The young king is standing in the middle of the garden, surrounded by flowers, and the stone flower beds around him are staircased in four ninety-degree fanning shapes from high to low, and the young king stands in the center of the same point pointed by the four corners.

Raising his head, in the sun, he stretched out his hand.

He looked at a silvery-white orb in his palm.

I watched intently, very interested.

After a while, he said this.

"It's beautiful. ”

A tone full of joy.

It's like a little kid who gets candy and has a very happy face.

"This is the real finished product, right?"

Behind the young king stood a figure like a shadow, his whole body hidden in a cloak.

The cloaked man moved, as if nodding.

"That's good. ”

“……”

"You know, the more stuff, the better. ”

He said happily, "I really can't wait, I want to see if the effect after eating it is the same as I imagined! I want someone, someone who meets my conditions, you know? You should understand!"

The sun shone on his face, and the reflection was particularly bright red.

******

She is a cat, a snow-white cat.

She had a master, and there was a place about the owner that resembled her, and that was that when no one was around, her master would show the ears on his head.

Why is her master different from the others?

Why does her owner have a pair of ears on his head?

Why does her owner have a tail behind her?

Why?

Why?

She came here and stayed with the host for many days.

There are many, many people here, and a lot of people are busy.

Her owner doesn't like to go out.

Why?

Why?

The sun outside is so comfortable.

One of her favorite things to do is bask in the sun.

It's a pity that there are a lot of people here, and she has to find a good place, otherwise, she will be inadvertently stepped on by the people here.

Not only is it very crowded, but it is also a very large place.

She wanted to find a place where she could bask in the sun comfortably.

She searched for a long, long time.

I also looked for many, many places.

While she was looking, she met a little girl, a very cute little girl.

The people here call the little girl a princess.

Every time she heard the word, it felt familiar.

I don't know why, she likes this little girl and loves this little girl who is called a princess.

However, her master did not like it.

Her master asked not to run around, and in particular, not to approach the little girl who was called the princess.

Why?

Why, exactly?

Her mind was full of all sorts of questions.

She quietly avoided her master as she cautiously continued her exploration.

One day, she met a man.

Did the man just stand like that, as if waiting for someone, or was he just looking at the sky and the white clouds?

When she is basking in the sun, she also likes to look at the sky and white clouds with her eyes!

This person has the same interests as me.

So, she wanted to get close to this person, and of course, there was a familiar smell from this person.

Why?

Why, exactly?

She felt familiar, but she couldn't remember anything.

She's nothing more than a cat.

An ordinary cat, except for the fact that the whole body is covered with snow-white hair, which is not very ordinary, and it is an ordinary cat everywhere.

Of course, she is still very proud of her hair!

She loves the snow-white fur on her body.

Besides, there is another cat in this place that is almost exactly like her.

The only difference is that the eye color is different, and everything else is exactly the same.

The cat that looks exactly like her is particularly fierce.

Every time she saw it, she couldn't help but shiver.

Why?

Why, exactly?

Will she be afraid of it?

The cat, who looks exactly like her, is the king of this place.

It had been living here for a long, long time before she came here.

Before she came here, it was the only cat here.

Its owner is the little girl who is called the princess.

It especially likes to hide, and the princess looks for it every day.

It's good that she wants to get close to the princess too.

The owner never allowed her to do so.

She wants to be touched by the princess's chin, fed by the princess, and with the princess.

But one thing is very strange, she looks so much like it, except that she was treated as another white cat when she first came into contact, and the next few times, the princess can immediately notice the difference between her and it, the difference between her and it?

Why?

Why, exactly?

She didn't understand, still, with these questions in her head.

Until, the person reappeared, the one emitting a familiar scent.

Soon after, a third cat came to this very large place.

It's not the same with her, it's not the same with it.

The third cat is a cat with very long hair.

The color of the hair was very dark, and she couldn't figure out what color it was.

The cat's hair was long, beautiful, and not messy at all.

She must have had a master who loved her very much, and her master must have taken great care of her hair.

