Beast King'S Crippled Mate

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Swan had long accepted that she would never be able to walk normally, but faced with the idea of a way to cure her leg, she got excited, and her excitement overflowed from her eyes.

She stared at her husband full of hope, and Gale caressed her hair, "I'll start searching for the best beastman healer, but you have to wait."

"I can wait!” Swan had been enduring the pain in her leg for more than a decade, waiting was not a problem for her.

“Good. You're quite strange for a royal princess, you know that?”

"S-strange?" Swan feigned her innocence as she didn't want to be discovered. "W-what is strange about me?"

"I've been in contact with many princesses from human kingdoms, and many of them are either stubborn or scheming. I've never been at ease around them,” Gale said. “But with you, I can be at peace," Gale smiled, before chuckling awkwardly. "I guess that's a given, because you're my mate, right?"

Gale waited for Swan to say yes, or at least nod to confirm that they were mated. He wanted that false sense of security between them, despite him being unable to identify

his mate at all..

But Swan stayed silent, mostly because she had understood the gist of his curse just by talking to Rock before.

Rock didn't have a curse like Gale, and he could only mark one mate for his entire life, but Gale would mark many in the future.

So, Swan knew that she definitely wasn't his fated mate.

"Swan?" Gale frowned. "Why aren't you saying anything?"

"Mm..." Swan nodded weakly before looking down, and it was enough to assure the Beast King.

Swan fiddled with her fingers nervously.

Gale was being so intimate and loving to her was because he genuinely liked her, or maybe she was just a placeholder until the more beautiful woman came into his life, or when he finally

why do I have to think about it? The answer is no, of course.

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princess,

fated mate Swan shot herself down. 'I wonder what he will do once he finds

probably kill me out of rage. But.. that's alright.

night, as he still had

rebellion, or human kingdom that wanted to attack

the coast where the

a rock, facing the open sea. He stomped his feet three times, creating ripples

him.

the fishmen king, who had a different body structure than a

beastman.

a fish. They called themselves Merfolk, but Gale didn't care about that as he only

fishmen king.

The young 6

and asking,

know something called

oysters produce them inside their body. Humans usually collect those oysters only for their pearls. We don't have any use for them, so we just allow them to take them," Mako,

those humans, I just want you to collect

pearls? We can do that, but may

Gale's reply was short but concise, and

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Please bring her to the beach, we can prepare a celebration for