“Hey! Irina, look, there’s a newborn kitten over here! Poor thing, with such cold weather, it must be freezing cold.” From the corner of her eye, the pretty girl saw a fluffy kitten shrinking in itself on top of the lapis lazuli stone on the grass. She tucked in her skirt and crouched down, reaching and petting the kitten.
Unlike her, her companion — another lovely girl — wasn’t in a good mood and said impatiently, “Alright Santani, stop bothering with the cat, we need to hurry and deliver these kedar beasts to that 9th Level hellion-beast, if we are late and Master Dael finds out we will be in big trouble!”
The girl called Santani pouted and glanced reluctantly at the adorable, palm-sized kitten. She stood up while carrying something in her hand and walked towards the frowning Irina, secretly deciding that if this kitten was still here when she came back, she’d take this kitten back with her.
“Okay Irina, I won’t waste our time, don’t get mad.”
“You should learn to be more mature. Today is your first time delivering food, so I have to make it clear to you, that 9th Level hellion-beast is terrifying, if you’re so fussy and careless like this, you could end up just like Sansa.”
Irina’s words were very severe. Santani’s smile faded a bit, but she still couldn’t hold back her marvel. “That 9th Level hellion-beast is truly amazing. It was a formation set up by a 9th Level Grand Magician, and it was still able to break free from it!”
“It is a 9th Level hellion-beast after all. The continent hasn’t seen such a high level hellion-beast in more than a century. When we caught it the other day, we lost more than a hundred intermediate magicians and high level warriors to it, even the Grand Magician Dell that we serve was injured by it. And I even heard that if it wasn’t for the 9th Level hellion-beast having already sustained serious injuries when it appeared, we wouldn’t have been able to catch it at all!” Irina said seriously. She had made up her mind to make her naive friend realize what a terrifying monster the hellion-beast they were about to approach was.
As expected, Santani started to get scared. She mumbled, “I’ve heard even though we caught it, many of our people have been injured these days because of it, weren’t they? That cunning hellion-beast.”
“Oh right, I heard that 9th Level hellion-beasts can turn into humans. Irina, do you think that this 9th Level hellion-beast can turn into a human like us?” Santani was scared for only a few moments before she started to get enthusiastic again.
Irina gave her a helpless stare and shook her head. “They’re all legends, no one has ever seen that, Santani.”
The two young girls walked further and further away. The kitten that had been lying quietly in place suddenly moved a little, opening its eyes to show large, tea-colored orbs. It was merely a baby kitten, all snow-white with only its four paws being a black color, as if it was wearing black gloves and black boots. It was extremely adorable.
Those tea-colored eyes were like glass, round and watery, but there was no naivety and ignorance belonging to a small kitten within those eyes, instead it was… a chagrined expression that screamed Fuck.
Right now, the thing inhabiting the body of this small kitten was none other than Shu Yu.
The day the Final Boss Fu Wang had finally completed his grand plan, he left a huge rotten mess behind and capriciously took her along to challenge the Heavenly Dao. Needless to say, Fu Wang succeeded and they managed to leave that world. (Insert here the cheers from the natives of that world.)
Then after a single moment of weightlessness, Shu Yu fainted, and when she woke up again, she realized she had arrived to another world and became a cat.
The buildings around her were almost western-like, with a bit of a strange uniqueness to it. Most of the people passing by were brunettes or blondes, wearing clothes she had never seen before and speaking a language she had never heard before, but miraculously enough Shu Yu could understand them. So when faced with words like hellion-beasts, magicians, and such coming out of these people’s mouths, Shu Yu understood immediately that this was definitely not her world, so, what kind of western fantasy world did they transmigrate to?
Most Importantly: Where. Did. Fu Wang. Go?!
Where was the man who promised to take her home to ask her family for her hand in marriage?
Shu Yu wasn’t that worried about whether he was in danger or not, the demon king BOSS was so powerful that even with a momentary miscalculation, he would not be so easily brought down. She was more worried about Fu Wang going insane after losing track of her. An insane Fu Wang was really scary.
Shu Yu, who was fortunate enough to have seen it once, expressed that she didn’t want to experience it a second time.
The body of a kitten didn’t have much strength. With much difficulty, Shu Yu got accustomed to the extreme height of her surroundings and she also learnt to walk on four limbs, using her soft and squishy paws to waddle quite a distance, but when she turned her head back she realized she didn’t even walk that very far, and she became so tired that she needed to sit down and rest. Just as she laid there resting and thinking about where to go find her MIA lover, she was suddenly petted by the hand of a passerby girl.
And so, the conversation between the two girls pointed her towards the road of life.
It was so obvious. The injured 9th Level hellion-beast that those two girls were talking about – who had supposedly taken out a lot of their men and had a bad temperament – was most probably Fu Wang. Novels were generally like this. When the protagonist started to get frustrated, someone would arrive with hints. Shu Yu understood this trope very well.
