"So you're telling us that we were chasing some guy?"

Kimihito nodded. "Uh… yeah. I'm sorry." Although he said nothing wrong and he did absolutely nothing wrong, he felt like he had to apologize. Kimihito was thinking that the girls were looking at him as if he told someone that their boyfriend is cheating on them, when the situation was actually quite the opposite.

"Why are you apologizing for?" Rachnera shook her head. She couldn't really get why Kimihito was always like that. "If there's anyone that should be apologizing right now, it should be us."

"What an unfaithful knight, to leave their master in the dark and dangerous woods! I don't deserve to remain by his side!"

"Stop yelling so, centaur." Kii appeared out of nowhere. "I don't like it when intruders come and make loud noises in the forest. And I really dislike it when intruders come into the forest and make a mess of it," she said, as she pointed at the remnants of the violent 'catch-me-if-you-can'. Even without the flashlight, it was pretty obvious that it was quite something.

Kimihito lowered his head. "I'm so sorry, Kii! I'll make sure I'll do something about it during the weekends!"

"I hope you do take responsibility." Kii replied. "I don't like my forest staying in such an ugly state."

"Dear Sir, please let us take the responsibility instead! It was not your fault at all!"

"Yes, please let your servant do everything she could! It is a knight's honor to do her master's job!"

Rachnera looked at the two of them and just said, "Seriously?" It was pretty obvious that she didn't want to come out into the woods to work. But of course, she couldn't openly say that, since it was pretty obvious that she was the reason why the woods were in such a mess. She just shook her head.

"Don't worry about it and leave it to me." Kimihito gave out one of his signature smiles. "I'll take care of it."

It was soon followed with a lot of dialogues starting with 'Dear Sir's and 'Master's, which Rachnera had no interest in listening fully.

"Fine, the three of us will come out tomorrow and take care of this. Case closed. You don't have to take care of this mess, Honey." As reluctant as she was, she knew that she had to take responsibility of what she did.

"But-"

"No 'but's, Honey," she said, as she somehow got behind him in a blink of an eye and covered his mouth with her hand, her body leaning towards him as she whispered into his ear in a very sexy, typical Rachnee-san style. But then she got her torso upright and faced Kii, and got serious again.

"But that doesn't make much sense. How could we be chasing someone in full power and not even remember it? Besides, if we were chasing some other guy buy instinct, how did we end up catching Honey and getting back into our senses?"

Kii looked at her with her usual emotionless eyes. "You seem to have no knowledge of who he is and what he is capable of."

Rachnera was not happy with Kii's attitude, which made it seem like Kii was thinking of her as a young girl that doesn't know enough of the world. But she couldn't answer, of course. She really had no idea who she was chasing.

"Lady Kii, do you know who the lad was?"

Kii looked at her strangely. "You don't know either? I would understand why the mermaid princess and the Arachne wouldn't know, but it is odd that you don't know about him either. You are a centaur, right?"

Centorea looked at her in confusion. "Is he a centaur in disguise or something?"

Kii shook her head. "No, you totally got it wrong." She paused for a moment and continued. "I do not think it is my duty to explain fully who he is. Nor do I think it is proper manners to talk about someone else's identity without his permission."

Now Kimihito was the one that was confused. For all he knew, Kii and Papi spent a lot of time talking about himself, his personality, his actions, and so on and so forth. Kii was definitely not the one to be saying that line.

"Don't look at me like that, human," Kii seemed to have noticed his uneasiness. "Things are a different matter when it comes to this man. To answer your question, centaur, the answer is no. If you could remember even a glimpse of him, then you would not be saying those words. He is very human."

"He came to the forest one day, in broad daylight. I do not think he was expecting to see a dryad. He seemed surprised. But at least he had manners. As soon as he noticed my presence, he asked me if he could stay in the forest for a while. He told that he would not hunt more than his need, and that he would do his best not to disturb the forest. He also said that he would help me maintain the forest." She slightly chuckled. "He tried very hard to keep his word. What I found out later was that it wasn't him that actually disturbed the forest- it was young maidens like yourselves."

"You mean we weren't the first ones to start chasing him like that?"

