[Please vote with the power stones; the more you vote, the more chapters will be published. Thank you.]
50 Power Stones = 1 bonus chapters.
100 Power Stones = 3 bonus chapters.
150 Power Stones = 5 bonus chapters.
------------------------
Ryu carried Karupin and ran quickly.
But they stopped every now and then.
"What's going on?"
Ryu felt like a clown being toyed by one.
This mysterious energy was like a voice-activated light, appearing and disappearing intermittently.
Karupin looked at Ryu's running speed and said disdainfully, "You humans are so weak, running so slowly."
Ryu rolled his eyes and replied irritably, "You have four legs, I only have two; how can I compete with you in speed!"
Karupin said, "I think that thing should be within our safe distance now. Put me down! I'll go myself; you just wait here."
Ryu thought for a moment, then stopped.
"That's a good idea, you'll run faster, but are you sure it's within our safe distance?"
Karupin snorted arrogantly, "Hmph, you just wait here for my triumphant return!"
With that, he transformed into a blur, vanishing from Ryu's sight with an astonishing speed.
Ryu's eyelids twitched.
He stood there silently.
His position was extremely awkward; there was an adult store right next to him.
Passersby gave him strange looks.
Ryu noticed the store owner looking at him through the window with a meaningful, strange gaze.
Ryu felt like digging a three-bedroom apartment out of the ground with his toes.
"Wow! It's a handsome guy!" Three girls who didn't look very old exclaimed when they saw Ryu.
"It really is! He's so handsome."
"Huh? Why is he standing here? Could it be that he wants to…"
Seeing Ryu standing by the adult store, the three girls seemed to guess what was going on; their pretty faces blushed, then they covered their cheeks.
"How disgusting! How could he do such a thing?"
Watching the three girls' retreating figures, Ryu was on the verge of tears.
His lifelong reputation! Ruined just like that.
The sky gradually darkened.
Ryu had lost count of how many times he had been pointed at and whispered about.
He no longer cared.
His expression was blank, like that of a person who had been bullied.
Meow…
A cat's meow brought Ryu back to life.
He looked in the direction of the sound.
Sure enough, Karupin strode over from afar with an indifferent gait, unhurried and leisurely.
Looking at his appearance, Ryu felt a surge of anger.
He even suspected that this wretched cat had deliberately made him wait here.
He gritted his teeth inwardly, but there was nothing he could do.
"You bastard, do you know how long I've been waiting for you?"
"I'm back now! That place is quite far; if I had been any slower, that thing would probably have disappeared again."
With a sigh, Ryu turned and left.
Ryu's voice reached Karupin's ears at the same time: "Let's get out of here."
He didn't want to stay in this place for even a second longer.
Karupin followed, somewhat puzzled.
After Ryu left, the door of the adult goods store opened.
The shop owner came out and looked in the direction Ryu had left.
"Sigh, young people these days are really useless—all talk and no action."
-------
Hello! So far, this novel hasn't gotten me any subscribers on Patreon.
It's really frustrating.
Could you subscribe? I want to reach 20 subscribers.
+ I publish 3 chapters daily on Patreon, in addition to the other advanced chapters, which are 30+ chapters.
That's about 90 chapters a month.
patreon.com/ayan41x