Theresa and Himeko were curiously looking at the graffiti covering the mountains outside Citlali's home, while Ororon huddled somewhat stiffly in a vegetable patch farther away, occasionally looking up at the breathtakingly beautiful catgirl.
His expression held no adoration, only curiosity.
He was puzzling over one thing: did this catgirl count as a human or a cat?
Should he interact with her the way he did with humans, or the way he treated cats?
Ororon was Citlali's adopted grandson, an abandoned baby someone had discovered on a volcano and brought back to the Masters of the Night-Wind to raise.
His peculiar nature had greatly surprised the priests of the Masters of the Night-Wind, because his soul was incomplete!
Yet Ororon remained alive and well despite his incomplete soul. The priests at the time had all regarded him as an ill omen. Later, however, they came up with a plan.
They wanted to perform a ritual on Ororon, using his incomplete soul to draw Natlan's wandering souls into his body, then send him into the Night Lord Kingdom to attempt to repair the Ley Lines.
At the time, both the priests and Citlali had thought there was nothing wrong with it. But as they spent time with Ororon, the boy's innocence gradually endeared him to everyone. Citlali overruled all objections and decided to adopt Ororon, who was still a little boy then, as her grandson.
And so the ritual intended to send Ororon into the Night Lord Kingdom was canceled, and he grew up without incident.
His traits gradually began to show as well. He particularly enjoyed going out, and loved caring for plants and animals, growing crops, and feeding little animals most of all.
Citlali had forcibly brought Ororon back this time. Fortunately, he had already harvested the crops in