Demons Beside You

“Huh, why is the house dark?” Faur asked in confusion as she looked outside the window.

“Are they not at home?” They had just made a call when they arrived in Sacramento. Laurent and Winnip did not say anything about going out.

Chen Zhao looked at the house. “Do you want to bet that your dad has prepared a trap and is waiting for me to enter?”

“Very likely, but isn’t he afraid that the two of us will go in instead?” Faur asked.

“He must be thinking that if the house is dark, I won’t let the two of you walk in front,” Chen Zhao said.

“No way? I feel that Chen and dad had a good time in Los Angeles?” Fali might be the only optimistic person.

She had always thought that the relationship between Laurent and Chen Zhao was excellent.

After all, they had spent two days playing outside. Chen Zhao also seemed to respect her father a lot.

“Of course it’s meant to be a joke.” Chen Zhao shrugged. “No matter how old men are, they always like to make fun of each other. It’s how we express our friendliness.”

Fali asked, “Then what will you do? Don’t tell me you’re going to beat my dad up.”

“Of course not. I’m a pacifist.”

Both Fali and Faur rolled their eyes. They wondered who had just beaten a few gangsters to death.

“Turn the lights on the van off. Princess, go and knock on the door.”

Fali and Faur glanced at each other, starting to worry for their father.

They hoped that he would not have a heart attack.

Princess moved her giant body and approached the door.

Knock, knock…

Everyone in the house began to feel nervous. Laurent even cursed in the darkness, “This bastard, doesn’t he know how to ring the doorbell?”

Knock, knock…

The door was smacked again. Facing Kane who was hiding beside the door, Laurent said, “Mr. Grom, ask Prince to stand before the door. Kane, get ready to open the door.”

Three, two, one!

Prince stood before the door, with Grom hiding behind him.

Standing up, Prince was a 2.7 meters tall, 400 kilograms heavy adult male brown bear. He could easily cover Grom’s body, who would be able to give him commands instantaneously.

Kane opened the door and Grom asked Prince to roar at once.

Roar!

Prince roared, but right away, the larger figure outside the door also roared.

Roar!!!!!!

Everyone covered their ears. In his panic, Kane accidentally pressed the light switch beside the door.

Immediately, everyone saw a terrifying monster, thrice the size of Prince, standing outside the door.

It had just produced the deafening roar.

Whimpering, Prince turned around and fled in fear, knocking Grom over in the process.

In the house, the faces of Laurent, Kane, Karim and Howard paled.

Where did the monster come from?!

“Fire, fire… Shoot it now!”

“Mr. Laurent… We… we didn’t bring our guns…”

Just then, the giant entered the house. Everyone realized that it was a brown bear too.

However, the originally huge Prince now looked as tiny as a bean.

Roar!!!!!!

The enormous bear roared again. Its voice was more like thunder.

Everyone covered their ears, their faces filled with pain and horror.

It was too frightening!

Where did such a horrible, illogical monster come from?

Everyone felt that they were dead for sure, especially Grom who was lying just before Princess.

Princess only had to open her mouth slightly to bite his head off.

Prince, in his fear, stuck his head under the table, but his big buttocks were still outside.

Princess strolled into the house as if she was patrolling her own territory. She looked at all the people present.

Woof!

Just then, Black-Ma and White-Ma ran in.

“Black-Ma, White-Ma… Great, it’s them… Come and save us!” Laurent shouted in delight. “Quickly chase this monster away!”

However, they ignored Laurent’s call for help. Instead, they ran into the kitchen and took out a packet of dog food each with their mouths.

They tore the packaging apart, pouring the dog food everywhere on the floor, after which they started eating.

“You bastards! Think about how well I treated you in Los Angeles!” Laurent shivered in anger.

“Dad.” Fali and Faur finally entered the house.

“Leave, quick! It’s dangerous here!” Laurent shouted at once.

“Dad, don’t be scared. This is Princess. She doesn’t bite people.”

“Princess? What Princess?”

“She’s Chen’s pet,” Fali said.

“What? That asshole’s pet?” Laurent’s face flushed. “Where’s that asshole?”

“Hey, Laurent, how you doing?” Chen Zhao stood at the door and waved at Laurent, but his eyes glanced at Howard, Karim and Kane. “You three, hello, ha…”

“Err… Mr. Laurent, I have something else. I need to leave now.”

“Me too…”

“Me as well…” The three turned around and attempted to escape.

However, the doorway was blocked by Obitos.

The three stopped and were unable to move forward or backward.

“Don’t you have something? Why aren’t you leaving?”

“By the way, where’s mom?” Fali and Faur realized that Winnip was not at home.

Laurent kept silent. Chen Zhao said, “He’s put in so much effort to plan the prank. Surely he can’t allow Winnip to be present. He must have found an excuse to make Winnip leave.”

“Dad, how old are you? Can you stop playing such a boring game?” Faur widened her eyes at Laurent.

“Why do you only target me? He almost shocked me to death just now.”

“Well, you asked for it.” Faur was not going to submit.

“Are you still my daughter? Faur, look at your sister. She won’t treat me like this, right?”

Defeated by Faur, Laurent could only find some comfort on Fali.

“Dad, can we not have such a dangerous joke again?”

“Dangerous? I’ve hired a professional animal trainer. Also, this bear has been raised in the circus since young. He’s very obedient,” Laurent said angrily, his eyes widened. “But you have such a huge monster. She’s the dangerous one.”

“Don’t say that. Princess is not dangerous!” Fali immediately talked back, as if she was protecting her own kid.

The animal trainer Grom also said, “Prince is the safest bear in the world.”

Fali and Faur glanced at the bear named Prince. Indeed, upon seeing Princess, he tried to hide under the table in fear. Now, he was holding tightly onto Grom’s leg, his face filled with tears and his body trembling. He seemed to be very safe.