"Furry" and "catgirl" were two completely different creatures.
The former was akin to an anthropomorphized animal. It might have humanoid traits in its facial features, limbs, and movements, but its main body still retained an animal appearance.
The most obvious feature was the fur covering it from head to toe.
The latter's only difference from a normal human in appearance was an extra tail, a pair of animal ears, and occasionally hands that were slightly beastified.
To Xia Nan, back when he had been an ignorant youth in his previous life, he had once entertained unrealistic fantasies about these two creatures that did not exist in the real world at all because of characters in all kinds of cultural and entertainment works. He had imagined what those furry hides would feel like to the touch.
But as he truly entered society's furnace, the immense pressure from work left him with no time to spare for anything else, and those youthful interests never continued developing.
Now, he had crossed over to this fantasy continent where supernatural powers genuinely existed.
At first, as a bottom-rung ordinary adventurer, the pressure of survival had left him with no mind to think about so much.
But very soon, as he gradually found his footing on the Aifala Continent, as he saw more people and encountered more things, as his physical abilities gradually strengthened to the point where he could casually break the human world records of his previous life, and swinging a sword could truly cut out sword light, Xia Nan finally felt the reality of having crossed into another world.
He truly realized that those fantasy species that had only been active in entertainment works in his previous life seemed to have really... become reality.
Come to think of it, Xia Nan had probably