Chapter 27 Reborn as a Mother, Oh, the Curse...
Amélie felt very tired.
"Xiao En—"
"Fimini, come inside quickly!"
The cat and the man were fighting in the cramped house. Fearing that her child would get hurt, the mother quickly locked him back in the bedroom and faced the chaotic scene alone.
It was less of a fight and more of a one-sided tearing and biting.
Amélie's fear of cats has always been for a reason.
This small tiger-like beast is powerful yet agile. With a flick of its hind legs, it can easily dodge a lashing arm. With a shake of its neck, a row of gashes will appear on a person's skin, from which blood will trickle.
"Is this a cat?! Amélie, what kind of monster have you kept at home?!" the man in front of her screamed.
"You're not allowed to talk about Xiao En like that! Stay away from my mother!"
The children behind him were shouting.
Ah, Fimini, my fragile child, when he was born, I held him in my arms, and even his cries and gasps were so soft that I could hardly hear them. When has this child ever expressed his emotions so intensely?
"ha--!"
And then there's Xiao En. I've always known Xiao En has a good temper, but I'm still afraid of him. After all, he's just too big. What if he suddenly goes berserk and hurts people? I can't stop him at all.
In retrospect, being a bit bigger is actually a good thing.
As for that bastard, let him get hurt.
Amélie did not stop it.
"You can leave now."
Amélie hardened her heart towards her former lover, her former sweetheart.
"No one in this house welcomes you."
*
"No, you can't do that!"
The canine nails pierced through his flesh, causing the man to tremble in pain, yet he stubbornly refused to leave.
"Help me, dear Amélie! Wife! Son!"
Terrified of being bitten, the man desperately tried to hide under the bed.
"Please, please don't kick me out! I'll die out there!"
"You're a poisonous insect, you're so prickly you'd be hard to even touch, who would deign to kill you?"
Amélie stood with her back against Fimini's door, coldly observing, "Stop making excuses, get out of here!"
"Someone's trying to kill me! Someone's trying to kill me!"
The man wailed under the bed:
"Haven't you heard of the serial killer Lynx? He's coming to kill me!"
! ! ?
The cat's paw froze in mid-air, unsure whether to continue.
Mainkuhn really didn't understand how this matter could be related to him.
......
After a brief silence.
"Nonsense!"
Amélie's reaction was ten thousand times more intense than that of the half-demon!
"Do you think the Grey River people won't investigate just because the Fontainebleau newspaper didn't report it? I know perfectly well that the lynx killed only heinous criminals who deserved to die! How could it kill an ordinary gambler?"
“!......”
The man under the bed fell silent instantly.
"!?"
Amélie couldn't see his face, but she could hear his guilty breathing.
"What did you do? Did you cheat someone out of money? Did you steal something?" the mother murmured in fear.
No, these things shouldn't be enough to attract lynxes.
"Robbery? Kidnapping?"
That's not enough!
"Child trafficking? Kidnapping Les?"
The man remained silent.
Amélie grew increasingly frightened, and her hands and feet turned cold.
"brute!--"
"Don't think so badly of me, honey."
The man stammered under the bed, trying to clear his name:
"I just sometimes have bad luck and need to get some money into the game to win back everything."
"Amélie, I did all this for our family! Think about it carefully..."
He made solemn vows, painting a bright future for his wife:
"Don't you like clothes? Don't you like jewelry? Sumeru has colorful fabrics, and Liyue has dazzling treasures. Once I win back my money through gambling, all of that will be yours!"
"......"
A sincere promise? No, no!
This is clearly a death warrant.
Amélie has never seen him win!
"Wife!"
As he spoke, the man suddenly became excited, forgetting the pain in his body and the big cat guarding the bedside.
So, is there any money left in the family?
"Give me a bet later."
......!
A thick, murderous intent permeated the entire room like oil.
*
"Mom, where are we going?"
Little Fimi was pulled forward by her mother's hand, looking confused.
"......"
Xiao En, their cat, was forcibly driven away from the bedside by her mother and taken to live with her. Now she is following behind them, bewildered.
Fimini's biological father looked at his son as if he were a son, and at his wife as if he were a wife; he looked at them as if they were money jars. Mainkuhn hated him.
However, because the man hadn't started doing anything bad yet, and his malice hadn't reached the required level, Mainkun didn't lose control of his demonic power.
The half-demon was grateful for this.
No matter what, I don't want to turn into that annoying human form in front of Fimini!
Whether it's the faded, soft blanket, the innocent, clear blue eyes, or the creaking floorboards underfoot, Mainkuhn didn't want them to be stained by the blood-stained boy.
So, in a little while...
"Mimi".
Although it's difficult for me, I will try my best to kill him without bleeding.
The cat made a promise to the mother and child as they walked away.
After all, that guy only fled from Fontainebleau to seek refuge because he was afraid of lynxes, thus disrupting your peaceful lives.
That was my fault.
......
It needs to be made up for.
Ahead, little Fimini's hands were being pulled so hard they hurt, and she started to feel scared.
"Mom, why are we going out?"
"Mom, I don't want...that man to stay in the house."
"Mom, why are you crying?"
Amélie let out a sob, just once, and quickly shut up and held it in.
Silly child, stop thinking about that home.
Those scumbags who lend money have decided to seize our house... and you.
If the lynx hadn't killed that human traffickers, causing them to lose their familiar partners and have to find new middlemen... they probably would have taken you away from me long ago.
