Act 290. It's cool to pet the cat for a while
"You can call me Lady Freya."
The kitten said so seriously, making Reiner stunned in place.
It was a long time before Reiner came to his senses, took two steps forward, reached out his hand, and rubbed the kitten's face.
"It's really spoken, it's not a magic voice......"
He muttered to himself, rubbing the kitten's cheek incessantly.
"Please wait a minute, meow, if you continue like this, if you continue like this, you will be ...... Gurgling ......"
The kitten wanted to stretch out her paws in protest, but soon, she succumbed to Reiner's petting attack, and her throat made a continuous purring sound, her eyes were slightly closed, and her head was held high, enjoying Reiner's full range of services.
Reiner stroked the cat for a few minutes before withdrawing his hand and confirming.
"You're the legendary dorm keeper, uh, Lady Freya?"
“...... Why stop all of a sudden, no, I'm Lady Freya's meow! ”
The kitten sat up straight and repeated.
In order to show her identity, she rolled her eyes slightly, and a few books and quill pens floated on Reiner's desk, which were the hands of the mage.
"This is the ability of Transfiguration?"
Reiner returned to his place, looking at the kitten sitting in front of him, uh, Lady Freya.
"It's a misstep, to be exact."
With a light step, Madame Freya jumped off Reiner's table and sat down on the sofa opposite.
"In the process of a transformation spell, I had no way to change back into human form because of an accident, and I've been living like this for several years."
She licked her paws, a pleasant gesture that made Reiner think she might be doing it on purpose.
Being a cat is much happier than being human.
"By the way, my shape-shifting creature isn't a cat."
Hearing Lady Freya's words, Reiner frowned slightly, and looked carefully at Lady Freya in front of him.
The slender limbs, pink balls of flesh and claws, tiger-like patterns, and the beard on the face are no different from a cat.
"It's called Mona, and it's a creature from a distant half-plane."
As if smugly, Lady Freya stood up and stretched, her tail cocked high and writhing mischievously at the end.
"Real Fake ......"
Reiner twitched the corners of his mouth, always feeling that the other party was lying to him.
He stood up, pulled out the book of half-dimensional creatures, and with a lot of effort, he actually found an entry about Mona.
Turning to that page, Reiner first saw a picture of a creature that was almost identical to a cat, with the word "Mona" written on it in lingua franca.
Raising a Mona definitely didn't take long for Reiner to learn the peculiarities of this creature.
Mona is a wonderful creature, they have a biological clock in their body that is difficult to explain in any way, this biological clock is out of the plane, very precise, and the biological clock in each Mona is surprisingly consistent, so that their behavior becomes extremely regular, in short, they will sleep at a fixed time and wake up at a fixed time.
Due to this trait, in the past, many mages would keep a Mona to use as an alarm clock.
For this reason, during the ancient Magic Empire, mages also defined one-twelfth of Mona's standard sleep time as one hour in the main plane, which is equivalent to two standard hourglass times.
If you walk in the half-plane for a long time, then keeping a Mona is definitely a better choice than carrying a pocket watch.
"There really is a ......"
Reiner glanced at Lady Freya again, and to be honest, he still hadn't figured out what the difference between Mona's creature and a cat was in appearance.
However, Reiner soon noticed that Mona's native place was none other than the obliterated half-plane, Midgar, the original habitat of this creature was in the desert, heat-tolerant, usually stored for several days at a time of drinking, and the stripes on their bodies also became a protective color in the desert, and Midgar, where most of the area was desert, this creature used to be everywhere.
But with the annihilation of Midgar, most of the wild Mona was destroyed along with the humans living in the Midgar half-plane, but fortunately, due to the particularity of Mona itself, this creature was widely bred during the period of the ancient magic empire, so the destruction of Midgar did not have much impact on the Mona population itself.
Reiner looked up at Lady Freya, who was licking the fur off her back.
"There really is such a creature as Mona, why did you choose to become this?"
The mage's transfiguration is extremely special, allowing people to turn into another animal in a short period of time and gain the ability to correspond to the animal, but there are also limitations, such as the most basic, a mage can only choose to transform into one animal in his life, as long as he chooses, he can no longer change.
During the ancient Magic Empire, many mages would try to transform into flying birds or magical creatures that could control the elements, and it is said that in the distant past, mages managed to transform into dragons, but these are rumors that have no credible information.
In Reiner's opinion, Mona is no different from ordinary cats in other ways except for being able to tell the time accurately, and I really can't imagine anyone willing to transform into this.
"Meow for a lot of reasons."
Madame Freya did not explain, she jumped off the couch and circled around Reiner, who was sitting in the chair, and rubbed the end of her tail against Reiner's trouser leg.
"I've been watching you to see if you're qualified to inherit this academy."
She said, jumping onto Reiner's desk.
So why jump from here before...... Reiner twitched the corners of his mouth again.
He didn't pay much attention to Madame Freya's words, and when it came to the assessment, he felt that his current level was fully qualified to be the principal of this school, and he had not done anything unsightly in front of this kitten before, so he was frank.
"So what's your conclusion?"
Reiner shrugged, resisting the urge to pet the cat and looked at the other man's big amber eyes.
Cats, uh, Mona's eyes turn into a slit during the day, and they look quite cunning, and Lady Freya is no exception.
"You're qualified, so I'll show my identity in front of you."
Madame Freya said proudly, sitting at Reiner's desk with her front legs crossed.
So now, is she going to tell herself that this academy actually hides some secrets or something?
Reiner thought, but Lady Freya yawned and continued.
"You're going out next, right, I have someone I want to visit in Olmster, you can bring me with you."