taking a few deep breaths to calm his heart.

"But Mona was always behind you, watching you work quietly. Sister Zena told me not to interrupted people while they were working." She said cutely.

Fares could not take it and extended her hands to rub her soft hair. "Yeah, you're right. It was my fault for not paying attention to my surroundings while working." He said taking a mental note to watch his surroundings at all times.

"Well, what were you doing big brother." She asked again.

"Here, this is for you to wear." Fares said giving her the Raptor clothes.

"What's wrong with what I wear?" She pouted.

"Nothing, it is just that this is more comfortable and will not be damaged as easily."

Mona's eyes sparkled as she took the clothes from Fares. Taking off her leaf clothes right on the spot, she proceeded to change.

"Wait wait wait. What are you doing?" Fares asked, turning away to give her some privacy.

"Changing clothes?" She said puzzled.

"No! You can not just start changing clothes in front of men."

"Why?"

"Just… Because." He did not know how to explain it.

"Go wear it inside." He said signaling for her to go.

With confusion seen on her face, Mona still decided to go in to change clothes. Mona was a good girl who listens to her brothers and sisters, the few of them there are.

When she returned, she had a wide grin on her face. "Look, brother, don't I look good?" She said turning around in a circle.

"Yes, yes. Mona is the prettiest girl out there." Fares said flattering her. But she did look good, the gray with green hue skin along with her firey-red hair just made her too adorable.

After that, Fares changed into his garment. Then he moved around to make sure the joints' movements hadn't been obstructed.

Fares then cooked dinner, however, this time Azkar did not stop cultivating and join them. Fares thought that it was weird, Azkar was at the level where its cultivation would not be affected much from a few minutes meal.

He saw Mona asleep with food still in her mouth, so he put her in bed and returned to the living room, and sat down to cultivate. He decided to use the smaller orb from the Raptors first.

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Sometime later, in another place.

A girl was sleeping on a soft bed made from a gigantic tree leaf with its edges attached each to a pole stuck into the ground.

There was a huge burn over her back which made her sleep on her stomach instead to reduce the pain.

Suddenly, however, her eyes opened, along with it, her whole body jerked upright with battle intent shining in her eyes.

However, the next second, she felt extreme pain coming from her back that made her fall face over again.

"I swear I will kill this perverted beast someday. As soon as he leaves the village, that is." She said quietly with boiling anger on her face.

The girl was naturally, Olga, the daughter of the Blacksmith Don.

She just wanted to save Little Mona from that evil bastard. Who knew, he had a trick up his sleeve.

Olga had a dark past. During her coming of age, she had a ceremony like everyone else in the village. It involved hunting any beast in the White Forest outside.

At that time she was already 14 years old. On top of that, she was 5th stage Body Training stage, which was a 1 in a 1000 case. She was a genius, so much so that her father decided not to accompany her at the time.

When she left the village, she took the usual route she did with her father. Little did she know that some bastards had a grudge with her father waiting to ambush her.

As soon as she got within their range, they hit her on the back of her head with the unsharp edge of their stone sword.

She fell to the ground with a drowsy head. Even though she could not move at the time she still entered in and out of consciousness.

During that time, she could see and feel the dirty look those animals were giving her as they did what they pleased to her body.

They even left her to the monsters out there to feed on her body to get rid of any evidence. Unfortunately for them, there was another person who went hunting on that specific day and was returning from their hunt.

When they saw her in that state, they immediately threw away their game which was made of small animals and carried her back.

Only when she regained consciousness did she fully make up what happened. She was so angry that if she could, she would kill those dirty bastards with the worst possible deaths she could think of.

If not for Zena, she would have been food for animals by now. From that moment onwards she swore that she would kill all the perverted bastards. She even blamed her old man for this and distanced herself from him and everyone else.

However, whenever she saw how Zena who was younger than her but had to take care of her little sister all on her own, depending only on small animals, she felt a sense of responsibility.

That girl saved her life and did not even accept her offer to help her hunt as repayment for saving her life. So she took it upon herself to help Zena whenever she could. She would always weaken the monster Zena was aiming for before she even started hunting. Sometimes she would directly drop by some meat to her little sister instead and play with her for a while.

She never came in contact with any men since that day, except for a few times when it was necessary. Even her hunting team were all women. So when she saw a perverted male carrying Mona, she just could not contain her anger anymore.

However, the result was not as she had expected. He was weak, even with energy at the first stage Soul Strengthening, he did not even have body cultivation. She did not know how, nor even care.

But that was her downfall, before she could knock him out in one strike, she felt extreme danger coming from him. She tried to run away, but she was not fast enough and got herself burned. It hurts like hell, but she was not just going to let him go that easily. Her eyes shone with fighting spirit again.

After staying like this for a while, there was a knock on her door.

"Come in, it's open." She said when she sensed the familiar presence outside.

With a creak, the door flung open, and in came a small figure wearing weird gray with green hue clothes and has a leaf-covered object in her tiny hands.

It was Mona. "Hello, big sister. Are you feeling any better now?" She asked with concern clear in her eyes.

"Oh hello, Mona. I am not in my best shape right now, but I will be okay soon" Olga replied with a tenser voice. If people saw her now they would never have known who that person was.

"But do not worry, when I am fully healed I will come and save both you and your sister." She continued with a hint of coldness in her eyes.

"What are you talking about, sister Olga?" Mona asked innocently.

"Isn't that bastard blackmailing you and your sister? Isn't that why you called me during the festival?"

"You mean that was why you attacked Fares? He is my sister's friend. He saved her from a Raptor before and almost died. Also, he cooks meat for Mona for every meal. Sister Zena said before, none who cooks a great meal are bad people."

"What? How can that be? All men are bastards, he just hasn't shown his true colors yet." Olga insisted and anger resurfaced when she remembered her past.

"Look, he even cooked meat for you," Mona said as she placed the leaf package on a stone table close to Olga's bed, then unpackaged it.

Olga looked at the meat skeptically, she believed there to be poison within it.

"You could just return it to him. I do not want anything from a pervert."

"But Mona brought it all this way, so you can taste it." Mona said looking at her with big round puppy eyes.

Olga felt that she did something wrong to Mona, after all, she still came to see her and bring her the food.

She sighed and said, "Okay, you are right. Can you get it closer to me? I still can not get up from the burn on my back."

Mona's eyes lighted up with stars shining in them and immediately helped Olga eat the Raptor's meat.

Olga opened her mouth slowly, still vigilant of the meat, and took a small bite. The next moment, her eyes opened up in surprise. The texture of was meat was perfect, slightly crunchy on the outside and perfectly soft and juicy on the inside.

'Damned bastard knows how to cook.' She thought.

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Meanwhile, back at Zena's house.

"Achoo" Fares sneezed. 'Who's talking about me?' he thought.