Author's Spot: Ladies and Gentlemen!

I am here bringing the last chapter of the year! I am taking a break from writing!

(That is a complete lie... I can see me writing as I say I will be taking a break...)

ANYWAY, This is the last chapter of the year on this fic! I may post a new chapter next year! (This joke... I think it is something that any idiot, myself inclued, will do until the end of the year... and probably will do that one about the new year as well saying that he didn't do something since last year...)

Have a furry read!

Incarnus PoV

"Alice, say 'Ahhhh'." I tell her as I start moving my fork towards her mouth, reacting as I expected she opens her mouth and I place my fork, that I have used previously, into her mouth and remove it again after she bites on it. "Is it good?" I ask and she notices what I have done.

"*Munch munch* *Gulp* Carn! You can't do th-" I open my mouth to her doing 'Ahhhh'. "What are you doing?" She asks me, trying to look serious while still blushing, and I just point to her plate. "I am not going to do that." I saw her face blush even more but I wouldn't back down! 'I want her to feed me!' I thought.

"Ahhh..." I continued with my mouth wide open waiting for her to put her fork into it, but seeing that she is refusing I made a teary-eyed face to look at her.

"Fine! You win!" She moves her fork to me and I bite into it. We have got different foods and I wanted to try some of hers, so I thought that doing it like this would make her happy.

I happily munched the food she fed to me while humming. After that she would refuse when I wanted to give her food using my fork and I got a little heartbroken seeing her reaction, but it was pretty cute because of the constant blush on her face.

Alice wanted to get up but before she could ask to pay I asked to get a desert. The waiter instantly smiled and helped me chose a good couple-like one. I discussed with the waiter for a few minutes but in the end I chose the parfait and asked for one spoon, so that I could share the same spoon with Alice who was beat red as she heard my plan.

“Alice, no need to be shy! I have already kissed you before, so I think it is just normal that we start dating.” I tell her while we are waiting the parfait.

“Stop that! I know that already and I couldn’t believe my own eyes when you changed to be like a beastkin before me… It surprised me that you could do that and never showed it to me before.” She said, turning her head to the side. Seeing that action reminded me of a type of anime character that worked hard to not show that she liked the MC, but at the end she would always fall for them.

“Alice, our parfait is here.” I tell after seeing the waiter bringing a good-looking parfait. It was big and had lots of ice cream as well tons of fruits. I looked at it with a wry smile seeing an Alice that was hungry for something sweet. Her eyes shone and she took the first bite. A happy smile appears on her face when she started to devour it, just giving me the spoon once in awhile.

“*Phew* To think that I would be able to eat such a delicious thing when we are together.” She looks at me before noticing the spoon that was in my hands as I ate the lasts bits of ice cream and fruits.

“Alice, I wonder how a woman can eat so much. So it is true that women have a second stomach for sweet things…” I say while biting the spoon just to see her face blush. “I thought I had to make sure that you would not feel ashamed.”

“It is not because of that! My face is just red because it is too hot.” Alice says, trying to distract me while I pay the waiter for the things we had eaten.

‘Sure, your face is just red because it is hot when you just finished eating more than half of the parfait…’ I wanted to say but just thought about it.

[table=brown]She really is dense about your feelings… And I had thought you were too.[/table]

‘Hey! That was rude! I would always notice Alice's mood! And today I am going to confess my love to her!’ I say to the Screen.

[table=brown]I’ll prepare to film your reaction when she refuses you![/table]

‘She is not going to refuse me!’ I tell the broken Screen.

[table=brown]If you say so..[/table]

“Where are we going now?” I ask Alice while we head out of the restaurant.

“I don't know where we should go… it is my first time doing something like this. Carn, where should we go?” Alice asks me.

[table=brown]To the Red District!!! There you can get some private room and get to the serious business![/table]

“We should go buy some clothes for you. It wouldn't be good without a Princess modelling show!” ‘Stupid Screen, go away!’ I answer while dismissing the window.

“But I have too many clothes already… I think we should buy clothes for you, Carn. You have just a few and what will you do if you need to attend a formal party or something like that?” Alice hits the nail on the head. She said it right, I don't have many outfits but I was okay with it.

