Chapter 23 - True L.u.s.t

*Roar*

Mama tigress didn't like it when other humans appeared, and one ran towards them. Still lying on Lucien's side, It roared to threaten the arriving humans.

But then the tigress felt Lucien's hand on its head and calmed down.

"Easy, Catie, they are friends."

"Catie!?"

The girls were shocked that the tigress would calm down and start rubbing its head on Lucien's belly with just a few words.

Does it mean he had tamed the tigress while he was lying injured on the floor? It's so unbelievable... what did he have to make everyone like him so fast? Was he made of candy?

Mia managed to get closer to Lucien after he patted the tigress. It now didn't want to protect only the cub but Lucien too.

Mama tigress went through a tough time and was just fine because of him, so It felt that the best way was to follow the strange man, who smelled so good.

That loyalty instinct was, as Anne said, a characteristic of the Moon Tigers. So Mama tigress already considered Itself as Lucien's companion.

Mia was so worried about Lucien that she started checking his entire body and applying an ointment that she took out of her space ring.

While Mia was taking care of Lucien, Marie and Anne also approached, and the tigress got up and went towards Gerard, who was passed out but still alive.

The tigress was not yet fully healed, but it was already much better. It approached Gerard, sniffed him, and then looked at Lucien.

Mama tigress was chased by Gerard for a long time and was very angry with him. But it remembered that Lucien had defeated him and is smart not to steal its companion's prey without his permission.

Lucien didn't know why, but he could understand the feeling of mama tigress from its eyes. He didn't know what had happened, but he did know that it didn't like Gerard.

He wanted to torture the captain for a while, but it felt right to let the tigress take its revenge, so he nodded at it.

Mama tigress also understood that Lucien had given his permission. Then it also nodded slightly at him before it roared and started to bite Gerard's face very slowly.

"AAAHHHHHHH!?!?!"

Gerard was passed out, but he woke up when mama tigress' teeth started to spike through his helmet and slowly enter his skull.

While the tigress continued to deform his head, the pain was terrible, and Gerard kept screaming. But he could do no more because his body did not respond to his commands.

He could only move his head in despair, but it didn't last long under the vicious attacks of mama tigress. After Gerard stopped screaming, the tigress ripped his deformed head off and threw it away from his body.

It was a brutal scene, and both the girls and the little tigress didn't look, but Lucien didn't miss a second of the beautiful show. He thought it couldn't be better and had thoughts of giving his future enemies to the wild mama tigress.

Mama tigress could feel Lucien's proud look and returned to him to receive his pats as a reward. And he did not deny affection to his good companion.

"You're really adorable."

Lucien told to the girls how the fight ended, and mother-daughter tigress appeared. Next, Marie took a black armor and clothes out of her magic backpack for him to put on. She couldn't continue to see him n.a.k.e.d. It was so big that she found herself sometimes staring.

They realized that the mine was safe now, and Marie said she came here on a mission to check the mine. Lucien was still recovering, so Marie and Anne went to check the mine depths while Lucien, the tigresses, and Mia stayed.

Mia wasted no time and started looting the bodies. In one of them, she found her dagger; Lucien saw it and can't help but thank her.

He knew that if she hadn't come and used explosives, he couldn't defeat more than thirty strong soldiers like that, and he would be dead now.

"Mia... Thanks for coming. Without you, I wouldn't have made it."

Mia liked Lucien's gratitude, but she thought it was wrong for him to thank her for coming; after all, that should be obvious.

"Did you think I wouldn't come for you after what we did?"

Lucien could say that he knew, but in fact, he could have doubts because they met very recently.

"I will not lie... I was not sure. But that was my mistake..."

Mia also felt that their relationship was just so recently and didn't blame him for not having complete confidence in her. She liked his sincerity and hoped for a better relationship soon.

"Yes, it was your mistake. How do you plan to make it up to me?"

Lucien liked how Mia was teasing him. He liked this girl more and more and loves how she's sometimes shy but sometimes daring.

"I promise to make up for you at night..."

Mia can't help but blush. She always thought she was firm mentally, but he was messing with her feelings very quickly. She stopped looting and approached him slowly.

Lucien, still sitting on the floor, faced her coming towards him and was surprised when she bent down and kissed him.

It was a quick kiss, and she immediately backed away with a serious expression.

"I'll never leave you behind again. Do the same for me, okay?"

Lucien was touched by Mia's words. He didn't blame her for leaving the mine collapsing because he wanted it, but he couldn't deny that her loyalty impressed him.

He tried to answer, but she closed his lips with another quick kiss as she took a silver ring out of her pocket and gave it to him.

"This is the leader's