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Assistant: Title: Oh, fair hybrid, why is it that you weep?
        Author: HaltMercurius HaltMercurius 
        Chapter: 1/4 
        Summary: When Legosi finally settles down and has a child with the rabbit of his dreams, he is suddenly haunted by disturbing nightmares that remind him that interspecies children are fated to live complicated lives.It's all in your headWarnings for violent death content will be tagged appropiately inside the fic.Update: New Epilogue added!
        Contents: Chapter 1: A brilliant samurai, swaddled in warmth
    

    


      
        
          
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   “I’m sorry…. I’m scared to go outside.” 
 
   “It's strange, isn't it? Carnivores and herbivores should get along, yet their children are treated like freaks.” 
 
   “The instant a hybrid is born into this world, they’re forced to live a complicated life….” 
 
   “It’s fine though, a hybrid like me dying here would surely leave a sour taste in your mouth.” 
 
   “Society will see him as a pure-blooded gray wolf, and that is a very good thing for… Legoshi.” 
 
   “Legoshi.” 
 
   “Legoshi.” 
 
   “Wake up.” 
 Legoshi opened his eyes to the sound of a baby crying. It was a full moon that night, so the room was well illuminated by the silvery light that passed through the curtains. Next to him, Haru shifted, awoken by the same noise. “I’ll go… you go back to sleep… Lego…shi….” She said, resisting the urge to go fall back into the warmth of the bed. Quickly, Legoshi sat up and put a gentle hand on Haru’s shoulder, urging her to stay put. “No no, I’ll get it. I can’t sleep well with the moon anyway, please go back to sleep.” He reassured her. Haru shifted to look at him, her small tired eyes looked like black pearls in the moonlight. “Okay… just wake me up if you need me, ‘kay?” Legoshi nodded, letting the poor bunny go back to sleep. As quietly and gently as his large body would allow him, he shuffled out of the bed and out the room, taking one last look behind his shoulder before gently closing the door behind him. In the adjacent room, the sound of crying flooded his sensitive ears. He walked over to the padded crib in the corner to find the source: what appeared to be a very tiny wolf puppy. Gently, as though the child was made of paper, Legoshi picked him up into his arms. His son was so tiny, barely bigger than his hand. “What’s wrong, buddy?” Legoshi shifted his hand to feel underneath the baby’s bottom. His fingers brushed against a little cottontail, so tiny that at first the doctors thought he had been born with no tail at all. The baby’s cries grew quieter as he opened his eyes to look up at his father. “You don’t feel wet, and I don’t smell anything. Were you just looking for attention?” Legoshi said, making the baby in his arms laugh. His little chubby arms reached up to the wolf’s face. “Ah, so that’s it. I had a feeling.” Legoshi put his snout up to the puppy’s belly and huffed through his nose, eliciting a series of giggles from him. Internally, he reminded himself to watch out when opening or closing his mouth as his fangs might accidentally cut the puppy. “Alright, let’s moonbathe together for a bit.” He said, bringing his son with him to the living room of their apartment. The puppy stared up at him with big awe-struck eyes. Legoshi’s tail began gently wagging behind him.  “Cute. Teru is so cute.”  He thought, opening the curtains slightly to let the moonlight enter through the balcony window. As he paced around the room, he began to hum a lullaby for his son, gently rocking him back to sleep. The little puppy’s eyes drooped ever so slightly with each verse, yet he still stubbornly remained awake. “Guess it’s difficult for you to sleep during the full moon too, huh?” Legoshi whispered to the baby, who in turn let out a little coo. “ Though I was also having a hard time because of that nightmare.  ” He thought to himself. He remembered the voices that called to him during his dream; one of them was Melon’s and the other was his mother’s, the only hybrids he knew besides himself and now his son. Ever since Teru was born, Legoshi had been plagued by the memories of them; the way his mother hid from the world once she started changing, and how she decided to die instead of facing her inevitable destiny; the way Melon responded to the way the world treated him with the same level of violence and disgust, not that it excused any of it on his or anyone’s part. Legoshi could not help the ever-mounting dread building in the back of his mind. Looking down at the baby in his arms, he could not bear the thought of the world being cruel to such an innocent creature. His son hadn’t hurt anyone, he wasn’t even old enough to talk or walk on his own, but he knew there were people out there that already hated him, that is what the voices reminded him of. “  I already knew all of this before Haru and I talked about having kids, so why…?  ” Legoshi thought as he looked at the moon that lit up the sky. “  Why… am I faltering now? I promised, didn’t I? I promised I would not allow him to fall the same way they did. ” “ Because you’re stupid.  ” A voice said inside his head, making Legoshi’s fur stand on end. “  And because you know that the only thing you’re good for is beating people up. You cannot protect him from all of society.  ” Legoshi let out a slight growl at the voice. “Shut up.” He whispered to himself. The voice let out an annoying cackle that sounded oddly familiar. “  Don’t talk as though I’m more than a voice in your head, hehe. I’m just telling you what you already know.  ” Legoshi’s claws gripped his own arms painfully. He shut his eyes, trying to force the voice to stop. “  Eventually, he’ll have to face other people and they will label him a freak. You can’t seriously expect to bare your fangs at everyone your son talks to, do you? ” He couldn’t listen to a second more of this. Without thinking a snarl left his throat, his fangs bared and his hackles raised. The voice did not reply, instead, the baby in his arms started crying again. Legoshi opened his eyes in a panic, immediately regretting his reaction. “Ah, I’m sorry! I’m so sorry, Teru!” He whispered, trying to calm the baby once again. One ear tilted as he heard the main bedroom door open and a sleepy looking Haru stepped out. “Legoshi? What’s wrong?” She asked, rubbing sleep off her eyes. “... You’re bleeding. Here, let me take Terushi from you so you can put a band-aid on it.” Legoshi looked down at his arms, he had indeed injured himself earlier. “I’m sorry. I didn’t… I didn’t even notice.” He said, handing the baby to her. Once he was safely in her arms, Legoshi scurried off to clean himself up.“ I’ve got to get it together, I can’t let my doubts control me like that again. ” He thought, trying to put what the voice said behind him, though in his heart he could not shake the uneasy feeling it left him with. He plastered six or seven band-aids on his arms and returned to the living room, only to find that Haru and the baby were not there. His ears tilted as he heard a melody emanating from the baby’s room. Peeking his head through the door, he noticed Haru had turned on the baby’s night light, which came with a cute music box. A pattern of stars, moons and suns rotated around the room as the gentle sound danced in his ears. The bunny was currently staring down at the baby in the crib, having to stand on the tips of her toes to be able to get over the bars. Legoshi walked in and stood by her side. The baby was quietly sleeping once more, as if nothing had happened. “Y’know….” His ears perked up at the hushed sound of Haru’s voice. “... You really are quite a troublesome wolf, snarling like that in the middle of the night.” He was about to apologize, when he noticed that Haru had turned to look at him with a concerned expression on her face. “You were thinking about hybrids again, weren’t you?” He gaped at her for a moment, his sharp pupils meeting with her soft ones. “... Y-yeah, I’m sorry. It 's just ….” He looked away, into the crib. The little hybrid slept soundly inside. “... I keep thinking about Melon a-and my mom.” His claws click as he brings them together. “If society hadn’t been so cruel to them both then… maybe they would have had a chance at a normal life. I just… don’t know how to protect him from that.” He looked back at the rabbit in front of him. Haru was quiet, listening intently to his concerns; one of her ears tilted forward, her arms crossed in front of her. Legoshi could see a lot of different emotions crossing her features: sadness, frustration, anger and, finally, resolve. That resolve that has brought them this far; the resolve Legoshi wishes he could find to stand up again. “I think all parents feel like that sometimes, even those who don’t have hybrid children.” She finally answered, turning to look at the baby in the crib. ”We can try and protect him all we want, but there’s always going to be stuff that he’ll have to deal with on his own when the time comes. That is true for everyone: carnivore, herbivore or hybrid.” Haru turned her head to smile at him; a smile that made miracles seem like an everyday occurrence. “All we can do as parents is guide him when he needs us, and make him feel loved. If we do that, I’m sure he’ll be fine.” She said. In response, Legoshi looked down at his own feet, the words of Melon and his mother still abuzz inside his head like bees in a hive. “But… it’s so unfair.” He said. “Yup, it is.” She responded. “He’s just a baby, and yet there’s people that despise him already.” He continued, a feeling of deep bitterness in his voice. “Those people are dumb, they will always be dumb and they will always exist. We just have to love him enough that their hatred pales in comparison.” Haru finished, stepping into his line of sight, staring up at him with a soft smile on her face. Legoshi simply stared back at her, mouth slightly agape, fishing for something to say back. This little rabbit, more vulnerable than even most, and yet in his eyes she was a colossus.
