Office Romance with a Werewolf - Chapter 85

“What do you mean, someone might kill us?” Randell panics instead, trying to focus and return.

“This world is dominated by humans, right?”

Randell nodded while Ranz patiently and calmly explained the situation to him.

“Do you know why that is?”

“Is it because they outnumber everyone else that this world is so densely populated with humans?”

“Wrong!”

Ranz lightly hit Randell’s head, but he was not offended; he just lightly rubbed his head afterward.

“Supernatural beings are equally populating this world, but it seems that this world’s gods favor humans more and have been protecting them.”

Randell nodded his head with each phrase Ranz said.

“What will happen if we harm those humans they’ve been protecting?”

Randell gasped once he realized the answer.

“T-then what will happen to us?”

“We need to stop our wolf from rampaging and we need to be back in our body before any guardian comes. We need to escape. ”

“Then let’s go back together!” Randell grabbed Ranz’s hands and clasped them together as he closed his eyes.

“Okay, it’s better to try it together.”

The moment they tried to return at the same time, Ranz instantly felt the path toward their physical body.

Randell didn’t notice it yet and kept his eyes shut as he worked hard.

“Huh? So we just have to work together for us to go back? ” Ranz thought internally.

Ranz stared at Randell for a moment before he closed the distance between them as he stuck his forehead to Randell’s forehead.

“You know what, Randell?”

“What?”

“I love you.”

Rande flinched at Ranz’s sudden cheesiness.

“I am not saying this because I have no choice but to stick with you, but I—.”

Ranz closed his eyes as he randomly shared his feelings, “I really love you as my only family. You’re second to Nida when it comes to people that I like. ” He softly shared it with Randell, who was holding his hand tighter as he heard Ranz’s words.

“Don’t betray me again. Please,” he said quietly, still hating the thought that Randell liked the same person he did.

“Ranz I—.”

Randell couldn’t reply because the moment he opened his eyes to look at Ranz’s expression, a beam of light exploded and enveloped the entire black and dark place they were in.

“Rand—”

They both shouted each other’s names before the light ate them up.

BAM BAM BAM

Randell was woken up by the loud, striking sound of the gavel.

“W-where am I?” he asked as he looked around the enclosed room with his blurry vision.

Randell begins to shake in terror as his vision becomes aware of the floating chairs surrounding him.

The chairs are designed differently and engraved with different symbols and colors. Some are imbued with jewels, diamonds, and gold.

And those elegant floating chairs are occupied by robed people.

Although he couldn’t recognize them because they were all covered up, he still felt their intimidating gazes as they looked down on him.

He felt like he was in a hot chair waiting to be judged for what kind of death he should have received.

Randell could tell that none of them were human. That made the eighteen-year-old cower in fear.

“Ranz?”

He tried to call for Ranz to make himself less frightened. Ranz could make him feel at ease, but Ranz wasn’t responding.

“Didn’t you come back with me?” He sweats a lot once he realizes he will be solving this situation alone.

BAM BAM BAM

Randell flinched once he heard the striking of the gavel again.

“Silence!”

The robed man in the highest seat yelled as she repeatedly struck the gavel she was holding.

But this makes Randell confused.

“Silence? But no one else is making a sound except for her. ”

He could see the other robed men moving their bodies or gesturing with their hands as if they were arguing about something, but there was no single noise Randell could hear.

Although curious about what happened, he thought first of his safety and tried to get up and move out the center of the room where he was lying on a flat form and a spot light was pointing at him.

Clang!

A loud clank of chains echoes through the silent room when he tries to move out without realizing that his feet are chained.

“Child, where are you going?” The robe man, who was officiating the group of robe men, asked as her floating chair suddenly appeared very close to Randell.

Randell froze in fear, unable to respond to the robed man’s question.

“Stay quietly here. We will set you free once we are done.”

The lady under the robe gently talked to him, then magically levitated him and brought him back to the flat form, looking up again at the group of robed people.

He was not sure, but he could feel hate and hostility from the gazes of some of the robed people.

They resumed arguing and discussing something in front of Randell, but, of course, for Randell, it was like watching a muted scene.

BAM BAM BAM

The striking of the gavel now indicates the end of their conversation, and one by one, the individuals on the floating chair disappear, leaving only the highest chair.

“What should I do?” He mumbled as he watched the room become empty. He was also feeling cold because he was only wearing his pants. His shirt, shoes, and some parts of his pants were ripped after he transformed into werewolf form.

He hugged himself and rubbed his skin.

“Hmm? Are you cold?” the robed lady asked as she got down from her high chair.

Still unable to speak from being overwhelmed in fear, Randell just nodded his head.

The robed lady removes her robe and covers it for Randell, revealing her appearance for the first time.

“Fairy?” Randell spoke for the first time while being enchanted by the beauty of the lady in front of him.

“Oh? Thank you, but I am not a fairy,” she replied, while chuckling.

Randell opened his mouth, but he didn’t say anything. He was smitten by the lady’s beauty.

However, Randell feels like her face is too familiar, as if he has seen her before.

The lady noticed his gaze and covered his eyes with the robe’s hood.

“Your parents will come and pick you up soon. I cannot remove your chain until they come, so wait silently here. ”

“Which parents, ma’am?” He asked since it would be a bad idea if it was his adopted parents.

He is the one to be blamed for this mess because he disobeyed and escaped from the isolation room.

If only he hadn’t escaped and just trusted his adopted parents’ purpose of isolating him, no one would die and Nida wouldn’t be hurt either.

“You know you’re adopted?” the lady asked in surprise.

“Yes, ma’am. My biological father, the alpha, gave the order to dispose of me. By the grace of my adoptive parents, they chose to raise me rather than kill me.” Randell managed to respond comfortably once his eyes were covered by the hood.

“How did you know about that? Are your adopted parents open to discussing this with you? ”

Randell shook his head and thought first of what he should respond to, whether he should tell the truth or not.

Once, he recalled the face of the goddess that brought them to this world. It’s the face Ranz described to him.

He clenched his fist once he realized that it was the goddess that he was facing now. He shared, “I can remember everything that happened to me now and in my previous life.”

He said, still hiding the existence of Ranz.

“Goddess Mila, why do you have to reincarnate me into the same life in different worlds?” He seriously asked as he removed the hood from his head and looked straight into the goddess’ eyes.

He wasn’t falling for alluring beauty this time because his frustration was overwhelming his emotions.

He still can’t remember his past memories, including those from when he was an infant, but Ranz, who could remember everything and share it with him in detail, causes him to look frustratedly at the goddess.

“If she’s going to give us a new life, she should at least give us a different and better one. ”

“Why give us the same father? that asshole?”

The goddess was shocked and covered her mouth with her hands to cover her dropping jaws.

“I used my powers to erase your memory. Do you remember? all? Do you remember? ” She asked with great surprise if someone could defeat her casting.

She then hugged Randell as if she was comforting him.

“You grew up well, even though you have those horrendous memories. Oh my! I’m sorry! This is my fault! I should have used more high-level memory spells. ”

“It doesn’t matter if I remember or not, but you let me be born with the same asshole biological parents again. How in the world do you expect me to live?

He pushes the goddess off of him and glares at her.

“No. You are fated to be adopted here. That is why I chose this world for you. I also can’t transfer you to a new person because every soul has the same body in every universe. That’s the law”

She didn’t get angry, even though a mere wolf pushed her.

“What do you mean, anywhere I go I will suffer?”