Unlike her, it will become a mess after a while, and because there is a master who doesn't like to go out, she wants to be clean very much, and her owner is still the same and doesn't like to go out all day.

She is a snow-white kitten, curious, and has a withdrawn owner who doesn't like to go out all day.

Then one day, she met a third cat who was different from her and her.

Her life was ruined.

******

Everything happened so quickly.

Samuel entered the palace again, carrying a seemingly ordinary package, wrapped in a white cloth, and tied with a rope and a few dead knots, and once again came to the place where he had been before.

In addition to spending some time at the palace guard, being questioned and searched many times, and not carrying dangerous items, after all, this is a special period, and the important day of the Six Nations Conference is about to be held, purely for security reasons.

Then, he retrieved the token of a member of the Adventurer's Guild, and the package that seemed to be very ordinary.

I walked in through the gate of the palace, and when I entered, there was a large empty place.

It's not entirely empty, this spacious place is the front courtyard of the palace, where every few meters are planted with large trees of unknown species, large trees and small flower beds.

It stretches all the way and stretches for hundreds of meters.

Samuel also walked hundreds of meters.

On the way, a long tail passed in front of me.

The owner of the tail stopped, paused for a second, and for that second, it just glanced back at Samuel, as if to question why he was here. Samuel didn't have time to reply, but someone came not far away, and the owner of the tail ignored him, and burst into the nearby flowerbed like a gust of wind, and the little figure disappeared immediately.

Samuel shrugged his shoulders and walked forward, asking the people who were coming this way.

The person he was looking for was a magician who lived in the palace, and it was strange that the name of the magician was not provided in the Adventurers' Guild. Was it for the sake of non-disclosure agreement? Is it really necessary? There was no point in delving into it, Samuel came here and delivered the package to the nameless magician.

"That guy is really here. ”

Thinking back to what he had just seen, he couldn't help but mutter.

"Just don't get into any trouble, and besides, it's just a guess whether it's really here or not. ”

Talking to himself, he walked forward, and continued along the stone path in front of him, passing through the circular fountain opposite, where several small houses were lined up.

If asking for directions was the right direction, then the nameless magician's abode was in the little houses that lined up.

The houses were generally built very low, just behind the flower beds that surrounded the fountains.

Suddenly, he seemed to have hit something.

"What's going on, is this the wall?"

Samuel was surprised, reached out and fumbled a few times, it was transparent and could not be seen with the eye, and it felt like cold glass to the touch. He knocked on it, but it didn't make any sound.

Follow the invisible wall and grope your way to the right, hoping to find an entrance to enter.

However, as he walked to the right against the invisible wall, Samuel walked farther away from the row of small houses. Until, when it feels like an angle, it becomes another direction.

"Is it a corner of 90 degrees from here?"

“……”

Continuing along this side, Samuel walked for a while and saw the side of the row of small houses.

"It was just the front, and now it's on the side...... Could it be that the entrance will be on the other two sides?"

With this uncertain question, he could only continue to explore.

"Meow. ”

Suddenly, a voice came from below.

"Cats?"

Looking up at Samuel was a small white kitten, somewhat familiar, and Samuel immediately remembered where he had seen the cat before. However, he didn't have time to pay attention to the cat now, and he didn't like cats very much.

"Meow!"

The white cat continued to bark at him.

"I'm not available with you. ”

glanced at it impatiently, but suddenly noticed something that he hadn't noticed just now, the white cat's raised tail was stained with bright red blood droplets, which was particularly eye-catching on such a pure white and flawless torso.

"Meow meow!"

Seeing that Samuel still didn't seem to want to pay attention to himself, the white cat opened its mouth and bit down on his little foot.

"You guy actually bit me!"

He immediately moved away from the cat, and as he lifted the corners of his trousers, he stared at the white cat vigilantly with his peripheral vision, lest he pounce on him and bite him a few more times. Luckily, he didn't see a wound on his foot, whether it was because it didn't bite hard or because of the fabric of his pants.

