Jiang Xiao Mao's Journey of the Heart

Jiang Yu was feeling rather troubled.

According to her original plan, she had intended to turn into a cat and use herself as bait to lure out the murderer who had killed the kitten. The plan had been ideal, but reality was far more complicated—for instance, she had overlooked the effects of changing weather on felines. Now, every time she transformed, she felt an overwhelming drowsiness. She had also ignored the fact that the place where the kitten had died had become a key area in the Patrol Team's regular rounds. Any slightest disturbance would draw their attention, let alone a little cat lingering there without leaving.

Of course, there was an even more critical point: when the plan began, the young witch had not even realized that the kitten she became possessed almost no ability to resist external dangers. As a result, each of her few transformations had ended with her fleeing in panic.

Like the first time she transformed. Before she could even climb onto that artificial rockery, she had been frightened away by a kappa crawling out of the lake. Under normal circumstances, when she encountered such Magical Creatures—short, ugly things with shells on their backs—she only needed to shout at them. She would not even need to pull out her spellbook before they panicked and scattered.

But now, she was only a kitten, a tiny milk-fed kitten less than a foot tall, one that looked as though it had not even shed its baby fur.

Even a squirrel dared to hop in front of such a kitten and challenge it to an arm wrestle, let alone a kappa. Compared to squirrels, kappas were evil creatures listed in the Wizard Alliance's "Dangerous Magical Creatures" registry.

There had been another time. That night, she had managed to climb