Cat Boy's Ability

Huazhi stopped when she saw him.

"Let's go." An Ying, considering how sturdy these things were, pulled Sheng Qingqiao outside without hesitation.

The flower branch behind it immediately caught up, knocking away all the other flowers that were blocking its way.

Sheng Qingqiao looked back, and the scene inexplicably reminded him of the Flower Language.

If we were to consider the meanings of Flower Language, which of these two Vines would be more desirable?

"What did you do?" An Ying asked as she ran. He was already used to this way of asking questions.

Sheng Qingqiao hugged the bucket tightly and said, "I'm a new kitchen helper in the Castle. I was supposed to catch fish at the artificial lake, but I just caught one and these flowers started eyeing it."

An Ying said, "I just found corpses in the field. They must have seen blood and been fattened up by the corpses. They might be hostile to living beings, which is why they chased you."

"What should we do then?" Sheng Qingqiao turned her head to look back again, puzzled. "Huh? Their speed seems to have slowed down."

An Ying's eyes swept over the Vines: "It seems so. Wait, come with me."

The two ran to where An Ying had just dropped the scissors. After An Ying picked up the scissors, the branches that were chasing them slowed down even more, as if they were wary of something.

"I know!" Sheng Qingqiao's eyes lit up. "They're afraid of the scissors in your hand!"

"But these scissors can't cut these things," An Ying said. "So they're afraid of my identity as a gardener?"

"I tried it; my Broadsword, combined with flames, can cut through them," Sheng Qingqiao said. "So we can do missions together!"

Sheng Qingqiao could finish speaking, An Ying's expression suddenly changed. She grabbed him with her left hand and pulled him backward, while using her right hand to push the Bamboo Umbrella in front of her to block. She then rolled backward on the ground.

"Snap!"

The gleam of the claws was exceptionally bright in the darkness, piercing through the afterimages of the two figures and landing on the pursuing flower branches, easily slicing off large sections of the branches.

In the darkness, a pair of deep blue eyes locked onto the two of them.

"Meow." Got the mouse!

The Black Cat slowly turned around and gracefully approached them with feline steps.

An Ying watched the fluttering blossoms, she inexplicably thought how wonderful it would be to borrow the cat's paws to trim the branches...

Before they could finish their daydream, the cat's claws pounced on them, heading straight for the area not covered by the umbrella.

"Meow!"

The Black Cat, seemingly effortless, delivered a meow-like punch that sent An Ying and Sheng Qingqiao flying a great distance, leaving a deep trail on the ground.

An Ying clutched her waist in pain. Sheng Qingqiao lay on the ground for a long time without getting up.

Ouch! It feels like that cat is going to kick his bones and break them!

An Ying suddenly understood why Qin Rang had been knocked unconscious by the Black Cat in just one kick.

It's a miracle Qin Rang wasn't knocked unconscious.

"Ouch, it hurts so much! Where did this Black Cat come from!" Sheng Qingqiao was even more miserable, lying on the ground with the water from the bucket spilled all over him, the fish were dead, and the bucket was cracked.

He frantically brushed aside the brown hair that was sticking to his eyes. Water droplets on his eyelashes seemed to blur his vision, and he actually saw a bunch of Black Cats walking towards him together!

No! It's not an illusion!

Sheng Qingqiao rubbed her eyes abruptly, only to find five identical Black Cats standing in the open space!

"Cough cough--"

An Ying rubbed her lower back and coughed as she got up. When she looked up again, she saw the Black Cats.

The Black Cats stared intently at them, their pupils fixed on them, poised to attack.

This is the organization's cat, but also the cat of the Worship God.

An Ying recalled the information they later found out: the cat had organizational markings behind its ears, but for some reason it was very close to the Worship God and would often chase and beat them whenever it saw them.

"Meow." Human, give me the fish.

The Black Cat raised its tail high. Its Master kept fish for it to eat in this lake, but it had only gone out to play for a while when Sheng Qingqiao stole one of its fish!

The Master said that if anyone wants to take the fish, he'll have to chase them for half an hour before he can give it to them.

But now, he's letting this person get the fish directly. Isn't that a dereliction of duty?

If his Master found out he couldn't even complete this simple task, wouldn't he truly become a useless Little Cat?

To avoid disappointing its Master, the cat decided to make it up to them even more!

Using four clones to chase them for half an hour can save time, and the doubled test will surely satisfy the Master!

That's fantastic, he's so smart!

The cat licked its paws, then leaped high into the air with all its might. In the instant it hovered in mid-air, its body elongated, transforming into a boy with cat ears and a cat tail.

The other four clones also transformed into the Cat Boy's appearance and pounced on Sheng Qingqiao, who was shocked to see the cat turn into a human and whose mouth remained in an "O" shape.

Wait a minute, this person looks so familiar. Isn't he the one with cat ears they saw in the organization?

So, the Black Cat that had been watching them, and the one chasing Tao Yuan Mi Chuchu, and Qin Rang, was him?

Is he a cat? No, is he a person?

[The cat turned into human form?]

[My expression right now is the same as Sheng Qingqiao's.]

An Ying's eyes widened as if she had seen a ghost.

Those ears are so cute, ahh, I love them!

[Kitty, kitty... hehe, he just looks a bit fierce. If I pet him, will he scratch me?]

Just as this comment appeared, the Black Cat raised its paw and swatted Sheng Qingqiao was holding Broadsword to block, away with one paw.

[... I think I'd better not touch it.]

Sheng Qingqiao blocked part of the impact by standing in front of the Broadsword, her body flying in an arc through the air.

"Ahhh--Help!!"

"What's that sound?" Bai Yang turned his head in confusion, just opening a page of the book he had reached into the book hidden in the desk's compartment.

The Little Rabbit and the little dog were looking out the window, and the little rabbit pointed to Bai Yang its short paws.

"What did your Puppet discover?" Qin Rang looked up from his study of the candlestick arrangement.

Tao Yuan hadn't noticed anything to begin with, but upon hearing the sound, he went over to look outside.

They thought they had discovered something strange, but instead they saw the Cat Boy chasing after Sheng Qingqiao and An Ying, and the meows were coming from Sheng Qingqiao's mouth.

Sheng Qingqiao tried to resist by imbuing her Broadsword with flames, but each time the Cat Boy kicked her away without mercy.

Having witnessed the Cat Boy and even been pursued by him, Tao Yuan turned to Bai Yang and asked, "Isn't that someone from your organization? Why is he chasing after Sheng Qingqiao and An Ying?"

Qin Rang also leaned over the windowsill to look outside. "They really are outside... How come there are so many Cat Boys?"

If it were just one Cat Boy chasing them, he might not have been able to catch An Ying, but now that five of them were chasing them together, even the fast An Ying was kicked several times.

Bai Yang sat calmly in his chair, flipping through a book. Without even looking up, he said, "The Little Cat is from our organization, but since its Master isn't home often and he doesn't come back frequently, I don't know how it got in."

Tao Yuan asked, "How come he has cat ears? Is it a side effect of using some kind of Weird Object?"