Reincarnated As A Lion In Another World

"So so so, my name is Ruda, hahaha. Kael, why is my name Ruda, why isn’t it Eidel?" Ruda’s excited voice kept ringing in their heads as she ran rings around the group at an incredible speed.

Purple electric arc trails were left behind as she moved erratically.

Kael shook his head, "Your name is Ruda because it fits you, Eidel is Eidel because it fits her," He said.

"What about me?" Zabita said in the most dull tone Kael had ever heard, "Does Zabita fit me?" She asked with some sort of expectation.

"Yes, it does…" Kael sighed, "Everybody’s names fit them perfectly," He was tired of repeating the same thing over and over again.

Who knew that explaining the concept of names to lionesses who were just developing their intelligence would feel so tiring?

He had just decided to talk about the names he had given them, a way to start up a conversation so that they wouldn’t be walking in complete silence.

Now, for the last two days, any other conversation they had eventually circled back to the topic of names.

"Son," Nalii called as she walked beside Kael. Kael turned to her to see her green-furred lion face.

"If you named us, then who named you?" Nalii asked, garnering the attention of the others. Ruda came to a sudden halt as she stared intensely at Kael.

"Uhm, I named myself," Kael stated confidently, this wasn’t something he felt should be covered up too much.

A flash of disappointment appeared in Nalii’s eyes as they resumed walking, but she quickly hid it and moved on.

Katari remained quiet most of the time, her deep black eyes observing everything around them.

It’s been two days since their encounter with those crocodiles. Kael had used their new form of communication to learn more about the personalities of his lionesses.

Indeed, after getting to know more about them and how they thought, they really appeared vastly different from each other.

However, Kael was confused if their current behaviors were caused by their lionheart or if they were like this from the start. He leaned more towards the idea that their personality was heavily influenced by their lionheart type.

For example, Katari had always been quiet. She only made moves in the past when it was necessary, like when the Hot Lion pride leader wanted to attack him or when she was attacked by the crocodile.

Most times, she would just silently stay beside Kael, observing everything and everyone.

But with her Space Lionheart, she seemed to have become even more reclusive and antisocial. She reminded Kael of his past self, the only thing different was her willingness to rain violence on anything.

Zabita had always been dull-looking and edgy. The more she talked, the more she seemed similar to those goth girls he saw on the internet.

Ruda was the most expressive of the lot, crazy, he might even say. Right from birth, she had always been very playful and a noise-maker

Now she just seemed like those types that didn’t know how to differentiate between fun and seriousness. Very talkative and hyperactive.

Nalii didn’t expose much of herself yet. The only thing Kael had learned of this mother of his was that she was overly caring, to a fault. Kael was sure that this was definitely a side effect of having the Veggie Lionheart because Nalii was definitely not as caring as she was now.

But either way, Kael was satisfied that they were all here with him. Although the feelings he had for them were not as deep as they had for him, he was fine with that.

He had only been a lion for three-plus years while he had been a human for close to four decades. It would be hard for him to ever develop any romantic relationship with them as they were now, respectfully speaking.

Perhaps, if he spent more time as a lion, his psychology would change over time. Kael was sure that the longer he remained a lion, the more a piece of his humanity was being washed away, and not in a bad way.

It felt like this was what was meant to happen, for him to embrace lionhood in all its essence.

However, for now, this situation made Kael eager for the moment he would be able to transform into a human.

He had seen Bethel transform into a humanoid form along with some other lionesses in one of his memories. The seventh Primordial Lion in the memory space was also strangely in the form of a human woman.

This was evidence that having a human body once again wasn’t impossible, he just didn’t know how.

’Some of the Primordial Lions should easily been able to have a humanoid form, even Bethel. Yet the seventh is the only one who is shown in a humanoid form. Did they all prefer their lion forms?’ Kael thought.

For a former ordinary human, he couldn’t yet grasp fully how some of these things were supposed to work so he shook his head to remove the thoughts. What he didn’t understand now would be made clear in the future.

As the group of nine continued walking while discussing, their journey was interrupted by a distant roar.

Kael didn’t stop walking, same as the rest, but they listened attentively, paying attention to the direction the roar was coming from.

This was a lion’s roar, it couldn’t be mistaken, and it seemed like the type used to ward off annoying entities. This roar came and went swiftly, not lasting more than three seconds.

Katari didn’t say anything, she just picked up pace to walk in front of the whole pride. No, she wasn’t protesting the pride, she was protecting Kael who stood in front of the pride.

An invisible force that only Kael and Katari could feel silently spread from her body as her eyes turned pitch black.

Then, Katari turned her head slightly to the left and kept walking. Kael followed, not bothering to try the same thing she had done.

A few minutes later they encountered a stunning scene. A small pride of lions was currently feasting on a dead wildebeest.

This pride only had six lionesses and one male. The pride seemed newly established as the pride leader looked relatively young even though he had a full mane. He looked at most older than Kael by a year.

The lionesses were also relatively young compared to the Hot Lion pride, with the oldest seemingly the same age as the pride leader.

As soon as the Ol-mytee Pride caught sight of them, the light around Katari twisted as she disappeared from sight.

As soon as the remaining eight made themselves known, the other pride noticed immediately.

The pride leader of this pride immediately got defensive, seeing the nine strange lionesses.

He was stunned stupid when he saw these lionesses standing with that golden lion. These were the most beautiful lionesses he had ever seen in his life.

Compared to them, the lionesses beside him looked way too ugly. He was so stunned that he forgot to roar to deter Kael, he didn’t even see Kael any longer.

Instead, the one that roared was the lioness beside him. She roared not because she wanted to but because she was defending their food.

The other four lionesses growled at the Ol-mytee but their growls were unstable and filled with uncertainty.

Their gaze was mostly on Kael’s golden form. One even had drool falling from her mouth.

The stances of the seven visible lionesses intimidated this young pride to the point that they were confused and their instincts seemed to have gone off.

The aura being emitted from Kael alone was very mysterious, and attractive yet threatening to them.

Kael ignored their gaze and continued going forward. When he got closer, the young pride leader eventually noticed him.

He immediately began growling as he came back to his senses. The dead wildebeest behind him made him even more aggressive.

Kael waited for some time, observing them and the dead beast. It didn’t look like he had any intention of attacking them, making the young pride settle down but they didn’t let their guard down either.

It seemed like a stalemate where one was afraid of fighting the other. Obviously, the one that was scared was the young pride leader. Now that Kael stood in front of him, he could see just how big he was.

For a lion that hadn’t yet grown his mane, Kael was going shoulder to shoulder with a lion that had his mane fully out.

After a few minutes, Kael looked around and then began walking away. He didn’t touch the dead wildebeest, neither did the Ol-mytee lionesses.

The young pride was confused, this mysterious pride just showed up, and looked at them for some time before disappearing.

They looked at the eight figures as they created more distance between them. Then they saw something that made their eyes grow wide.

Another figure, a lioness suddenly appeared out of thin air and joined the group.

Kael looked at the blood that stained Katari’s mouth in satisfaction. The smell that came from the blood was that of a lion cub.

Confirming the smell of the blood, Kael nodded his head before they picked up pace, quickly leaving the sight of the young pride.