If we don't seize it today, we will seize it tomorrow.
If we don't seize it tomorrow, we will seize it the day after.
......
God! Kill me! For I cannot protect my own child!
The mother led her son to the door of an unfamiliar house.
"Fimini, right?"
A woman walked out of the door, looking critically at Fimini's thin shoulders.
"Come with me."
She reached out and grabbed the child's hand.
"Huh?"
"ha--!"
Xiao En, who had been obediently following behind, suddenly became agitated and opened her mouth to bite the woman's arm!
"No!"
With a strength she didn't know she possessed, Amélie grabbed his head and pushed the cat behind her!
"!?"
The final farewell must not be disturbed in any way.
"Be obedient."
The mother knelt down, half-kneeling, and reverently kissed her child's forehead.
"?"
Little Femini glanced at her mother, then at the headmaster, thinking it was just a temporary separation.
"Um."
He nodded and gave his mother a smile.
"??"no! ?
Mainkuhn is going crazy.
Amélie, Amélie! Do you know where this is?!
Yes, you don't know, the House of Hearths has always been careful to hide the bodies of children.
Oh my god, why am I only just discovering that there's a Kujavina outpost here?!
"Aww—"
As the director led Fimini into the orphanage, Mainkuhn, without a second thought, scanned the surrounding corners with his vertical pupils—
He needs a place to transform himself into a more lethal human form!
"I'm so sorry, Xiao En."
But something hard and dry was stuffed between the cat's sharp fangs—it was a human finger. Ameri pressed down on the half-demon's paws with her soft belly and blocked the half-demon's fangs with her skin-and-bones palms. Mainkun dared not move again.
"Bite me, scratch me."
She bent down and forcefully picked up the cat like she was cuddling a baby, but painful gasps escaped her chest.
"Because I'm going to let you down."
"Waaah—"
The cat's vertical pupils trembled with bewilderment, and its sharp claws contracted and expanded in confusion.
But the teeth never managed to pierce her mother's rough skin or hurt her fragile finger bones.
"I see."
Tears streamed into her silver-gray fur. Amélie was in agony, but she had no intention of stopping.
"You are such a good child."
......
"How much is a cat like this worth?"
*
"It's worthless."
That's what the black market merchants said.
"Too big, even a Maine Coon is too big. Sigh, the pet market doesn't welcome big cats these days; small is considered beautiful."
He put on his bite-proof gloves, took the cat from Amélie's arms, and placed it on the scale.
"Barely up to standard, so I guess I'm considered healthy."
"What happened to the tail? A broken tail will fetch an even lower price."
The merchant scanned the half-demon's entire body, making a casual assessment:
"It could be sold as a small lynx to fool those who don't know anything about them, but it's also a cheap commodity that's hard to sell."
Cheap goods?
Amélie took one last look at the cat, meeting his clear, shining golden vertical pupils.
"......"
Unlike other lively and playful cats that wouldn't cooperate with the weighing, Xiao En stood on the scale with all four paws, looking very docile, as if she had no idea she was about to be sold.
Ah, ah, such a smart and well-behaved child, yet according to universal values, is she still an unpopular failure?
Amélie lowered her eyes, unable to look at the cat any longer.
So how much is it worth?
"Oh—that's hard to say."
The black market dealer rolled his cunning eyes and pulled a weapon from his clothes. "The pistol you've got your eye on isn't enough, but I have a secondhand one here..."
"Mimi".
The cat meowed in confusion, stretching out its paws to reach for her hand.
What's wrong with you, human?
Where are you taking me, Mom?
"......"
"No! I don't want the gun anymore, sir."
Amélie could no longer bear it; a heavy sense of guilt weighed on her mother's heart.
"Give me that machine saw. I know its price; it's much cheaper than a gun... even a secondhand handgun."
She spent half her life paying off debts, but she never actually owed anyone anything.
Besides Xiao En, there was this miracle who inexplicably barged into the house and brought countless blessings.
But should we repay what we owe wild animals? Don't humans constantly take fur and meat from other creatures? When has anyone ever repaid anything?
"You don't need to give me any extra money."
"Please do your best to find a good buyer for this little... kitten."
If I don't need it, why does my heart still ache so much, without any relief?
O God! O God! O God!
With trembling hands, the mother used her thin shoulders to lift the machine saw.
God! If you won't kill me, then don't blame me for killing the culprit!
Thank you—damn! Cruel! Fate!—for giving me the chance to kill that bastard with my own hands!
*
"Haha! You ignorant people from the Grey River region."
The black marketeer happily tucked the second handgun into his pocket and went to the warehouse to find a cage.
"She actually believed me when I said it wasn't worth anything, hey! Maine coons are the more expensive the bigger they are, this one is worth at least ten million. No tail? No tail is fine too! It can be used as a stud, it's so big!"
Find a bigger female cat, have a bunch of kittens, and then the kittens will have more kittens, hahaha! Wouldn't that be an inexhaustible gold mine? — Ugh!
"Thump!"
The naked half-demon boy knocked him down from behind.
"Well..."
Thankfully, his head wasn't blown off.
The long-lost human form made the boy anxiously press down his ears and gnaw on his sharp armor.
“Amélie…”
He reached out with trembling hands to pull off the black market merchant's coat.
"I have to stop her..."
"......"
Why should we stop it? What does it matter to wild animals when humans kill people?
......
Because, humans who commit murder will be arrested.
so...
"If anyone should be killed, it should be me."
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