Beastmen Love
Chapter 244: Not A Goodbye

Chapter 244: Not A Goodbye

Dieg is now feeling a pressure that he didn’t think he was ready to face, which was saying to his parents that they will move one day. His parents helped him a lot after Astri was taken away. He feels bad about telling them that they feel they need to leave because they don’t feel well where they are at the moment.

"What? Why this silence? Don’t make me worried." Fraz asks.

"I think.. No. You are my parents, it is my responsibility." Dieg says, after passing through his mind, that he should bring them to talk to everyone. "Let’s sit."

They sit in their living room, and Dieg sighs, trying to find the best words.

"What I need you all to understand is that we don’t blame anyone for anything that happened." Dieg says.

"All right. Son, just say it!" Shung says, already losing his patience.

"All right. All right. All of us have decided to build a new place for us in Tsukihina. We will be living there for some time." Dieg says.

"All of you..? Did Astri also decide on that?"

"Well... when we voted, she wasn’t present, but when we told her, she accepted it and chose the place where we will build our new place."

"So, she was not the one who decided on this?" Fraz asks.

"She accepted it."

"Why did she accept it? Astri loves her things, her routine, and her garden. She never showed interest in moving out." Shung says.

"In Tsukihina, we saw the kind of place that is best for Astri. There, they have sacred places with pure energies. A sacred tree could help her body to form again because the place where it is located is very pure. When we felt the energies of that place and of the Castle where the ones responsible for keeping the balance of the realm live, we noticed that to keep her safe, we need a place like that. A sacred place." Dieg explains.

"Can’t you do that here?" Fraz asks.

"It is possible.. But we don’t have the right energies for that."

"What do you mean?" Shung asks.

"For us to be capable of having balanced energies, we need to keep specific practices. We are learning these practices. The thing is that we, Astri’s spouses, can’t do that in a place we only have bad and painful memories of. The good memories from it feel so far away.." Dieg answers.

They sigh, now understanding more of Dieg’s point.

"Don’t you think that with time you will heal?" Fraz asks.

"Of course. We are healing. But I believe that all of us need this. It is not a goodbye, guys. We will be constantly coming here. Astri has so many new projects to construct and implement here to help us keep growing. Don’t forget that we have people who can make a portal anywhere in the world, and we can come here anytime."

Shung and Fraz don’t say anything more. They understand that Astri’s spouses went through something they can’t measure with their own feelings.

"I understand.. When you lost Astri, I also lost a daughter. I know it is painful. However, I didn’t have to live where the most horrible feeling I had happened. I can’t imagine the pain you went through." Shung says, and Fraz nods, agreeing.

"All of us felt like the backlash when her soul was broken... It was the most horrible pain I have ever felt. It was worse than when I died the first time." Dieg softly says.

They look at their son with pained eyes. Shung one day might go through that, and he for sure believes he will never be prepared for that.

"Let’s go. I want to see her. We barely saw her since she came back." Shung says, standing up.

Dieg smiles and nods. They walk together to the castle, and they arrive there when Astri is showing her favorite tree to Seiryuu and Renzai.

"Oh, mom and dad. I missed you so much." Astri says, hugging Shung and Fraz.

"We missed you, too. You took a long time to come back from this visit!" Shung says, pinching her cheeks.

"Ow! Ow! I’m sorwy!"

"It’s all right. I just wanted to make sure it was you." Shung says, hugging her as a loving father.

"Shung, stop treating her like a little girl." Fraz says, pushing Shung away. "How was your trip, darling?"

"Look who says." Shung pouts, making Astri giggle.

She presents Renzai and Seiryuu to them. Shung and Fraz could notice that their energy might not be authoritative, but it is also very present.

"Lady Astri told us about you. That you became a great leader of these tribes and helped grow this place in power and also in energy." Renzai says to Shung. "And that you became a female that females look after. Those are amazing accomplishments." Renzai says to Fraz.

"Thank you. Astri taught us many things, even on how to become better leaders." Shung says.

"Oh! I brought you gifts." Astri says and walks away quickly to find her bags.

"Always with her gifts. She doesn’t change." Fraz says, with a warm smile.

"Dieg told us you are planning to go live in Tsukihina." Shung says to Claud, Lee, and Wayde, who were around them.

They nod as an answer. Shung sighs, then scratches his neck.

"I can’t change your mind, so.. Just don’t take long to visit." Shung says.

"The construction phase just started, and for the size of the place, it will take a long time for us to move. We will be coming here very often. Astri loves you and these people very much. And she has many plans to implement here and at the Great Wall City." Claud explains, soothing their hearts a little.

"I hope so. There are many males here who wish to become her guards, knowing the importance of her role. Since she came back, they started to train even harder for that."

"I can imagine."

Astri arrives with some gifts in her hands. She gives Fraz a beautiful light yellow and gold hairpin that goes very well with her sand skin tone, and brown hair. It has jade pearls on it, too.

"Wow.. It is so pretty. Looks expensive." Fraz says, impressed.

"Worthy of you. Not the way around." Astri says, bringing her to the bench under the tree.

Astri starts to style Fraz’s hair, like she always used to do in the past before she was taken away, and Fraz smiles happily. The others let them have their girl time together to talk somewhere else.

"And this other one here?" Fraz asks, taking another hairpin.

"It is for Ana. I think it will look nice on her." Astri answers.

"Oh, yes. It will look great indeed. Thank you."

"Anything for my favorite sister, too."

Fraz chuckles.

"All of us missed you a lot. Including her."

"I know. She changed, and anyone can see that."

"Yes... Is it true that you accepted living in Tsukihina?" Fraz asks.

"Yes. I did. Not because I don’t want to live here. I love it here, and you know that. I’m doing this for them and my family. All of them have hard feelings about living here, and these are not energies that are good to live with. It will explode in a bad way sometime."

"I understand.. It’s sad, though. I didn’t want you to have to do this. But I know you would do anything to help them keep strong. I admire you for that."

Astri smiles.

"You can come and stay with us for some time when the palace is ready. You will love the place, too. And I have to tell you my plans for here. Have you ever heard about festivals?"

"Festivals? No." Fraz says, curious.

Astri tells Fraz all about the festival and how it can be good for the people. Fraz got excited to see the festival Astri is planning for the United Tribes. She’s sure everyone will have a lot of fun.

"Grandma!" Aurora and Yuki walk to them.

"Girls! How beautiful you look!" Fraz happily answers.

Aurora tells Fraz all about Tsukihina in her own special way, and Fraz listens with a smile on her face because she knows Aurora never talked like that before Astri came back.

"Grandma can come live with us!" Aurora happily says.

"She can, if she wants." Astri says.

"I will go spend some days there with you. And you will show me around." Fraz says.

"Yes!" Aurora happily says.

Yuki is also happy Fraz will come to spend some days with them in Tsukihina, too. Fraz was always there for her while Astri was away, so she sees Fraz as a mother figure, too. Astri feels blessed having such great in-laws. In the other world, she heard so many crazy stories of in-laws that she feared Fraz would be someone to always point out the wrong things Astri does differently. But since the beginning, Fraz was always respectful, and that shows a lot of Fraz’s special soul for being that way in a world where females are raised to be selfish.