Chapter 74 Is the Magical Cat Cuter or Am I? ...
The doorway? What could be at the doorway? Shu Xin rubbed her eyes, sat up, and peered over.
The doorway was pitch black, and nothing could be seen. Shu Xin turned her head to look at Xi, only to see him staring at the doorway with great interest, his eyebrows and eyes full of curiosity.
Shu Xin realized what was happening and turned around abruptly. After a careful look, she discovered that the door she had closed before going to bed was now wide open, and a dark, solid mass was stuffed into the open doorway. No wonder she thought the doorway was dark at first glance; the dark mass was actually the unidentified creature.
River elves have night vision; they can see even in complete darkness. Shu Xin was completely misled by her own human thinking.
Xi couldn't recognize what kind of creature it was. Shu Xin looked at it from left to right, and felt like she recognized it. She hesitated before speaking, "This... looks like a magical cat? It looks like a pure black magical cat?"
"Meow..."
After being identified, the cat, which had completely blocked the door, moved slightly, but could neither move forward nor backward. In the end, it could only let out a weak and somewhat embarrassed meow.
Shu Xin: "...It really is a magical cat."
It was a magical cat stuck in the door.
As if sensing the activity of the room's occupant, the magical fluctuations of the miniature garden slowly spread out, and the beige mushroom chair on the ground emitted a soft and bright light, gradually illuminating the entire house.
Shu Xin wasn't yet able to fully utilize the river spirit's night vision ability, and it wasn't until this moment that she could clearly see the magical cat's appearance by the light—
This was indeed a magical cat, entirely black. Even its whiskers and eyes were pure black. If it weren't for the cat's pupils reflecting the light, giving it a translucent and lustrous glass-like texture, Shu Xin probably wouldn't have been able to see where its eyes were at all.
Noticing Shu Xin's gaze, the magical cat meowed softly again, as if a little embarrassed. It tilted its head slightly, avoiding Shu Xin's eye contact, and then Shu Xin could no longer find its eyes.
"A magical cat? What's a magical cat? Is it a magical beast? Does it come in many colors?" Xi asked a series of questions with great interest, finally licking his lips. "It smells so good, can I eat it, darling?"
Perhaps it understood what Xi said, or perhaps it sensed the danger hidden in Xi's hungry gaze, the magical cat shrank back with a large movement, but it was completely unable to pull its upper body back through the door.
Unable to escape, it crouched down, its fur bristling, and growled threateningly from deep within its throat: "Meow—!"
Shu Xin: "...You can't eat it! You're not hungry, why would you eat it! Don't try to eat everything you see!"
"Just because I'm not hungry doesn't mean I can't eat!" Xi muttered indignantly, then turned into a little lamb and angrily nudged Shu Xin with his head.
Shu Xin smacked her lips twice with the sheep's head and said dismissively, "Alright, alright, we'll talk about what you want to eat when we get home. Don't eat random things outside."
Xi stopped looking at it with eyes that seemed to be eyeing food, and the magical cat quieted down, its fur, which had become several times larger after it exploded, gradually settled down.
Jumping off the bed, Shu Xin tentatively approached the magical cat. Seeing that it did not show any resistance, she slowly reached out and felt around the edge of the door frame. She then discovered that the cat had itself stuck quite firmly, almost completely integrated with the door frame. Shu Xin could only try to find a foothold by pulling at the long fur on the magical cat.
Shu Xin was both amused and exasperated: "How did you do that?"
Seeing the sparkling flower fairy standing in front of it, the magical cat cautiously turned its head to the side, gently sniffed Shuxin's hair, and then happily meowed sweetly, stretching out its front paw.
Shu Xin was a little curious about what the magical cat wanted to do, so she stood still without dodging. Unexpectedly, it stretched out its front paw and gently pulled Shu Xin towards itself.
Shu Xin followed the force of the fluffy paw pads and fell into the soft chest fur of the magic cat. The next second, the magic cat lowered its head and very lightly licked the fairy's face with the tip of its tongue.
The scene should have looked like a fairy tale and cute, but from Shu Xin's perspective, the approaching giant cat head suddenly opened its mouth full of sharp teeth, and a scarlet tongue suddenly emerged from the darkness. To be honest, the scene was quite frightening. Most importantly, even though the magical cat had made its licking very gentle, the barbed cat tongue still stung her cheek after scraping against it.
Shu Xin felt that the magical cat was not magical at all in this respect—since it was a magical creature, why did it have to follow biological laws and have a tongue full of barbs?!
Now we can confirm why this magical cat got stuck in the door. Although its purpose is unclear, it was obviously looking for Shu Xin. With its size, it could walk normally in the corridor without any problem, but it would be quite difficult to get into the room.
It seems the magical cat isn't really a cat after all—it can't even transform into a fluid and flow perfectly into the room.
Shu Xin patted the magic cat's large paw that was blocking her way, and flew out of the big cat's arms. Then she took out a magic wand from her inner pocket and cast a shrinking spell on the magic cat stuck in the door. The shrunken magic cat easily got out of the door frame.
With a reluctant glance at the flower fairy, the magical cat turned and ran away. Shu Xin didn't even have time to stop it. She could only watch as that black figure quickly blended into the darkness of the deep corridor and disappeared.
Completely bewildered, Shu Xin closed the door again, utterly baffled as to what this magical cat was up to in the middle of the night. Surely it couldn't just be to lick her?
Although Shu Shuxin has a magical cat, she still wouldn't dare say she knows a lot about magical cats—
Because magical cats are actually a conceptual existence, these cute and agile cat-like creatures are all born from magic circles. As long as you prepare the materials with the corresponding attributes and draw the corresponding magic circle, a magical cat with the specified attributes will take shape in the shimmering magical light.
If the magical materials prepared in advance are not complete, a magical cat will still be born in the magic circle. However, the magical cat will be weaker and its magical attribute will be more random. For example, Shu Shuxin's magical cat was born with a random dark attribute because the magical materials prepared by her parents were not complete.
The growth of a magical cat requires not only magical materials of the corresponding attribute and sufficient magical power, but also the conceptual elements of "companionship" and "love." Without enough companionship and love, the magical cat will quickly die. As for the conditions for a magical cat to become a magical cat knight, they are also quite abstract. Besides requiring a large amount of magical materials and magical power, the magical cat's owner must possess a certain quality sufficient to guide the cat knight.
This is truly magical. Shu Xin felt like she understood everything, yet at the same time, she felt like she understood nothing at all...
Because of the special nature of magical cats, a healthy magical cat must have an owner who loves and accompanies it. So the question is, why would a magical cat with its own owner come to her room in the middle of the night and want to lick her?
Unable to understand, Shu Xin shook her head, lay back down on the bed, and prepared to go back to sleep. But as soon as she closed her eyes, she heard Xi's voice softly ringing in her ear:
"You really like it? Don't you think it's cute? Then do you still want to like me? Is it cuter or am I cuter?"
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