Cats vs. Cats [Third Update, Please Vote]

Ye Ting was startled when he suddenly realized that the cat in his arms was Egypt's famous deity, not some ordinary divine beast.

Then, seeing Bastet's fierce gaze brimming with the sentiment of What right do you have to dislike me?, Ye Ting decisively stroked her from head to tail.

Mm, her anger immediately vanished into thin air.

Bastet went completely limp in Ye Ting's arms, letting him pet her as he pleased.

In truth, as a feline deity, Bastet had not lived particularly well in the Heliopolitan Pantheon.

It was not that Egypt's gods mistreated her, but as a cat, her life was simply nowhere near as happy as Himari's under Ye Ting's care.

Cats might be independent and aloof, but that depended on whom they were dealing with. Cats also needed social interaction.

If cats were familiar with one another, they comforted each other, groomed each other, and interacted in all sorts of ways. A house cat like Himari also received her owner's affection and pets.

But what about Bastet?

Within the Heliopolitan Pantheon, she was the noble and icy cat goddess, Ra's capable assistant. Aside from Ra, every deity respected her strength, yet kept their distance due to fear and differences in temperament—just as people instinctively stayed away from fierce beasts such as lions and tigers, even if those beasts had been tamed and would not eat people.

In the eyes of most gods, she was a terrifying, mad warrior who could even pin Apophis, the Serpent of Chaos whom the gods feared like a tiger, to the ground and beat him up.

Even her colleagues treated her that way, let alone the lesser gods who served her. Ra was the only one who did not feel that way, but this great god regarded her as a