Dania the catgirl was right

It was an ordinary Wednesday morning.

At 6:30, Dania's phone alarm rang on time. She reluctantly pulled herself up to its pleasant ringtone, turned it off, and sat on the bed in a daze.

After gathering her wandering wits, she smoothed down the hair sticking up on the left side of her head...

Huh? Why did I just feel something furry? Wait, why is it moving?!

Sensing that something was wrong, Dania immediately ran into the bathroom and examined herself in the mirror-

She had grown a pair of pink cat ears.

Damn... What's going on? I haven't done anything weird lately, have I?!

(Actually, I just wanted to see it, hehe.)

"Wait, if I have cat ears... then don't tell me..."

Dania looked behind herself and saw a fluffy pink cat tail extending from her tailbone. It seemed to be swaying slightly with her fluctuating mood.

"This is awful..."

She still had school today. Was she supposed to go cosplaying as a sweet catgirl with cat ears and a tail?!

"Hey, Yaya, good morning... What the..."

Xiao Ling was holding a bowl of food when he saw Dania walk out of her room. He was just about to wish her good morning when the first thing he noticed was the pair of cat ears on her head and her slightly gloomy expression. He was so startled that he nearly cursed on the spot.

"Did you do this?" Dania pointed at her cat ears.

"Why would you think I did it?"

"Because it seems exactly like your kind of twisted prank."

Xiao Ling had no answer to that.

Heaven and earth were his witnesses! If he really had done it, he would have been wearing a sly grin and using his restless hands to rub her twitching cat ears a couple of times.

"Good morning, Yaya... Whoa!"

Sigrika happened to be passing by. Seeing that Dania was up, she was about to greet her bestie, only to discover that her bestie had somehow evolved into a catgirl. She let out a cute little yelp.

Still, Yaya looked pretty novel like this, didn't she?

Sigrika was a curious soul. After recovering from her shock, she bounded over in a few quick strides and started poking Dania's cat ears.

"They're not decorations?" Sigrika looked at the cat ears twitching under her touch and thought they were quite amazing.

"Ah... Stop it, Xixi, that tickles... Meow!"

Cat ears were very sensitive. Dania was about to tell Sigrika to stop when someone grabbed her equally sensitive tail. The sudden sensation made her let out a meow.

And why had she meowed, anyway?!

"So furry... So fluffy... It feels completely different from Little Black..." Aemeath said, hugging Dania's new cat tail and unable to let go. She even felt an urge to rub her little face against it.

Chisa, Lynae, and Cartethyia came over at the sound and were also very surprised to see Dania as a catgirl.

"You look pretty novel like that, Yaya," Lynae teased with a smile. "But wouldn't it be pretty weird to go to school looking like that?"

"This completely defies the laws of physics..." Chisa's thoughts were more practical. After all, people couldn't just grow cat ears and a tail out of thin air. "Could it be the work of that mysterious force that guided us through transmigration?"

"Huh? Doesn't that mean it could happen to us too...?" Cartethyia said, blinking her eyes and instinctively touching her head.

"Don't overthink it. It might just be an isolated case." Xiao Ling reassured the girls, then asked, "But Dania, can you still go to school looking like that?"

"Go? Why wouldn't I? It's just an extra pair of cat ears and a tail. I'm not close to anyone else there anyway, so I doubt anyone will notice me."

She had judged completely wrong.

Dania was already a gorgeous young girl, but she disliked socializing and slept in the back row during every class. Occasionally, when a teacher called on her, she would stand up in a daze, answer the question, and go right back to sleep.

As a result, she received relatively little attention among the beautiful girls, each with her own distinct style. And since the other students already considered her taken, Dania could continue attending school without a care.

But now things were completely different.

She could clearly feel more gazes lingering on her, and even the teacher at the podium kept looking in her direction, deliberately or otherwise.

Dania: What are you staring at? Haven't you ever seen a catgirl before?

(They really hadn't.)

Still, no one in the classroom thought Dania had actually turned into a catgirl. Instead, they unanimously concluded that a certain Xiao's mysterious twisted sense of humor was to blame.

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"Yaya, are you okay? It feels like everyone's staring at you..." Sigrika was a little worried that the sudden attention would make Dania uncomfortable.

"I'm fine. I'm going to sleep, Xixi. Wake me up if the teacher calls on me."

Dania was still Dania. She lay down on her desk and soon drifted off to sleep, her pink cat ears and tail drooping as their mistress slept.

Being a catgirl didn't stop her from sleeping anyway. Nothing in the world mattered more than sleep.

(Zzz.)

"So I'm going to stay like this until the end of today?"

"That's probably right."

After school let out at noon, Dania went with Xiao Ling to the infirmary to see if Old Lu and the other person could find anything.

In the end, although they couldn't find the cause of the change, they at least learned exactly when it would disappear.

"To get straight to the conclusion, Dania's beast transformation seems to be some kind of prank. She should be back to normal by tomorrow." Lahai-Roi eased their worries in a gentle voice.

"Ah... I really want to drag out whoever pulled this prank..." Dania sighed, pressing a hand to her forehead, a hint of resentment in her voice.