He didn't want to think about a cat's thinking circuit, and he wasn't kind enough to treat a cat's wounds.

"Meow meow!"

The white cat seemed to be in a hurry and continued to bark.

"It's noisy, get out of the way!"

After shouting this sentence impatiently, he really wanted to catch the cat and throw it away.

The next moment, there was a movement somewhere nearby.

He heard what sounded like a splash of water and immediately turned his head away.

"What ......"

Between the rows of small houses, a column of water several meters wide rose and rushed into the sky.

This scene seems to indicate something.

"What the hell is going on. ”

Looking at the huge column of water that rushed into the air and rose rapidly, and I don't know how many hundred meters it rose, Samuel began to run wildly, desperately.

There was a thought in his mind, and his body was dominated by this thought, and he was completely indifferent to other things, which made him forget an important detail. A few minutes ago, the transparent wall that had blocked him had disappeared without even noticing.

When he approached the water column, Samuel was stunned and his steps gradually slowed down.

That column of water, to put it without exaggeration, was at least ten meters wide, and I don't know if dozens of people standing close together can really make up that width. In short, witnessing this giant column of water in the vicinity, which was almost spectacular to the extreme, he began to realize some kind of uneasiness, changed his original course, and tried to get away.

As he stepped back, he looked up at it frequently, and it had reached an indescribable height, as if it was about to block out the sun in the sky.

Moreover, Samuel also realized that there was a problem, it was impossible for no one to be so blind that someone would come right away.

Although it had nothing to do with him, he was the first person to witness it, which made him look a little suspicious, and it was still a hassle to explain and a lot of time wasted.

As he took a dozen steps back, the sound of tumbling water rang in his ears at the still-close distance, and some other footsteps from other directions began to be added. Suddenly, at this moment, there was a sharp warning not far behind him, "Be careful!"

It was just the moment Samuel turned behind him that he instinctively sensed an anomaly coming from above his head, carrying a rapid signal of danger, however, it was still too late, and he still couldn't get out of that range.

The jet of water, with a huge impact, poured down at an angle slightly ahead.

Unsuspecting, and unlucky, Samuel made a close encounter with the water jet.

A large amount of water rushed to the ground and drowned forward, and some of the people who rushed this way did not have time to escape, but they were only luckier than Samuel, and the impact was much smaller.

At that time, Samuel was immediately stunned by the downward impact of the water jet, and then, like a driftwood, drifted away with the direction of the current. When he opened his eyes, he found himself lying on the ground, his clothes soaking wet.

"Hmm......"

He was surprised that he was still alive with the impact of falling from a height.

Moreover, there is no major physical problem.

Trying to stand up, suddenly, something scratched his ear.

"Meow. ”

"It's you?!"

"Meow!"

The cat jumped on Samuel's head and pressed its paws against his face.

"What the hell, don't stand on top of me. ”

Samuel tried to shake it off.

"Shh ”

"Huh?"

"It's really meow, I don't usually see you talk so much, it's not okay to be quiet, I spent so much effort to find you and heal your injuries, but you almost died, all thanks to me. ”

"......" Samuel rolled his eyes, "you talk more than I do, what do you say is quiet or not." ”

“…… I can't use magic anymore, or I'll be discovered, I'm saying so much to explain, can you be quiet, I finally found an opportunity to cast a stealth magic on us, and if you make a big move, this magic will be invalid, you see, meow?"

“……”

Now he didn't understand what was going on, and the guy kept himself quiet, and although he was not happy, he could only do it, so as not to really attract people's attention. There's one more thing Samuel can't help but care about, what if he loses that package? How can he find it? How much compensation does he have to pay for losing Mission Story? Who made that water jet?

It's really unlucky.

He wanted to make money, but he lost the package.

Samuel gritted his teeth and glared at the long-haired cat, trying to spread fire on the other.

As if she felt the special gaze behind her, Hima shuddered, looked back into his eyes, and roared at him.

“…… Meow!"

