Just Showing Someone the Way

(Heartfelt thanks to 'Lei Xiang', 'God Purification*Demon Slayer', 'Drunken Songs Between Dreams', and 'Time of Apocalypse' for their rewards!)

Raising his head, Noah looked directly at the intruder who had kidnapped Koneko for the first time.

The intruder, who had retreated explosively, was still holding Koneko. She landed atop another boulder, raised her head as well, and met Noah's gaze.

Only then did Noah finally get a clear look at the intruder.

To Noah's surprise, she was a girl who looked no older than seventeen or eighteen.

She wore a black kimono, but a large expanse of skin was exposed across her chest, while her two snow-white thighs were completely bare beneath it. As though displaying all her beauty to the world, her figure was so voluptuous that she was no less endowed than any girl Noah had ever seen.

What surprised Noah most was that this girl, whose entire body exuded a seductive beauty, not only had a pair of black cat ears but also two cat tails swaying behind her.

She looked exactly like Koneko.

Noah slowly narrowed his eyes.

"Nekomata?"

At those words, the cat-eared girl, radiating a bewitching aura, alluringly licked her lips.

"That's right. I'm an adorable and powerful Nekomata, meow~~~"

It was not merely her appearance and figure.

Every movement and word of hers carried a peculiar allure.

If a man without much self-control saw her like this, she would probably steal his very soul away.

However, Noah noticed another fact.

"You're no ordinary Nekomata. You saw through my Godspeed. You must carry the bloodline of the Nekomata Shō, the strongest breed among Nekomata capable of using Senjutsu, aren't you?"

Only that could explain why she had been able to see through Noah's Godspeed.

If she were a Nekomata Shō, a Nekomata capable of