Beastmen Love-Chapter 207: Bothering Female

Astri, Kenzou, and Shinkou walk around the festival grounds. Males wonder if they can get closer to Astri, but she’s walking around with her arm linked with Kenzou, making them believe they’re spouses. And Kenzou, even being older, is very respected around the village because he’s one of the strongest males in that area.

However, seeing Shinkou walking beside her made them believe she was open to getting more spouses. She calls attention with her elegant yukata and way of dressing, because she’s not exposing much of her skin and is still beautiful.

Other females look at her enviously for her beauty, and also for her clothes, because it’s not just any male that can buy such expensive ones. Astri simply ignores the females’ and the males’ looks and focuses on watching the activities. Shinkou and Kenzou could notice her sad smile watching the children playing ’catch the flower’. The children that is holding a flower need to bring the flower past the other children without being touched.

Astri makes a ball with a small sack she got from a stall. She fills it with sand and brings it to the children. She teaches them how to play, telling them that one child needs to try to take the ball, and they can only use their feet. If the child can take the ball, the child who lost the ball will be the one who will need to take the ball again and pass it to others.

The children have a lot of fun with the new game, bringing a lot of laughter from Astri as she watches how creative the children are to avoid losing the ball. Kenzou and Shinkou watch her, happy to see her happy. Just by that, they can see she’s a great mother, different from other females who only have the babies, feed them when needed, but do not really stay with them, leaving them to be raised by the males.

The males also watched Astri, so in love with how kind she looked, that some of them were fighting around to take the best gifts to give to Astri. Shinobu was watching, with crossed arms, and not really enjoying that Astri was getting a lot of attention. She’s wearing a dark blue yukata, but exposing her shoulders and cleavage as always. And even exposing a lot of her chest, her nipples are almost exposed, no male is paying any attention to her.

Shinkou brings Astri some water and candies, and Astri smiles, thanking him very much, because she was getting hungry indeed. Shinobu watched the way Shinkou smiled at Astri, and that made her furious. freewebnøvel.com

Shinobu walks to Shinkou with better attention, because last time Astri took her by surprise, so she will not touch Astri.

"What did she promise you for you to be courting her now?" Shinobu asks Shinkou.

"It’s none of your business." Shinkou answers coldly.

"Can’t you see that she’s tricking you? You’re good at that and you can’t see when someone is tricking you?" Shinobu asks.

Shinkou looks at Shinobu with a serious look.

"I don’t think that she’s the tricky one." Shinkou says, actually referring to Shinobu as the tricky one.

"Oh, please. I’m the best female from this village, and I can say from all villages around, and I was willing for you to be my spouse, even being an Ookitsune as long as you could stand by my side, exposing how handsome you are next to me." Shinobu says.

"And I always said no. I will always say no. I will always think you’re the worst to be my spouse. I don’t want someone to stay with me out of pity."

Shinobu chuckles.

"Do you think she’s not only using you for your gems? She even convinced an old male to be her spouse just for his gems. Even knowing he’s the Shrine Protector. She’s the worst kind."

"She’s not my spouse. I adopted her as my daughter." Kenzou says.

"Daughter? If you did that, I’m the Spirit Tree." Shinobu laughs at her own joke.

"Kenzou, Shinkou?" Astri calls them before they say anything more.

They looked at Astri, who was finishing eating the nuts Shinkou bought.

"Talk to someone who doesn’t want to hear is the same as talking to a wall." Astri says.

They sigh, getting calmer and understanding that what Shinobu says is not true, and they know that. They don’t need to prove anything.

"I wasn’t talking to you, little despicable thing." Shinobu says.

"I wasn’t either. Are you this entitled to think everyone wants to give you attention?" Astri asks, with a smirk on her face.

Shinobu breathes angrily. Astri’s energy and way of talking to her make her feel that Astri is always on top of Shinobu, and that makes her very angry.

