Last Words - Chapter 2 Suck Ups

I wake up and I’m in a pet bed. Who the heck makes pet beds big enough for human?

“I’ll name you Li Yu, little fox.” Memories of yesterday wake me up.

I walk up to her and stare at her. She’s absolutely stunningly beautiful. She still has baby fat, but nothing can hide her beautiful eyes.

“I’m Yue Ga Lin.”

I try to answer and find that I can squeeze out words, “Ga Lin.” I greet her. My voice is a tiny voice. In terms of age, I’m about 12 years old.

“When you reach the 10th level, you will be able to become a human. I hope we can protect each other.”

I like this girl much more than I like her father. I can only imagine all the pets that didn’t survive that ogre.

I can tell that this is going to be a troublesome world. I can only train myself. I was always a weakling. That’s why I died. I’m a side character, I don’t have plot armour or anything to protect me. I was born as a fox for heck’s sake. Couldn’t I have been a bastard noble child, defeated my family, and then become the empress. I would kill to be one of those people.

In fact, can I have a redo? I don’t want to be a pet for the rest of my life.

“No, even if you beg, you don’t get any food!” a pretty voice interrupts my thoughts. I’m by the table and staring at food I touch my paw to my mouth. Is that drool? “That’s your food!” Ga Lin points to a pet bowl.

Hey I’m a fox! Aren’t I supposed to eat raw meat? The heck am I eating dog food for? I complained in my mind, but not starving to death is the first step to becoming more powerful.

“Yu’er,” Ga Lin called me in a sweet tone. A pet name? Really? Nothing much I could do though. Trotting out, I get lifted into her arms. It feels like there’s warm poles holding me up, so not comfortable. Better than walking though, I guess.

We walk the streets of the town until we’re with a bunch of children and their pets. Some of them are even weaker than me, but most are stronger. Even the ones stronger than me are trying to suck up to a pet that I can’t even see because there’s a pet crowd around it.

I use my lithe body to pry myself away from Ga Lin and make my way through the crowd.

What I see in the front is a bunch of females trying to act sexy and coy or sweet and innocent and a bunch of guys showing how powerful they are. In the middle of it all is a bored looking dragon. Level 10, from what I can understand. Good enough to turn into a human.

“You’re a new one. Who are you?” He turns to me for a second, walking towards me. I immediately feel the glares of the girls. Dammit, I’m not interested in him okay? I’m not into guys with harems!

“Li Yu, who are you?”

“I’m Zhang Wei.” He waits for me to approach him. I don’t. Not interested in pricks who are

way to used to attention. He will forget about me in a couple minutes. If he doesn’t, he either likes me or hates me and honestly, I don’t want either, because they’re both so troublesome!

“Okay. Well bye!” I walked away from the dragon, my social awkwardness in full view. everyone immediately forgot about me. I could feel that one person’s eyes were still on me.

I hop up to Ga Lin and feel glares on my back again as Zhang Wei approaches me again.

“Hey would you like to-”

I immediately escape into the forest. That gaze was seductive. I am not looking for that.

I run until I reach a pond and finally rest in it. I splash in the water, swimming around. There’s still someone looking at me, but I don’t notice.

I hear a breath in my ear and I jump back, and as soon as I look, my eyes can’t believe what I see.