Rui arrived before a large spread of juicy red meat of various herbivorous animals. "So this is where all the gamey odor was coming from…"
He directed a sweeping gaze across the various rows of stores selling meat with a stunned expression. "…I thought therianthropes were against the sale of living animals, let alone dead animals?"
That was what broke down the negotiations between the Minotaur and Bodhisattva Maitreyi, although in hindsight, it was always doomed to fail. What shocked him, however, was that flagrantly many therianthropes and their clans sold animal meat without a care in the world.
He turned to the meat store he was with a curious gaze, studying the crest on the flag that waved in the ocean breeze.
The crest of that was of a leopard.
The men and women in the store had leopard ears and eyes; some even had leopard fur across their entire bodies. They tended to the store, butchering meat from all manner of herbivorous animals native to Kiriket.