“Let's do this. We go to a good store and we both choose clothes for each other.” I suggest and she nods. ‘This way I can play the happy boyfriend when she is wearing different kinds of dresses!!’ I think as I try to hide the lewd smile that is sure to appear on my face.

We walk while talking about the things we did at the castle and some of the things we were thinking and such. It was lovely to see that Alice was more eager to open her heart to me now that we are living together. We walk to a store that Alice said has clothes for both men and women.

As we enter the store a pair of clerks appear to help us and I tell her to look for clothes that would be good on me or clothes that she wanted to use and I would do the same. It was rather amusing to see the variety of clothing and styles. They had from the most common to some very fancy choices.

I was looking for clothes for me to use inside the forge, so I needed some that would be durable and would not be set ablaze while in the heat of the forge. For the other jobs I chose more light shirts and pants since I wouldn’t have to be wary of the problems caused by the flames of the forge.

Looking around after finding the clothes to use on the forge I found some cute dresses that would be perfect on Alice, a white one-piece dress, a light green one, and a couple more. I just noticed the amount I have gathered after hearing a sound near me, as I look around I found Alice with tons of male clothes as well as some dresses… I had to laugh, we were the complete opposite of each other. I got more female clothing than male as I was thinking how cute my fiancee would look in them.

“I see that we need to exchange the clothing piles…” I tell her and she nods after seeing the amount of dresses I have chosen. “How did I get this amount…? I think I was just looking for what would look good on my girlfriend and got carried away.” Her cheeks go red and I hear her saying thanks before getting the other clerk to help her carry the dresses to try them on.

As a good boyfriend I chose to change my clothes near the place she had chosen to change her clothes, since it would be easier to us to see each other's clothes. It was refreshing to see Alice wearing that white one-piece dress, I am surely going to buy it for her! We used nearly one and half hours to change through all the clothes we had gathered and I am buying half of the clothes I have chosen for Alice as well three quarters of the clothes Alice had chosen for me. I was lucky that Mother-in-law gave me some money this morning before we went out… I wouldn’t be able to pay for the clothes or delivery of the things otherwise, except if I sell the jewels I have stolen from the bandits.

“Choosing clothes made me hungry again.” I say as we sat on a bench before a clock tower.

“If you’re hungry I can give you some recommendations to grab from that stall for us. I will get some drinks from that one.” Alice points to the two stalls but before she could move I took her hand and pulled her with me as I go to the food stall to see what they had there.

As we walk up I see some skewers and the smell was great. I could see that a line had started to appear, so I rush to get a place right near the front and I could see a pouting Alice that wanted to go alone to get the drinks.

“AH, don’t do that! I wouldn’t know what to choose and I would probably eat it before you could get the drinks.” I tell her. “And this way I can stay closer with the person I like.” I smile to Alice just to get to see her face going all red... again.

“Stupid! Don’t say that here!” Alice says, but a small smile is on her face. I knew she would be happy to know that I like her. “I… like you too…” I heard Alice say. It was nothing more than a whisper, but I definitely heard it.

I grabbed her by the waist, pulled her against me, and pressed my lips to hers. I wanted to start tongue dancing with her, but it's probably too soon for that, she might actually die from embarrassment. I could hear gasps of shock and some cheers coming from the people around us, but I ignored them all as I focused on staring into the beautiful, confused oceans that are Alice's eyes. After a few seconds I pulled away but kept a firm hold of her waist with one hand, to stop her from running away, and gently held her chin with my other so that she couldn't hide her adorably red cheeks.

She had been frozen and it was just now that our lips have parted that she really reacted. Her eyes closing, her arms resting around my neck, and her lips getting closer to mine. As I prepare to kiss her again I have to jump away with my princess in my arms.

‘Fuck! Why the hell did they have to appear now!’ I think after seeing that a sword made its way to the place we had been standing moments before. ‘I was about to get Alice to kiss me!’ I look to the person and I see that he is wearing one of the kingdom guard's armors.

