“Hey son where the hell even are you business hours are beginning!”

  “Dad! I’m coming!”

  The young watchmaker ran back to the business of his father leaving Earle disappointed. He turned around after throwing the very last of Raelia’s trash bags and stared back to the mysterious black VR machine. While he was aware that it was something that was at the Rogue’s Guild, he wasn’t aware of much details about it.

  'Well it seems like I will have some personal detective work that I will have to be doing when I am back on the job but for now, I should probably cook her something delicious.’

  —

  “So why are we trying to save cats?’

  Raelia asked with a bored look. Staring up a tree where a cat was struck and stranded. She stared up at it with an awkward and fearful look as after all at any moment, a cat could just descend onto her and sit on her face or just mark her face with her feet.

  ‘I mean cats are cute and I don’t want anyone selling cat meat in the streets anymore like that psychopath that I threw into the river. But is this really something that we should be doing?'

  Raelia stared at Sparkle who had been asleep on Ciel’s shoulder with Ciel watching at Raelia from the sidelines. With a cold look Ciel continued to watch on from the sidelines.

  “Because you need to learn responsibility. On our first mission because of the fact that you were immature and had no sense of responsibility you almost ended up decapitating our client with that giant broadsword that you manifested.”

  I reached out for my golden sword and transformed it into a giant broadsword. It was thick heavy and it was a massive lump of metal. It just wasn’t something that could be called a sword and just holding it was something that kind of just made me want to go BERSERK.

  “Hey turn your weapon back to normal. This is a situation that is not calling for violence.”

  Ciel hit Raelia on the head and the giant broadsword transformed into regular form of an ordinary golden sword.

  “I can’t hit the tree to cause the cat to be afraid and just from it and I don’t want the cat to jump on my face and pee on me… So I kind of am afraid. I don’t really know what I am supposed to do but do you happen to know any techniques to help you catch a cat!?”

  “Unfortunately I don’t know any such techniques to catch a cat but aren’t you supposed to be half cat-kin? Just use that to your advantage and plus the cat has been staring at you with a curious look this entire time. it probably likes you."

  “Uh meow?”

  Raelia nervously said and the cat winked back at her and meowed.

  “Meow”

  (I’m bored. I want a playmate meow.)

  “Wait… Why am I hearing and seeing your dialogue?”

  Raelia thought to herself as she heard the monologuing voice of a cat and subtitles right below that.

  “You are part cat-kin so of course you would be talk to cats after all that is what you are. Are you that much of an idiot to not know what you are?”

  “I’m not an idiot! It’s just that I am not used to life as a cat elf thing. Plus it’s kind of weird to do anything with that fan club behind me.”

  “Meow?”

  (Fanclub?)

  “Apparently a lot of people want to play around with me because of my ears.”

  “Meow!”

  (Your ears are pretty especially the long one! Let’s play meow!”

  The cat immediately dropped down from the tree and sat atop of Raelia’s hair. Sitting right in the middle of it. The cat pressed her paws on Raelia’s long elf ears causing her face to grow flustered.

  “Ah! It’s sensitive!”

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  “Meow!”

  (So I am going to play with it more!)

  “Ah! Meow!”

  Raelia then fell onto the ground and was getting her elven ears played with a cat for the next fifteen minutes.

  —

  “Meow!”

  (You are fun to be around! I hope you come around next time! I’ll probably run away from home to find you again and play with you!)

  “Please don’t run away from home you idiot.”

  Raelia said with an exhausted and worn out face just thinking about all of the personal pain that that little cat had brought her true.

  “Cheddar nya! You are back home! I love you so much nya!”

  [Player]

  "And you are?”

  “Ah right nya! Let me introduce myself! I am Lilith Nyanelle and I am the cat mom of Cheddar Nya!”

  ‘Cheddar is gray though… So why did you name him that…’

  Raelia wanted to comment but refrained from doing so as she didn’t want to sound mean.

  “Could I play with your ears nya?”

  “My ears?”

  “Yeah Nya! Your ears nya!”

  Lilith said with a mischievous smile that I couldn’t help but refuse. Her eyes just had some sort of passionate trance just like what Mnestia had with her chin grabbing staring stuff but in the case of this mysterious player, it was so much more intense.

  “Don’t look straight into her eyes. She’s a succubus…”

  Ciel whispered from the side just 10 meters away from us. Raelia turned around to stare at her frustrated at the fact that she had been far away but trying to evade responsibility.

  “Is there something wrong Nya?”

  “It’s nothing but do you know why Cheddar tried to escape from your home?”

  “I don’t really know Nya… Maybe it’s just that I have been breeding him too much with other cats to try and create other bre- It’s nothing nya!”

  “Meow…”

  (Friend. I wouldn’t even dare to ask any further about what that is about.)

  Cheddar replied with a sad depressing look on his face and I nodded as I tried to understand his perspective though I had never been a sex slave. And i’ve never had intercourse before. But it probably sucks.

  “Maybe he tried to run away from you because you are boring?”

  “Boring nya? I guess that’s true nya… I’ve just been leaving him at home all day so he doesn’t really have much to do nya.”

  “Wait you have a home?”

