Once. One he had be seem with you and now rumors spread like a wild fire.

"The girl is mad." "She is being controlled." "She's raising an army of beast." People came up with every kind of ridiculous story to justify a human befriending a beast. Truth is they were friends before Reko was a beast. The day that little boy went lost in woods, only one person never lost hope. She went deep into the woods and found the broken, starving boy. His form no longer human. She was the only on who cared, and now he'll repay her or die trying.

She was being chased by some men. They didn't believe the people that warned them about her guardian. The second he stepped out from his hiding place, they scattered like leaves. Cowards. Though he didn't really care for them. He turn to his sweet human, waiting for her to catch her breath.