Chapter 282

Page Ninety-Two Cat Witch

Once just wanting to live off women, AJ also had dreams. The changes she underwent recently were far more shocking than what Táo姐 had brought upon me.

“In the end, the only one who remains unchanged is me?”

Sighing on the bed, I lay down towards the pillow but heard a sharp scream.

“Shriek!”

Oh no, I forgot that the small animal was still sleeping under the pillow.

Yòuzi crawled out and used her tiny paws to hit my knee.

“Xiǎo Kǎi! You’re the kind of person who kills animals by keeping them, huh? Hic!”

“I’m sorry! I forgot because it was too quiet.”

The small animal let out a hiccup, and the smell of braised chicken leg from lunch wafted out. I covered my nose and waved it away, but Yòuzi said sensitively, “What’s wrong? Do I really have an odor? Give me some perfume!”

“No, it’s just the taste in your mouth.”

“Oh? Do I have bad breath?”

“It’s just the taste of the chicken leg from lunch. Why are you so sensitive?”

“I’m worried about having an odor.”

“So that’s why you want perfume so much?”

“Don’t forget the high-end perfume that costs a thousand dollars!”

Yòuzi put her hands on her hips and warned me. The scene above changed again, and Cherry Sauce teleported directly to the Deep Research Institute four hundred meters underground.

“Tsk tsk, this jewel is truly remarkable. It’s no wonder it’s Lord Hái’s creation!”

Lord Hái’s greatness began once more.

“The consumption during teleportation can be ignored! It’s even less than when I teleport myself! This is practically a bug!”

Okay, okay, I know Lord Hái is very powerful. Can you release me and Yòuzi first?

“Hmph!”

Cherry Sauce snorted proudly, and an invisible force lifted me from the bed and threw me into the air. I landed on a smooth ground made of natural rock after a dizzying fall… Ouch!

Because of her deliberate revenge, my flat behind landed first, causing tears to well up instantly.

I also had to endure the collective attention of the witch students who were attending the lecture, which was quite embarrassing.

“Oh, Xiǎo Kǎi has arrived? Just in time. You should also witness the miracle of Xiǎo Xuě transforming into a human!”

Mother waved at me from the podium, and Professor Shí immediately conjured a stone chair for me with magic—a special seat, which was quite impressive.

Mother was still preparing the spell, and my Senior Sister asked, “Xiǎo Kǎi, where did you go?”

“I went to help a friend move.”

“Those two kids upstairs?”

“Mm-hm, after this, I won’t cause any more trouble for you.”

Senior Sister nodded and said to Sister Líng Qīng beside her, “Afterwards, give them the rent money to Xiǎo Kǎi, so he can deliver it.”

“No problem.”

Sister Líng Qīng agreed readily.

“Huh? Why return the rent?”

Although the rent for the low-rent apartment was cheap, AJ had been living here for so long that the accumulated amount was considerable. Returning all of it would certainly alleviate their financial pressure.

To this, Senior Sister explained, “We didn’t rent it out to make money. We just wanted to disguise the research institute as a regular rental apartment. Seeing their poor economic conditions, and since they are friends of yours, there’s no need to charge them… This decision was made long ago.”

I said sourly, “I’m also a poor person.”

Senior Sister tapped my forehead lightly, enough to make me shrink my neck. She said, “Short on pocket money? How about calling Yéye a few times?”

“I wouldn’t do such a thing for money. It’s too utilitarian.”

“Stupid boy, asking you to recognize your grandmother isn’t asking you to do anything bad. How can that be considered utilitarian?”

I shook my head and said, “… What I mean is, even if I don’t get any pocket money, she is still my grandmother!”

Senior Sister smiled faintly, “At least you have some conscience.”

“Cough! Everyone, please be quiet!”

Mother on the podium seemed to have completed her preparations and asked the whispering researchers to quiet down, then placed a metal plate the size of an A4 paper on the lectern.

“Please read the spell on this metal plate first. You don’t need to understand it, just copy it onto the metal plate you have. Consider this homework. I’ll check it tomorrow!”

So she was just assigning homework?

Looking around, each researcher indeed held a metal plate. Is this some kind of witch-specific workbook?

“Then…”

After assigning the homework, Mother rubbed her hands and looked at Senior Sister with an urging expression. Senior Sister nodded and said, “Firerag, give it to her.”

