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Inquisitor Thraxol's child had been born in the Warp. After the Mining Mule finished mining, Li Qinwu's fleet entered the Warp and headed for the next planet.
The next planet lay beyond humanity's ancestral Segmentum Solar, and the fleet would have to travel through the Warp for a full four months.
It was during those four months that Catwoman Nova gave birth to Inquisitor Thraxol's only bloodline.
However, after the child was born, Nova cried in Fortune's delivery room.
"Waaah, waaah! This child is deformed!"
She said that because the child she had given birth to had two cat tails.
Li Qinwu sent the Rejuvenation Doctor stationed aboard the ship, along with the old monks, to conduct physical and Psychic Power examinations. They found nothing wrong. For some reason, the child simply had two tails.
Li Qinwu comforted her beside the delivery bed.
"It's fine, it's fine. Both his soul and body are perfectly healthy; he just has an extra tail.
Let me tell you, in the Age of Terra, cats with two tails were called Nekomata. It means cat god. This is an auspicious sign, an extremely auspicious sign!"
Li Qinwu knew that the child's two tails had certainly grown because he had been born in the Warp, which had caused some kind of change in his soul.
In any case, there was no Warp corruption, and the child's Warp essence was far richer than that of ordinary people. That extra tail seemed to be some kind of permanent Psychic Shapeshifting.
Anyway, so far it was nothing but a positive mutation, so Li Qinwu naturally chose to say something lucky.
"Enough, enough, stop crying. You gave birth to a Nekomata—a born Psyker. Our fleet will have a