“…………”

Samuel slapped his face, ignoring the guy and began to look around.

He was in a place he had never seen before, like a plantation, where there were lots and lots of potted plants with all kinds of plants on them, and each potted plant had a label attached to it. Above their heads, there is a circular glass skylight, through which the sunlight shines obliquely on the plants, full of vibrant greenery.

After waiting for a while, there was no one else in the area except them.

They didn't make any noise, which made it very quiet.

He maintained a half-squatting position and waited for a few more minutes.

“……”

He couldn't help it, and asked in a low voice, "How long are we still here, and when can we leave?"

The clothes on the body are still wet, not to mention the cold, the skin is uncomfortable against the wet clothes.

"Shh

“……”

Waited a few more minutes.

"Come with me, I'll leave you behind if I can't keep up!"

"Yes, yes. ”

When you leave here, make sure you change your clothes right away.

Samuel followed the cat around the palace for a while, and after a few hours, finally left without any problems.

“……”

I'm hungry.

Away from the palace, a cat came to a certain street alley, and his footsteps stopped.

"You explain what the hell is going on. ”

“…… Meow. ”

"Do you like being a cat that much?

"Meow that can't come back. ”

“……”

"Didn't lie to your meow!"

“……”

"In other words, failure, serious big failure. ”

“…… It's not that serious, it's just been discovered......"

"This is already a failure!!"

"I didn't expect this to happen. ”

"What's going on with that water jet?"

“…… A magic trap that I accidentally touched while leaving......"

In fact, she originally thought it was a small magic ban, but it turned out to be a compound magic array that she had never seen before.

The long-haired cat lay on the ground softly, looking unenergetic, and even the pair of fluffy ears drooped weakly.

“…… I broke into the palace and met two other cats inside, which were immediately discovered. ”

"Cats?"

"Yes, Meow, it's a cat-shaped monster, I almost got into a fight with it, it used a few magic and immediately lost its strength Meow, no way, I don't want to entangle with it for too long, so I told it that I was just looking for someone, and I was warned Meow. "Anyway, it also tells you something, where the court mage is. ”

"You run right over and fall into a magic trap. ”

"No...... Careless meow. ”

She looked frustrated.

“……”

Samuel was silent for a moment, exhaled, and turned to leave.

"Gone. ”

“…… Meow. ”

"Why? Aren't you leaving? I've run for nothing, and I haven't gained anything. ”

“……”

"Stay by yourself, I'm leaving. ”

"Meow ......"

"Meow meow!"

Samuel thought she would be depressed for a while, but suddenly, in a panic, she ran up and ran in front of her, blocking her way.

"Meow meow!"

"Speak human words. ”

"Meow meow!"

She began to roll back and forth on the ground, rolling around in front of Samuel, from left to right, and from right to left, back and forth several times, completely unaware of what she was trying to say.

"Are you kidding me?"

Samuel looked at the fire, but this time she stopped rolling and kept waving her front paws as if she was trying to make something out of the ground.

There wasn't much sand on the dry ground, and it took her a while to figure out a few vague and crooked words on the ground.

"Can't speak? You mean you can only meow now?"

"Meow!"

She nodded immediately.

"Don't pretend, it's fun to play me?"

"Meow meow!"

She shook her head frantically!

“……”

"You really didn't lie to me?"

He was still skeptical.

"Meow meow!"

After nodding his head, he kept shaking his head.

“…… Is there or not? ”

"Meow!"

She wagged her tail and bit at the corner of Samuel's pants, trying to take him somewhere.

“…… Communication is really difficult. ”

"Well, where do you want to go, go back first, and see if they have any way. ”

"Meow meow!"

"Shake your head? What does that mean? Don't go back?"

"Meow meow!"

"Nodding, if you don't go back, where are you going, hey, is this for me to follow you?

As a result, Samuel was guided to the path leading to the direction of the palace, and the closer he got to the palace, the more likely he was to have a guess in his mind. When the door appeared in front of him again, Samuel immediately turned around and left.

