26 She was Stark Naked

[Host you do not have to be guard against him.] The system reminded Mina who was on guard against Damian. Mina could sense the powerful aura emitting from the other's person body and it was no joke.

"Shut up Fuzzy." Mina growled at the system that was hiding inside her mole under her eyes.

[But Host..] The system tried revolting but was made to shut down by another bitter scolding from Mina.

['Host is really mean now days.'] The system cried in it's heart. Ever after the incident that day she had become more silent, more serious and ever so more mean and prickly.

'Sorry Fuzzy, it's just that I do not want to take anything for granted anymore. I have to do what I can even if I have to change for the worse.' Mina apologized to her system silently. She did not want to underestimate others and overestimate herself. She was never going to let things that happened a week ago repeat itself never in her life.

"Tch..This girl is too serious." The wolf inside her felt it was such a pity for her to lose her smile when she was at her prime. 'But who am I to judge others.' Sitting on the shadows the wolf swayed its tail waiting to be summoned if necessary.

Mina herself did not sense any kind of malicious intent form the man before her but who knows what kind of vicious creature he could be. Mina was never going to let her guard down again.

Damian looked with a complicated emotion at the wolf before him. It was his Chosen One while at the same time it was not his chosen one. Her spirit energy felt familiar while at the same time it did not. The one he had chosen was a human but the one before him was a wolf.

"What are you and how do you know about this chosen one?" Mina snarled at Damian. She had heard him speak something about Chosen one.

"Can you return back to your human form?" Damian asked her. He did not like seeing her in some beast man form. He did not what had happened but something did happen. He could not take a look into her memories since she always had a barrier around them.

"I do not want to." Mina growled at him. She felt comfortable in only this form. She did not feel weak and she felt much safer in this form.

"That means you can change back..Ok no need to change back now." Damian could sense her emotional sates even if her memories were sealed off from him. She was his responsibility after all and since he brought her in all this mess he was responsible for everything.

"For the time being answer my question.. What are you and how do you know about this chosen one?" Mina was set on her question.

"I will tell you later. But first can we have a talk?" Damian tried reasoning with her. For some reason she looked like a scared puppy in his eyes. He took a step towards her making sure he did not appear intimidating.

"And why did you say I was your Chosen one?" Mina took a step back with each step he took. She did not want to decrease the distance between. What she did not know was with each step she was only cornering herself since she was unaware of the cliff behind her.

"Are you afraid of me?" Damian halted in his step. Although he was trying to control his energy and power it could not be hidden that well.

"No, I am not." Mina responded without thinking. "What is there to be afraid of?" Mina boldly answered but the truth was she did feel intimidated by him. She was just acting cool and calm for the most of it.

"If you are not then its fine but maybe you should stop moving backwards…Err…" Damian sensed a big pitfall over that place so if she was to move two or three places after that she would obviously fall off the cliff.

[Host there is danger…] Before the system could complete its sentence it was rudely cut off my Mina. "Not now, Fuzzy..Later." The biggest danger was right in front of her. Other dangers could wait for some time before she dealt with them.

The poor fuzz ball who was cut off looked at his employer with a pitiful face but Damian just turned blind eyes and deaf ear to the system.

['Employer….You too?'] Fuzzy felt it was useless to live in the world but was it even an alive entity?? That was hard to tell.

"So, I will stop here. Don't move okay?" Damian stopped where he was and showed no intention of moving from where he was standing.

"Then speak. Answer my questions." Mina stooped moving backwards a little away from the cliff.

"Ok fine I will tell you." Damian gave up on making peace with her and just gave up on her wishes.

"Yes, you heard me correct. You are my Chosen One." Damian accepted the truth making it clear to Mina who stood still without showing any reaction. Damian had expected at least some reaction from her.

"You don't believe me?" Damian pointed at himself.

"No, I believe you. So, you are the one who made me this so called Chosen One?" Mina through her golden wolf eyes stared at Damian.

"Yes and I am sorry for dragging you in all if this but you were the only suitable one for me." Damian answered her sincerely even without being asked.

"Uhumm.." Mina had no complaints. She had options to choose what she wanted and she had agreed on this herself. She did not blame anyone. "So, you are the employer of Fuzz ball?" Mina asked him.

"What fuzz ball?" Damian looked at her confused.

"Oh, I guess you still don't know." Mina relaxed a bit. "The system I was given."

"Fuzzy come out." Mina called out the system hidden inside her mole.

[Yes Host.] The system replied happily. It was coming back after almost a week in its physical form.