Kii shook her head. "Unfortunately, no. There were a few others that fell into the same trap. Or, as I should say, the same man. They did have some different methods-I remember the young devil trying to enchant him with her magic. But it usually ended up in a catch-me-if-you-can in the end, which meant that there were a lot of damaged trees and forest life." She frowned in disapproval.

"And you let him stay in the forest?" As far as Kimihito knew, Kii was not generous to those who damaged the forest, intentional or not.

Kii's face slightly reddened, just enough so that she could feel the warmness in her cheeks, but the others couldn't see it properly. "If you have ever talked with him, I am sure you would have made the same decision. And besides… I can't reject his offers. I'm pretty sure none of you-" she looked at the three girls in particular. "Wouldn't have been able to reject any of his offers, except for his offer to leave."

Rachnera snorted. "What is he? Some kind of Casanova or something?"

"I do not know who you are talking about. But I would tell you that if you are thinking of a normal human flirt, he is nothing similar to that. In fact, I'm not so sure if it is just to call him a flirt. He just attracts women around him, but I doubt that he meant to attract any of them. In fact, his whole species is like that. As soon as his kind is caught in the radar, especially in the night, women lunge for him, and they do everything to catch him. You three were trying to do that earlier."

Centorea's face reddened in anger. "Do not accuse me of being unloyal to my master! I am not loyal to any man except for my master. I wouldn't even serve my own father to this intensity!"

"I cannot think of myself loving someone else than Dear Sir, even less a man that I have never even met before!"

"You should be careful of what you accuse me of thinking and feeling, dryad."

Kii looked back at them as if they were young children. "Believe it as you please. But human," she looked at Kimihito, "you have seen what they were doing just a bit ago. You have seen with your eyes how they were blinded from everything else except for that man. He was clever to lure them to your direction and make you get caught in the arachne's web. He knew for a slight second, their unconsciousness would think that they have caught the man they were chasing for. He only needed that slight second, that slight second of misconception, that would make them look into your eyes. He always finds a way to make them see someone else that they know, in the eye, and free them from their quest to capture them. For some reason, when they see someone else that they know, they would come back into their senses and forget the fact that they were chasing someone.

But what if you never came to find them? It could have been difficult for even him to evade three of them for a very long period of time. You have seen the way these ladies were looking at you when they have captured you. Can you truly say that I am talking nonsense?"

Kimihito could see that Kii had a point. He remembered the way that Rachnera looked at him. That was a 'wanting' that was even more evident that the wanting in Miia's expression on a full moon. But this was all so much to take in. So many emotions were flying around in his head that even he himself couldn't fully comprehend them.

"Wait a bit, you said that he was human, right? As far as I remember, he moved too fast to be a human. I could barely even trace him with my eyes. And I know that it is difficult enough trying to avoid extraspecies that are in their right minds. How can some guy even run away from three of them when they are only following their instinct?"

Kii looked at him as if she would say, 'you have a lot to learn'. "The Earth has been home for many different kinds of life. His kind is probably one of the most special, yet the most dangerous. But he is human. He is probably the few people left in the world that are even more human than the others."

Kimihito gave up on trying to understand the whole situation. Instead, he decided to ask Kii about something else. "Kii, did you happen to see a young girl around in the forest? I'm looking for my sister right now, and I can't find her anywhere. She's not that tall, and her face is slightly tan."

"It's strange to see you move on to a different topic so strangely. Did you give up on understanding the whole situation? But to answer your question, the answer is no. I haven't seen such a young girl. Even I do not know when someone enters the forest until I actually see them. Are you sure that you looked everywhere else?"

"I'm sure. And she wouldn't have had the time to go quite far."

Kii took a few seconds to think. "I do not have interest in helping you. However, I do not want you to tell others about the man that you have seen today, and I fear that a young girl might get herself in trouble. I have never went there myself, but I remember Papi telling me about a forest near the mountain. Did you look over there?"

"No, I actually didn't even know that there was a forest nearby the mountain."

"It seems to be a forest not visited by many people. Papi once told me that you have to go east from the entrance of the mountain to reach it. It is mostly barren, with a lot of dead trees. Maybe she is there."

Kimihito nodded. His facial expression was hard to understand. "Thank you, Kii. I'll take a look at that place."

"Please, don't tell about the man to anyone else. I do not want the forest to get any more disturbed." Her face was so evident with jealousy, that even Kimihito could know that that wasn't the main reason why she didn't want him to tell others about the mysterious man.

