Chapter 2 The World of Beastmen

I was reincarnated in a world that only exists in novels.

A normal beastman has two forms which are passive and aggressive form.

Passive form is their human or human like form while their aggressive form is their beast form.

A female beastman is hatched with natural passive form. They have no ability to transform into their aggressive form even if they cultivate their bodies.

Only a few females are born every generation, so they are expected to accommodate multiple spouses.

Unlike humans, they lay eggs after a few weeks of their estrous period. The more their spouses are, the more eggs they can produce.

The newly hatched beastmen are called hatchlings until they turned 7 and shall be called cubs. Then they shall be called younglings as soon as they turned 13 until they turned 17.

A normal female undergoes estrus or a state wherein sexual arousal is heightened once a year only and not all hatchlings can make it to adulthood, so most tribes focus on reproduction to maintain the necessary manpower to survive.

Male beastmen are naturally hatched in their aggressive form and will be able to transform into their passive form once they reached the age of 7 where they are required to attend school with all the other cubs, male or female ages 7 above, under the supervision of the elders of the tribe.

Younglings ages 13-15 shall then start helping in any chores in the tribe; such as hunting, cooking, taking care of the hatchlings in the nursery and a lot more.

A female youngling also starts experiencing estrous during this period and so the male and female younglings are separated during mating season to prevent unnecessary impregnation of younglings.

Even though female younglings undergo estrous, they are not yet prepared for reproduction and risk of death is inevitable. Any male at any age caught assaulting a female youngling during their estrous shall be exiled to the tribe.

Once the young beastman turns 16, he or she is considered an adult and is required to participate in the yearly courtship ritual until he or she could find a spouse and shall be wed at the end of the ritual.

The ritual lasts for 7 days. During the first three days, participants are observed by the elders for physical rejection before they can proceed with the ritual. There were cases before about physical rejection between the participants despite their claim of willingness to be tied together and ended up having no offsprings.

The females are only required to attend the ritual once, but they can still be invited by their suitors on the succeeding years. The invitation can be accepted or rejected by the female.

A tree house is provided by the elders to each female upon reaching adulthood. They are expected to be taken care of by their males.

Any female who is identified as infertile shall be sent to the temple of the beast goddess where they are expected to serve the disabled or abandoned beasts while their current spouses shall be freed from their spousal ties and are allowed to find another female.

Males hunt for food while females process and cook the food to be distributed to each family. The elders teach the young beastmen how to hunt and do chores.

The strongest male in the tribe is called the Alpha and is expected to lead the tribe and solve any issue that concerns the tribe. The other males can invite the Alpha for an official duel during peace season and the winner shall be acknowledged as the new alpha.

Any duel held pass or prior the peace season can be announced as void unless the current alpha agreed to the succession.

If the Alpha died due to any reason, their spouse shall succeed and a battle royal shall be held on the succeeding peace season to determine the new Alpha.

My father, Lev, is the current Alpha of the tribe. He is a rare white lion and is the strongest in the tribe. He has soft platinum-silver hair. His eyes are like a pair of amber colored gems that glisten when it's dark. Yes, his eyes are scary at night that sometimes I screamed at the top of my lungs every time he suddenly appears out of nowhere. There is a long scar on the side of his forehead across his left eyebrows that he got when he dueled the previous Alpha. He has a fit, but muscular body that can make every female from the tribe drool and fall for him if only he was not wed to my mother.

My mother, Freya, was the most beautiful female in the tribe. She has a soft and wavy honey blonde hair that bounces elegantly in her every move. Her sapphire eyes glisten in the light like a brilliant gem.

My mother has 2 more male partners beside my father; Drake, a black snake and Dov, a brown bear. She loves the other two males despite my father being the Alpha. She loves her children, but she is indifferent to my father, which breaks my heart.

I have four siblings; they are Lindie, Askook, Orson and Bjorn. Lindie and Askook are snake cubs while Orson and Bjorn are bear cubs. Orson and Lindie, my only sister, where hatched 3 years ago while Askook and Bjorn were hatched last year. There were two more eggs to be hatched, but their gender is yet to be known.

My parents and some elder females take turns on taking care of me. I was not brought to the nursery like the other hatchlings for some reasons.

It is only a few days after my rebirth, but I can slowly understand the language used in the tribe.

Even though I still couldn't move my body freely. I finally realized that this body has a passive-aggressive form. It means that even though I am a female, my passive form has features similar to the passive form of males. It is an isolated case and no other case was known all throughout the history of the world of beastman. Another thing that puzzled everyone was that I was the only known winged lion birthed by a lion beastman even though there are existing winged lion beastmen, they belong to a separate race from the lion beastmen.