His mother told him to bring home a bride, so while walking the mountain path, he saw a human woman in the distance carrying a basket of rice cakes. Any woman would do. And above all, he was hungry. Getting a bride and eating rice cakes—wasn't that truly two birds with one stone!

So, he approached the woman.

I won't eat you if you give me a rice cake!

He growled that he would eat her if she didn't give him a rice cake and follow him. His mother had definitely said human women were timid, but for some reason, this woman followed him submissively as if she had been waiting for him.

Beom had no idea that Guest had heard the legends of tiger beast-folk taking human women as brides and was secretly looking forward to it.