At Cordon Arena


    The tournament moved along smoothly, and almost every pack had its representative to fight for the position of Queen. Currently, Cordon had a total of around 96 packs, so after sorting out the representative for each pack, they would then continue on with the tournament, downsizing the numbers into twelve packs by the end of it.


    Moving forward, ra was finally dered as the representative of Midnight Pack to move on to the next round of the tournament after a bit of work. Soon, Be followed, being dered as the representative of the Lock Heart Pack. The two women stood by each other''s side as they watched the final fight for the Silver Crescent Pack''s representative close to the makeshift stage.


    None of them uttered a word, but the two of them obviously had the same thing in mind, and that was that they needed to study every movement Pinra made to see if they could find something that they could use against the woman should she be their opponent.


    "Damn, isn''t she the epitome of a rogue werewolf hidden underneath a beautiful facade?" Bemented as she watched Pinra maniacally and sadistically sh away at her opponent with cold precision.


    "Every move is deadly... No wonder the Admiral wanted me to watch out for her. Good thing my mother isn''t here, or else she''ll probably make a fuss for me to quit right now."


    "Aren''t you scared to fall victim to her?" ra asked as she turned to Be. "You can still back out, Be. It''s not toote. Pinra isn''t the only opponent here that''s very dangerous to your continued living."


    Be didn''t respond to her. Instead, her eyes remained fixed upon the fight ying out before them.


    ra was aware that Be was simply nitpicking on her, which was why the woman joined the selection in the first ce, but things would turn bloody soon enough with Pinra and some of the other suspicious participants lurking around every corner.


    After some time, Be turned to her with her wicked smile and said, "Hmm... I''ve alreadye this far, ra. I might as well give everyone a good show." She chuckled, "You do know that I love the spotlight, so I won''t let you have it all if I can help it."


    That wasn''t exactly true, and ra knew that. Be was someone who most definitely didn''t love being the center of attention. She was simply doing this to annoy her and get on her nerves, and ra was honestly aware of why that was the case.


    ra shrugged. Taking a deep breath, she stared at Be closely as she genuinely said, "I''m sorry, Be..."


    She was sure it was those exact words that Be was waiting for her to utter. If that was what it took to finally stop this nonsense, then she might as well get it over with.


    She had hurt Be in the past. She intentionally ignored her and jeopardized their friendship before, but she honestly didn''t expect that it would have such an impact on Be to the point that thetter refused to stop annoying her whenever she could.


    She was way too focused on Darius and his family for her to even care. Because of that, she ignored Be and their friendship. Looking back, Be was right... She did try so hard that her world ended up revolving around how to make the royal family like her. She did everything just to make sure she would look good to them and be on their good side and she ignored everything else.


    "Hmm... Since you''re sorry, then that''s more of a reason for me to not back down... unless you do it yourself, but I doubt you would since you''ve already reached this far," Be said with a genuine yet mischievous smile, one she that used to give her before back when the two of them were still good friends. "I kind of feel bad watching you getting hurt now after seeing how sorry you are."


    Be then chuckled...


    <o>,m "Hahaha! Look at your face right now, my dear. Are you so used to my sarcastic and mocking smiles that seeing me smile sweetly like this is making your jaw drop?" Be teased.</o>


    It was a fleeting moment however as those smiles quickly disappeared as blood sshed towards their direction.


    "Damn!" Be cursed as she wiped some of the blood stters on her face.


    ra did the same before they looked at where it came from. There, right before them, Pinra stood mightily on the makeshift stage with a cold smile on her face. nkly, she licked at her bloodstained sword, the corpse of her decapitated opponent still oozing blood right beneath her.


    "Gross!" Be cried out.


    Pinra was unbothered by the outburst. Turning to them, she even licked her lips as she arrogantly said, "I wonder how the two of you would taste in my de... This one is dull, but I bet Lady ra and Lady Be would have a delectable taste being from prominent families."


    She coldly smirked, "I can''t wait to grace my precious sword with your blood. Or maybe it would bring it more delight if I did it directly with my fangs buried deep into your precious flesh."


    Be scoffed and burst out, "Hah, In your dreams, freak!" Her eyes then narrowed at Pinra before a smirk formed on her beautiful face as she chided, "Hmm... I do wonder if the ground would be pleased to taste such poisonous blood from you once I slit your throat... Oh, right, I have to decapitate you to make sure that your poison would no longer spread throughout this kingdom."


    Pinra''s face fell ever so slightly, but it was more than enough to make Beugh. It was only a good thing that Admiral Osman approached and called Lady Pinra up to announce her as the winner and representative of the Silver Crescent Pack, or else ra felt like the woman probably wouldn''t have hesitated to strike Be at that very instant with how much hate her eyes harbored.


    "You should be careful," ra scolded. "Why are you inviting in trouble so carelessly? You''re aware of how dangerous Pinra could be, right?"


    Looking at her friend, she saw a familiar flicker in Be''s eyes that told her that she was pleased with her scolding. It meant that she cared for her, so Be loved hearing more chidinging from her like Be always used to say before.


    Be had that sweet smile on her face before she snorted, "That woman is gross. If she loves blood that much, she should''ve converted herself into a vampire ages ago." She then wiped the remaining ssh of blood off her before giving her a wink. "This won''t do... I''ll be leaving to get cleaned up. By the way, congrattions, and see you in the finals, Big Sis!"


    ra let out a genuine half smile to Be as she watched the woman''s back. It had been a while since Be called her that, and it honestly felt great hearing it from her again after all this time.


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