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A strange glow of light wreathed upon her hands. It slowly transformed into something substantial. In one hand, the glow was cold and icy blue while in the other it was hot and blazing red. The glows slowly extended out from each of her hands and stopped when it reached half-a-metre long where they began to gradually ‘condense’ into a solid state and formed into claws which looked like a weapon.
The claw on the left was cold and icy blue, while the right one was so hot that people could feel it from as far as two meters away. Apart from the contrasting colors, both claws were identical in shapes and sizes, it looked similarly to a customized weapon in the shape of wolf claws.
"This is it!" said Lily happily. "I had dreamed about myself getting these claws last night, didn't expect it was true! Isn't it beautiful?"
Vivian: "....."
"What’s wrong?" Hao Ren noticed that the vampire maiden had fallen into an unusual silence.
"It’s beyond comprehension!" Vivian’s facial expression seemed bizarre from what she saw, it was beyond description. She looked at Lily as though she was a monster. "These claws are all you've got after all the troubles of evolving? They don't seem to be the result of your transformation last night! I thought you would’ve gained some special abilities, like what every other werewolf did when they become an adult. But you... you have gotten only two claws?!"
"I don’t know." Poking her face with her claw, Lily was somewhat worried. "Werewolves get a pair of new claws too as they grow up, don’t they? If not, does it mean my evolution process has gone wrong?"
Hao Ren quickly chimed in. "There’s nothing wrong with you. You’re a husky. It’s not fair to compare with them..."
Lily: "....."
"Let it be." Vivian waved as if she gave up. "Even a husky could be this epic, there’s nothing that couldn’t be done. For now, two things are assured— one, you could either transform into a giant fighter husky just by eating a truck load of spicy strip; or two, you could reinforce your claws as a werewolf. Right?"
Lily nodded proudly in agreement. "Yes, awesome!"
Now Vivian felt that she couldn't possibly involve Doggie in the normal sense, so she danced to her tune instead as she waved to Lily. "Okay, let me take a look at your claws, I might find out whether there are traces of science or magic in there."
"OK." Lily nodded happily as she took down the claws. "Have a look, but be careful. The red one is hot. Although I didn't feel a thing, you might get hurt."
After a night of hoo-ha, it seemed that Lily and Vivian were finally starting to compromise and show acts of concern for each other. This wasn't the focus of the story, however. It was the moment when Lily detached her claws, the whole house turned eerily quiet.
"This... this thing is detachable?!" Vivian’s eyes nearly popped out of her head. "You could remove them?"
Hao Ren was speechless. He had again found himself light years away before his worldview could be rebuilt—it might take a lifetime if he kept hanging around with his strange tenants.
"Of course it’s detachable." Lily nodded as a matter of fact. "They don’t grow on my arm—they’re hand-held."
"How the heck is that possible at all? I’ve never seen such things in my life..." Vivian’s mouth somewhat cringed to aside. She mumbled as she reached out for the strange husky claws. However, the moment her hands touched the claws, her hands immediately backed off as if she got an electric shock. "Whoa... it’s hot!"
The claws itself weren’t harmful to Lily. The discharge of coldness and heat weren’t an illusion. Both of them, especially the red hot claw, weren’t something one—not even Vivian—could handle.
Vivian pulled her hands back while Lily loosen her grips of the divined weapon, Hao Ren called out in panic, "My...."
One of the claws fell onto the table, a thin layer of frost instantly formed and covered the entire surface; the other claw fell directly and got stuck within the table too, but it burned a hole through the table as if it was sticking a red-hot knife into a butter.
"...table..." At last, Hao Ren shouted out the remaining words.