Chapter 201: Chapter 201: Queen Swan''s Edict (1)


    "I don''t know if I should be happy or not," Swan sighed. "They are still the only family I have. It feels wrong to do this..."


    "And do you not think of me as a family?"


    "T-that''s different!" Swan protested. "Y-you''re not a family to me. You are my husband!"


    "Then, we will be aplete family once you have our cubs. Let''s make plenty,


    eleven? Twenty? Forty?" Gale chuckled. "We can fill the castle with only our cubs you want to."


    if


    "I-I would die if I had to give birth to forty kids," Swan pouted, to which Gale only responded with a heartyugh.


    "I-I''m serious. I would die if I had to give birth to forty little you!" Swan said seriously. She didn''t know the difference in culture between the beastmen and humans. Gale might have a different expectation of what a female human could do. "M-most female humans can only give birth to three or four children. At least those are the numbers I know in Holy Achate. I''m sorry, Gale. I can''t give you forty..."


    "What are you talking about? I''m just joking, Sweetheart," Gale said while chuckling. He gently pinched Swan''s cheeks which had been fuller and rosier as she spent more time in the castle, a sign that she had been eating well here. "I don''t care if you give me one, two, three, or even none. You are still my wife, and no one can change it."


    Swan curled her lips as she tried to hide her happiness. She knew all they did right now was support each other''s delusion since there was no proof that Swan was Gale''s fated mate, at least not until she got pregnant with his child.


    However, it was more than enough for Swan to be happy, because staying by her husband''s side was truly the best feeling she could ever get.


    "You''re finally smiling," Gale teased. "You don''t need to hide your smile orugh when we''re in the throne room. It doesn''t make you any less dignified as my wife or as the new Queen."


    Swan had been holding herself back whenever she was outside of their room. She tried her best not to look like an idiot when she helped her husband to govern the kingdom. She didn''t want to be a shameful presence for him.


    But Gale had always made it clear that she didn''t need to care for anyone''s


    opinion, as his opinion mattered the most in this castle.


    Swan''s cheeks reddened as Gale kept teasing her, and she quickly hid her face in his strong chest to hide her embarrassment.


    Gale''s smile deepened as he gently pressed the back of Swan''s head so she


    could bury her face deeper into his chest.


    He had been holding himself after the coldest night. For some reason, his possessiveness over Swan grew every second, making him unsure if he could control himself.


    Whenever Swan acted sweet like this, he wished that he could swallow her whole, making sure that Swan stayed by his side every single second.


    He wanted to share his heart with Swan, so if Swan died early, he would also die immediately.


    Other strange fantasies continued to appear in his head, and he was worried it would scare Swan, as some of them could be extreme for humans.


    Thus, he kept his fantasy in his head and had been acting tame despite his wild werewolf side kept resurfacing after the coldest night.


    ''It feels like the cursed beast inside me also wants you by his side, Swan,'' Gale thought. ''My brain, heart, even my instinct all want you. You''re truly a beautiful dream in my life.''


    Luckily, his wild fantasies were interrupted by the sound of the door. The cat maids walked in soon after, with Anastasia and Aria following behind.


    As they walked in, the big smile, the chuckle, and the joy on Gale''s face vanished in a mere second. His aura thickened, at least to the point that everybody in the throne room knew he wasn''t happy right now.


    Swan was still burying her head on Gale''s chest until she slowly lifted her head, and saw that Gale wasn''t happy.


    She followed his line of sight and found out that Aria and Anastasia had been kneeling on the ground before them.


    "Ah, sorry, I didn''t know you two were already here..." Swan said as she got a bit embarrassed. She was just ying around and teasing her husband just now, which she thought to be a bit childish for the Beast King''s wife.


    But Aria was taking it differently. She thought it was an intentional taunt.


    Swan deliberately acted coquettish with Gale when they entered the throne room because she wanted to show off her rtionship with the Beast King, and her position as the new Queen of the Kingdom of Beastmen.


    ''Hah, do you think I don''t know what''s on your mind, you crippled bitch? I know that you must think it''s so funny seeing me kneeling in front of you like this,'' Aria cursed in Ker heart. ''Just you wait and see I will regain my witchcraft back, and be even stronger than a Saintess.''


    Aria could only say those words in her heart, as she knew she had beenpletely defeated and was at Swan''s mercy right now.


    Swan noticed Aria''s hateful re, and she felt guilty, not for purifying her witchcraft away, but for what she was about to announce.


    "Do you want to say it, Sweetheart?" Gale offered, and Swan shook her head.


    She couldn''t say it, knowing that it would crush Aria and Anastasia.


    "Then it''ll be my pleasure to announce it," Gale smirked. "Swan has given me her edict about the fate of the Holy Achate. Her words are final, and cannot be changed no matter what, so listen carefully."


    Gale turned his head towards Anastasia and said, "Anastasia of the Holy Achate,


    you shall abdicate from your position as a Queen as soon as you leave this throne room."