NOVEL NEXT Chapter 318: Beauty
The appearance of a human woman sent the whole team into disarray. Even Carmine and the rest of the Operators back in the Emergency Meeting room couldn't believe what they were seeing.
At first, everyone thought that it was a Canzer that only looked eerily similar to human biology. After all, appearances could be deceiving. But when they heard her voice talking in a human language, they couldn't deny the truth any longer. She was a human.
This woman had auburn brown hair tied in a ponytail. She looked young, but that was not an indication of her age. After all, Lizzie looked young despite her age being a hundred years old.
Her attire was very similar to the Beast's princely uniform. One could even say they matched well with each other as if they were a couple.
But how could that be? She was a human, while the Beast was a Canzer.
Everyone froze. They tried hard to process what was happening in front of their very eyes, but they could not reconcile the truth with what they were seeing.
But as expected of Ninth, she was the first one to move.
Ninth rushed towards the top of the stairs, bypassing the Beast in his entirety.
Before everyone could even try to stop her, Ninth arrived just one step away from the human woman.
Once the two women met face to face, Ninth held out her hand and offered it to her.
"We'll protect you. Come with us," she said.
The only reasonable explanation that Ninth could come up with was that the woman was taken hostage by the Beast. And so, Ninth quickly moved and offered her help so that she could finally break away from the confines of the Beast's palace.
Ninth's team quickly offered support once they realized what she was doing. They surrounded the Beast, making sure that he wouldn't be able to stop Ninth from rescuing the poor woman.
But strangely enough, the Beast didn't move a single inch.
And even more strange was the fact that the woman atop the stairs didn't take Ninth's hand. She only looked at it and shook her head.
"Make no mistake, I am, and always will be, here of my own accord. The Beast has not taken me hostage."
This confused Ninth so much that she couldn't help but stare at the woman. She was trying to see any sign of coercion on her face, a subtle sign that gave away the fact that the Beast was forcing her to say these words.
But she didn't see anything. The woman was telling the truth.
It didn't take Ninth a lot of time to realize this. And once she did, she quickly retreated away from the stairs and regrouped with her team.
She looked at the woman with more wariness.
"!$)%*!$*%#!)$%#"
The Beast roared at Ninth, talking to her about something.
"Oh, please. They meant no harm," the Woman said to the Beast. Then, she looked to Ninth and translated what the Beast said to her.
"He said that the only reason he didn't break your bones while you approached me was because you didn't carry your weapon. Sorry, he's quite overprotective of me."
Ninth and the rest of the normal humans looked at the Beast and the Woman's interaction with strange expressions.
It turned out that the Woman could understand the Beast's words! This was a revelation that sent a shockwave to the Operators back to the real world.
"What's happening, Carmine? Is this a trick from the Canzers?"
But the Operators couldn't answer Ninth's question immediately. After all, they were too busy being surprised upon learning of the fact that a human was able to understand a Canzer's language.
"This…this…she can speak Canzer…."
Ninth got a little bit frustrated with Carmine's answer.
"Focus, Carmine. Tell me what we're supposed to do next. Should we kill that impostor?"
"No! No! That is not an impostor. That is a human woman!"
"Are you sure? Then how is she able to understand a Canzer's language?"
"Yes. She can speak human!"
Atlan couldn't hide his surprise as well. The Woman's translation of the Beast's words was exactly what he heard as well. This meant that the Woman could truly understand the Canzer's language as he did.
He thought he was the only one who had that ability.
While Carmine and Ninth were arguing, the Woman walked down the steps of the winding staircase and took her place next to the Beast.
She looked like a dwarf compared to the Beast. But despite the staggering height and stature difference between the two, the Beast and the Woman were very close and had a strange aura around them. It was as if they were very close…
very
close.
"Yes, I am human, and you can call me Beauty."
Ninth walked to the front of the line and faced 'Beauty'.
"If you're truly human, then why are you there? Why are you…holding hands with a Canzer?"
The Beauty and the Beast held hands with love and care. It was as if they were a couple that could not be separated even by fate itself. Their eyes looked at each other with such love that it was almost comical.
"There's nothing wrong with love," Beauty said. "As long as our souls intertwine, then there is no difference between human and Canzer. We are bonded by something so much more than the physical."
")($*@&$(*&@(*$"
"Hehe…yes, they can't understand our love, and we don't need to explain it to them."
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Back at the Emergency Meeting room, the team of Specialist Operators was still busy looking at their books and sources to try and see if there was an explanation for the 'Beauty'. But no matter how much they consulted the records, they couldn't find a precedent for this type of situation.
This was the first documented case of a human and a Canzer having a…relationship. This was also the first time anyone ever saw a human understanding a Canzer's language.