Wordlessly, she looped a small hand around one of his fingers and guided him by the hand out of their son’s bedroom and back to bed. Legoshi looked down at the rabbit that placed herself in his arms, her body curled close to his, leaving his snout between her ears. “  Haru, back then, at the station, you told me you didn’t want to lose to a wolf, but…”  He thought, holding her closer. “  ... ever since our son was born, It’s me who’s been losing to you.  ” She reached a hand up to pet his snout, and he let out a slight whine. “Haru… you’re so perfect.” He whispered into her ear, kissing it after. She chuckled in response. “Does it really look that way?” She looked up, her eyes shining in the pale light that escaped through the curtains. “I’m also figuring things out for the first time….” She let out a yawn after, curling up closer to him. He watched as the rising and falling of her chest slowly steadied, her tiny rabbit heart beating steadily against his chest. It felt so fast compared to his own heart. Legoshi closed his eyes and let himself drift into unconsciousness, but not before a final thought crossed his mind. “  Somehow… I’ll catch up… I promise…. ”  **Violence ahead: Skip to next paragraph to avoid**  Legoshi found himself wandering a long and winding hallway. The smell reminded him of his old house, the one he lived in before he'd even met Jack. The old wooden floor beneath him creaked with every step he took and the thin walls were bare, except for the occasional mold stain near the edges. Eventually, after what felt like years of walking, he stumbled upon a door, one that caught his attention due to the prominent hole in the middle of it. A deep sense of foreboding came over him, making his tail tuck between his legs, and yet he couldn’t stop himself from approaching it. He tried opening it first, but the lock wouldn’t budge, then he pressed his ear against it. He was met with silence, or so he thought, the more he strained his hearing, the more it sounded like someone sobbing very quietly behind it. “Hello? I-is anyone there?” He asked, only to be met with no reply. Pushing the sinking feeling in his gut aside, he peered into the hole. A black abyss extended into the room inside, there were no windows and the hole wasn’t big enough to let any light from the hallway in. Then it hit his nose like a freight train, making his fur stand on edge: the scent of blood. Deep down, his instincts told him to run away from that room as fast as possible, calling to him to preserve his own existence, but Legoshi ignored them. He shoved a hand into the hole, searching for the lock on the other side. With an ominous click, the door slowly creaked open as he pulled his hand out. Inside, he found a dark square room, completely bare of any furniture or even windows. The light from the hallway wasn’t bright enough to light up the whole room, so Legoshi wandered into the dark, without knowing what he’d find. As he got closer, the scent got more disgusting, it smelled of rotting flesh and dried blood, it made him yearn for the surreal normality of the hallway. Eventually, his foot hit something large. Fearing that he already knew what it was, Legoshi had to force himself to look down at the horrible thing that he had just stumbled upon, his hands covering his mouth in shock and disgust as suddenly a dim bulb that hung from the ceiling turned on right above his head, revealing the visceral sight. It was a wolf, around his age, his face completely smashed with a brick that was lying by his side, his hands and feet bound, making him look particularly vulnerable, his blood splattered over the floor, letting out a nauseating squelch when Legoshi accidentally stepped on it. Forcing himself not to vomit on the spot, he tried to look away, but his eyes just kept taking in the details of the gruesome death. He could see what appeared to be gray matter splattered by the brick that had been used as a bludgeoning weapon against the poor wolf, his eyes completely gone from his head, leaving only a fractured skull covered in rotting flesh. The teeth, or at least the ones that were still attached to the mouth, were twisted by the involuntary curling of the muscles due to rigor mortis into a demented looking smile. He could only steel himself for so long before nausea forced him to look away, his body expelling the contents of his stomach onto the floor next to the body. Behind him, he heard the door close. Legoshi composed himself as fast as he could and turned around to catch it, but it was simply too late. As the door closed, he was confronted with the word “freak” painted in blood over the wall and door. That’s when, to his horror, he heard the particular raspy cackle of a familiar voice that had been haunting him from behind him. Then….   