Little thief, NOT anymore

"I'm one of the beast-men or righter I'm Half human and Half beast-man and that is why I don't have ears or a tail."

Well, that surprised most of them, mostly the old man and twins. Bell and Lily had some suspicions but didn't know if it was intuition or they thought too much about it. Simply put they thought they were mistrustful and didn't tell about their suspicion.

The beast folk. It's not that they were hated by humans or something, but discrimination still existed in the big cities and that is because they were quite rare in their country and to bot it Yaone was demi-beast and demi-human. Beast folk were discriminated only in the big cities, but demi-humans were treated like demons, like something that shouldn't exist, that is why many don't even know of the existing or hide away so no one will know that they are demi-humans.

Lou only pated Yaone on his head as the rest was silent, he started to worry and grabbed Lou by her sleeve with teary eyes, but it wasn't necessary, and he soon knew that. Bell and Lilly fast pounced on him, they hugged him and started comforting.

"It's okay, It's okay. No need to worry", Bell comforted.

"That is right, You are still You!", Lily butted in.

"We won't treat you differently just because you are demi-human!"

"We are not like the rest!"

When the girls comforted Yaone the guys come to and were first confused, as to what to do the first one to act was one of the twins, Xinjiu.

He come forward and pated Yaone who was still hugged by Bell and Lilian on the head and said with a warm look in his eyes and a slight smile on the face "It's okay, just be yourself, no need to hide anything anymore"

When Xinjiu said that the others nodded. With that Yaone could stop worrying about being abandoned. But now what?

"Ehem, I know it's a touching moment now but what will we do about the tiger?" Xin Huo couldn't stop but worrying about the beast that was still there watching them.

*Gasp*

Everyone forgot about it! And only Xin Huo didn't. What are they going to do with one big white tiger beast?

Everyone was silent and Yaone wanted to say something but couldn't and the fault of it was Lill and Bell, their embrace covered his mouth. He struggled more and more then they realized and a little bit embarrassed, they let go.

"Um, can't we keep it as it looks like it doesn't want to part with us?" Yaone said in a whisper because he didn't want to be laughed at.

"How can we keep one big tiger that is bigger than our horses?" Lou asked kind of curious why Yaone suggested keeping it.

"Why should we even keep it?" Xin Huo didn't like the idea of walking with a beast that they knew only a while. How could he know if it doesn't attack them later on?

"If it's about size then beasts can change their size but only to a smaller version, they can't be bigger than they actually are" he answered her question and continued "And wouldn't having a beast on our side be a big help?"

"Centrally it would be a help, but what if it attacks us?" Xin Huo continued to ask.

"What about making a contract with it? I heard that this is possible!" Bell cut in.

"That is possible, but the beast needs to make it, humans can't as to not imprison them with contract humans can't make it on their own" Yaone explained.

"Does that mean that the beast chooses its contractor?"

Yaone nodded at Lilian's question. With the flow of questions and answers, everyone come to one conclusion. They looked at each other and in their eves was both answer and question.

The white tiger wants to make a contract with someone of their group but who?

Then everyone looked at either Yaone or Lou. But why? Because they thought it's the only options the tiger would want to make a master of. But was that really the only ones that the white tiger would want as a master?