Around us the people start to flee and Alice snaps back to reality, she started to blush but her eyes wandered to my face and she sees that I was serious and that our happy-go-lucky mood has disappeared. She looks around just to notice the ‘guard’ with an evil smile on his face and the people running away.

“Alice, we are running away. It looks like someone doesn’t want us to get close to each other. Do not let go.” I tell her and jump as I unfold my wings to go up so I can reach some high place to try to lose the guy that is smiling at me. I could see that my speed had dropped too much, it is probably due to the fact that I haven’t upgraded it since I was focusing on the other skills.

“Carn, let me go! I need to talk with that guard about why he is attacking us out of the blue!” Alice starts to struggle in my arms but I don’t let her go and just bring her closer to me. “You’re hurting me.”

“So stop struggling. That guy is not here to talk, look at that creepy smile of his!” I tell her while I use all my power to propel us forward in the direction of the church. After I say that she looks back and suddenly stops struggling.

"You're right, that's not the smile of someone who can be talked to so easily." I felt her shiver slightly as she said that so I wrapped my tail around her thighs to let her know I'll keep her safe. I swear I had only decent intentions!

“I’m going to fly to a place where we can hide and call for help, probably Luanna. That guy is not alone.” I tell her once I look around us and find other people dressed like him but not acting like guards should. ‘How I want to just slaughter these guys! They interrupted my moment with Alice!’ I shout in my head while I try to gain distance, but I noticed that it would never happen.

The bastards were running beneath us and I had tried to lose them by changing directions but they continued to chase after me and now they are on the roofs of the houses. They are getting closer since they can avoid the pedestrians and carriages by jumping from roof to roof.

“Carn! They are getting closer! Use your magic to stop them!” Alice shouts to me.

“I can’t do that! If I do that the houses beneath us will get destroyed!” I answer her and I shoot a glance behind us. They are pursuing us, but since I can avoid most of the irregular terrain my speed is a little greater than theirs. “I'll let you go somewhere once I have a bit more distance… it looks like they only want me.”

“No! You’re not going to face them alone! I know, use the summons!” She says and without waiting I summon the 5 Dire Wolves, ordering them to stop the people that are following us.

I fly for a few more minutes and seeing that the men had stopped to kill the wolves I land and without stopping or letting Alice fall from my arms I run for a few meters to find a good spot to hide between two houses.

“Alice, are you ok?” I ask her. Her heart was beating fast, like my own, and my breath was also a little rough because of the adrenaline.

“I am. But we should continue running, I don’t think that the wolves will buy us much more time.” She said and I nod, placing her on the ground. 'If they could fight as a group against one or two men at a time then they'd be okay, but one-on-one she's right.'

“Alice, you are faster than me so run to the castle and-” I was about to tell her my plan when she just jumped in my arms making me fall to the side as I see a sword hitting her back.

My face goes pale as I see the blood in my hands and before I could think I shoot an arrow to the guy that hit her. I didn’t see him, but my feeling is that I had missed my shot as I could hear someone running away.

I tore my clothes to start to press it on Alice’s injury as I summon all five Dire Wolves to go and fetch Luanna and come here as fast as they can. The animals just nod and dart off in different directions so as to not be caught as a group and everyone of them dies before accomplishing the task.

“You’re going to be fine, I promise.” I continue to press the wound. I saw that it was not deep, but the blood was just flowing and it wasn’t stopping. “Fuck! If I find the guy that did this to you… I’ll kill him. I’ll kill him.” I murmured as I took a pair of pants from my inventory and used it to wrap the wound after using some Light magic on it. I was lucky that I stopped the bleeding with it, but now I need to move. They already know where I am and the wolves would find me anywhere I am.

I run for five minutes until I found a good place to let Alice rest. ‘This time I am not going to let my guard drop!’ I say to myself while summoning the 30 Spinning Mana Arrows around me pointing to all the places where ‘guards’ can pop up.

I wait but no one appears except my wolf with a scary maid on its back. I shoot a glance to her and to Alice. Seeing that she was not in danger I tell Luanna what happened and to look after Alice before I make the arrows disappear and fly away before she could say anything.