He woke up with a jolt, sending him tumbling to the floor with a loud thud. Getting up carefully, Legoshi looked around the room, trying to get his bearings. He was in his bedroom as expected, it was sometime after 10 AM and he’d overslept. “ Not surprising considering I didn’t get much sleep last night.  ” He thought, yawning. Outside the sound of the bustling street could be heard through the window. “  Still… What an unpleasant dream.  ” He thought, wandering over to the main living room. His ears picked up on the sound of moving fabric, telling him his son would be waking up soon, but he still had a couple of minutes to get breakfast for himself and shower. Ever since they got married and had a kid, Legoshi decided to stay at home as a househusband, at least until their son was a little older. He didn’t mind, sadly the field of entomology was a little difficult to break into as a big scary wolf with scars all over him, so the job hunt had been a huge bust. He’d been mostly working as a part timer at his old job at Bebebe’s on the weekends so money wouldn’t be as tight. “  Still, trying to save up money has been a huge hassle  .” Legoshi thought, cracking open an egg and pouring it into the hot pan. “  It made sense to move out of the Hidden Condo into somewhere bigger, but it's also brought on way more expenses”  He picked up another egg, cracked it and poured it in. It made a slight squelching sound that made Legoshi’s ears pr@ck up and a shiver run up his spine. Catching himself, he let out a slight hum of frustration. “  I'm extra jumpy after that stupid dream. Get it together, me.  ” Legoshi thought, turning off the gas and removing the scrambled eggs with a wooden spoon. He made himself a toasted egg sandwich, though he sadly remarked that it was not as good as the ones they used to sell at Cherryton. “  Maybe going out for groceries would be a good way to clear my mind, we’ll be out of eggs soon anyway. Maybe I could ask around to learn who sold those eggs they used at the school kiosk? Wait, no, it was probably a student, whoever it was that laid them ought to have graduated already. ”
Legoshi’s ear twisted towards Teru’s bedroom door as he heard more rustling, followed by the telltale whine that preceded crying. Breakfast would have to be over sooner than expected. “Bummer.” He thought, finishing his sandwich and getting up to check up on the baby. “Had I known you would wake up so fussy, I would have showered first. Now you’ll have to deal with my BO before breakfast.” Teru simply whined and squirmed in the bed as a response. Legoshi picked him up, placing him gently in his arms, the hybrid now fully crying, probably out of hunger. “C’mon, Teru, let’s get you something to eat and we can go shopping together later.” He said, bringing the child over to the kitchen. Legoshi held the baby in one arm, getting the baby formula from the fridge with the other. Carefully, he warmed the bottle under hot water from the tap. “To think I used to freak out so much every time you cried, Teru.” Legoshi remarked to the wailing baby. He checked the temperature on his wrist, finding it perfectly warm.  He brought the bottle to the puppy’s hungry mouth and Teru began to drink heartily. The room fell silent once again, save for the soft drinking noises of the child in his arms. “Now I only freak out sometimes, when I have weird dreams….” Legoshi remarked sadly, earning himself a curious look from his son; his little eyes opened wide to take in everything the big wolf in front of him was. It made Legoshi smile a bit, if only because he found it cute. For a moment it was just the two of them, a strange wolf and an even stranger pup, hidden from everyone in their cozy apartment. In there, the terms: carnivore, herbivore and hybrid seemed to lose all meaning, in their little pocket of space where the rules of their world didn’t apply. “All I want is for things to stay that way.” Legoshi thought, taking the bottle away once it was finished. He put his snout to the baby’s head and placed a soft kiss, earning him a giggle from the child in his arms. “Just… a little longer. Let me have this… just a little longer.”  He pleaded in his mind, though he didn’t know with who.  
  Legoshi could feel the stares of the other animals around him as he walked through the aisles of the supermarket. He didn’t exactly blame them, if he saw a large wolf with a tiny pram he would probably also have questions. To be fair, most of those looks were ones of amusement rather than suspicion, most people probably understanding that he just has a particularly tiny child. “
  
