Cat Cat
How Am I Still Alive?Contents
- 1Biodata
- 2Power Progression
- 3Background & History
- 4Appearance
- 5Personality
- 6Abilities & Skills
- 6.1Cat Beastification
- 6.2Spirit Fusion and Possession
- 6.3Mobility and Runner Techniques
- 6.4Beast Taming
- 6.5Negator
- 6.6Assassination
- 7Equipment / Weapons / Items
- 8Relationships
- 9Story Role / Major Arcs
- 9.1Runner Race and Pioneering Secret Realm
- 9.2Valastarod Reconnaissance
- 9.3Beast Tamer Development
- 9.4Revive Experiment
- 9.5Overlord Assassination
- 9.6Later Service
- 10Notable Quotes
- 11Trivia
Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Lei Shui Yun (雷水云) 146 |
| Alias(es) | Cat Cat (猫猫); Black Claw (codename) 258 |
| Species/Race | Spirit Cat; cat beastfolk / feline-shaped anomaly 146 319 |
| Gender | Female |
| Affiliation | Special Task Force Three; Lu PingAn's team 143 975 |
| Occupation/Role | Runner, Beast Tamer, Cliffside Fang combatant, assassin, and Lu PingAn's assistant/personal guard 147 975 1491 |
| Status | Active 1984 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 6 |
Power Progression
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Innate ability: Cat | 6 | A Transformation-type beastification ability that grants feline physical traits, strength, agility, balance, and a visible tail and ears. |
| Black Iron User | 59 | Receives a Life Bank Black Iron VIP card after advancing. |
| Tier 1 Runner / Tier 0 Beast Tamer | 147 | Has no combat class at this point; her combat strength primarily comes from innate Spirit Cat abilities. |
| Cliffside Fang | 169 | Takes the Tier 0 combat profession recommended by Chris; practical combat ability rises rapidly through repeated real-combat training. |
| Brass-grade Ground Shrinking | 324 | Receives the mobility ability as a Pioneering Secret Realm reward, alongside an aptitude-improvement blessing. |
| Tier 2 | 635 | Her highest rank is stated as Rank 2, though her Spirit Cat talent and equipment let her perform far above it. |
| Spirit Awakening and Bloodline Connection | 656, 662 | Performs Spirit Awakening on Wolf Beasts and establishes a Bloodline Connection with Little Meow, enabling trait sharing. |
| Double Cat Tactics | 859 | Xiao Bai matures into a magical pet, allowing Cat Cat's Spirit Fusion-based dual-cat combat style to take shape. |
| Revived symbiote / Negator | 1118, 1119 | Becomes the first recipient of Lu PingAn's Revive trait; gains a symbiotic “other half” with a Silver Middle Rank rule-based rejection ability. |
| Death-type Professional | 1700 | Joins a Death-type path and treats large-scale war as an opportunity for further advancement. |
Background & History
Lei Shui Yun initially concealed her beastification traits with a Cat Cat hairclip, white ribbon cords, and a decorative bow on her tail. Her ability, Cat, made her physically suited to the Runner path but also made ordinary life and secrecy difficult. She regularly spoke with a “meow” verbal tic and openly ate cat food when short of money. 6
She and her brother, Lei Huo Ren, were connected to the same traumatic incident involving an “evil hospital.” Cat Cat's cheerful innocence is later described as a coping mechanism rather than genuine naivety; she divides people into her brother, Lu PingAn, and everyone else. 147 806
Lu PingAn discovered that she was not an ordinary beastification user but a Spirit Cat with the rare talent Possession. After he recognized her potential, she accepted his support, signed a Life-Death Contract with him, and began training toward Beast Tamer and Cliffside Fang paths under Chris's guidance. 146 147
After Lei Huo Ren left her behind, Cat Cat faced harassment connected to his actions. Lu PingAn intervened, helped her relocate to the Special Task Force base, and became her primary protector and employer. 265 266
Appearance
Cat Cat is a young woman with overt feline traits that become more pronounced when she uses her abilities. Near her twentieth birthday, she is still often perceived as much younger because of her mannerisms and small, cute presentation. 6 1481
- White furry cat ears, usually concealed beneath a hairclip. 6
- A white tail, once disguised with ribbon cords and a bow as a decorative accessory. 6
- Golden Beast Eyes. 1700
- Can shift into a spirit-like form, become incorporeal, or disperse into golden flying feathers. 468 1700
- Frequently carries or is accompanied by cats, including Xiao Bai and her symbiotic Hairball. 1118
Personality
Cat Cat presents herself as lazy, playful, food-motivated, and easily distracted by entertainment. She frequently tries to negotiate better treatment or rewards rather than openly refusing training, and she is capable of using cuteness strategically after causing trouble. 805 1119 1630
Her apparent foolishness masks sharp instincts, practical intelligence, and a persistent desire to grow stronger. Those closest to her consider her exceptionally hardworking and rate her talent above the rest of their core group. 1481
Her trauma and beast nature make her emotionally unusual. She is intensely attached to Lu PingAn, distrustful of most others, and can be ruthlessly indifferent toward enemies. In battle, she enjoys pursuit, hunting, and violence more openly than many of her companions. 806 1630 1700 1957
Abilities & Skills
Cat Beastification
Cat Cat's original Transformation-type ability alters her body toward a feline form rather than merely enhancing it.