I am furious right now, I could feel that the tattoo on my back was burning but I didn't care. The wings that looked like were made from nothing more than mana now had materialized and really looked like demon wings, but I didn't care. I look around and finding one guard I make him collapse with my fist to his stomach, after appearing in front of him out of nowhere.

“Where is the guy that attacked Alice?” I ask, looking straight into his eyes. He was scared, very scared, and the armor he was using was now dented with the shape of my fist.

“I-I Don’t know! I just got here now!” I stare at him and seeing that he was not lying I made him fly a few meters before stopping in a wall. I shoot up again and stopped a bunch of other guards, repeating the process with every one I found.

Alice PoV

I felt my back burn as I open my eyes just to find a worried Luanna looking at me.

“Princess, I was so scared!” I am not understanding what is happening here, I just remember going out with Carn, we kissed and then he held me in his arms… We were running away and I jumped to protect him… “Princess, don’t ever do that again! Do you have any idea how worried I was?! We need to get moving, I have one of Incarnus' wolves and he is waiting for us to go mount him so he can bring us to see a doctor. We need to clean your wound properly to prevent it getting infected.” Luanna shouts but nothing is entering my mind. I want to know where is he, where is Incarnus.

“Luanna, where is he?” I ask her and Luanna tried to redirect my attention while she helped me walk to the wolf. “Luanna, where is Carn? I need to know where he is!” I say, fearing that he had been killed after getting me here.

“I don’t know, Princess! He just told me what happened and that I should treat you before flying away. His wings were different from before as well, they were far darker and he was a little faster as well.” She says and I hear a painful scream after a dull sound. It was coming from a place near us.

“Seems he is close, and from the sound of it he is interrogating the guards.” I get up on the wolf and my back starts to burn again. I felt liquid escape the wound as I moved but not minding the pain I ask Luanna to bring me to a broadcast room as quickly as possible.

She asked why I wanted to do that, but I really didn’t have enough energy to quarrel, so I let her know that it would probably stop Incarnus' rampage. I am sure that the sound I heard before was a punch in a metal armor, so at least it seems he is holding back a little.

Saying that she is going to do it she guides the wolf through the streets and we stop at a healing center. I asked her why and she said I should close the wound first. Incarnus had done first aid but it would not hold anymore since the blood had started to flow out from the wound again. I couldn’t really argue with her so I let her drag me, as well as some strange people with dolls that looked like Luanna, around the building to the doctor.

“You guys, go fetch a broadcasting stone and its battery! I need it yesterday!” I hear the maid shout to which the people outside immediately respond that they are going to fetch one right now, some of them adding that it's because their idol asked them.

‘As always, Luanna is really popular.’ I think before letting my body fall on one of the beds that are free and waiting to be used.

Incarnus PoV

[table=brown]Calm down! She is not going to die! You don’t need to be so furious![/table]

‘CALM DOWN? I AM CALM! JUST LET ME FIND THOSE BASTARDS AND THEN I'LL SHOW YOU FURIOUS!’ I shout to the Screen while I kick another guard that didn’t know about anything that happened today. ‘FUCK, WHERE ARE YOU HIDING?’

It is then that I hear a howl, one of my wolves is calling for help. I smile and with a jump I go up without minding the pedestrians near me, staring at the guard slumped on the ground before me. The wolf that I left with Alice and Luanna is to protect them and to move Alice when she awakes, so hopefully it wasn't that wolf I heard.

I fly at my fastest speed to the place I had heard the sound and finding four wolves at that place made my smile grow wide. I snap my fingers and the 30 mana arrows I could summon appear in the air right above the 10 ‘guards’. ‘I am not going easy on these guys anymore.’ I thought, letting the arrows fall into the ground at their feet with a greater force than before.

“You guys… one of you hurt Alice, who was it?” I say as I land between the growling wolves. “By the way, if you guys don’t answer in 10 arrows I am going to kill all of you using the same method as the culprit: very, very slowly.” I smile at them with my most innocent smile while I lift my fingers, making one arrow appear per finger.

It was at the 8th arrow that they all forgot what they were supposed to be doing here and they pointed to the guy that had hurt my precious princess.

