A Conversation Between Cousins

By the time she attended D&K's opening ceremony on Saturday afternoon, Jiang Yu was still somewhat dazed.

The series of events after she had turned into a cat the previous night kept replaying in her mind—her paws stepping on the cold stone path, her body passing through withered bushes and grass, meeting others of her kind, climbing trees, and then that Big Black Cat... Stop!

This was where it happened!

Whenever her memories reached this point, they became blurry and unreal, like an old phonograph playing a moldy record. The sound coming from the trumpet flower was hoarse, distorted, and intermittent. Even the scenes in her memories seemed to be covered in a thin veil of shadow, as though she were viewing flowers through mist—there was always something separating her from them.

The only thing the witch could be certain of was that she had been groomed by that Big Black Cat—there was absolutely no hidden meaning in those words. That Big Black Cat had groomed her fur like a human, nothing more. Even now, the witch still could not believe everything she remembered.

"Hallucination. It had to be a hallucination!"

"This is utterly absurd!... How could that be possible?!"

The witch muttered under her breath, shaking her head hard as though trying to fling those terrifying memories out of it. "It must be a cognitive defect caused by Transformation Magic... Mm, that had to be it..."

The witch forcibly comforted herself and came up with what seemed like a reasonable explanation.

Such things were not impossible. After using a Transformation Spell, a wizard's life form changed, so their intelligence, memories, habits, and other traits could all deviate to some extent.

Some wizards called this deviation "Transformation Cognitive Disorder Syndrome."

Just as when she became a cat, she picked up