It was nearing down, Selena racing the wind following the scent she found on Cain.
The first time Cain ran through the forest at night he had to actively avoid monsters, but this time it was different! The mere smell of a black Jaguar's sweat and blood was enough to keep the weaker monsters at bay, even the stronger ones avoided them as it might be a needless fight.
Of course, they are a tribe that once lived in the forest, so being like that can be problematic. Thankfully it only worked with monsters who had an intelligence lower than 3! A dog would have an intelligence of 4 and a cow 2 for reference.
It didn't take her long to reach the city walls, Selena didn't even bother thinking about what was in front of her, she just climbed the wall in one go!
Squatting on top of the wall with Cain dangling on her back, she took a deep breath as the threads of dawn were piercing the sky!
"I can smell it, I can smell it-nya!" She said eagerly, "Master's mate, I gotta reach her-nya!"
Selena jumped from the wall to the nearest rooftop and started hopping from one building to another like a cat chasing a mouse.
"That's gotta be it-nya!" Selena has reached a certain window, standing at its frame she stared at the girl sleeping inside.
Sofia who was sleeping didn't wake to the monster sitting on her window, she was drowning in her dreams.
"Did my nose make a mistake, Master's mate can't be this weak-nya! She isn't waking up even with his blood being this close-nya!" Selena quickly changed her mind, 'No, humans don't have strong noses like us, they have different standards-nya!' She thought.
Selena gently placed Cain on the ground and started shaking Sofia, "Wake up-nya! Master is injured-nya!"
"Naa...another five minutes!" Sofia said half-asleep, This had angered Selena.
"Lazy female-nyaaa!" Selena dragged Sofia from her leg, dropping her from the bed onto the ground.
"Ahh!" That had forced her awake, upon opening her eyes, she saw Selena's angry and bloodied face.
"Hey you, you're finally awake-nya!"
Sofia screamed, for a moment she wished this was just a dream. Selena was starting to get annoyed, she unsheathed her claws in Sofia's face.
"Master is hurt, do something about it! Or do you want me to tear you face-nya!" This was the moment when Sofia finally noticed Cain.
"What happened?" she finally calmed down and tried to access what happened.
As she was checking Cain's body, Sofia asked Selena for an explanation, albeit she first accused her of being the one who hurt Cain.
I had been captured by the bandits, they managed with this wicked magic, it put me to sleep! Leaving me chained and starving for days just so I won't run, slowly I reached my limit, almost giving up. But then I smelled their blood filling the air.
Master had entered the room where I was locked, looking at me in the eyes! The bandits usually avoid that because they get scared. I understood their feeling, cause when I looked at Master's eyes I could feel my insides shivering, I couldn't understand if it was fear or something else, but I didn't want to lay my claws on him!
To my surprise, he did free me, but sadly at the time I was starving so I instinctively went for the food, ignoring him! He left with simple words, asking me to run with my life!
After eating, I returned to my senses. I tried to run as he said! The bandits had that mage who could put me to sleep, I will be just a hindrance to Master!
As I was running out, I stopped at the carnage master left, tens of bandits were dead. Between them, I could recognize the mage who I was scared of! Master had already killed him!
'What I'm doing? I left the tribe looking for a mate, why I'm running away now?' I could feel my claws and fangs tingling, they were yearning for blood.
We Jaguars are no lions, but still, we want a strong mate. 'If I ran now, I wouldn't be able to face him again!'
Following his smell to the deepest part of the cave, I suddenly smelled his blood.
I didn't think that much after that, just wanted to tear the bandits apart! This happened because I didn't follow him right away!
'Stay away from my mate' Selena proceeded to mauled every single one there.
...
"And with that, let me join the pride-nya!" Selena said, staring directly at the confused Sofia.
"I checked Cain's body, his wounds are closing, he must have used healing magic and fell asleep due to MP depletion!" Sofia said as she stood up.
"What does that mean?" Selena asked.
"He is just sleeping from exhaustion, he might wake up soon! You stay here and guard him, I will go bring some hot water to clean him up!" Sofia said as she exited the room.
Selena stayed staring at Cain's sleeping face.
