The Happiness and Troubles of a God

The host and guests had all enjoyed themselves.

After seeing off the last neighbor, only Leon, Wanda, and Agnes remained in Agnes's house.

Bast, in her kitty form, was playing a hunting game as she chased Ebony, the Bengal cat Agnes kept.

Suppressed by a higher deity, Ebony—whose true species was a demon cat—could not summon even the slightest will to resist, instinctively dodging and fleeing Bast's pursuit.

Originally, Ebony had been the leader of Westview's stray cat organization. But once Bast arrived, Ebony was instantly reduced to her original state and did not dare show even a hint of claws or fangs before Bast.

As for Leon, Wanda, and Agnes, from an outsider's perspective, things were actually rather strange.

Because this gathering initiated by Agnes should, by all rights, have been held at Wanda and Leon's new home.

Yet at Agnes's urging, it somehow and naturally developed into a gathering at Agnes's house instead.

Even the neighbors invited to the gathering had not noticed anything off about it, much less questioned it.

There was no need to say whose handiwork this was. To better blend into Westview without exposing anything unusual, Agnes, like Leon, had used some means to cloud people's minds.

However, Agnes had only targeted ordinary people. In the original story, Wanda had initially been deceived by Agnes as well, but she soon noticed something was wrong and turned the tables on Agatha, who coveted the Chaos Magic within her.

Leon, on the other hand, deceived everyone equally—humans, elves, demons, nature, fate, and so on. Anything that could potentially affect his plan for enjoyment was placed by Leon on the gray list of "unconsciously turning into idiots."

Agatha, a human witch, and Ebony, a demon cat, had not the slightest suspicion regarding the true identities of Leon,