Chapter 13

“What?” I’m getting curious.

“I’m sorry that I can’t do it.”

From the tone of Mate’s voice, I could tell that he was really feeling depressed and guilty.

“But why?”

“Because... and because we are different, Alice.”

“What do you mean, Mate? I don’t get it at all!”

“We have a different kind of power, and we come from a different bloodstream,” Mate said.

“I don’t understand at all, Mate! You make me even more confused,” I said with a frown.

“Alice, we have very different gene fluids, even opposites. If I do, the possibility of damage to the power that is in me is very large, especially for our descendants later,” said Mate.

“What? What is gene fluid? And you’re talking about heredity?” I asked.

“Yes, Alice. That’s why my mother hates you so much because she knows that you’re a half-wolf man whose power in you is at odds with the power in me and my family.”

I was stunned by Mate’s explanation.

“Are there such rules?