"You might be capable of hiding your true motives from them, but I can see that you’re the worst kind of female. And you’re so small that I wonder if you can handle a pregnancy." Shinobu says.

Astri only stays smiling. If Shinobu knew she had three pregnancies and had a dragon and a whale as spouses, Shinobu would shut up easily, but since she can’t prove her point, she stays quiet. If she says anything about her family, people will wonder what happened to them or start to ask questions about how she met Kenzou, or things that are hard to explain. Even more for her who has a hard time lying.

"What? Did I hit you where it hurts the most?" Shinobu smirks.

"No. I was just wondering if you’re the only female around here who is so desperate that it ends up being so not elegant. But since you’re the only one that is here, and the other females are more sure of themselves and don’t bother me, I can see that you’re the only desperate here." Astri says, and chuckles, making Shinkou and Kenzou chuckle, too.

The others that was watching the little duel of words also chuckled, hiding their lips behind their hands. Astri can see that even if females don’t like her presence, they’re elegant enough not to bother her or each other. And that’s amazing in Astri’s eyes.

"Now, if you please, excuse us. I still want to see more of this beautiful festival. I think you should enjoy your time, too, besides bothering other females." Astri says, linking her arms with Kenzou’s and Shinkou’s and then walking away with them, waving at the kids. "Other day we can play more, all right? Enjoy the ball!"

Shinobu knows that if she starts any physical fight with Astri now will only make people think she’s desperate, so she only walks away in defeat.

"Where did you learn to deal with females like this?" Kenzou asks.

"I had to deal with worse females than her. And even males." Astri answers.

They keep walking, and Shinkou feels his heart beating strongly because she’s still wrapping her arm around his. When they arrive at the bridge, Astri watches the water sparkling with the full Moon and the lanterns around. She supports her arms on the guardrail and enjoys the wind a little. That’s when a male comes to her and shows her a jewel box.

"Please, accept this gift.." He says.

"It’s so pretty!" Astri says, impressed with the details.

It has flowers painted in gold on dark color wood.

"I’m happy you liked it." The male says, happily.

That’s when the other males who were following them had the courage to give gifts to her as well. Shinkou watched that situation with a shocked face. She got hairpins, pouches, and kimonos.

"Everything is so beautiful, but with all due respect, I’m not a female who accepts a male as a spouse just because she received a gift. I believe that my spouses deserve my love, more than just my body, because they deserve happiness, too. And to nurture these feelings between each other, it takes time. I appreciate you buying these gifts, but I can’t accept them because of what I had just explained, all right?" Astri says, impressing the males even more.

They weren’t expecting to hear what she said. And that didn’t make them sad; that made them even more interested in her. They tell her that she can keep the gifts and that she doesn’t need to accept them, and that they will court her on her own terms.

"I never thought I would hear what I just heard from a female." They hear from the other side of the bridge.

It was male, watching what just happened from afar. He has long, ocean blue with few streaks of silver that glint with the moonlight. His hair is tied with a half knot with an elegant silver hairpin. His skin is pale with a blue undertone when lighted by the moonlight. He wears flowing dark teal and indigo robes, embroidered with silver thread in wave and cloud motifs.

The males around got impressed with his presence and simply walked back in a sign of respect. Astri found it weird the other’s behavior, but could see that Kenzou and Shinkou didn’t move away from her, and just bowed a little to show respect towards that male.

He walks in her direction with grace and precision. She looks at his eyes, that was piercing her with their sea-green color and almond shape. When he got closer to her, he could sense something different coming from her. He looks at Kenzou, the Shrine Protector, and wonders why he’s walking around Astri.

"My name is Seiryuu, milady." He says, with an elegant, deep voice, and shows his hand to her.

She never saw a male offering a hand to shake, but she gave her hand to him, and he simply held it. That’s when she noticed he was feeling her energy, making her smile.

"My name is Astri. It’s an honor to meet you, Lord Seiryuu."