- Possesses exceptional flexibility, balance, pouncing power, and body control due to feline skeletal and muscular traits. 6 253
- Her normal attributes include Black Iron High Rank physique and Bronze Low Rank reflexes and spiritual power. 318
- Fully unleashing her beastification can raise her physique to Bronze Middle Rank. 318
- Can retain her sanity despite visible beastification and berserk-transformation traits. 695
Spirit Fusion and Possession
As a Spirit Cat, Cat Cat can merge bodies and souls with feline companions or turn herself into an intangible spirit body.
- Possession lets her merge with Xiao Bai, combining two cats into one and briefly reaching peak Tier 2 combat power. 146
- Early use of Possession was severely limited: it lasted less than half an hour, caused bodily breakdown, required at least a week of recovery, and was restricted to cats. 147
- Can move through walls, stone, earth, and the bodies of targets while in Spirit Fusion. 468 1119
- Uses Spirit Fusion for infiltration, theft, reconnaissance, and assassination. 468 1207
- Cannot fuse with every object; an unfamiliar pool and stone fragment resisted her ability completely. 1207
Mobility and Runner Techniques
Cat Cat's combat style centers on extreme mobility and unconventional terrain use.
- Spider Walk allows her to treat walls and ceilings as level ground after touching them with all four limbs; the effect lasts for a single held breath. 11
- Ground Shrinking gives her short-range movement acceleration and improved combat positioning. 324
- Can climb cliffs directly, fight while anchored to vertical surfaces, and use terrain other Runners cannot traverse. 319
- Her phantoms, decoys, acceleration, Metamorphosis, and Spiderwalk made her one of the most mobile ground combatants in a major battlefield engagement. 695
Beast Taming
Cat Cat's primary logistical path is Beast Tamer, aided by her ability to communicate and emotionally resonate with feline creatures.
- Spirit Awakening increases an animal's intelligence and emotions; it is the core ability of Beast Tamers and is exhausting to perform repeatedly. 148 656
- Bloodline Connection uses blood and somatic material to link her with magical pets and share bloodline traits. 662
- Her wolf king, Little Meow, manifested a Shadowstep- or incorporealization-like ability and can appear from within her shadow. 662
- Her Beast Tamer school under Chris encompasses breeding, modification, lone beasts, group beasts, and beast healing rather than a single specialization. 168
- Developed the Lei family's Double Cat Tactics, pairing her own combat ability with a professionalized core magical pet. 717 859
Negator
Cat Cat's Revive experiment produced a symbiotic cat-ball entity, initially called the Little Guy or Hairball and later identified as Little Snowball/Super Cat Cat. 1118 1120
- Negator is a Silver Middle Rank innate ability that repels, negates, and tears apart approaching “existence.” 1119
- Can reject physical attacks, energy, flames, memories, and even conceptual laws. 1119
- Little Snowball cannot move more than three meters from Cat Cat and must hold its breath to sustain the effect. 1120
- The initial maximum duration of Meow Rejection is nine seconds. 1120
- Combined with Spirit Fusion, Cat Cat can enter a target and negate the space inside it, leaving seamless internal cavities and killing opponents from within. 1119
Assassination
Cat Cat's Spirit Fusion, stealth, mobility, and Cliffside Fang training make her a specialist in solo infiltration and sudden kills.
