Raising Beast Cubs to Find a Husband-Chapter 130: The Ultimate Snack pt2

"He can’t eat!" the Boss called out, floating closer. He sounded amused. "His physical functions are suspended. He is purely magical now. You can’t feed a god with pastries, my dear."

Primrose ignored him. She looked at Vali’s face. The grey veins were spreading. He was going to die.

"He’s not a god," Primrose whispered, tears spilling down her cheeks. "He’s a little boy who likes biting and wrestling."

She dropped the cake. It was useless.

She didn’t know spells. She didn’t know combat arts. She didn’t know how to fight Void Gods.

But she knew how to comfort a child.

Primrose reached out. She didn’t try to feed him. She didn’t try to restrain him.

She grabbed his face with both hands and pulled his forehead against hers.

"It’s okay," she whispered, closing her eyes. "Let it go, Vali. You don’t have to be strong right now. Nanny’s got you."

Contact.

The moment skin touched skin, the world turned white.

Primrose felt a scream build in her throat. It wasn’t pain—not exactly. It was the sensation of a dam breaking.

The Void energy inside Vali wasn’t just evil. It was the Frost Essence of the Shrine—ancient, holy magic that had been twisted and corrupted by the Boss. It was looking for a home. It was looking for a vessel strong enough to hold it.

Vali was the wrong shape. He was a Wolf. He was the Guardian of the Shrine, not the Master of it.

But Primrose...

Primrose was a Fox.

And not just any Fox. She was the one the Shrine had been waiting for.

Found you, a voice whispered in her mind. It wasn’t the Boss. It was ancient and cold and kind.

The energy stopped flowing into Vali. It reversed.

Like water draining from a tub, the massive, chaotic storm of mana inside the boy rushed out—straight into Primrose.

"PRIMROSE!" Caspian shouted from the floor.

Her body arched. Her amber eyes flew open, glowing with a blinding, celestial gold light. Her hair whipped around her, untying from her braid and floating in a halo of power.

She felt a burning heat at the base of her spine.

It hurt. It felt like her bones were rearranging, knitting together something new.

RIIIIIP.

With a sound like tearing silk, the back of her dress shredded.

From the base of her spine, a tail erupted.

It wasn’t a normal fox tail. It was massive—easily five feet long. It was made of pure, translucent white fur that shimmered with frost and starlight. It glowed with a holy aura that pushed the darkness back.

The First Tail: The Frost-Cleanser.

Primrose gasped, the breath rushing back into her lungs. She didn’t feel weak. She felt... infinite.

She looked at Vali.

The grey veins on his skin vanished. The red glow in his eyes faded, replaced by his natural, confused pink.

The Void energy that had been killing him was gone—filtered, purified, and absorbed into the magnificent white tail swishing behind her.

Vali blinked. He looked at Primrose. He looked at the glowing tail.

"Prim?" Vali rasped, his voice small and scratchy. "You grew a tail. finally."

Primrose let out a wet, choked laugh. "Yeah, buddy. I finally grew a tail."

The Ripple Effect

The change was instant.

With Vali disconnected from the circuit, the drain stopped.

The black webs throughout the chamber turned brittle and grey. They crumbled into dust.

High above, Astrid watched as Vivi gasped, her chest heaving with a sudden intake of breath. All around the room, children began to stir, coughing and waking up from their unnatural sleep.

The mana that had been stolen from them rushed back, returning to its owners.

On the floor, Rurik, Konrad, and Freya stopped fighting. The spiders simply dissolved, their structural integrity failing without the Void to hold them together.

The Boss floated backward, his mask showing the first sign of genuine panic. He looked at Primrose—at the glowing golden aura and the massive white tail.

"Impossible," the Boss hissed. "The Nine-Tails? Here? Now?"

He looked at his crumbling experiment.

"This... destroys the continuity," the Boss muttered, sounding personally offended. "This is a massive plot hole."

Primrose stood up on the platform. She held the sleeping Vali in her arms. She looked down at the Boss.

Her new tail flicked, sending a wave of frosty, purifying wind through the room.

"Get out," Primrose said.

Her voice echoed with the power of the Shrine. It wasn’t a suggestion.

The Boss hesitated. He looked at the three giant Dire Wolves who were currently glaring at him with renewed murderous intent. He looked at the glowing Fox Goddess.

"Well," the Boss straightened his suit. "I suppose I know when a scene is over. Until next time, Lady Primrose. Do try to keep the plot interesting."

He tapped his cane and dissolved into a cloud of black smoke, vanishing just as Rurik’s massive jaws snapped shut on the empty air where he had been standing.

The Aftermath

The silence that followed was heavy and sweet.

Primrose’s legs gave out. The golden light faded, though the white tail remained, twitching softly behind her.

She sat down on the platform, hugging Vali tight.

"Dad!" Vali mumbled, burying his face in her neck. "I had a bad dream. A spider tried to make me eat vegetables."

Rurik—now back in human form, naked from the waist up and covered in spider goo—scrambled up the platform.

"Vali!" Rurik choked out.

He grabbed his son from Primrose, crushing him into a hug that looked painful but was clearly necessary. Rurik was sobbing, great heaving sobs that shook his massive frame.

"I got you," Rurik whispered into Vali’s hair. "I got you, pup."

Primrose smiled, leaning back against the crystal pillar. She was exhausted.

Then, she felt a hand on her cheek.

Caspian was there. He was pale, clutching his chest, but he was alive. He looked at her with awe in his abyssal blue eyes. He looked at the magnificent white tail wrapped around her legs.

"You did it," Caspian whispered. "You found your magic."

Primrose looked at the tail. She wiggled it. It wiggled back.

"I did," she whispered, a tear sliding down her cheek. "I’m not a glitch anymore, Caspian. I’m a Fox."

High above, Astrid helped Vivi sit up. The red-headed girl blinked, looking around confused.

"Astrid?" Vivi croaked. "Why are we in a disco ball?"

Astrid laughed. She hugged her friend so hard they both nearly fell off the web.

"It’s a long story," Astrid said, wiping her eyes. "But we’re going home."