Boy of Love and Hate Bennu joins Gwiber and Leonhart and uses his connection to Sariphi to track her (Gwiber translates Bennu's speech for Leonhart). While Ilya carries an unwilling Sariphi on horseback, they get attacked by a pack of hyena-men. Ilya kills them, but when he attempts to kill a child among them, Sariphi helps the child escape and asks why he would go this far. He says all beasts are evil and confesses that he is in love with her. She sadly refuses him and says that there are good and evil beasts, just like humans. He retorts that before they met, beasts killed and ate his mother and little sister Misha, and for that, he will never rest until the beasts are exterminated. He ties her up just as Leonhart arrives and fights him. Leonhart holds back and gets stabbed in the gut. Ilya loses his will to fight when Sariphi cries over Leonhart, making him realize she genuinely loves him. Bennu heals Leonhart and Ilya makes him promise to protect Sariphi. Bennu flies Sariphi and Ilya to a human territory so they can properly say goodbye. Back in the palace, everybody except Anubis is happy Sariphi is back and they have a garden party. Sariphi ponders that she cannot stop the hatred between humans and beasts, but right now, they are happy together.

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