And if it wasn’t him, then she’d deal with it when the time came. Her current goal was to first find that place.
The little kitten gallantly marched along the trail, tripping over her feet every three steps. Although there was basically no expression on the kitten’s face, judging from her quickening pace, it was easy to see that she was happy and excited.
Thanks to Shu Yu’s determination – and after walking what felt like a 90,000 mile journey – she finally found the place where the 9th Level hellion-beast was being kept by the time it was almost dark.
—— It was a spacious, white, domed pavilion in a garden, the top of which was crawling with thorny vines and ivy. Pink roses bloomed wildly along it and dropped all the way to the ground in streams. The roman-like columns in the surroundings were carved with strange runes, and the pavilion was floored with a thick fur rug, and on it lay mountainous and massive white fox.
A white fox with nine tails and a red mark on its forehead.
Holy hell, was this nine-tailed white fox that looked bigger than the size of a huge elephant actually Fu Wang? How come she didn’t know Fu Wang could become this big when turning into a fox? No no no, the problem wasn’t that, but rather why did Fu Wang have nine tails? Usually he would only let out one for her to play with, there was no way she’d tolerate this!
The huge fox didn’t seem to be in good spirits, its eyes were closed and it seemed to be resting. When kitten Shu Yu walked closer she realized that the fox’s front paw seemed to be injured.
Shu Yu: Who dares hurt this one’s Da-Yu! Bastards, drag them out and execute them!
Shu Yu’s anger meter climbed up until it directly manifested in her skipping the walking stage of kitten development and going straight into the running stage, making a qualitative leap in evolution.
No one was standing guard. Perhaps because they had too much faith in the magic formation that was trapping the 9th Level hellion-beast, or perhaps because they were too afraid of getting too close and getting eaten by the vicious hellion-beast. In any case, this made things easier for Shu Yu. She sprinted towards the huge fox within the pavilion without being noticed.
However, the fox within the cage noticed her before she could get close. Its eyes snapped open. It leapt up and roared ferociously in Shu Yu’s direction, showing its two rows of shark-like, gleaming white fangs. Its blood red eyes were dripping with such murderous intent that it’d make a person’s legs go weak. No one would dare to approach such a thing.
Shu Yu was shocked. Unprepared, she dropped on her ass and stared in bafflement at the gleaming-white fangs very near her. For the first time ever, she realized that Fu Wang had very good teeth. If she were to be bitten once, it wouldn’t even be a matter of it hurting or not. Shu Yu felt troubled as she raised her paws and looked at them. She couldn’t even speak now, how could she tell Fu Wang that she was Shu Yu? Would she be eaten the moment she got a little closer? This was a big problem.
Just as she was being troubled over it, the fox slowly closed its terrifying maw after it saw that it was a kitten and not one of those strange humans approaching. The fury and viciousness within those blood red eyes slowly calmed down, turning into confusion and slight delight. One of its paws reached beyond its cage’s perimeter, and instantly arks of lightning started racing all over its body. Shu Yu swore she could smell the scent of something being burnt.
But the fox didn’t care. It got closer and sniffed the little kitten. It suddenly opened its mouth and said, “Xiao-Yu.
When she heard this voice, Shu Yu’s heart sank to her stomach. As she suspected, the fox was Fu Wang! All was fine since she found him! The kitten nodded her little head. She bumped her wet nose against the fox’s equally wet and larger nose, and then as she suddenly thought of something, her paw pads pushed against his massive mouth and pushed him inside his cage.
It only took a short amount of time for a large patch of the fox’s white fur to be burnt off, his wounds were also bleeding a lot!
As expected, the electric arcs disappeared when the huge fox returned inside the pavilion, and Kitten Shu Yu successfully infiltrated the cage as well.
“Xiao-Yu, I’m happy you’re alright.” Fox-Fu-Wang laid across the wide carpet, his crimson eyes watching her warmly, the vicious image moments ago nowhere to be seen. Kitten Shu Yu crawled up the thick carpet, but because it was so soft, her steps landed unevenly one after another, and after a single instance of carelessness, she fell and tumbled forward. She dizzily got up and shook her head left and right.
The huge fox straightforwardly reached out with a paw and dragged her into the area within reach of his front legs. His nose bumped against her small stomach and nosed around. “Xiao-Yu, are you hurt?”
Kitten Shu Yu sat herself upright against his paw and seriously said, “Meow meow~”. And realized that Fu Wang probably couldn’t understand feline talk, so she paused and shook her head instead. Afterwards, she reached out and pointed at Fox Fu Wang’s injured paw. She meowed pretty insistently at it.
Even if Fu Wang couldn’t understand what she was saying, he understood that she was asking about his injuries.