On their way to the barren forest, none of them spoke. For the girls, it was mostly because of embarrassment. After all, they have been fighting against each other just for the attention of Kimihito. They just couldn't understand why they would suddenly start chasing some man that has appeared out of nowhere, no matter how attractive he is or whatsoever. Instinct seemed like a lame excuse. Of course, the most horrible part of it was that they didn't remember a thing. They wanted to say that there is no way that such a thing could have happened, but that seemed rather difficult to do.

For Kimihito, it was mostly because his mind was too much of a mess. All kinds of emotions were being tangled inside his head. Up to some point, he was sad that he was somehow suddenly forgotten by everyone. Although he knew that they weren't in their sane minds, that wasn't too assuring. If something similar like this happened again, will everyone forget about him and leave him?

Of course, part of his mind was with jealousy. He knew that he couldn't deny it. Perhaps deep down in his heart, he thought that he was the only special one that the girls were interested in, and that they wouldn't start liking someone else anytime soon. Well, at least that was proved to be quite wrong.

Another part of it was still having a hard time processing about the guy. He still couldn't believe Kii when she said that he was perfectly human. How on Earth could he be considered human? The way he moved was totally on another level.

It kept on leading to the conclusion that probably he was someone like May. That would make sense. But the girls weren't crazy around May as they were around the guy. Perhaps the attraction only occurred to those with an opposite gender. And if that was the case, then does it mean that May would be able to move around like that?

And of course, a big part of his brain was concerned about May. Where was she? Would she be where Kii has told him about? If she wasn't there, where would he look for now?

Or maybe she already got back home by now. Kimihito put his hand in his right pocket to take out his cellphone. He took out what he thought was his cellphone, only to find out that it has been broken in half.

"Oh." He stopped walking, bringing the whole group to a halt.

"What troubles you, Master?"

"Uh… I think my phone broke in half." He showed the remnants of the phone to the girls.

"Dear Sir, when did that happen?"

"I'm not so sure…" But he actually did kind of know that it must have snapped in half when Rachnera was capturing him. She might have crushed it with her pedipalps or something. But there is no need to mention that. "It was pretty old, after all. It was about time when I got myself a new one. Who doesn't use smartphones nowadays, anyway?"

"Honey, I think-"

Kimihito cut in on purpose, knowing that Rachnera would have talked about the remnants of her webs on the phone, and how she must have been the one that has broke it. "It's not a big deal, except for that I can't get any calls from home. Maybe went back home, as she wrote down on that note."

He cleared his throat. "But we should take a look at the forest before we get home. If she's already home and safe, then it's fine. But if she still isn't home, then we have to find her and take her home no matter what."

But it was soon revealed that there was no need for them to go into that forest, or rather, what used to be a forest. It was more like a small wasteland, with a lot of dead trees. Kimihito could see why no one would want to come in here. It was a horrible place.

For time's sake, and since this 'forest' wasn't as thick and maze-like as Kii's forest, Kimihito asked Rachnera and Centorea to go on a patrol, while he walked slowly and looked for some other kind of evidence of his sister's existence. The more he walked, though, the more he hated this place. He honestly thought that he'd rather go through a full moon night with all 7 girls than to spend a night in here by himself. If it wasn't for the hoof sounds that could be heard distantly, he wouldn't have been able to bear it.

"Master, I don't think the lady is in here," said Cerea after coming back from her short patrol. "The land is small and is blocked by giant mountain boulders." She then stopped talking, finding it extremely awkward to talk to Kimihito after that 'catch-me-if-you-can' incident. She was too embarrassed.

Before Kimhito could think too deeply about why she wouldn't say anything, Rachnera returned, with something in her hands. "She might not be here right now, but someone must have been," she said. "And I think that the person that has been here recently is the one that we were looking for."

A/N: I'm really grateful that there are a lot of people following this story, and that there are people that post their reviews for this. I'll do my best on it, so please bear with me.

Talking about reviews, there is so much that I would wish to tell you, and so many points that I would like to clarify. I wish I could, but that would be spoiling, and I do not want that to happen. So I guess the only thing I can say is, 'Please, read on!' I'm pretty sure that most of your questions would be answered by the end of the story.