"Meow!"

I was bitten by the cat under my feet and forcibly pulled back.

“……”

He simply lifted it up, pinched the back of his neck, and continued to walk back.

"Meow meow!"

The cat in his hand struggled so hard that his tail slapped Samuel's face.

“…… I, the police, the sue, you!"

He gritted his teeth vigorously and said word by word.

"Don't get me in trouble again!!"

******

Leaving from Karanslan, no, from the Boundless Forest, after that, he came here.

The country, called Gainrut, is sandwiched on the map between Karanslan and Remirabel and faces the sea on the other side.

He went through a period of fugitives, just like several escapes in the past, constantly changing his identity and appearance.

On the way, while passing through a town, he suddenly stopped.

He heard a dying cry for help, looked for the sound, and saw a dirty cat.

Its breath grew weaker and its cries became lower and lower.

After a few seconds, he walked towards it.

"Meow ......"

He came to him, crouched down, and reached out to pick it up.

On that filthy little body, he found a scar and a small piece of hair missing from the skin near the tail, apparently bullied. What's more, it is very thin, as thin as dried firewood, and completely loses its original beauty.

It was supposed to be a very beautiful cat.

With a little bit of care, it wouldn't be as bad as it is now.

“……”

After picking it up, it struggled to keep its eyes open, as if trying to see itself clearly.

Then, the light in its eyes slowly dimmed, and it closed forever.

It's breathless.

Thoroughly.

This poor cat, that's how it died.

It ended up dying in the arms of people, not on dry, cold ground.

Will this be the last consolation for it?

He doesn't know what a cat thinks.

I can't understand it either.

What was its final mood?

Will it be resentful?

Or is it......

Either way, he couldn't know what it was going to be like in the end.

Originally, it was just a cat he had met by chance on the street.

He had nothing to do with the cat, even if it died in his arms.

He wondered.

Why?

He actually stopped and picked up the dying cat, did he want to save it?

As a result, he couldn't do anything, and he couldn't save it.

Even if it finds food or a veterinarian before it dies, it's too late to try.

It's just a weak cat.

When it was bullied, its physical condition was quite poor.

Even so......

"Am I pitying it......"

He muttered alone.

"Hahahaha. ”

Immediately, he laughed and laughed, inexplicably amused.

The passers-by looked at him in astonishment, and he ignored these glances, and walked out of the city with the dead cat in his arms.

When he reappeared, he was holding a lively white kitten.

******

"Meow meow!"

Samuel let out a long sigh as they returned to the palace.

This time, Samuel used up all the few remaining invisibility potions, and there was not a single drop left.

With the effect of stealth, he slipped into the palace by aiming at the opportunity.

Of course, they didn't enter through the doorway, they climbed the wall to get in.

There is a very high-level reconnaissance magic array set up at the entrance of the palace, and any stealth, transformation, etc., will all be revealed, as for how Jima managed to break in through the door after turning into a cat, this is unknown.

Samuel, on the other hand, chose to climb the walls for more caution and safety.

Of course, it took a lot of effort and a little time, and Samuel finally got in.

“…… I said, does it really make sense to come back here?"

He looked impatiently at the cat walking in front of him, and reacted and patted his forehead.

"Well, you can't talk. ”

"It's really ......"

He actually came along, what kind of confusion did he make today?

"It's good to be smart, I changed my clothes before coming here, but ......"

Picking a clean set of clothes at a clothing store is another purchase.

My heart couldn't help but tingle.

He prayed desperately, hoping that the package was still in or near the same place, and that it would be good if he came to the palace this time and could find the package by the way. Even if this task can't be completed, at least he doesn't have to lose money.

Otherwise, one stroke after another, his heart will definitely not be able to bear it.

Following her, walking around the palace, Samuel was secretly surprised, no one had noticed them this time, what did this guy do with Hima?

Can the places they pass along the way be safe?

Inexplicably, there is always a sense of unease.

He didn't know what had happened to the cat, but would it have gone so smoothly for them?

