"Woof! Woof!"

Three, the damn stupid wolf never knew when to quit. He never knew when to quit his barking, his slobbering or panting his rancid breath for all night long. I lost count of the number of times I imagined of rehoming him.

"....Shut it, do you want me to get kicked?" I ordered him with face buried on the pillow, fully aware that he couldn't understand my words.

Room was a total mess, books and pieces of paper scattered on the floor, holes on the curtain, his water bowl flooded the wooden floor, piss and crap on my dirty laundry.

With a staggering step came the teddy-bear canine, one small enough to fit in the arms of a child. From God who knew how he climbed into my bed, the mutt came closer to my hand and, after a few sniffs, he bit it. "That's it you stupid mutt!! this is the 29th times!!"

In the moment of rage, I took my phone, there were new notifications coming out from the Nameless App.

Version 1.00.009

Calling all users, update incoming!

What's new?

-Changes in the skill interface.

-Add new languages: Dutch, Spanish and Russian.

-Add Call on the Social Features.

-Loading optimizations and settings for the low-end phone.

"...Riiiiight, what are you? A game company?" Though I wondered about how they decided the update and who were updating it, on the side note what would happen if I didn't have an internet connection?. "ah, right let's buy the new skill first."

Name: Wild Empathy.

Type: Mental.

Grade: Basic.

Description: Improve the initial attitude of an animal (A).

Range: Touched.

Duration: WIL x minute.

Cooldown: 30 minutes.

Shifting the new skill with Sense Invisibility, I stretched my hands that were covered with a bite mark and raised him up. "Wild Empathy."

....

Nothing happened, there were no lights, no magic circle or anything similar to that but I knew that the skill was activated.

And nothing changed with Three either, Like I said he never knew when to quit, while wagging his tail as hard as he could, he forced to break away from my grip, landed on top of my body and jumped around.

"....You're naughty to the core huh." grabbing his neck and putting him down, I walked to the kitchen while trying to sort my thoughts.

"Let's see, there is no class, no work, take Three to a vet, right I better say sorry to Dopinder and buy him the new one, what is the model once again? oh speaking of the vet, don't I need to do another check up?"

Drinking down a coffee, lighting up a cigarette, wolf barking as the background music, and one by one the to-do list increased. "Deliver the souvenir to Christmas, revising my thesis, capturing a killer... How do I find one? Should I go to the downtown and randomly kick stranger's ass until I find one? Ah, now I wonder which is more important, the renewed protected status or the three additional features?"

Thoughts were scrambled, my brain couldn't function properly, the best term for this was 'Error 404, Brain.exe is not responding.' Suddenly an unexpected light pain stroke my leg. I looked to the bottom and found the stupid mutt biting my ankle.

"...Right, I haven't fed you eh."

What does a wolf eat? I left my me time and walked to the refrigerator. "...Eggs, french fries, bread, instant noodles, canned foods, nuggets, sausages, milk, beers, sodas." ...Now I'd just realized that my diet was a total mess.

I took a piece of frozen nugget and threw it onto the floor, Three sniffed it a few times and moved the nugget from his face. "Can't blame you, this brand sucks. How about this?" Opened the sausage and pointed it toward Three's mouth, hesitation showed on his face though after he licked it he fiercely ate the whole package of sausage.

"You little pig, should I change your name into Gluttony?"

Taking another cigarette, I picked up the dirty laundry while complaining. " *Sigh* I need to train him eh. Do they have a wolf whisperer? by the way, does a normal vet take a wolf cub as their patient?"

First thing first, I cleaned myself and put Three onto the cage, my first destination was Dopinder's room, located right in front of mine.

Slowly knocking at the door, he got out in his cola stained sweatshirt, messy hair, unclean beard, deep eye bags. "Dude, I reached Immortal rank!" Was what the first thing he said.

"...Congrats? By the waaay since it is a good news, I'll tell you the other one. I broke your camera, sorry."

"Oh is that all? well, that's an old one, don't mind it." Said Dopinder.

"Is that so? hahaha, I knew it that you're a good friend."

"LIKE HELL I WOULD SAY THAT YOU MOTHERFUCKER, YOU ONLY HAVE ONE JOB, ONE FUCKING JOB AND YOU BROKE IT?! BETTER PAY ME WELL!!!" Dopinder got to yell his lungs out and became a vengeful, personification of wrath, he didn't just raise his voice, his muscles tensed and spits flying out from his mouth.

"WOOF! WOOF!" The little mutt inside of his cage followed his shout like a choir.

"...Is that a dog?" Asked Dopinder, he stopped shouting from out of nowhere, muscles were relaxed and he crouched down. "What happened to his leg?"

"Shit happened; speaking of this, do you understand about dogs? want to keep him?" I said while offering Three with the cage.

"Woof?!"

"Nay, too many electronic on my room." Dopinder replied, he put his finger throughout the cage gap and continued his word. "Is he a hybrid? 75%? no seems like he is more than that." I was surprised. no, not because Dopinder understanding about the dog, but the thing that surprised me was Three didn't bite him.

"...Eh, he is a pure wolf."

"Oh, I see a pure wolf, hahaha. So... care to explain what happened?! first from out of nowhere you went to Alaska, borrowed my camera, broke it and brought back a wolf pup?!"

"...Like I said shit happened and do you know the nearest vet? you seem to have a knowledge about this kind of things."

"Yeah, I kept one back when I was a brat and about the nearest vet, why don't you check the campus vet?"

"Eh? We have one?"

*****

At the veterinarian.

The number of students, all in training surrounded Three. First, Three was weighed then they examined his teeth, every single one of them, all totaled in 15 taking a turn to measure his weight. I come at a bad time I thought while patiently waited and watched the process, next they used a flashlight, moving it left and right to check how Three eyes responded to light, monitored his heart rate with a stethoscope and gave him a wormer and a round of vaccines.

"Mr.Dew you can come back after four hours." Said the Vet.

When I walked away, I could hear the scrabbling sound of pen scratched against the paper, the vet began to explain something with a Latin word while others listened to him.