Chapter 106 A Frenzied Biting Scene, Standing Up for Seno...
[Huh, the bleeding still hasn't stopped?]
[Strange, this kind of injury never needed any treatment before; it would just scab over on its own in a few minutes...]
“To stand idly by is not in line with my principles.”
[Wait, kid, what are you doing? Sorry, I don't need help right now, gotta go... Wait, my Furnessa!]
"Don't run."
Faced with the large cat turning to flee, Seno's small body suddenly burst forth with strength beyond his years. He slightly clenched his hands and, under Mainkuen's dumbfounded gaze, easily lifted the large cat, which was longer than his upper body!
"You need to get bandaged."
His face was relaxed, as if he were holding a rag doll.
[...?]
Mainkun stared blankly into his crimson eyes.
"Teacher, teacher!"
Sino, carrying the cat, strode swiftly and quickly knocked on the familiar door of his home.
"Hurry, I need help!"
"Oh, little Seno, you're back from shooting practice. Hurry up and take a shower and go to bed..." The room was noisy. After a while, Gülech opened the door with a smile, only to be met with a huge shock.
"Drink! What's that in your arms!?"
"It's a cat, and it's injured."
Sino ran into the house with the cat in his arms.
"A cat? It's so big! If you hadn't told me, I would have thought it was a little lion!"
Gülesh followed him into the house, and although he kept talking, he quickly found medical supplies in his hands.
"Here, clippers. Shave the hair around the wound before bandaging."
"good."
[。]
The cat remained motionless as they touched it, its eyes glazed over.
"So well-behaved, looks like a cat... Ouch, the wound is quite deep."
He heard the man sigh slowly and take out a brown liquid to apply to his head.
"Who's so cruel as to harm such a well-behaved cat?"
"It is indeed very well-behaved and has no wariness."
Seno firmly gripped the cat's four paws to prevent it from struggling due to pain.
"I don't understand..."
The soft, white belly of the woman made him feel like he had a fishbone stuck in his throat.
Why are there always people who can betray trust without any fear?
"..."
The atmosphere became somewhat heavy.
"Sino, do you know why Sumeru can keep cats in his house but not lions?"
Gülesh suddenly spoke.
"Because lions eat people."
"No, that won't do, it's so unfunny. Let me teach you... Because a cat can 'cat' in a room, while a lion can only 'lion' in a room!"
The lame joke finally jolted the bewildered Mainkuen awake: [...]?
"Did you understand? The word 'cat' here means 'to hide,' and 'lion' is a homophone for 'death'..."
"I see, teacher."
Seno's gloomy expression relaxed as he explained, and he finally gave Gülech a look of admiration.
"You're amazing! You can come up with such a brilliant joke so easily. I guess I still have a lot to learn."
[No! Wait!]
The big cat, which hadn't moved even when the medicine was applied, suddenly straightened up and began to writhe and struggle like a fish.
[Don't learn this kind of thing! Quickly save your serious, handsome face!]
"!"
Sino exerted force in his hand.
"Ah, so it's finally hurting too much? Don't worry, the teacher will be quick."
"Meow—!"
[No, no, no! I'm not moving because it hurts! I'm not staying still because I'm being good, it's because I can't understand it—]
Mainkun struggled frantically for a few moments, then realized with horror that:
[Although my cat form isn't very strong—you Sumeru child, your strength is still too much!?]
[Is this normal in Sumeru?]
[Sorry, Femini, Linne, and Trinity, we've unintentionally made you look outdated and behind international standards!]
"Oh…"
A weary voice suddenly came from behind the master and his apprentice.
"To leave us standing there for so long just for a cat, I must say, you're truly something else, the stubborn sage, the indomitable Jules Verne..."
"!"
The cat looked up and saw that there were dozens of people crammed into the not-so-spacious room. Their eyes were dim, which was out of place with the warm atmosphere of the somewhat silly master and apprentice.
"Hey Nafis, Hazard and his outdated ways are all gone. Stop using that derogatory nickname he gave me. It's really awful!"
"Sorry, but personally I think this nickname is kind of cool..."
“I think Hazard is right, you’re just a stupid bull!” A rude complaint interrupted Nafis’s apology.
“We, the elites of our nation, have come here from all corners of Mount Sumeru to discuss the righteous act of reclaiming Mount Sumeru and killing the tyrant. Yet you, in such a sacred and secret setting, have set your gaze upon a lowly beast!”
"Keep your voice down, Karim. Walls have ears. What if that tyrant hears us..."
"!?"
Good heavens! Where did this come from?!
The cat instantly pricked up its ears, its eyes darting around with a bright, darting gaze across the scholars' faces, which were tinged with barely concealed anger.
Sino, well done! You've delivered me straight to the scene of a rebellion against me!
...Or should it be called an uprising?
In short, we must not waste these precious emotions!
"Fear and urgency have made you unable to even tolerate a small life in need of help. How can a frightened bird accomplish great things?"
Güleche muttered something and reached out to push Seno's shoulder:
"Take it inside to rest, child. Even though school is canceled tomorrow, I don't think you're planning to sleep in."
[No, we can't leave!]
The cat leaped from the cushion onto the table, right in front of Karim.
[With this level of emotional intensity, even taking a tiny bit less would be a waste!]
"Get away!"
Karim was furious again. He waved his arms repeatedly to shoo it away, but the cat always easily dodged him with its nimble steps.
[Yes, that's it, be even angrier.]
Some people couldn't bear to see him in such a disheveled state and advised him:
"Karim, why bother getting angry with it? It's just a cat..."