Suddenly, they stopped.

There was only one reason they stopped, and they were discovered.

“……”

Things really weren't going to go this way, Samuel stared ahead, and glanced at Hima again.

What would this guy do?

"Meow Meow~"

"Meow!"

"Meow Meow~~"

"Meow meow meow!"

The two cats stared at each other with wide eyes.

Although it is said that it is a cat that found them, it is also a monster.

Is it safe? or is it not safe?

Hima said that she was also discovered by this cat before, and it took a lot of saliva to convince the other party in exchange for a warning.

And what about this time?

The snow-white cat, with graceful steps, walked slowly towards this side.

"Meow!"

"Meow Meow~"

It felt like a quarrel, one side was ingratiating, and the other side was not appreciatively shouting.

“…… I really want to know what you said. ”

It's a pity that he doesn't understand cat language.

The white cat passed by Samuel, looked up at him, and barked at him a few times, and the voice felt a bit coquettish, different from the tone of the conversation between Hima, and without that passionate high voice.

It must be an illusion that he will be popular with cats.

Suddenly, Samuel remembered.

“…… It's really not a Warcraft, it's fine. ”

Half crouched down and touched the white cat's head.

"Meow~"

He squinted his eyes as if he was very comfortable.

“…… Delusion?"

He watched the white cat run away, "It's the same as the one at that time, the eye color is different, am I mistaken?"

After a considerable walk, Samuel found them back to the spot where the water column had appeared yesterday.

“…… Can I get in this time, and the wall is gone? No, it was ...... at that time yesterday."

"Meow!"

Seeing Samuel stop, Hima turned around and urged.

Samuel looked left and right, and the place had obviously been cleaned up, and the sudden column of water poured down from yesterday's battle, and the tumbling water flooded many things, first of all, the flowers and grass in the vicinity. However, it looks particularly clean now, and the people who clean up the mess move really fast.

Of course, that's not the point.

Samuel drops Jima and starts rummaging around.

"Meow meow!"

“…… No. ”

"Then again, if you are swept away, you will probably rush far away, and you may be picked up by others...... Do you really mean I can't get it back!?"

"Meow?"

Samuel sighed heavily, very reluctant, and could only forget it like this.

"Let's go, where are you going to take me. ”

Himma paused to look at him for a moment, thinking that he should return to his normal appearance, before continuing to lead the way and continue walking.

One cat leads the way, one follows, and this time they are unimpeded, and Himema is like a familiar person who has been here more than once, and knows every place here. Until, they entered one of the houses.

"Here it is...... Could it be said. ”

"There's obviously a glowing circle on the floor, how do you get in?"

Hima also saw that the ground at the entrance was carved with a magic circle, which was running all the time.

She reached out her paw and pointed to Samuel at the magic crystal in the middle of the circle.

"You mean I'm going to take that stone down, what if I'm attacked when I'm in the past?"

His eyes widened in disbelief.

"Meow!"

Jima fiddled with her paws and wrote an ugly line on the ground.

“…… It's an ugly word, it won't hurt? You're lying to me!"

"Meow!"

"Hah, you're going to be responsible for curing me? What are you kidding? ”

"Meow!"

"Even if you ask me, I can't. ”

Hima was also furious, and began to circle around quickly, as if urging Samuel to hurry in.

“……”

They continue to stalemate here, and it is just a waste of time, the effect of the invisibility potion has a time limit, and continue like this. Samuel stood there and stared at Hima for a moment, then became annoyed.

"No, am I really going? There's really no other way. ”

If Hima entered the formation and took the magic crystal, with her current body, she would probably fall down all of a sudden.

“……”

"It's annoying, you remember that you owe me once!"

There was really no other way, Samuel could only choose to go in, he had no other choice.

When he took a step full of courage and determination like a soldier going to the battlefield, at this moment, his actions should be recorded by history, however, his step suddenly stopped in mid-air.

Because, there was a voice in the room.

"Oh, what a rarity, two guests. ”