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The day of the competition has finally arrived and here I was, busy rummaging through all the clothes that I own.

Along with me were Kei, Tora and Lucas while the others were outside, waiting. "How about this one Sera?" Lucas asked as he showed me a simple white fox fur.

"I agree with that, it would look nice on you. Especially when your white, (you can change her skin color to your preference if you don't like being white :> ) tall, and beautiful" Tora said and Kei just agreed.

"Hm alright" I nodded as Lucas handed me the clothes and they began putting all the clothes back that were scattered around the room in the makeshift cabinet Kali had made.

"Oh, it matches with the pearl necklace you bought last time" Kei said as he offered me the necklace we had bought last time.

"Your right, now the three of you leave. I need to change" I said making them shake their head with a smile. "Why do we even need to leave when we already saw it all when we mated" Tora said with a chuckle as he watch my face flush.

"For my privacy! Now shooo" I shooed the three of them out of them room and went to change.

"Ohh, it does match perfectly with the necklace" I said as I finished putting on the necklace.

"Wish I had a mirror to see how good I look right now" I muttered to myself before leaving the room.

"If this was a contest on the female's beauty you would win the first place" Tora said as he looked at me once I got out of the room. "You think so?" I asked and looked at what I was wearing.

It was a matching set of white fox fur, the shirt was tube like and it showed Calvin's mark, which is just above my belly button. The skirt also stop right at my mid thigh and lastly the pearl necklace adorned my neck, matching the color of my clothes.

"Yes, you would definitely win" Kei said and Lucas quickly nodded his head in agreement. "Pfft, alright if you guys say so" I let out a small chuckle as Tora lifted me up and we went out of the den.

"Ready to g-" Rio turned to me and was about to ask something but stop to admire me. "I really got lucky with you" He muttered making me chuckle and shake my head.

"We all got lucky with her. A caring, sweet, beautiful, loving and special female" Archie said and the others just agree.

"It's an honor to be your mate, even if I won't get any attention in the future that'll be fine. I'm already glad to have you as my mate" Archie said making me shake my head.

"Don't say that, I might take in more mates in the future but that doesn't mean I'm gonna neglect you all. I would always do my best to spend time with each and everyone of you" I said making them smile.

"Your too precious" Carlos muttered making the others murmur their agreement. "Alright, alright. Let's get going now before it gets too crowded" I said and Tora began walking.

Carlos, Calvin and Xavier were in the front. Tora in the middle with Lucas and Rio besides him while Kali, Kei and Archie were in the back.

We walked for several minutes before reaching the center of the city, where a large stage was located.

There were already countless females sitting in the stone chairs provided, with only about three or four males with them while the other males needed to wait downstage.

"I'm just gonna take Lucas, Kei, Tora and Kali with me. The rest just stand by okay?" I said and they agreed.

Rio went over to talk to one of the guards standing near the stage and after a few minutes he came back. "Alright, he said you can go now" Rio said and I nodded.

"Don't cause any trouble okay, I'll be right over there" I said and pointed at the stage as Tora carried me up the stage and went to find an empty chair.

One of the empty chair he found was between two half beast. One was a tiger and the other was a leopard.

And it was also unfortunate that my seat was about five seats away from Cassie, who was now currently glaring daggers at me but I just decided to ignore her. It was best that way since I didn't want to waste my energy on her and her pathetic little fights.

Once Tora set me down on the seat, he and the others backed up a little and just stood behind me, just like the rest of the males who were with their female.

'Gosh, this is a eating competition and I don't even know what food they'll give us. I can stand bland meat but I don't think I can stand raw meat if its what they'll serve.

From what I know in the novel, females can sometimes eat meat raw. Especially when it's cold season' I thought and let out a sigh as I prayed and hope that they won't serve raw meat.

Soon enough, the seats on the stage were all finally taken. The kings stood in front and greeted the males and other female who didn't join the contest before proceeding to explain the contest.

And soon enough, rows and rows of food were brought to us and I relaxed my tensed shoulder and let out a relieved sigh once I saw that it was cooked meat. It might be bland since they don't use herbs on then but at least I wouldn't get sick when I eat it.

And for those who don't eat meat, like the herbivores beastmen, they gave them grass? I didn't know what it was but it did seem and smelled like grass when one beastman carrying it went pass my table.

Soon, the competition began and we all began eating. I tried my beast to swallow the meat since I wasn't really used to it.

I carefully chewed on it and tried to take my time on eating, not really wanting to be the first to be eliminated in the competition with over 25 females.

I let out a small cough when I swallowed one of the meat but still continued on. Soon, one by one some females stopped eating until it came to the last then and surprisingly Cassie gave up first before I did.

But I soon also gave up, filling full even though I barely even touched half of what they gave me.

'At least Cassie gave up before me' I thought and send a smirk at her direction when I saw her looking at me.

Soon the competition finally ended, and the winner being a Cheetah whole female. All her mates looked proud for her and we were then asked to stand so they can arranged us in order base on who won until the first person to give up.

I was placed in the seventh seat while Cassie was placed in eighth place. All my mates glared at her and her mates, just waiting to transform and pounce on them the moment they tried anything.

The kings then announced that the males can now begin courting the first female and as soon as the kings said those, over a hundred beastmen lined up in front of the stage.

They were all holding gift to try and impress the female. But from what I can see, she already had 20 mates since they were all now in the stage, forming a semi protective circle around her in case any male tried something.

The males lined up then began introducing themselves and present their gifts to her. But only a few were selected among the hundred beastman that lined up.

With dissapointed looks the males went away, some stayed to try their luck with the next female.

And so, that went on and until it was finally my turn. And let me tell you that I was shock to see that there was three or even four times the amount of males than the first female lined up before me.

"Ehh?" I tilted my head a little in confusion at the amount of males lined up. I can already tell that my neck was gonna be sore with all the shaking and nodding I'm gonna do, but it's more shaking than nodding since I wasn't looking for mates that much. I was just here to scope out for any potential threats for me and my family in the future.

And one of those threats was Cassie and any of her potential mates she might choose later.

Soon enough, the began rejecting the males. Shaking my head each time. But I stopped when a brown wolf, with five star stood in front of the stage.

It was Florence, and he was holding a make shift basket he probably made that was filled with different kinds of fruits.

"My name is Florence, I'm a five star beastman from the wolf tribe. These are for you" he said as he nervously handed me the basket, he probably seen the countless males I've rejected and was mentally prepared to end up the same as them.

"Thank you" I thanked him with a smile as Rio stepped forward and took the basket. His eyes practically widen and was filled with shock.

He probably couldn't contain his excitement as his tail wagged happily behind him as he went to stand in my right side.

'Ha.. This is gonna be a long day' I thought as I stared at the long line of hopeful beastman. 'Hey at least I got my mates with me' I smiled as I glanced at my mates who simply smiled back and nodded to me, silently telling me to continue on as there were still females waiting for their turn later.

With a sigh, I continued on with what I was doing.

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