Unexpectedly, the more the other party tried to persuade him, the angrier he became, and he shouted:
"If I can't do anything to a tyrant, surely I can't do anything to a cat!"
Then he drew his sword and roared as he slashed at the cat:
"Go to hell, you bastard!"
[He's got such a temper; I should find a way to make him my bodyguard.]
Seeing that he had the upper hand, Mainkun decided to quit while he was ahead. He prepared to move to a better position and nonchalantly raised his short tail, ready to jump away.
"Hmm!"
There was no sound of a knife slicing through a wooden table; instead, there was a scholar's exclamation. When Mainkuen turned around, he saw a small, white-haired child casually reach out and grab the man's dagger.
"Teacher, I want to stay."
He said.
"Because I really can't trust anyone, I can't trust such a plan to be handed over to a terrible adult who would take his anger out on other creatures."
"..."
A moment of silence followed, then an even louder commotion erupted.
"I'm not seeing things, am I? It's just a little kid!"
"Although Karim has always been all bark and no bite, and his strength doesn't match his temper, isn't it a bit too overpowered for him to have his blade directly gripped?"
[!]
The cat was also shocked and wondered:
[Could he also possess some kind of Crimson Moon Curse or demonic bloodline? Otherwise, this isn't the kind of strength someone his age should have.]
"you--"
Karim's face turned from red to green. He stared intently at the child in front of him, the immense humiliation and the anger of being exposed as powerless in public completely overwhelming his reason.
"What are you so smug about!"
A vicious outburst.
"Just a mere experimental subject! A vessel for Hermanus! A thing that lives only a day!"
[！！！！]
The cat whirled around, its sharp, vertical pupils fixed on Seno, its heart filled with a mixture of shock and anger.
What? !
"An experiment! A vessel for Hermanus... Ah, so it's this child. I've heard of him before; I've heard he exists..."
Exclamations of surprise and inquiry rose up together, piercing straight into Mainkuhn's mind.
"I can't believe he's grown so much! I thought..."
"Shut up! Karim Iltani!"
Gülech, abandoning his usual frivolous demeanor, exuded a terrifying aura. He kicked up a heavy iron spear from the corner of the wall, his rage uncontrollable:
"You will pay a hundredfold price for the humiliation my student suffered!"
"teacher!"
Seno quickly stopped him, believing it unnecessary to escalate the situation, since the past memories were already blurred and all the pain had been soothed by happiness.
"I'm fine, you don't need to—"
He quickly realized he had stopped the wrong person.
"Aww—"
He should have stopped that cat!
The moment Karim uttered the word "experiment," every hair on Mainkun's body stood on end within seconds! His golden vertical pupils, which had previously held a sense of languor and joy, were instantly consumed by a pure, violent rage that seemed to come from the abyss!
[Why. ]
[Why are these human experiments on children happening everywhere?!]
"ah……?"
Julesh slowly lowered his gun, and Seno quietly opened his mouth. The master and apprentice stood there in shock, watching the frenzied little beast leap up like a whirlwind and slam its claws hard into Karim's head!
"Ah! My eyes! I can't see with my right eye!"
So fierce! He was nothing like the docile and obedient person he was just moments before!
"Quick, grab him! Throw him away!"
The scholars shouted incoherently, but not one dared to lift a finger. Had Mainkun let these defenseless intellectuals off the hook? No! No! The mocking, the ridiculing, the greedy, the secretly gloating—not one of them would escape!
"Meow—"
"Help! Gülesh, are you just going to stand by and watch!?"
The furious silver-gray streaks of light unleashed an indiscriminate hunt in the crowded room! Every pounce brought someone down, and every open mouth was accompanied by a heart-wrenching scream. Thirty bloody holes were the physiological limit of a cat's teeth, not the psychological limit of Mainkuhn. He could catch someone and relentlessly chase and bite them until they broke down and howled!
"..."
It took Seno a long time to slowly close his mouth, and looking at the chaotic crowd in front of him, he asked:
"So teacher, are you really not going to stop them?"
"Hmph, what does it matter?"
Gülesh was indignant and disliked his colleagues very much.
"Few die from cat bites, many die from foul mouths! This little disciplinary officer you picked up is teaching them manners, don't stop him!"
"I'll listen to my teacher."
Little Sino looked at the cat that was beating people wildly in the house. If it weren't for the bandage he had wrapped around the cat's head, he would never have recognized it. Where had the docile big cat gone?
It...is it going to stand up for me?
No, a cat shouldn't be able to understand what just happened, given its intelligence.
Finally, amidst the "corpses" of scholars, a large, silver-gray cat, swishing its short tail, walked over looking extremely agitated.
"You're so strong, how did you get your head injured?"
Little Sino couldn't help but ask.
"Mimi".
He received a soft response.
Can't understand.
"Gurgle."
This is likely an attempt to appease.
"Suddenly he's turned into an absolutely wonderful cat again, that's quite a contrast."
Gülech hesitated, stroking his chin, but finally, out of caution, bent down carefully to pick up the cat.
"You can keep it, but you can't sleep with it. At most, you can play with it in the living room... Oh no, it ran away."
The cat twisted its body to dodge, then nimbly jumped onto the cabinet, its gaze level with Seno's.
"?"
Seno felt like he was being thoroughly scanned from head to toe many times, which made him uncomfortable, so he crossed his arms.
"What are you thinking? Don't underestimate me just because I'm small. If we were to fight, you would definitely lose."
[...]
The soft ear drooped slightly due to pain.
After a long while, Seno saw the cat bring its gauze-wrapped head closer, and then its forehead became slightly damp.
With a sense of comfort and pity, it gave itself a gentle lick.
"..."
"You're not really standing up for me, are you?"
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