- Retrieved intelligence and a transformed enemy head without being detected by dozens of nearby enemies. 468
- Can bypass even alert combatants' senses and approach from behind unnoticed. 805
- Successfully infiltrated Thousand-Giga Stone King's body, destroyed its core with Little Snowball's help, and finished it with Longinus. 1481
- Killed an overlord-class creature during an assassination operation supported by Lu PingAn. 1482
Equipment / Weapons / Items
- Hurricane — Silver High-Rank cursed item with accompanying boots; dramatically boosts Cat Cat's mobility and helped elevate her running performance to the level of a Tier 4 Runner's Windriding Acceleration. 318 320
- Godslaying Spear Longinus — used to pierce Thousand-Giga Stone King's core and activate Phoenix's Death. 1481
- Javelins and claws — weapons favored by her Cliff Walker combat path. 1459
- Two unnamed high-quality Silver items — stripped from a high-ranking priest; they provide a major portion of her mobility advantage. 886
- Life Bank Black Iron VIP card — permits remote investment and uninterrupted buffs. 59
Relationships
- Lu PingAn — Employer, protector, contract partner, and closest companion. Their relationship is explicitly platonic and built on unconditional mutual trust. 147 1631
- Lei Huo Ren — Older brother. His sacrifice and disappearance shaped Cat Cat's trauma; she later hunts him down over their unresolved abandonment and family conflict. 806 1630
- Chris / Big Cat — Mentor who identified Cat Cat's Spirit Cat potential, designed her training, and guides her Beast Tamer development. 147 148 1119
- Xiao Bai — White cat and original core magical pet. Cat Cat can possess her, while Xiao Bai's innate ability, Cat Is Hungry, teleports it toward targets it desires. 146 169
- Little Meow — Wolf king linked to Cat Cat through Bloodline Connection; manifests a shadow-based movement ability. 662
- Little Snowball / Hairball — Cat Cat's Revived symbiotic “other half” and the bearer of Negator. 1118 1120
- Xia Qin — Senior and ally who worries about Cat Cat's education and emotional well-being; Cat Cat also seeks her help when she has angered Lu PingAn. 805 806
- Catherine — Otherworldly knight Cat Cat befriends and speaks with; Lu PingAn specifically encourages Cat Cat to keep talking to her. 451 452
Story Role / Major Arcs
Runner Race and Pioneering Secret Realm
Cat Cat serves as a Runner in the Pioneering Secret Realm race. Using Hurricane, its boots, Spider Walk, and feline cliff-combat instincts, she reaches the top ten despite competing against much stronger Runners. She receives Ground Shrinking and an aptitude-improvement blessing as a reward. 318 319 320 324
Valastarod Reconnaissance
During the Valastarod expedition, Cat Cat becomes an unexpected liaison with local knights and demonstrates exceptional compatibility with the Sealing Knight profession. She later infiltrates an enemy position to steal a notebook and retrieve evidence of a beastman-transformation ritual. 452 468
Beast Tamer Development
Cat Cat helps conduct Spirit Awakening on wolf cubs, cultivates magical beasts through the Courtyard's accelerated-growth program, and forms a Bloodline Connection with Little Meow. These efforts establish the basis of her Double Cat Tactics and broader Beast Tamer role. 656 661 662 859
Revive Experiment
Lu PingAn selects Cat Cat as the first subject for his Revive trait because of her rare Spirit Cat and Spirit Fusion constitution. The experiment creates her symbiotic Hairball, whose Negator ability transforms Cat Cat from an already dangerous infiltrator into a rule-based internal-kill assassin. 1118 1119
Overlord Assassination
Cat Cat is assigned to eliminate Thousand-Giga Stone King. Although injured after Little Snowball tears apart the creature's core, she survives through Lu PingAn's Forced Bankruptcy Protection and completes the kill with Longinus. She later receives a First-Class War Medal for killing an overlord-class creature. 1481 1482 1484
Later Service
Cat Cat acts as Lu PingAn's personal guard and assassin, receives assignments ranging from tracking mercenaries to uncovering spies, and eventually forms her own Cat Cat Brigade as a high-level Beast Tamer. 1491 1886 1984
Notable Quotes
“To be a cat, the most important thing is to be happy, meow.” 1481
“Meow? I'm already this strong, so why should I practice, meow?” 1119
Trivia
- Cat Cat's severe “meow” verbal tic is attributed both to the soul-level nature of her Spirit Cat transformation and to psychological trauma. 1259
- Her childhood attachment to Tom and Jerry may have influenced the emergence of her cat-related spirit abilities. 1259
- Although she often acts clueless, Lu PingAn notes that she is deliberately playing dumb when it benefits her. 1119
- She wants “more cats,” apparently out of a desire for family, but Lu PingAn does not believe she is suited to carrying the burden of supporting a whole race. 1886