"Master's name is Cain. The female, what we her name again, Sofia, she ignored my question about the pride-nya!" Selena realized.
It didn't take long for Sofia to return, she had managed to heat the water quickly thanks to her using [Firebolt] to strengthen the fire.
"Move away, It's hot!" Sofia said as she brought the big boiling pot.
Sofia brought with her two clean towels, "Here, clean yourself from the blood!" she threw one at Selena as she started cleaning Cain's body.
It didn't take her long to finish, both Cain and Selena were cleaned from the blood. Sofia gave Selena a change of clothes, she as well checked Cain's body for his room key, she eventually found it and gave him a change of clothing as well.
"Aren't you going to call a healer-nya?" Selena asked with interest, sniffing Cain.
"One, don't sniff him! second, he has gone through the trouble of going in secret, I can't just call someone now!" Sofia said, thinking hard about what she should do.
"But will he be okay?" Selena asked, her ears dropping down.
"He will be! As long as his wounds aren't bleeding it's alright! He should be waking up soon and there we will talk about how to fully heal his wounds!" Sofia said as she stood up going to the door.
"You stay here and watch him, I will go and prepare breakfast for us!" Sofia said as she left the room. The breakfast was usually downstairs, with Cain being injured it is better to prepare something light for him.
"Nya!" Selena gasped as she realized something. breakfast meant food, food meant prey!
'I was just guessing but it's really like lion's pride! Females have to hunt to prove their worth!' Selena thought as she felt left behind.
"I will hunt something right away-nay!" Said as she jumped from the window, leaving Cain asleep.
...
"You're a hard-working girl, waking to cook right after dawn!" Mabel said to Sofia as she saw her in the kitchen.
Sofia just laughed it off, she had to sneak the bloodied water earlier so she was still on edge.
just a few minutes later, as they were still cooking.
"Sofia, got a prey can you cook it-nya?" Sofia heard a familiar voice behind her followed by Mabel's scream.
Selena was standing on the kitchen window with a dead goose in her mouth, her eyes sparkling as she put the thing down.
"This is the closest prey I found beside humans, I'm going out again-nya!"
"Who is this girl, why is she biting a poor bird?" Mabel asked, questioning what she saw.
"Wait there Selena, this is enough so just sit still!" Sofia called to her before she could leave.
"Mabel, this is Selena an old friend of Cain! Selena this is Mabel, this place owner's mother!" Sofia tried to introduce them as a way of clearing Mabel's suspicions.
"So why is she biting a raw bird?" Mabel's suspension didn't stop. that sharp old lady.
"Can't you see her ears and tail? she is a demi-human and this is something some of them do!" Sofia tried to explain the situation as best as she could.
"So she is a cat? those ears look similar!" Mabel wasn't stupid, she had heard of demi-humans before and she could at least tell that, it still didn't make sense to her that Selena was biting a bird though.
"I'm no cat-nya, I'm a Jaguar-nya!" both Sofia and Mabel didn't know what animal was that. Mabel simply put it that Jaguars are demi-humans that bite birds.
"So what brought you here? I'm sure you weren't registered in the inn yesterday?" Mabel was getting even more suspicious.
"I wanted to join Cain's pride alongside Sofia-nya!" This was Selena's response.
Hello, I managed to get another chapter out today. The story is moving along nicely, at this pace we could some fun very soon.
What do you think Selena will do when she discovers that Cain is still free real estate?
"We talk about that when Cain wakes up, now go watch over him while I prepare the goose!" Sofia Sofia took the goose from Selena and put it on the table, 'I guess they all look the same' Sofia compared the goose with chickens in how she should prepare them.
"Than I'm going-nya!" Selena leaped from the window, running up the stairs on all four.
Mabel who was watching had a question on her mind, "What is pride? She doesn't mean pride like being prideful, right?"
"Who knows? I never heard of that term being used like that, Cain might have an answer!" Sofia also didn't seem to know, considering how the world developed it was expected that niche knowledge like that didn't make it that far!
The two of them settled after chitchat that Selena probably meant adventuring party, It's the only thing that has both Cain and Sofia in it after all!
...