    The wolf sized strollers were too big for Teru, so we settled on a rabbit sized one, but I wonder if maybe there was an in-between that could have worked.
  
  ” Legoshi pondered, slipping a carton of eggs into the tote bag under his shoulder. He pushed the pram carefully, taking care to not put too much weight on it nor pull it up by accident; This left him doing an uncomfortable walk with his torso tilted forward and his legs incapable of making a full stride without kicking it, leaving him to do an awkward scooting motion with his feet. Feeling more than a little humiliated, Legoshi thought. “
  
    This was a bad idea, I should just pick him up… except….
  
  ” He looked down at the covered pram as he passed by the produce aisle, his ears picking up the gentle sound of the sleeping puppy inside. That ugly twinge of fear rose in his throat. Even though no one would notice, he couldn’t bring himself to allow the public to judge Teru yet. They could make fun of him and judge him, but Legoshi might snap if anyone said anything about his son.
 
  His negative thoughts were interrupted by the sound of Teru moving around; quickly, he squatted down to be level with the pram, pushing the canopy up a bit to look at him. Teru giggled, hugging a tiny plush dragon with one hand and grabbing onto one of the seatbelts with the other. “I’m glad you woke up in a good mood at least.” Legoshi said, petting the soft fur on the puppy’s head. The doctors said the texture of his fur might stay like that, or become coarser like Legoshi’s own. Same with his claws. and teeth. As far as anyone knew, Teru could become anything; Hell, he might even present some of his great grandfather’s genes and grow scales….

  
    An image of a wolf covered in scales, hugging him from behind appears in his mind for just a split second. His tail droops and his heart sinks at the feeling. He tries to get ahold of himself, but it’s enough to knock the wind out of him for a moment. Then….
  

  Eye contact, Teru grabbed onto the fur of his arm with one chubby little hand. It’s not conscious, of course, Teru had no way of knowing, but if he pretends hard enough, he can imagine an attempt to comfort. He was slowly, but surely, brought back to the world of the living; the brief nightmare fading back into his mind. Legoshi remembers to breathe again, a slow sigh leaving his body. “... Don’t worry about me, Teru, I’ll be fine. Dad’s just… being a troublesome wolf again.” He said, picking himself back up. Teru stared up at him with those wide, curious eyes. Legoshi smiled at him, though his hands were still shaking. After a moment of silence he returned to his shopping.
 
  Vegetables, soy bean patties, milk, cheese, bread, OJ… all he was missing was some diapers. Though as he walked to the correct aisle, he was inundated with all the different varieties of diapers on display at the store. Diapers for all types of species, made with all their needs in mind; from top to bottom he scoured looking for the correct ones. “Aha!” He said, grabbing a box of small mammal sized ones, though he frowned recalling that Haru had said Teru had outgrown the ones they had used last time. His baby was bigger than a regular rabbit of the same age, but would the ones for older children fit him right? “
  
    Hmmm… how about looking for wolf sized diapers, but getting ones for younger kids instead….
  
  ” He thought, but then he realized that all the diaper boxes were labeled by age, not dimensions. They all simply assumed you didn’t have a hybrid baby with weird proportions. “
  
    These might fit, but… would they be comfortable? Should I just get a different species? Ah, but…!
  
  ” He grabbed a box of medium sized canine diapers. “
  
    These are made to accommodate a canine tail… would Teru be uncomfortable with these? Hmm… I can’t decide. It’s slightly more expensive the bigger the species, even when the sizes are almost the same. But it says extra soft material… A-and this one says it too. Does that actually make a difference? Oh, but what about….
  
  ” Legoshi thought, starting to get a little confused with all the different sizes and species and age ranges and material and whatnot. He might’ve just walked out of the store, defeated in his quest for diapers, had it not been for a kind sounding voice speaking next to him. “Excuse me, but do you need some help?” Legoshi turned to look at the source, only to find a kindly looking kangaroo placing two packs into her cart. He floundered for a moment before responding. “I… uh, yeah. I’m looking for some diapers for my son here….” He gestured to the pram, subconsciously placing himself between this stranger and it. “... I don’t really know which ones to get.” The kangaroo laughed, though Legoshi didn’t get what was so funny. “I figured. You have that confused first-time dad look in your face.” She said, tilting to look at the pram. “I’m guessing your son is a… let’s say 
  
    special case
  
  , am I right? Why else would you be looking at tiny herbivore stuff?” Legoshi winced at the use of 
  
    special case 
  
  to describe his situation. He mentally kicked himself for being so obvious about it, but now that it was clear she’d discovered the truth there was no point in hiding it. “... Y-yeah. He’s… half rabbit. The tiny ones don’t fit him anymore and the big ones seem uncomfortable.” He confessed, still feeling on edge. The lady gave him a knowing look and a kind smile. “Oh, it’s always a headache with all these sizes and styles. Kangaroo joeys are tiny enough to fit in your hand when they’re born, but they barely sell stuff made for them. That’s why I’m a bit of an expert, you see? If you want, I can take a look at him and see which one might fit him best.” The lady gestured to the covered pram, her motherly smile not leaving her face. Legoshi froze, and a little voice in his head began counting all the reasons this was a bad idea, all the ways in which this could go horribly wrong. He was about to decline when he remembered Haru’s words from the night before: 
  
