Chapter 905 Yuki's Trial
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"Ugh… Oof…! I've done it now…"
Yuki stood in silence over the enormous body of a half-dying Rat Gorilla that had chased her down through the entire room. It was calling himself her father, despite never having been her father to begin with, that was only a misconception of Drake that somehow got passed into this Trial, hilariously so.
Yuki was not like other Beast-kin she had met. Since the moment she had memory that she was always a monster. It was perhaps due to a miracle or thanks to Drake's amazing magic and his System Skills that could modify his tamed monsters that she ended evolving into a Beast girl.
Of course, she always was very intelligent, the most intelligent of her family, in fact.
Indeed, she had a family. Like any other Rat Monkey, they're small little critters that live atop trees, usually in small holes inside the thick trunk of the enormous pine trees capable of surviving the unforgiving cold of the central area of the Jotunheim Continent.
She remembers a few things of how she was conceived, being born into a group of five siblings, she was always the smallest and weakest of the five. Her mother was gentle though, even to the smallest and weakest, she always gave milk to all her five children with her seven tats. The warmth of her mother's fur and the delicious milk she squeezed out of her for many months was one of the few memories Yuki has of her childhood.
However, such a childhood eventually ended abruptly, as the monster had appeared. Although she didn't knew back then, her mother had nested inside the territory of this monster, the Rat Gorilla, a territorial and solitary male of the same race as her.
Why? Well, because he was truly her father.
But Yuki never wanted to admit it because of the behavior of her race.
Rat Monkeys could evolve into Rat Gorillas after fighting enough opponents and eating them.
Her mother ended mating with a Gorilla due to being captured, due to her monster instincts, she escaped from him after the deed was done and desperately made a nest to rest until she were to give birth, using the food reserves she gathered while the Gorilla hibernated.
However, male parents are terrible in this race, territorial and with a lack of parental care, they see females and children after they're out of their heat cycle as foes and rivals, and usually crush them or throw them away from their territory, so they can keep all the pears for themselves.
Before she could even grow out of drinking milk naturally, Yuki's life was thrown into shambles, the monstrous father she had woke up and quickly found her nest, crushing the entire tree where she and her mother was with her siblings.
Everything went black back then, and somehow, out of pure luck, she survived the terrible incident. However, she quickly realized she was the last of her family, seeing the crushed bodies of her siblings and her mother, the weakest and the smallest of the family ended being the only one that remained.
As her father had long ago gone away from this place, she survived however she could, gathering fruits and eating small insects that even survived these cold temperatures. She slowly grew more and more cunning, developing an incredible amount of intelligence, unnatural to monsters.
Over time, as the years went by, she slowly grew up, hiding from her father's monstrous presence while stealing on his back… Never truly leaving the area where her mother and her siblings were buried by her some time ago. Maybe because she never truly felt like leaving them behind…
Until one fateful day when she met a young Ice Dragon, who was wingless and looked more like an oversized, silver-scaled lizard. His appearance alone was incredibly distinct, and that amazed her a lot. She mostly pestered him to see his reactions, but found an amazing level of intelligence from him, deciding to stick with him while bringing him treats…
Only for her father to find this new monster in his territory, and chase both of them furiously. In that time, Yuki didn't wanted to admit the bastard was her father but felt shocked when Drake actually won and defeated him, evolving in the process and growing even bigger and stronger.
Since then, Yuki saw Drake as not only a friend, but perhaps a hero that avenged her mother and her siblings form her monstrous father, the one she had never wanted to recognize as one.
But the trauma of never having been able to defeat him herself remained within her heart until now, turning into her weakness, somehow, and suddenly making her father appear here in this trial, furiously roaring at her.
At the end, she had to engage in a battle to the death against her father this second time, and now, with all the power she had accumulated, she was able to win, barely… However, even now, she was unable to give him the finishing blow.
"Damn it, you're really my weakness, the center of all my traumas and the bastard that took away my family… Why can't I kill you?" She sighed.
"Ogaaahh…" Her father's illusion groaned.
"Maybe because… I know deep down you're my father. I… I guess I am doubting because you're still my father at the end… Because you… I have your blood within me." She sighed.
"Oh ogah…!"
"Ugh… What a pain." Yuki sighed. "I hope mom and my siblings are watching me wherever they are… Your daughter will make sure to make you proud…! I… I will get over this."
Yuki's claws grew larger, like long metallic blades, quickly piercing the neck of her father, and beheading him. His head rolled across the floor, as his entire body suddenly exploded into particles of light. Yuki didn't smiled after her kill. She felt disgusted with herself and with the creature she killed instead. There was… no feeling of satisfaction. In fact, such a feeling after completing this trial was incredibly rare.
"This trial sucks… I'll make sure to ask Drake to make me some fruit jelly after this is done!"
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