“They aren’t severe, they will heal soon. Xiao-Yu isn’t from this world, right? As soon as we arrived we were split up by this world’s Heavenly Dao, the body I created for Xiao-Yu was also rejected and even my own vessel was forced into this form. But do not worry, I will be able to take human form in a few more days. When that time arrives, this place won’t be able to imprison me and I can take Xiao-Yu away from here safely.”
As for the humans who caught him and even locked him here… Hah. He was truly curious about whether this world’s humans and his world’s humans were any different in blood and flesh.
The massive fox licked its lips.
Fu Wang awoke a few days before Shu Yu did. Different from Shu Yu’s soul-specific transmigration, he arrived to this world using his own body, although it had become a slightly unfamiliar form.
Because he had made some preparations before breaking the Heavenly Dao’s restrictions, he could feel whether Shu Yu was alive or not, otherwise how he would’ve never allowed himself to leisurely nurse his wounds here.
Of course, the main reason he stayed here at ease and hadn’t run out was also because he knew that, due to his meticulous calculations, Shu Yu would definitely be nearby. The place he appeared at wasn’t a very good arrival point. One of Aida Magic Continent’s famous auction houses. The territory of the Dragon Tooth auction group.
Since he had become injured due to the rejection of this world when they arrived – also, he was worried that Shu Yu who definitely would appear nearby wouldn’t be able to find him – he didn’t run to another place, and instead when those strange looking humans appeared, he simply went along with the circumstances, injured some of them, and then temporarily settled here.
His Xiao-Yu had fortunately come for him. If she had come any later, he wasn’t sure if he could still restrain himself, he probably would’ve dragged his injured body outside and devoured all the humans here.
Shu Yu calmed down as she listened to Fu Wang’s voice. If Fu Wang said it was fine, then it would be fine. The only outline was that this little kitten body of hers was a bit cumbersome. Could Fu Wang do something and get her a new body? At least then the two would be able to communicate.
While kitten Shu Yu was in deep thought, her ears twitched and her tail swayed and flicked leisurely. Fu Wang leaned down on his paws and watched her without moving. He suddenly understood why Shu Yu adored his tail and ears so much.
Kitten-Shu-Yu who was suddenly subjected to a grooming attack was caught off guard by the licks of a tongue that could almost swipe her into a mouth, her balance was thrown off and her face planted on the soft cushion. But that wasn’t all. The fox affectionately turned her over and over and groomed her all around, so much that she couldn’t open her eyes, and because her size was so small she couldn’t stop him. Kitten Shu Yu, in the beginning, would use her small paw pads to push at the fox’s wet nose, but after she realized that it was useless, she simply slumped on the mat in a 大 shape, allowing herself to be flipped over and over again and licked, licked, licked.
To be truthful, Shu Yu was mortified as she was being groomed, she was very much terrified. Fu Wang was too huge right now and he also had the form of a wild beast. She was so very small, she wouldn’t even be enough to pick his teeth, and even less said about his hungry gaze, as if he would swallow her whole any minute now.
And tragically, this wouldn’t be the first time her body would be devoured by him, he didn’t get addicted to eating her, right? The kitten laid motionlessly. Her round slitted pupils were brimming with suffering.
Finally, Fu Wang licked enough of her and in one motion he pulled the kitten into his front paws. His long eyes squinted slightly, his expression was satisfied and lazy as if he had just finished a full meal.
Kitten Shu Yu wriggled around and sat up against warm fur. She looked at her fur – which had been groomed until it was wet and shiny – and shook her body, instantly becoming a soft furball. Shu Yu was slightly irked. She reached out a paw and started smacking the abdomen being shown to her by the huge fox.
This amount of force wasn’t enough to even tickle the fox. Fox Fu Wang laid his head on his front paws, watching in interest as Kitten Shu Yu smacked and kicked his stomach. In the end she got so tired she could only meow angrily at him. Fu Wang’s heart was ticklish, so he put a paw in front of Shu Yu and was promptly bitten by the kitten, it didn’t hurt at all.
She was adorable, no matter if it was gnawing her teeth or sharpening her claws. Shu Yu who had just finished letting out her dissatisfaction was promptly licked all over again.
Kitten Shu Yu who was falling left and right: Enough! If you keep licking I will get angry!
The next day, the humans who came to send food to the vicious 9th Level hellion-beast were stunned, because they noticed that this ancestor who ate humans without blinking had a small white fluffball curled on its stomach. That was nothing but an average kitten, rising and falling with the rhythm of the 9th Level hellion-beast’s breathing..
The people who came the next day to send food to the vicious 9th level demonic beast were stunned, because they noticed that this ancestor who ate people without blinking had a small white fluffball curled in its stomach.
That was an average kitten, sleeping soundly, rising and falling with the rhythm of the level 9 demonic beast’s breathing.
Chapter Description: The fox and the cat.