    We just have to love him enough that their hatred pales in comparison. 
  
  At that, the little devil in his shoulder could think of no retort. “O-okay… Go ahead.” Legoshi said. He might as well rip the band-aid off now, though his tail still wagged low and uncertain as he carefully lifted the canopy up.
 
  “Oh, what a cutie! Hi!” She said with little fanfare. There was no hesitant pause like he thought it might, no thinly veiled insults his mind convinced him there might be, nothing but the normal reaction to meeting someone else’s baby. The voice in his head retreated in shame, defeated by the mundanity of the situation. “
  
    I’m… such an idiot….
  
  ” Legoshi thought, though a slight smile crept up his snout. “What’s his name?” The lady asked, not looking away from the pram. “It’s Terushi, though I usually just call him Teru.” He answered, looking at how the lady tickled the hybrid, earning them the wonderful sound of laughter. “Hi Teru! I’m gonna need to see how long your waist is, hold on… Oh he has a little cottontail, that makes things way easier.” The kangaroo wrapped two fingers around Teru’s waist, then measured his thighs the same way. Wordlessly, she stood up and browsed the boxes with a little hum, before grabbing one of the many packs on display, and handing it to him. A cute one from a brand he didn’t recognize. The set was not labeled for a specific species, instead it said: 
  
    S short tail carnivore, easy to adjust
  
  . “This one should do the trick; if not then this brand over here is good too.” She grabbed another set off the shelf and handed them to him. Legoshi, who’d suddenly remembered his manners, bowed to thank the lady for her help. “T-thank you very much!” He said, which earned him a hearty laugh from the kangaroo. “Ah don’t sweat it! It’s tough being a new parent, so you should never be afraid to ask for advice. Which reminds me….” She fumbled with her bag for a bit before procuring a small card for what appeared to be a specialized baby product business. “These guys make great strollers for babies that grow up fast; you should get one before you strain your back trying to push that tiny thing.” Legoshi accepted the card, stuffing it in his pocket. “Oh, that would be great actually! Thank you very much!” He bowed again, causing the lady to laugh again. What was so funny? “I have to get going, but good luck! And bye Teru, be good to your daddy!” She said, before pushing her cart away and disappearing around the corner. Legoshi just looked for a moment at the point where she disappeared, then down at the diapers in his hands. He felt a slight breeze between his legs, his tail wagging up a storm behind him. Even as the little voice regained its confidence and reminded him that he was just lucky this time, he still wagged his tail. He grabbed onto the pram and headed towards the exit. The cashier noticed his wagging tail with some amusement, probably thinking he must’ve gotten a good deal. He continued to wag his tail up until he returned home with his son. That feeling of mounting dread that dream had left him with was forgotten, even if only for a moment.
 
  During dinner, Haru asked him if anything interesting happened while she was gone, and he told her about his meeting with the lady at the store. “That was nice of her.” Haru remarked, putting more vegetables on her plate. “Yeah… at first I didn’t want to… let her see him. I was just afraid for no reason, I guess.” Legoshi said, looking down at his soy patty. “Haru?” He looked up, their eyes meeting. “Hmmm?” She hummed, her mouth full. “I think… I’m gonna tell Gouhin about those nightmares. Maybe it 's time.” He confessed, earning himself the soft touch of Haru’s hand petting him between the ears. “Just don’t get beat up by him again, ‘kay? Last thing you need right now is more blows to your head.” Haru said, mostly teasing, but there was a certain edge of genuine concern then. She was correct that Gouhin’s treatments tended to be… extreme, but surely it would be more normal for something non predation related… right?

  
  

    
      
        
        
          The name Terushi came to me because I wanted something that could be shortened like Haru's name and still have the Shi sound in Legoshi's name'
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