Chapter 275: Sorry For Everything

Tera sighed. She really did not need to hear any of this before they aired the old Tera’s dirty laundry in front of Calis.

She was getting more pissed now. Why did she have to carry the misbehaviour of this body?

And carrying her pretty face to carry out all those troubles.

She should have just seduced Ermin and made it seem like they had slept together, not freaking go that far.

Tera kissed her teeth.

However, the males took her tired sigh as a sign that she wasn’t pleased, and they begged even more feverently.

"What the hell?! I am not telling you to beg harder. Please stop!" She shook her head. "And stop lying down on the floor like that—"

’Stop making me look like a bully!’

[Pppft!]

[Host]

[? (′?｀)?a?a?a]

[Host’s clan members are feeling sorry for the males]

[They’re debating who should approach Host to have mercy on them]

’What the hell?!’

Tera looked back at the members peeking through the trees. They nearly jumped out of their skins and went back to doing a piss poor job of hiding their presence.

She groaned and decided to take matters into her own hands. She bent down to pull them up.

"Alright, that is enough—"

"No!"

They clutched her hand, refusing to let her raise them.

The two males started crying, causing everyone to freeze in place.

A vein in Tera’s head twitched.

’Hey, is this not going too far?’

Her two mates might understand the weirdness of the situation, but her clan members back there would definitely misunderstand and think she was punishing these males unfairly.

’Are they trying to make me look bad in front of my clan members?!’

[(⊙_⊙)]

[No, wait Host!]

"We are really sorry!"

Tera paused. The look on their faces was very apologetic, and Tera was baffled for a second, wondering what they could possibly be apologising for when Tera was the one who had been causing them trouble.

"We are sorry for everything," the younger one sobbed, wiping his nose.

"Sorry for treating you badly along with the rest of the tribe..."

Tera slowly let go of them, not wanting their mucus on her, but the words they said after made her go still.

They had watched and let a lot of things happen to Tera, especially the older male. Apparently, the mistreatment had started since she was a cub, and Tera felt a wave of discomfort and disgust go through her at the things they said.

This was when Tera realised that when she went through the memories of this body, she couldn’t remember much from when this cub was very young. It hadn’t bothered Tera because she didn’t remember bat shit from when she was a child as a human, and she’d been from a happy family.

However, Tera had been severely abused as a cub, physically and mentally. And while Tera believed that no matter how one was treated, it was still up to them to move on and not relay that same treatment to other people.

They did all of that... just because she was shiftless?

That was just vile.

Tera found it crazy that, despite all that, the old Tera still tried various antics to get their attention, especially Naiya’s.

She simply did not understand the old Naiya after this.

However, Tera could not help but feel bad for her now, while she still hated her at the same time for what she did towards Ermin.

It was very likely they hadn’t exiled her all those years because she had been a source of entertainment for them, until Naiya took the matter into her own hands.

The younger male’s apologies dwindled into sobs as he slowly turned to stare at the older male in shock.

Calis had stiffened, anger in his eyes, and Ermin had gone still, his whole body numb as he couldn’t believe what he was hearing.

{PervyGoddess eyes the males in disgust}

{BeastWorldAddict asks Tera if she really wants to integrate these beasts into her circle}

[(;??_??)]

Even Tera herself no longer wanted the tribe anywhere near her. She had honestly considered using them for future projects and bringing them into her clan if they apologised and were willing to change, but she felt nothing but disgust seeing these two in front of her.

She didn’t even want the tribe anywhere near her territory.

Even if the younger tribe members had mostly verbally abused her and mocked her, the older ones had apparently done far more, and the older male in front of her had watched and hadn’t said anything.

He wept about how sorry he was for what the tribe had done, and as he begged, Tera could not help but think about how the older tribe members had the audacity to be surprised by the things Tera did after they had abused her so much.

"That’s enough," she said quietly. "Really. That’s enough."

The older one stopped talking.

"What is your situation?"

The two males looked surprised. Meanwhile, Calis and Ermin rounded on Tera, shocked.

"You are not helping them, are you?!" they exclaimed.

Tera shook her head. "Don’t worry. No one will be joining us."

- ※ - ※ - ※ -

Tera sat on the flat stones at the shallow end of the lake, washing Nadia, who was propped up on her lap.

The little bear cub was more than half asleep, loose and floppy and entirely unbothered, letting her head be tilted whichever way Tera needed it. Chocolate had gotten into her hair, behind her ears, in the creases of her chubby neck, and one streak of it had somehow made it all the way down to her ankle.

Tera did not even want to think about how the mess had spread everywhere.

The funniest part was Nadia’s protruding stomach, which was round and tight as a drum.

Tera pressed a thumb gently against it, and Nadia made a small satisfied noise without opening her eyes.

Tera faintly smiled. ’You are going to regret this in the morning.’

Nadia had eaten her own weight in chocolate, and when Tera would not give her anything more than a third bar—which in itself she had felt was overkill—the bear cub had fought a grown beast male for it, won, and gone to sleep a champion.’

She had done all of this shortly after she had woken up from her father’s lap.

Tera paused.

She could feel her mates nearby.

She had come down here to be alone, and then for some reason she could not entirely explain, she had picked up both her cubs and brought them with her, so clearly being alone had never really been the plan.

But her mates still wanted to be near in case anything happened.

Tera was grateful for it, because she did not want to talk about what had happened yet.

Althea was crouched in the shallows a few feet away, poking at the water with great concentration.

Tera kept washing Nadia and let her mind go back an hour earlier.

In the end she had given the males food.

A proper amount of it, too.

Tera had told her clan to bring out the excess fruits they had, along with some chunks of smoked meat, which had all gone into a wide basket that the males could carry.

Her clan members had grumbled at first, not wanting to give the males even one seed, but Tera insisted. At the very least, a lot of the fruits were going to spoil. The wolves hardly ate fruit, and they preferred the tubers more, so a portion went into the basket.

She knew she didn’t have to do that. She could have sent them down that path with nothing at all, and nobody in her clan would have questioned it.

So, they got the food.

And then she told them to leave along with the whole tribe.