Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 256

Her shadow wolf stirred restlessly, feeding on her growing agitation. The darkness around her deepened, tendrils of shadow extending unconsciously from her feet as her emotions intensified.

Now, in this clandestine situation... a pang of something she didn't want to acknowledge pierced through her.

She was about to jump to emerge from the shadows inside the room when the memory of an embarrassing moment stopped her. That time when she had entered without announcing herself to the dormitory and had found Ren shirtless, engaged in some strange ritual. The embarrassment had been monumental in the end, amplified by the reactions of the bat boy, Min, and Taro.

'I won't make the same mistake twice,' she thought, hesitating on how to proceed.

"Luna? Are you acquiring a taste for the art of spying?" Liora's whispered voice came from behind in the hallway, startling her.

Luna quickly returned to her normal form and covered Liora's mouth.

"Shhh," she warned, pulling Liora into the recess of a nearby staircase. "How did you find me?"

"I saw you following a trail after the Ren and Larissa fun escape thing," Liora responded. "It wasn't easy to lose the others. I can't openly 'jump' between shadows like you... Grandmother should give me permission to reveal my beast already..."

Luna nodded distractedly, her attention divided between her cousin and the door of this dormitory of the gray wing.

"Are they in there? What are they doing?" Liora asked, trying to listen but failing due to Liu's sound control.

The innocent question triggered a sequence of images in Luna's mind. Memories of shirtless Ren again, his skin covered by those strange luminescent patterns. Larissa's complicit expression when being "kidnapped." The stuff about "taking responsibility"...

Luna stopped thinking coherently and did something uncharacteristic of her practiced "persona".

A shadow jump right inside the room she remembered well. But with a very different goal than last time…

"You can't!" she suddenly exclaimed, jumping from the shadows. "You're too young for THAT!"

Four pairs of eyes looked at her with absolute confusion.

Ren, fully dressed, was standing next to the egg cabinet, holding what appeared to be a thin notebook. Larissa was calmly stroking her new white lynx. Min and Liu, positioned like sentinels on either side of the door, seemed more surprised by the dramatic entrance than by the accusation.

"Too young for what exactly?" Larissa asked, arching an eyebrow.

"For... for..." Luna stammered, suddenly aware of how ridiculous her conclusion had been.

Liora entered right behind her, hastily closing the door.

"Hehe, it was open," Liora added, shrugging her shoulders while Min and Liu smacked their foreheads... Then she looked at her cousin. "Luna! What are you doing?" she whispered furiously. "We were supposed to be discreet spies."

"I... thought..." Luna tried to explain, her face gradually turning the same color as Ren's hair.

"Oh," Larissa began to laugh as she understood, "you thought Ren and I were...?"

"No!" Luna protested too quickly. "I just... rumors were starting to..."

"What rumors?" Ren asked, genuinely confused.

Liu smacked his forehead with the palm of his hand again. "Ren, you're brilliant at understanding beasts, but completely dense about these things."

"I think Luna believed you were repeating your 'naked beast' exhibition but with Larissa this time," Min explained with a malicious smile, earning a withering look from Luna.

"Naked beast?" Larissa repeated, her eyes widening with delight. "This sounds fascinating. Please, tell me more."