Beautiful Monster
Cool Committee

Yujiro moved out of the river after feeling that his body was clean from the old bloodstains last night. He staggered towards Grandma Kawa's house, feeling a little nauseous every time the change approached.

Upon entering, Yujiro finds Grandma Kawa sitting behind him. Realizing Yujiro's arrival, Grandma Kawa turned around successfully, causing Yujiro to be shocked to see something he hugged Sen's head.

"She doesn't exist" Grandma Kawa said referring to Miho.

Realizing that, Yujiro goes to the room to find Miho who is no longer there. He ruffled things there with such a stirring emotion full of anger.

Who would have dared to take Miho away from him?

Yujiro's breathing roared irregularly. Realizing that he was about to change, he tried to calm his mind and heart first.

Yujiro can't change in front of Grandma Kawa and the other residents. Yujiro must be able to find Miho without turning himself into that monster.

Okay. Chief Yujiro starts to think hard, looking for a way to find Miho at once who took him.

One of the ways that Yujiro was thinking about right now was dogs. He remembers that Jo's black dog, which attacked him at the time, used smell to find them.

Yujiro begins to focus on using his kiss, as when he was alive as a dog. He took Miho's clothes that were still there and inhaled the aroma to be tracked.

The kiss began to work. Yujiro seemed to see the scent of Miho around even lead him to some place in the room.

"You.." said Grandma Kawa as Yujiro exited the room about to leave. He still put Sen's head on his lap.

"Sen must have calmed down because she found what she was looking for. You are the proof of that blue higanbana curse that has life, but is also always faced with death," he said, as Yujiro understood.

Without commenting any more, Yujiro immediately went to follow Miho's scent. He ran fast like a tiger while using his keen sense of smell like a dog.

Yujiro swears he will not forgive anyone who has hurt Miho, the only person he loves besides Naho.

Yujiro reflects on his past mistakes that even let Naho die in front of him. Now, he doesn't want it to repeat itself. To lose being human is painful. Even Yujiro was like an undead after Naho died, before Miho's care changed everything.

Meanwhile, Miho stared intently at the man in front of her. Now he was in a chariot that could take them somewhere. Both his hands and feet were tied by a rope so strong that there was even an elongated rope that the foreign man in front of him was holding so that Miho could not escape from it.

"I know, Mr. Senzo told you to, right?" Miho started to open his voice until the half-burned-faced man noticed her.

"If you catch him, you'll just make him go berserk. You will never even be forgiven by him for killing Grandpa Sen so viciously just to threaten us" Miho added.

The man grinned. "It's good if he's running amok. It would show if he was a monster."

"I'll get back to you later!" miho's resolve fizzed sharply towards him.

"You will never be able to repay me because I will soon send you to death. I always do my job thoroughly for money and life."

Miho gnashed her jaw holding back emotions. "You have to let me go."

Miho did not want Yujiro to search and would come at them with a rampage while revealing his true form that Miho had witnessed.

Miho did not want Yujiro to lose his consciousness as a human by carrying and holding him like this.

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Rin poked his head slightly from behind the bushes that became his hiding place during peering at some of the father's men who began to leave while carrying many weapons as if to start fighting. They go to the forest with various preparations that make Rin wonder what his father wants to hunt.

In the middle of the situation, Koyo was seen examining his weapon that could shoot something from a distance even potentially die if hit by a poisonous bullet.

"I'm so excited to hunt him down!" exclaiming Koyo then laughed wickedly quite loudly.

Rin's eyes turned to the two people who had just arrived. His eyes narrowed at the sight of someone being held captive with a rope being pulled into their midst.

What the hell's going on?

The father always said he would hunt monsters. Is Miho the monster?

Rin shook her head, trying to shake off that thought. He settles off going the other way to get closer to knowing what is happening in front of him.

"GET ME OUT, DAMN IT! LET GO!" miho shouted while shaking the bars that locked her up.

Senzo and his guards came over. He observed Miho from head to toe and chuckled to find that Miho was a friend of the child he had met.

"Great advice" he said.

"That monster will be here soon, sir."

"I didn't think it was you who had hidden the monster" Senzo told Miho, who threw a dislike look at him.

"He's not a monster! You're the monsters!" hiss Miho fight.

"I'll kill you after killing him" threatened Koyo who pointed a weapon at Miho's face. "That monster doesn't deserve to live here. He must die. I swear I'll kill, cut off every part of his body."

Miho held tightly to those bars to hold back the anger. He fought back because now there was nothing he could do after being confined in a cage guarded by several gunmen.

Miho hopes in her heart that Yujiro won't have to come to save her. If he came, those people would properly hunt down and kill him as if Yujiro was indeed a monster.

The night is getting late.

Everyone had prepared on the various sides with weapons, waiting for the unflagging Yujiro.

Miho sat down in his confinement. At that time, he accidentally saw something moving behind a bush not far from where he was locked up. Rin waved a little bit of her hand at Miho to tell her that she was there.

Yujiro, don't come here...

Miho was hopeful in her heart. But in the midst of that silence, the faint sound of footsteps getting closer even made the ground start to tremble.

Everyone was getting ready to point the weapon at every corner because the voice was unknown where it was coming from.

"What's that sound?" decak Koyo was also confused to hear the sound of steps that began to feel so loud.

Jo looked towards the dark corner of the tree and began to notice something.

"That's the sound of the animals coming here" he said. "GUN THEM!!!"

Gunshots began to be heard when there were many animals running towards them like they were running away from something. The animals consist of wild boars, deer, elephants, to other animals that make people there focus on overcoming them.

Miho tries to survive in her cage that is swayed by the animals. He sees Rin start to come to him when his father's bodyguards are carelessly shooting at all the animals running around there.

"We need to get out of here!" rin exclaimed trying to open the bars with a stone he hit several times on his locked padlock.

Finally detached. Rin immediately opened the cage and brought Miho to get out of there.

"HE'S COMING!" scream someone.

Miho looked back as her legs were about to step away following Rin. He saw the blue light of Yujiro's eyes emerging from the darkness. The man faced them bravely using only his human form.

"Yujiro.." lirih Miho was about to go there.

"We need to get out of here!" prevent Rin from pulling Miho's hand to get away from there instead of getting into ongoing danger.