Even though she ran up the stairs on all four, she did walk after that on just two legs.
Slowly opening the door, Selena entered looking at Cain. "Still asleep, gotta wait-nya!"
She sat on the ground, using the chair seemed alien to her. Selena who lived her whole life in a tribe in the forest, their normal sitting position was Cross-legged on the ground.
Quickly she started getting restless, unable to sit still. Selena walked up to Cain sniffing him, "Still asleep, he isn't bleeding, good-nya!" and she sat back down.
Just a few moments later, she got restless again and started sniffing him again. Putting her palm on his chest for a moment then took it back, and again and again. "Nya! What I'm doing? Gotta let him rest-nya!"
She again got restless, this time she didn't go for Cain but instead for Sofia's closet! Selena started sniffing everything inside, they all smelled of Sofia. This was Sofia's room after all, "She smells weird-nya!" Selena decided and sat back down.
...
After a while, Cain finally woke up after regenerating some MP. He was greeted by the sharp pain all over his body and the feeling of something heavy and vibrating on his legs.
Looking down, Selena was curled on top of his legs sleeping while purring.
turning his eyes around, he noticed that this room was Sofia's, 'So she brought me back here?'
{Second-tier Magic: [Healing] have been added to the system} As he didn't need to worry about his MP here, he used higher-tier magic to close his wounds.
The moment she sensed the Mana flow around, Selena's instinct woke her up immediately.
"Nya!" She started licking his face in excitement, Cain tried to push her back but he wasn't strong enough.
"Selena, let me for a moment!" Cain said, struggling to talk.
"You know my name? We are made for each other-nya!" This had made her more eager.
There was only one way for Cain out of this, he started rubbing her belly, it didn't take her long to roll over and start purring.
Cat's rarely like belly rubs, but Selena seems to be one of those few.
"Where is Sofia?" Cain asked
"MOrE-Nya!!" Selena said with a trembling voice, making weird noises.
Cain quickly pulled his hand, "Can you stop acting like a cat? I know you can do that!" Cain said.
"You're no fun, I guess we let that to the night-nya!" Selena sat beside Cain, still clinging to him.
The door slowly opened, Sofia entered carrying the food. "I heard her meowing from downstairs so I knew you were awake!"
Her eyes instantly turned cold when she saw Selena clinging to Cain with her big chest.
Sofia slowly put the food in front of Cain, "Please enjoy this, for now, we can leave the explanation to later, in the meantime I will take care of that thing beside you!" Saying that Sofia kicked Selena in the face trying to push her away.
'What?' Sofia noticed, Selena wasn't even budging, as if she was trying to push a wall.
"You want to play-nya?" Speaking while Sofia's foot was pressing on her face, "Nyaa!" Selena caught Sofia from her thigh dragging her to the bed.
Sofia who only had a strength of 8 couldn't even compare to Selena's 19 strength.
To explain it better, 19 stat isn't double 8, To raise two digits you have to be twice as capable! So in reality, 10 strength is double 8! This means that Selena is at least 32 times stronger physically than Sofia is, and at least 8 times more agile and durable!
Sofia ended up being dominated as whatever she did, Selena just powered right through.
While those two were having a wrestling match in the bed, Cain was just enjoying the food and appreciating how well Sofia Can cook!
'Thanks for the food' As he turned around, the two girls were still squeezing each other, Sofia's face was red with veins popping on her forehead. Selena on the other hand had a playful face as she shrugged all of Sofia's attempts.
'How do I stop those two?' Cain thought for a moment before coming to a quick solution, Tickling!
He jumped in and started tickling them at the same time, Selena got submissive quickly as he started rubbing her belly, and Sofia started to laugh as she curled into a ball!
"I thought you wanted an explanation?"
Cain's simple explanation was that he had known beforehand of the bandits' existence from a trusted source. It wasn't uncommon to dispatch adventurers to take care of large bandits' encampment.
Cain was dispatched from another authority besides the guild, It was weird in the first place for him to know about witches so Sofia just accepted it with a deep feeling that Cain was lying!
The reason he didn't tell Sofia was simple, and she didn't need to hear it to understand.
