Beast King's Crippled Mate-Chapter 328: Epilogue: The Legend of Swan and Wolf (II)

The smile on Gale’s lips vanished instantly when he realized who the ’guest’ would be. He appeared sour as if he didn’t like this guest.

"Why did that kid come again? It’s not been that long since his last visit."

"Don’t call him ’that kid’, he is your son!" Swan chided as she prepared a small dessert for them. "And it’s been like... uhm.... A year since his last visit. It’s only right for him to visit us at least once a year!"

Gale scoffed, "You coddled him too much. He shouldn’t have visited us at all. No, he should’ve forgotten about us and led the Kingdom of Beastmen to absolute glory. We’re just his parents."

"Exactly because we are his parents. Humans would be happy to have a son like Sol because he is filial and cares about us so much," Swan said. "Many children end up abandoning their parents, or severing the relationship immediately after leaving the house."

"That’s exactly what he should’ve done," Gale insisted. "I don’t like how he’s so soft and forgiving like you when he’s meant to be the Alpha of a giant kingdom. He needs to be ruthless and calculating at times. He often let his emotions cloud his judgment and spared even his enemies."

"Don’t you love me because of those qualities? Do you not love me anymore?" Swan asked. She was a bit sad, and Gale noticed it immediately.

Flustered, he stuttered his answer while trying to hug his wife from behind, "T-t-that’s not what I mean, Sweetheart. I-I just thought that he was not supposed to be soft. He is an Alpha. He needs to lead a lot of beastmen who look up to him. Of course, I love you deeply for your gentleness. P-please forgive me, wife. I didn’t mean to upset you."

Swan struggled for a moment as she was annoyed by her husband’s constant disapproval towards their son, but sighed once she learned that Gale wouldn’t let her go unless she forgave him.

"Fine. But you need to promise me not to be hostile when he comes. I don’t need you to hug him or anything, just... tolerate your son, alright?"

"Grh—alright. I will try."

Gale let her go and sat at the dining table, murmuring his complaints about their son.

Swan felt that she raised Sol just right, but apparently, the way she raised him as a human was vastly different from the way he should’ve been raised as an Alpha Wolf, based on Gale’s family tradition.

In the Storm Pack tradition, a future Alpha needed to defeat his father and kill him to take the throne as the Alpha of the pack, it was to prove his strength and also to sever ties between the Alpha wolf and the previous one.

Initially, Sol was reluctant to challenge his father. He loved his father so much despite their disagreement sometimes. It was Gale who insisted on the duel to decide the next Alpha once Sol was of age.

Obviously, Sol won effortlessly against his father.

Gale was no match against his son even at his prime because Sol had been blessed by three Goddesses since birth, Goddess of the Sun, the Moon, and of course, Goddess of Miracles.

Whilst, Gale was only blessed by Selene.

Gale was satisfied with his son’s strength, knowing that the Kingdom of Beastmen would rule the world under Sol’s lead. He asked his son to kill him immediately after his defeat, but Sol refused.

Instead of killing his father, Sol cried and hugged his father tightly, scared when his father said such a thing. Sol even refused to abandon Gale and insisted on healing all of the wounds on Gale’s body with the holy power that he inherited from his mother.

Though it was seen as a noble act by Swan and other humans, it was ultimately an act of humiliation for Gale, who was already well-prepared for his death.

Thus, Gale decided to step away from the kingdom by living in the Sacred Selene Lake with his wife, so there wouldn’t be more than one Alpha in the kingdom.

Despite that, Sol was still clingy as ever and often visited them. He came at least once a week.

Gale was so against it that he said he’d attack him on sight if Sol dared to come that often. Sol compromised and said he would visit once a month, but his father still disagreed.

In the end, Sol reluctantly said that he would visit once a year, and Swan finally agreed without giving Gale a chance to speak, or else they would never be able to meet him anymore.

The food had been prepared, and Sol should arrive in a few minutes, but Gale ate his fill immediately without waiting for her son.

"Do you not want to have dinner with your son?" Swan asked.

"I promised that I would tolerate him, but that doesn’t mean that I want to have dinner with him."

Swan sighed, "At least let him speak to you personally later, okay?"

"Hrm."

*

Knock. Knock.

"Mom! I’m here!"

Swan turned her head when she heard the loud voice full of excitement at the door. She opened the door, and saw her son, Sol, smiling at her from ear to ear as he made it obvious that he looked forward to seeing his parents every year.

Sol was just as tall as his father—if not a bit taller. As he grew older, he could control his three forms at will. He could turn into his human form, werewolf form, and his true form, which he had never needed to change into as he was exaggeratedly overpowered in this world.

He had a very similar face to Gale, but with softer, golden-colored eyes that made him look like a god walking on this mortal realm, so he was deified pretty early on.

Nevertheless, Sol was still a very clingy kid, as he was still eighteen years old in werewolf age, while in human age, he was already fifty years old right now.