Trashes of the Counts' Families || Trash of the Count's Family || OC

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Choi Han nodded, waiting for them to continue, while Rosalyn was shocked. "Excuse me?"

Cale continued talking, explaining. "Normally when Beast People with wild beast blood like the Wolf Tribe, Tiger Tribe and Bear Tribe experience going berserk for the first time, their parents and siblings help take care of it. They take all of the attacks of the berserk individual and protect them to make sure they don't get hurt. That is how they protect their children."

She noticed that Choi Han and Rosalyn's expressions turned sour almost immediately. She and Cale knew very well that he did not have any parents or siblings at the moment. Her eyes drifted away from them and to the child on the bed. He was still frowning and panting hard. "We can tell that is not an option for this child."

Both Choi Han and Rosalyn flinched at that.

Cale clapped once to get their attention back on him, before pointing to Choi Han and Rosalyn. "That is why we will pretend that you are the mother and father— or if you do not like that scenario— then you shall be the older brother and older sister. You two will need to protect him."

Adara and Cale both had their Indestructible Shields, but they had no need to step in. Why step in when there were people stronger than both of them combined before their noses? They had not planned this in the slightest, nor anything similar, but they knew enough about each other to know what the other would want to do. So Adara and Cale, despite not having discussed anything prior to this, were on the same page as usual.

Rosalyn and Choi Han looked at each other with a brief glance.

Adara took it over, seeing as she knew more about the first-ever Berserk Mode of a Beast Person because of the Ancient Books she had translated and read. "He will eventually get tired and the Berserk State will disappear. It is, however, very important that his consciousness returns during his first berserk transformation, meaning he can't pass out while still in Berserk Mode. This is to make sure that he retains his consciousness and therefore rationality the next time he uses the Berserk Mode. Right now he is relying purely on instinct. But the second his consciousness comes back, it will mean that his rationality beat his natural instinct, as I said, it is very important for Beast People to reach that state or they are no different compared to a wild animal."

Rosalyn frowned, but Adara did not care to calculate why. Rosalyn was confused about how much Adara knew because she did not know any of this. And that was strange.

Choi Han thought about that she said for a few seconds. "Cale-nim, Adara-nim, how long will he maintain his berserk mode before he regains his consciousness?"

Cale sighed. "He has the purest of pure blood."

"So you mean it will take a long time," he said, slightly hesitant.

"Yes," Adara agreed. "Two hours. At most," she added. Her eyes wandered back to the child huffing on the bed. It gave her unpleasant memories. She too had been on a bed in pain. But it was not the same pain. After a while her wounds had been numb and she only felt drained. The pain was mostly in her heart— it was fighting hard to keep her alive—, though in the moments when she was about to close her eyes for the last time, nothing was hurting. This was not the same. Lock wasn't dying, he was just in some temporary pain that would pass in a few minutes. But she was reminded of her time when she was 10. People had gathered around her then too. She only knew a few of their names.

Unknowingly, as if in a trance, she had walked to Lock. She now stood on the side of his bed. Her eyes were fixed on him. Rosalyn was worried about what she would do, but Choi Han knew she would not do anything. And Rosalyn trusted Choi Han's judgement enough to not worry too much. Cale? Cale felt sad for her. He knew what had happened when she was 10. Not fully, nobody knew fully. But he knew more than everyone else. Maybe the real Cale knew more.