Chapter 103 [Fairy Tale] He Has a Little Gray Wolf (29)

Asi ate the chicken before her with great delight, and Greed kept fluttering down now and then to ask for a few bites.

After she was about half full, Asi only then belatedly asked, “Ryder, why aren’t you eating any meat?”

Thinking of how his pile of gold coins had grown smaller and smaller, Ryder said, “I don’t like meat.”

Asi looked at Ryder in deep confusion, unable to believe that anyone could dislike meat.

After they finished eating, Ryder went to wash the dishes.

Asi began to study Ryder’s home. The house looked very sturdy.

Back when she had still been a wolf and had been chased by Harris and the others, most of the houses she had passed while fleeing were not very solid at all, but Ryder’s house was excellent.

Only, it was obvious at a glance that the place was very, very old.

Thinking back to the first time she had met Ryder, to the ragged, worn clothes he had been wearing, Asi clenched her fists and said to Greed, who was flitting about above her head and crying hunger, “You’re not allowed to eat anymore!”

Greed was utterly shocked.

“!!”

“Why? On what grounds? Why can’t I eat?”

Enraged, he forgot the memory of being grabbed by Asi and stuffed into her mouth before, and floated right in front of her, glaring at her furiously.

Even though he was only a little white, soft dumpling now, his fighting strength could not be ignored.

Asi pouted and, before Greed could react, caught him in her hand and said, “Because you just can’t. You don’t even have a mouth, so what would you need food for?”

Greed was furious. No mouth meant no eating?

That was outright discrimination!

He grew angry too, struggling nonstop in Asi’s hand.

“You’re a bad Asi! Bad, bad, bad! You just want to starve me to death!”

Asi disliked it most when people said she was bad, but her refusal to let Greed eat did seem, in fact, rather bad.

But, but Ryder’s family was so poor.

In the end, she could only compromise. “Then how about you eat a little less from now on?”

She looked as though he ate far too much.

Greed snapped, “I don’t eat as much as you do!”

Asi pouted. Those things had been made for her by Little White in the first place.

But saying that would only hurt Greed’s feelings.

So Asi could only say tactfully, “Then how about the two of us both eat a little less from now on?”

Greed probably also realized how poor Ryder’s household was. He did not dare push Shangyuan too far; otherwise, when Shangyuan returned to his true self, the one who would suffer in the end would still be him.

So he could only nod unwillingly.

Only then did Asi let Greed go.

“Asi, who are you talking to?”

Ryder was always shy in front of Asi, his head lowered, as though merely looking at her a little more would somehow cost him dearly.

The wolfish instincts in Asi were still there. The moment she saw Ryder, she instinctively leaned toward him, until she was nearly pressed against him.

She even took the initiative to rest her head against him, her two gray ears twitching.

She looked exactly like she was asking to be petted.

“I wasn’t talking to anyone. You heard wrong, Ryder.”

The girl’s voice was soft and sweet. Ryder had only to hear her speak for his heart to begin pounding wildly.

Asi’s head was still stretched out in front of Ryder. Seeing that he did not reach out to stroke her, she lifted her face in grievance, her big, wet eyes blinking at him.

In a pitiful little voice, she said, “Ryder, don’t you like me like this? Why won’t you smooth my fur anymore?”

Her tone was heartbreakingly sorrowful.

It struck Ryder’s heart again and again like a hammer.

He froze where he stood, then stiffly raised his hand and, just as before, placed it on top of Asi’s head.

The moment he touched her, the warmth of it seemed to scorch him.

Yet the girl’s expression was so pitiful that Ryder seemed frozen in place.

His hand remained on Asi’s head, and stayed there.

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