"I think it's pretty nice," Xiao Ling said with a squinting smile, casually rubbing her cat tail without drawing attention to it.

"Meow! Don't touch it!" Dania shuddered and glared at Xiao Ling indignantly. "It's sensitive!"

Xiao Ling smiled a little awkwardly. He couldn't help it; Dania's swaying cat tail really was tempting, and he hadn't been able to resist giving it a rub.

"Ah... It's a little hot. Let's find somewhere out of the sun."

Dania felt that she was even more sensitive to the heat as a catgirl. They had only been outside for a short while, and her cheeks were already flushed. Without another word, she pulled Xiao Ling over to a shady bench and sat down.

"How many classes do you have this afternoon?" Dania sat on the bench, took out her phone, and began messaging Sigrika to explain the situation.

"Just one," Xiao Ling said after taking out his phone and checking his timetable.

"That's good. I only have one too. I'm going straight home after class, and you're coming with me."

She really shouldn't linger here today. Her ears and tail stood out too much, and Dania was now eager to get home.

Come to think of it, she could have taken the day off, but she always felt unsettled staying home alone, so she had come to school anyway.

"Then I'll message them and let them know."

Xiao Ling began messaging the other girls to explain the situation, while Dania aimlessly scrolled through her phone. For a while, neither of them spoke.

"Hmm?"

A few minutes later, Dania was scrolling through videos when she suddenly felt something furry brush against her calf.

She moved her phone aside and looked down to see a calico cat rubbing affectionately against her leg.

"Meow~" The calico cat noticed Dania looking at her and let out a cute meow.

"Meow~" Dania replied with an equally cute meow.

Calico gathered herself and leaped onto the bench, then naturally curled up in Dania's arms.

Looking at the overly familiar Senior Calico, Dania curved her lips into a smile and continued scrolling through her phone while tending to her senior.

So when Xiao Ling finally looked up from his phone, his attention was immediately drawn to the chorus of meows beside him.

(You could say meows filled the air.)

He turned to look and saw that Dania was already surrounded by cats, with no room to even hold her phone.

She seemed to be enjoying herself, though. One moment she teased the cats on her left, the next she stroked the ones on her right, and occasionally she scratched the chin of the one on her head. With her cat ears and tail, she looked like a big cat taking care of a whole group of kittens.

Xiao Ling's hands itched to pet them, and he was about to sneakily grab a kitten for a few strokes. But the cats seemed to sense it, and as soon as Hajiling approached, they all retreated into Dania's arms in perfect unison.

"Looks like they don't like you~" Seeing Xiao Ling rebuffed, Dania winked playfully and smiled.

"If the kittens don't like me, don't I still have you, my big cat?" Xiao Ling brushed a finger against her nose.

"You always have something to say." Dania flicked the tip of his nose and smiled. "But I like it."

"Since you like it, how about letting me pet you a little and grant my little wish to pet a cat?"

"No way. Why should I... Hey, hey, hey!"

Dania was about to reject Xiao Ling's request, but he grabbed her and pulled her straight into his arms, startling the kittens into jumping off the bench and scattering.

To keep the big cat from escaping his embrace, Xiao Ling rubbed her tail a couple of times, neither too hard nor too softly.

"Meow~" The sudden attack made Dania's body go a little limp. She could only glare at Xiao Ling indignantly, a blush spreading across her porcelain-smooth face.

"What, not satisfied with my technique?" Xiao Ling teased, poking her flushed cheek.

Then his mischievous finger received a bite from Dania the cat, neither too hard nor too soft.

"You actually bit me?" Xiao Ling raised an eyebrow at the neat ring of teeth marks on his index finger.

"Mm, this cat is angry, so this cat is going to bite you now, meow!"

(If I don't give you a taste of my strength, Hajiling, you'll really start treating Sister Da like an ordinary girl.)

With an adorably fierce look, Dania pushed Xiao Ling down onto the bench and positioned herself above him.

"Whoa, Sister Da, what are you doing? Don't do that kind of thing here!"

"I'll bite you to death, meow!"

"Tired of playing?"

Xiao Ling gently stroked Dania's head as she lay on his lap, occasionally rubbing her cute cat ears. He looked quite content.

That was, if one ignored the little hickeys on his neck and the bite marks on his cheeks.

"Haah... So sleepy, meow..."

Noon was nap time to begin with, and Dania had been playing around for quite a while. Now sleepiness swept over her like a tide.

"Then why not sleep here for a while? I'll fan you."

"Okay... Good afternoon, meow~"

Dania yawned, settled comfortably on Xiao Ling's lap, and soon drifted off to sleep.

Actually, being a catgirl isn't all bad. But I can't let Ling have it so easy. I'd better change back as soon as possible. That was her last thought before she fell asleep.

The moment Xiao Ling saw her ears and tail suddenly droop, he knew she was fast asleep and couldn't help chuckling.

He diligently waved his fan, sending a cool breeze over the heat-sensitive big cat, and said gently:

"Sleep well, my big cat."