“Thanks for your help.” I nod to them and with a snap of my fingers the 9 people disappear. Just mince-meat is left on the places they had stood. “You.” I point my finger and an arrow shot at his left leg as he was trying to run away. “You aren’t going to die as painlessly as them.”

I get close to him and taking off my sword from my waist I make his weapon fly away as he messed up while unsheathing it. I pierce his right arm and the ground with my sword, pinning him down with his scream.

“I said you are not going to die painlessly, you are going to suffer for what you did to my Princess.” I tell him, and with my mana I coat my tail. It glowed with a metallic shine and I couldn’t help but chuckle. ‘I have created a new skill, again.’ I grin as I remembered the old anime where some animals could use this to attack.

[table=brown]Iron TailCost: 15By using magic power to coat your tail you created this skill. It can be used with Earth mana to increase the damage done to those without Earth resistance.[This skill can’t be upgraded.][/table]

‘Oho!’ I say after reading the window before me and I change the mana I had infused on my tail to Earth, making its glow grow more fierce.

“As I was saying.” I hit his foot and it was crushed by the power the skill carried with just a normal whipping motion. “You are going to suffer.” I make it go down again, this time crushing the other foot, and a delicious scream flows through my ears.

I continue to use my tail to crush his legs, arms, hands, feet - basically every non-lethal part of the body. I was not hitting the places once, either, I was hitting them over and over, making sure that his death is the most painful I have ever done. It was when I was about to crush his thorax that Alice’s voice came to me, asking me to stop what I was doing and go to see her. I just sighed and, with one last look, I let my tail down on his head, knocking out my toy. His suffering is still far from over.

[table=brown]You gained a level due to your cruel interrogation methods while asking the guards about who hurt your woman!You gained 12 points to use in skills and status.[/table]

[table=brown]You gained a level after planting fear in the hearts of the city guards, showing your powers as one that will massacre every soul that stands in your way!You gained 12 points to use in skills and status.[/table]

‘Oh! Shiny!’ I say as I go to the place where Alice is waiting for me with an unconscious, bloody cripple on the back of a wolf following behind. 'Is it just me or are people keeping their distance a bit more than earlier?'

Wilhelm PoV

"Shit! How could those guys be so useless?! They're supposed to be professional assassins!" I'm talking to myself after hearing the broadcast that my daughter just finished, she made sure to tell all the city what happened to them.

"Oh? Who are supposed to be professional assassins? It couldn't be that the men who nearly killed my daughter were hired by you, right dear?" I hear the cold embrace of death from behind and, moving my head as slowly as possible, I found my spouse standing right besides the door. “Are you prepared for your punishment?”

I just wanted to cry, but as soon as I tried to move the demon was already before me with the fan unfolded.

“You aren’t going to run away.” The angelic smile that was on Astael’s face made me freeze. “It looks like Alice asked Incarnus to bring one back alive, and if I come to find that they have some connections with you… you may say good bye to your 'little fella’.” She walks away and the room gets noticeably warmer.

[table=brown]STATUSNameIncarnusRaceFerret Beastkin (Demonic)Level75GenderMaleClassDemonically Fluffy Hero FerretHealth100%Mana100%Stamina100%Satiety100/100Strength140Vitality130Agility135Dexterity136Intelligence130Wisdom130Unlocated points24[/table]

[table=brown]SKILLDemon BodyUpgradeRollUpgradeTiger ClawsUpgradeInflammable GasUpgradeCharming God EyesUpgradeSummon FamiliarUpgradeInventoryUpgradeFlame WheelUpgradeDemon WingsUpgradeDominationUpgradeSemen DemonUpgradeHumanificationUpgradeSpinning Mana ArrowsUpgradeMana EdgeUpgradeBasic Fire MagicUpgradeBasic Water MagicUpgradeBasic Wind MagicUpgradeBasic Earth MagicUpgradeBasic Light MagicUpgradeBasic Darkness MagicUpgradeHidden Skill: Thigh SensingUpgradeMini Mind MappingUpgradeTailoring0/100Blacksmithing0/100Enchanting0/100Alchemy0/100Iron TailUpgradeUnlocated points39[/table]