Chapter 32: Infamy
Sol had tried to make the wolf stay in Minerva's camp but it won't stay there and still following him around.
"There is no choice other than taking it home" he lamented, if the upheaval didn't happen, he won't be troubled by taking a stray dog home, but now there are a lot of bad rumors about him, he becomes very troubled by this.
Ever since he killed the black python, almost everyone knows him and his deed but with that, there is also a rumor about him and Miya, "this started because of Ashura, that gossipy bastard" Sol muttered.
If Ashura wasn't an Heir, Sol would have strangled him long ago, but he is an Heir, a strong one at that. If Sol ever tried to strangle him, the one would be strangled would be him.
After Miya get pregnant, his Infamy grows beyond his imagination, if before that there were people that still believe in his moral then after Miya gets pregnant they lost their faith in him.
When Nerva is born with the appearance of a mix between a cat and a human, his only chance to clean his name becomes inexistence.
Now that the guards think that he was into wolf-girl there will surely be another rumor about him, "I can't let this rumor become even worse" Sol resolve himself.
"My priority is never let this wolf meet that naughty Goddess or who knows what She will do to make my life even more miserable"
Sol thought that if his life is story in a book, then the author surely loves to torture him.
There was even a forum on the internet about him, Sol Vestitor the Infamous Heir Killer.
When he gets back to his neighborhood he can already hear his neighbor gossiping about him while pointing at the wolf following behind him.
"Fuck! They don't even hide it that they are talking about me!" he lamented.
When he gets to his house and open the door and brace himself about what to come.
"Nya!! You bring home a mistress! Sol is cheating Nya!" Miya shout while pointing at him.
"Don't shout that loud, our neighbor will misunderstand!" Sol wanted to cry.
"Hahahaha" Miya laugh at him.
"can you please stop watching that Korean drama? It poisons your mind!" Sol get a headache, he missed it when Miya still learning about things, she rarely talks and rarely says something that makes people misunderstand.
"Daddy, you can't have mistress, you need to marry Nerva when Nerva grows up!" His little princess cuts in.
Sol picks her up and kissed her cheek "anything for you my princess" he spoils her.
"So who is this?" Miya points at the wolf earning a slight growl from it.
Sol told them about his encounter that day, how he stupidly let a wolf go and how he was surrounder then his fight with the alpha.
"So to sum it up we are stuck with this abandoned wolf?" She asked him, Sol only give her a bitter nod.
"what do we call her then? It's inconvenient to say wolf this wolf that." She points out.
"let me! Let me name her!" Nerva raised her hand. "let's call her Moon, Moon Vestitor! Moon because She has beautiful fur like the night sky."
"what?! Why did she need my last name?" Sol asked perplexed.
"Hihihi, she will stay with us then she is a family, and if I can have two mother the why don't Nerva just make it three mothers?" She giggles happily.
Sol can feel his headache grow but he can't say otherwise, he loved Nerva too much to destroy her happiness.
"well, people already think it that way so here is no harm done" he justifies his choice.
Moon was silent all this time, she still feeling down about being abandoned.
Nerva come to her and hugged her furry foot, Moon looked down at the cute little kitten and give out a slight smile.
"hihihi" Nerva giggled.
"as long she is happy" Sol muttered while shaking his head.
That night from his neighborhood, people can hear a howling sound, they can feel sadness and sorrow from the sound.
The next day there was a new rumor that says Sol had kidnapped the wolf-girl and take her against her will.
Some even said that he slaughters all her family before he takes her to the city.
That night Sol felt very warm like there was no snow outside, that was the best sleep he ever gets after the upheaval.
When he woke up he finds that Nerva is sleeping on top of him while Miya and Moon cuddle him on his left and right.
He can't get up with all this furry around him, he about to push Moon away but seeing the fur on her face is wet with tears he change his mind.
That day he went to a tailor to make a set of equipment from Nerodia's shredded scales.
Sol can hear the tailor and his wife whispered while pointing behind him at Moon, She still follows him around with that sad expression.
"do you see that wolf? They said that it was kidnapped by a pervert, do you think we should help it?" the tailor whispered.
"Fuck! Another baseless rumor" Sol wanted to bash his head to the ground.
Sol look behind him at the sad wolf, "and why do you look like that? It makes people misunderstand you know!" he wanted to cry but no tears come out.
The next few days, other than going to work, Sol stays in his house, fearing that if people keep seeing Moon looked sad, there will be more rumor about him.
"I need to cheer her up somehow!" he concludes with determination.