  “Yeah nya. Any player who has reached a high enough level that being level 15 can be eligible for subsidized housing and even if you haven’t reached that level yourself you are also eligible for subsidized renting at taverns and stuff nya.”

  “I didn’t even know that the town offered services to us players if we became that strong.”

  “It’s not really something enforced by the town by the Kingdom nya. The Kingdom that we are in is the kingdom of Alanzania and it’s pretty tolerant to players and it’s trying to build up a cordial relationship with players but I don’t know about the rest of the kingdoms nya. If you are ever curious you could try and check out the forums nya. There’s always something interesting on the forums nya.”

  I glanced to the top right corner of my vision and stared at a panel called forums. I mentally recalled it and right before me appeared a cyan vision of a forum-like website and on the top page was a particular post.

  [Is she an Elf or a Cat? Mysterious sitting of a girl with mysterious ears causes controversial discussion in community!]

  [Insert picture of me]

  “Hey… Who took the picture for this?”

  Lilith grit her teeth and stared at me with an embarrassed look.

  “Well I did nya. But that’s only just because my friends said that they would pay for lunch tomorrow if I did take the picture for you nya!”

  “I am not angry. I was just curious and besides, there is no reason for me to go after you since you are a pretty cool person though you meow a lot.”

  “It’s kind of my thing nya. If I didn’t nya so much people would be forgetting about me nya.”

  “I mean you have a point. It’s a lot easier to remember you but other people could catch onto your own thing so I’d just say that you should find your strength to stand up on. Something that only you can do.”

  “I see nya… I will be going back to put Cheddar back in my house nya!”

  “Well bye!’

  I said as I waved away towards Lilith and Cheddar who were leaving. I then stared back at Ciel who had a worried look on her face.

  “Are you charmed by her in any sort of way or form?”

  “Charmed? I am not into girls and I am a little too young to get feelings for other people?”

  Ciel shook her head in confusion and placed her hand on her face.

  “Well… I mean did she try to do any mind control stuff on you because you are a succubus?”

  “I don’t think she did but if she did anything like that on me, you should go after her.”

  “When it comes to people like succubuses, I would have done that regardless of it you asked me to do the job or not. After all I can’t people like that ruin the order of society with their games and mannerisms of prostitution and all other sorts of degenerates that erode the public morality.”

  Ciel spoke with a firm look of disappointment and I had a look of shock on my face because I never knew that she could sound so much like an old-timer traditionalist always concerned about the moral decline of the youth. But to be fair, she was a lot older than me and she was a completely different etra so naturally she was going to be a little more discriminatory than I would expect.

  But it wasn’t really an issue but well meaning concern.

  “Hey is Sparkle still asleep?”

  “She’s still asleep on my shoulder but it kind of seems like she’s been out for a while. Does she usually go to sleep for this long?”

  “Well I don’t really know so it would be best to ask her.”

  I pressed my hand on Sparkle’s head.

  “Wakey wakey. It’s time for school! You are going to be late!”

  Sparkle’s eyes immediately shot open and she looked around in confusion as if she was a college student trying to look around for her alarm clock after being rudely awakened in the morning just as if it was yet another day of school.

  “AHh! Wait I don’t go to school!”

  Sparkle said with an irritated look and puffed up cheeks as she turned to Raelia and flicked her right on the head.

  “And why didn’t you wake me up earlier Ciel!”

  “You never asked me to wake you up and I thought you would have enjoyed being asleep so I allowed you to sleep.”

  “Yeah it seems like you enjoyed your sleep considering how playful you are now with the two of us.”

  “It’s not really that I slept well but it’s more so that I got some alone time from myself and I got to think about a bit. But Raelia do you know how cooking oil works?”

  “Yeah you have to drink it and it cooks raw food inside of your body!”

  Sparkle stared at Raelia with a look of pure shock and confusion. That sentence alone was the most traumatizing thing that she had ever heard in her life something. It was just something so critical and shocking that she just wanted to fall down and die just from the shcoka of getting that said to her.

  “Relax. I was just joking. I’m not that much of an idiot that I would do something like that.”

  “Phew what a relief. But how much cooking oil do you add to your food?”

  “Something like a liter…”

  “A LITRE!? WHAT THE HELL!? YOU ARE WASTING YOUR COOKING OIL!”

  “Oh that makes sense. Those cooking oil things said that they would last for months but for me they last for every couple days. I never knew that using less cooking oil be the secret recipe to help me live within my financial means.”

  An irritated look appeared on Sparkle’s face.

  “And what is the first thing that you do when you wake every morning?”

  “I wake up of course.”

  “Obviously but what do you other than that? And that response doesn't really answer my question."

  "I think I am supposed to brush my teeth in the morning when I wake up?"

  "Hey why are you saying that like you don't even know what you do in the morning? You don't have dementia or anything so why are you confused about what you do in the morning!?"

  Ciel stared at the two girls talking amongst each other with a look of interest though she wasn’t really interested in talking considering the fact that talking in this sort of conversation could result in her getting traumatized by the type of things that Raelia was doing in her personal life. Though thankfully most of the things that Raelia was talking about was issues related to modern products and technologies that she couldn’t understand.

  End of the chapter…