"Waaah—"
Black Cat Wensa arched her back, stretched out her neck, and opened her mouth in a threatening roar, even dropping the envelope onto the table.
Floating in midair in an elaborate yet gorgeous black dress, Reinette Tinekerr stretched both hands forward. Her four heads leaned in together, their lifeless eyes staring at the relatively petite messenger before her.
"The contract...""The time...""Has already...""Ended..."
The four heads in her hands spoke in turn, their mellow Ancient Feysac echoing around Wensa like surround sound.
Wensa blinked in confusion, looked at the headless messenger, then at the stunned Klein nearby, and withdrew her seemingly threatening but actually somewhat bluffing posture.
"I'm only here to deliver a letter."
She, too, spoke a sentence in Ancient Feysac, then used her front paw to push the envelope on the table toward Klein.
Then, Wensa gracefully lifted her limbs, turned around, padded a few steps across the table, and vanished into the Spirit World from atop the altar.
This time, her tail was not held proudly high.
Klein picked up the envelope but did not inspect it immediately, instead slipping it into his pocket. He looked up at his messenger in the air and asked with a frown:
"You know her?"
"Seen her...""Several...""Times..."
Three heads answered in turn.
"A lonely stray cat..."
The last head, which had not gotten a chance to speak, promptly added.
She seemed to have some resentment. Considering how she reacted to Wensa just now, could Angel and her have had some kind of conflict when Angel summoned a messenger last time...
Though Klein was full of questions, he was too embarrassed to keep asking. After all, he had summoned her again merely to test the incantation, and had not even prepared any gold coins.
After politely seeing Messenger Miss off, he immediately