The space near Mina became a little blurry and fuzzy before slowly taking a form of a cute small round fluffy ball. Shaking its small fluffy tail, fuzzy with its small red horn out in the open looked smugly at Damian.

[Hello employer. It's nice to meet you~~~~.]

Fuzzy greeted Damian in its robotic voice but one could tell that it was showing off considering how it ended its greetings.

"Ehh?? Wasn't this a notebook?" Damian appeared right beside Fuzzy picking up the system by its tiny horn.

[W-What are you doing?] The system was startled by the sudden physical contact since Mina was the only one who could touch it till now. The way the system spoke was a little too rude. Realizing this Fuzzy changed its tone.

[P-please let go.] Fuzzy apologized in a soft tone to Damian since he was its employer but still felt it was bullied.

"Pffttt!!" Mina let out a low laugh which sounded more like an amused growl. "Why are you so easy to fool Fuzzy?" Mina asked laughing at the cute interactions of a grown up man and a small cute Fuzzy doll.

That was the first time she had given a small laughter or shown a relaxed reaction after meeting Damian. Listening to her laugh and her emotional state balancing Damian decided to strike when the iron was hot.

Reaching out his hand, he decided to slowly pat her on her head. After all a physical contact was the best way to establish mutual understanding. Damian had heard this somewhere and was glad he did.

"So can we talk now?" He spoke slowly so as not to frighten her but contrary to his expectation Mina reacted violently.

She raised her fore feet, her sharp claw ready to strike Damian. "Do not touch me." Mina unconsciously stepped backward. The soil on the edge was a little loose making her loose her footing. The sudden exposure to the spirit energy of Damian was a little too much for her to handle. She could feel her sense spinning .

In a blink of an eye, Mina in her wolf form fell down from the cliff.

"MINA!!!" Two voices overlapped inside her head. One belonging to Damian, the strange man she just met and other to the flirty Ray. She felt herself losing her consciousness since her spirit energy which was unstable was disrupted due to influence of external spirit energy.

"Damn, what a shitty time to lose my sense." Mina cursed as her consciousness slowly faded away. The same feeling of falling in a deep sleep took over her once again.

'YOU HAVE TO LIVE MINA.'

'YOU HAVE TO LIVE, YOU UNDERSTAND, DON'T YOU MINA?'

The same voice repeated in the dark space.

'I AM SORRY. YOU HAVE TO LIVE FOR MY SAKE OK?' A face appeared in the dark space. A sad face filled with worry and guilt was looking at someone asking them to live. 'He looks sad.' Mina felt bad for him. 'Wait, I know him….Isn't he Ray and the one he is asking to live on….Wait? Is it me?' In the dark lifeless confined space Mina could hear her heart beating loudly.

"THUMP---

THUMP---

THUMP--

..

She remembered now. She remembered what had happened that day.

When exactly she was about to die, when her existence was about to fade away forever, a pair of big hands took her lifeless limping body, whispering 'I won't let you die.... I am sorry.'

'That voice…It belonged to Ray right??.'

"I WILL ALWAYS LOOK AFTER YOU.' Those were the last words he had spoken to her.

"RAY!" Mina woke up gasping her breathe uneven, her heart beating loudly in her chest. She was on a lush and green grassland meaning she had survived the fall.

[You are finally back Host]. Fuzzy jumped on her circling its small hands around her neck.

"Huh??" Mina looked at her two palms that glistened like a polished jade in the pale moonlight.

"I am back?" She looked at her human hands touching her face. She had not been able to change back since she returned with a fuzzy memory some days ago.

Before she could further do anything she was pulled in a big and warm hug by a certain someone in a horn.

"H-H-HEYY" Flustered, Mina struggled to separate herself.

"Shhh…" A low, deep but calm voice whispered in her ears. "I am sorry." Damian hugged her tightly remembering the things she had been through. When she was in unconscious state, Damian had sneaked into her stream of consciousness so he saw, heard and experienced everything she did.

"Sorry....and thank you for coming back." Damian felt his heart being crushed down by a heavy boulder but why he did not know. It was more than a mere sympathy or empathy.

"EHHHHH??? WHAT???" Mina who was moved by his gesture suddenly realized one important thing. A crisp slap felt on his face as Mina hurriedly hid herself with her hands.

"Y-YOU ...You turn around, you horny pervert." Mina yelled at Damian who also finally realized something. He felt his face turning red and turned around coughing.

"Ahemmmm...uhumm..it was not intentional." Damian coughed again to prove his innocence.

Mina just glared at his back angrily since she who had just changed back to her human form was STARK NAKED like a new born baby!!!