The conversation quickly turned toward Selena, why was she following Cain now?
"I want to join the pride-Nya!" She said with confidence, pumping her already big chest out!
Cain understood what she meant, he has already guessed as much from how she was acting, even so...' I don't think Jaguars form prides, that's a lion thing!'
Turned out that Selena mostly interacted with lion demi-humans besides the other Jaguars, and hearing about the humans' kings having multiple wives, she just assumed that humans also formed pride!
"I can understand where you're coming from, but are even registered as an adventurer?" Sofia asked, completely unaware of what Selena was talking about.
Selena was thrown out of the conversation quickly, as soon as she heard the adventurer guild she asked, "Do humans need to be adventures to mate? That's rough-nya!"
As both Sofia and Selena looked at each other in confusion, Cain had to interfere to resolve the misunderstanding.
"Would you two listen for a moment?" Cain asked, buying time for himself to think of a way to explain it.
Selena quickly turned to face him, her tail weaving left and right in excitement. On the other hand, Sofia turned slowly and asked, "What is it?"
"So I will try and make this as simple as I can. In the case of what Selena is talking about, pride is the group of female lions that follows a single male!" Cain stopped for a moment, "When Selena said she wanted to join the pride, she is meaning to be my wife alongside you! Albeit we two aren't married, to begin with!"
"So it's a misunderstanding." Cain looked at Selena, "I and Sofia aren't mates so you can understand!"
Selena was thinking about what Cain just said, racking her brain. If they aren't mates so why was her smell on him?
Sofia on the other hand had her head burning red, she was thinking about something else. 'Marrying Cain...!'
"So she isn't your mate-nya?" Selena was the first one to speak.
"No, she isn't!" Cain replied.
"Do you have a mate?" Selena's eyes were starting to sparkle.
"Not yet."
"Can I be your mate then?" Selena asked directly, her tail is weaving like crazy.
Cain processed it slowly in his head, counting what can he get. Selena was strong, he will eventually start fighting as a mage so having her in the front will be a great help.
On the side, Sofia was still drowning in her fantasies.
"Would you mind standing up and spreading your arms? Then start turning around slowly!" Cain asked with a serious face.
He had two goals in mind. If he was going to face the Catastrophe, he needs her to be obedient to the weirdest of orders! He can't just say 'I'm going to kill the city's lord son!' and expect a sane person to say help him.
Second, he noticed she had a decent build. He wanted to make sure she isn't built a brawny man, that might put him off.
"I understand-nya!" Selena did just that, without hesitation.
Sofia finally broke from her dreams to see Selena spinning around while Cain was assessing her.
"What are you two doing?" She asked, honestly confused at what Selena was doing.
"I'm assessing her potential as a wife, want to join?" He said with a straight face, this might have seemed weird for a regular person but to Cain it was normal!
In his past life, It was true that he had a rough start. Surviving the catastrophe, being enslaved by a witch, used as a genie pig by a dragon king, and even being tortured for years by the elves who wanted to get information about that dragon king!
But after that, he managed to convince the Elvish lord's daughter to take him as her slave. She was a sadist who enjoyed torturing people for her pleasure, but Cain used her to get knowledge about the Elvish high magic! mixing everything he had learned from the witch, the dragon, and the elves. He did the impossible.
Pulling a reverse move and enslaving her instead, he then used her as a front to start a revolution in the elvish kingdom, eventually becoming the king.
After that, he only rose to power, getting strong and stronger, building more influence on the world. At that point, the number of women proposing to him was unending.
One of his long-term goals was to reach that princess again as she was unique, she had something that others don't! Or to be more precise, she should have it! The slave contract he engraved on her soul!
...
Hearing Cain's weird question, Sofia immediately understood what he meant. This wasn't a decision she should make in a hurry, even so, she was already thinking about it too much.
"I think, I acc..." Before she could finish her sentence, she was interrupted by Selena!
"No! She has to be tested as well-nya!" Selena was upset that she was tested while Sofia was about to get an easy pass.
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In the end, I tried to lay out the overall plot of the story. Was that a bad move?
We still have a long way to go as were still dealing with the catastrophe, but I hope we can reach the end!
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