Back inside the warm house, the burning fireplace took a long time to gradually dispel the lingering chill and bring warmth back to everyone, including me as I crawled out of the fluffy hood.
Darkness huddled on the fireplace mantle, [the cat] nestled beside her, while the hound, which had just emerged from mid-air, wagged its tail and stuck its tongue out at me.
At its feet, a folded piece of paper awaits to be read.
It was once again called upon to act as a messenger.
Hikari leaned over for a look, then squinted and gently patted the dog's head: "Well done, Wuni."
"Meow (isn't his name Wangcai?)?"
I scrambled down and grabbed the dog's wagging tail, then stomped hard on its back twice before landing lightly on the ground amidst its startled jump, and raised my question.
"Well, but Mr. Yumi said that Wangcai doesn't sound good."
Hikari's fingers gently stroked my back, then quickly swept across my tail from the base, sending a jolt of electricity through my spine: "Besides, we also tried naming Fokin, so we thought, 'Ah, why don't we give our cute and useful Wuni a new name too?' So we named her Wuni~"
Feeling a bit scared, I jumped back two steps, glanced back at my long tail that had now straightened its fur, and then swayed it nonchalantly.
Oh well, as long as this little idiot likes it, that's fine.
It's better than those weird and tacky names.
But cats have such strange bodies; they don't even let you touch their tails!
I looked down at the tail tip that was curling back and twitching in front of me, and my claws itched a little. I tried to step on it, but before I knew it, the tail, which seemed to have its own ideas, escaped again.
"It really turned into a cat, oh dear."
Annie laughed and reached out to tickle my ear. If I hadn't retreated quickly, I would have instinctively opened my mouth and bitten her.
No, perhaps it's better to bite it, because it's all because of that pot of stuff that I'm trapped inside the cat's body.
"Let's see what Sister Yao sent."
Hikari quickly pulled me back into her fluffy arms, and then unfolded the folded papers in front of me. An, who had been curled up to the side, had somehow retreated into the shadows again, peeking out from the ground where dark shadows rippled like water.
The content on the paper is very short.
"The way to undo the forced transformation spell is either a large amount of magic power or reaching the set time limit." Hikari read the contents of the paper softly. "The first official beast tide of this year has broken out, but the overall scale is smaller than expected."
“Everyone already knows the second one,” Annie eagerly interjected, then asked doubtfully, “What was the first one?”
"It means exactly what it says."
Alice hopped and skipped out from the gap in front of me, her long ears landing just wide enough for me to bite her: "One way is to use a large amount of magic to break through the restrictions, and the other is to wait for the spell's duration to pass~" She shook her ears and darted away, looking at Annie who was looking at her. "Miss Annie, may I ask if you considered the specific duration of this alchemical potion when you were making it?"
"...I don't know anything about alchemical potions or anything like that."
Annie turned her head away, scratching her cheek awkwardly: "Even if you let me decide how long it should last, I... I don't know!"
"Did you have any thoughts while you were making it? Like, did you make a wish or something?"
Anne paused slightly, her voice seeming to weaken a bit: "A... a wish..." She paused for a few seconds, then suddenly turned her back, "I wouldn't say I had a wish, but if I had any thoughts that crossed my mind at the time... well, I think I hoped that everyone could always be happy together..."
"Meow--!"
"Oh no, we're doomed!"
Damn it, I don't want to be trapped in this body forever!
The three-lobed rabbit covered its mouth and laughed for a long time until Miyuki, unable to bear it any longer, grabbed its ear, and it gradually stopped laughing while pleading for mercy: "Ahem, haha~ Sorry~ It was my butler who was too arrogant, hehe~ But Master, don't worry too much, this kind of spell definitely won't last that long~ And isn't there another way~"
Ruby's eyes gleamed with schadenfreude. This fellow was nothing like the waiter it claimed to be. Instead, it was always the first to rush to the front and loudly laugh whenever something amusing happened, making people's teeth itch with anger.
But it wasn't a living thing, so even if its body was damaged, it would only be a minor injury. It only needed to stuff the exposed cotton back into its body and close the tear, and it would be back to normal, continuing to chuckle inexplicably.
As for the first solution, I have considered it as well.
Since being trapped inside the cat's body, I have been trying my best to use the limited magic circulation within this body to open up all the magic circuits that exist therein, so as to connect with the magic circuits in my own body and break through this state.
According to my initial plan, the magical power stored in my original body was more than enough to break the spell I was currently under, not to mention that I also had Hikari to provide me with magic stone fragments, which would speed up my recovery.
However, this idea did not come to fruition.
No matter how hard I tried to circulate the magic within the cat's body, and even tried to replenish it by consuming magic stone fragments, I was unable to successfully reconnect with my original body and escape this awkward situation.
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