Before Sunnie could think straight, she began hearing noises outside.
It was as though some people were protesting outside or something. Their voices were loud and harsh; she could only hear a few things vaguely.
"Come out...!"
"....your husbands!..."
"...die now..!"
Panic wrapped around her as she stared at the entrance of the cave. Sunnie guessed she'd have to go and meet the people outside.
The system had puffed into dust as she staggered to her feet. It was as though she had woken up from a coma; her feet were wobbly!
Sunnie looked at herself properly. She was wearing animal skin clothes. One that barely covered her body and her waist. White dirty furs.
They were stinky and old, and the white was already going brownish. Sunnie could tell that the original host had been wearing this for ages or something.
She pulled her hair close to look. It was long, white, and shabby. Covered in little dirts of sand, leaves, and twigs. The white colour had already become brown in some areas. She couldn't help but wonder when last this host took a bath because she was already reeking.
Sunnie felt her long rabbit ears that popped up high. They were white but dirty as well. Her whole body was dirty, including her rabbit feet.
"Does this girl know nothing about hygiene...?" She wondered as she raised her head to the sound of the protest that was approaching fast.
Sunnie made her way to the entrance to see; she struggled to move her petite body there. She felt as though this host hadn't eaten well in the past few days as well because she felt so weak, hungry, and skinny.
She finally arrived at the entrance of the cave and held onto its door. Sunnie peeped only to see a crowd of people outside.
They were all beastmen. Male and female beastmen holding huge sticks and stones while aggressively shouting at the sight of her.
"Come out now!"
"Come out!"
These unfamiliar people were all in animal skin clothes as well. They all had similar pig ears, noses, and tails that it was easy for Sunnie to tell that they were from the pig clan close by.
Sunnie managed to come out.
"You wretched witch! Oink!" Their leader snapped. He was the biggest amongst them. "How dare you let your malicious husbands out to torture us!"
"Can't you lock them up in that cave?! Oink! Now our clan is a mess!" A lady cried.
"All you jinxed and cursed beings! I knew you would be no good!"
"Go and take your husbands out of our territory unless we kill you right now! Oink!" The pigs didn't seem happy at all.
Their voices grew louder with time and they raised their sticks and stones, ready to strike.
Sunnie panicked as she stepped backwards. "My apologies for my... My husbands..."
They blinked at her.
"Don't worry, I'll go and get them under control," she promised.
The pigs stared at each other and then looked at her.
"Oink, we're tired of housing you all at this mountain as well! So please when you pick your husbands, relocate and leave!" Their leader snapped.
The mountain, known as the evil mountain because these cursed beasts resided there, was above the Pig clan and some other clans.
But these clans had suffered greatly at the hands of these beast husbands who had tortured them every few months or weeks!
Their lands were always being harmed and their people endangered because the mountain was close to them.
But now, they had had enough.
"We've already concluded that you all will have to leave! So get your husbands and go packing in a day, oink, unless we shall unleash our wrath on you!"
They knew they could lash out at Sunnie. She was a weak low-level beast animal after all. A rabbit. They were low on the pyramid of beastmen.
In that moment, Sunnie realised that she wasn't only going to retrieve her husbands, but she was also becoming homeless soon.
"Sure..." she forced a smile at the angry pigs. She couldn't risk them using the stick and stone on her head.
The pigs stared amongst themselves and muttered some words while they turned and left.
"What a jinx indeed...."
"She really brings trouble to everyone around here as they say ..."
"No wonder they cast her off to marry these cursed beastmen"
The pigs gossiped while they headed home.
Sunnie sighed as she said, "Now where the hell do I start going to look for those grown-ass men..."
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The system was kind enough to help with some directions. So soon enough, Sunnie found her way down.
She was heading through the paths in the wood, making her way to the pig clan which was already in a mess.
From a distance, she saw trees on the floor and destroyed things dispersed in all directions.
"What a mess indeed.." she muttered as she stared around. She wondered how her so-called beast husbands had brought this much ruin.
Some pigs were running off the land for their safety. And as they caught sight of Sunnie, they stopped.
"You wench! It was all your doing! Your trashy husbands did this!" A pig man snapped, infuriated.
The others joined in the insults and soon they had picked up a stick.
"Hey.. calm down! Let's not do this..." Sunnie was stepping back, her rabbit ears tilting back in panic.
Her bunny tail was also instinctively twitching. "I've already spoken with your elders..." she tried explaining.
But someone had thrown a stick in her direction. She dodged.
"Well, I guess you guys don't listen to words now!" She said as she turned and immediately made a run for it.
This body was weak. So it didn't run as fast as Sunnie had wanted to. She found herself growing dizzy with each step she took.
Luckily, the pigs were slow so she outran them.
But before she knew it, she had tripped over a fallen tree and found herself falling down an elevation.
"Ouch!"
"Aw!"
"Ah!"
"Ouch!"
"Aish!"
"Arh!"
Her scream was loud as she hit her head, back, and buttocks while rolling down the elevated land. The grass was harsh against her back as she fell.
Sunnie felt like this weak body couldn't hold on for too long if she kept falling. It was already too weak and she might end up dying before hitting the floor.
"Ouch!" But she finally landed on her buttocks, her back meeting a huge tree. She could feel her back and tail ache.
"Ouch... that was terrible..." She muttered as she rubbed her paws against her long rabbit ears.
She was still soothing her head that had just hit the ground while falling when suddenly a huge ass apple fell off the tree and smashed against her head.
"Ouch!" Sunnie cried. She felt like the world was punishing her for skipping work that one day when she lied she was sick when in reality she just wanted to binge the full episode of a Chinese drama!
She almost cried in pain as she turned and looked up at the tree. "What the hell was that all about...?!" She was about to snap when she caught the sight of something.
Someone was on the tree. A fine young man.
[Ding!]
[Congratulations Host! You've found one of your husbands - The Bear Beast!]