Following this, Professor Shí took out two ampoules filled with liquid magic from her waist pouch, reluctantly handing them to Mother while muttering, “Little girl, use it sparingly. That’s all the magic I have for the day.”

… Something about this sounded odd.

“Xiǎo Xuě~ come up!”

“Mia—”

Mother picked up the white cat and placed her on the teacher’s desk, then opened the bottle of liquid magic. The liquid instantly vaporized into purple mist, swirling around Xiǎo Xuě under Mother’s guidance.

“For the first time, it might be a bit painful!”

When Xiǎo Xuě touched the purple smoke, she collapsed weakly, her cries barely audible, let alone resisting…

“Let me think, how should I transform you?”

Mother poked her cheek thoughtfully and looked at the crowd below.

“I’ve got it!”

Then, Xiǎo Xuě was covered by familiar white light, her petite figure starting to change and grow, gradually forming the outline of a slender girl.

“Still need to add some common sense as a human…”

Mother pointed her finger at her temple and scratched it, pulling out something golden, then pinching it with two fingers and leaving a tiny piece on her fingertip.

What was that?

“…Mother’s soul was given a part of a human soul, which is why Yòuzi gained intelligence.”

It sounded rather ominous, and I frowned.

Would there be any side effects?

“…Originally half a soul, now further reduced. Do you think it will be fine? But for her… perhaps it doesn’t matter.”

I glanced at Yòuzi on my shoulder, wondering if this little creature also had a part of her mother’s soul inside.

“What’s wrong? Staring at me?”

“Nothing… Yòuzi, do you want to transform now?”

She jumped from my shoulder to my leg, her black eyes gleaming with excitement.

“Can I? I want to transform!”

“…Xiǎo Kǎi, your divine power limit isn’t enough to support Yòuzi’s transformation, so you can only maintain her transformed state.”

I knew, wasn’t there you?

Didn’t the teleportation just now consume very little divine power?

“…Are you trying to take advantage of me? I can’t help it.”

Cherry Sauce swiftly paid the divine power needed for Yòuzi’s transformation, and in just 0.5 seconds, the transformation was complete. Yòuzi, dressed in loose casual wear with grayish-white hair, made a dazzling appearance.

Afterward, she sat on my lap, her fluffy tail tapping my stomach, mixed with a faint scent of perfume, making me feel awkward.

“Oh! Is this appropriate now?”

Fortunately, before I could say anything, she realized the impropriety and stood up.

Looking back at the podium, Cat Girl Xiǎo Xuě was already fully formed. The white light symbolizing the transformation faded, and the young girl in a white dress was being supported by Mother, sitting quietly on the podium with closed eyes.

“Sigh…”

Since Xiǎo Xuě was originally a short-haired white cat, her new short hair naturally matched the popular white fur among Chinese people, with genuine cat ears on her head, unlike the messy fur of the orange cat.

Yòuzi said enviously, “How beautiful! Why didn’t the owner put as much effort into designing your look?”

“There’s no lack of effort. You’re pretty too, Yòuzi. It’s just different styles.”

If Yòuzi was the mainstay of approachable vitality, then the Cat Girl Xiǎo Xuě in front of us was like a delicate porcelain doll, gradually opening her golden eyes, cold and clear, not like an ordinary person.

But Mother stretched her hand directly towards this artwork.

“Oh! Is the magic power for the body not enough? It seems a bit small?”

“Meow! Eh?!”

And the first sound Xiǎo Xuě made as a human was a cry of surprise when she was touched.

Yes, Mother pressed her hand on Xiǎo Xuě’s chest through the white dress, performing irregular caresses, stimulating the new beauty in her arms to blush.

“Ma, Ma… What are you doing?”

The first to rush forward to stop her was Yòuzi, who had been standing.

“Dumb cat, are you jealous?”

“I just can’t stand you bullying her… Ah!”

Mother reached out to Yòuzi, and Xiǎo Xuě took this opportunity to jump off the lectern.

She examined her own hands, pinched her cheeks, and tried to walk upright with her unfamiliar legs.

Including Mother and Yòuzi, everyone present watched her silently.

She started speaking, her words slightly clumsy.

“I… have become… human.”

“Yes! Miss Cat, you’re free now!”

Impatiently, Bā Hé Mèi also ran up to Xiǎo Xuě, but when her metal plate touched Xiǎo Xuě’s arm, the array of spells on the plate emitted purple fluorescence… it was the “homework” that Bā Hé Mèi had just started writing.

“Can Miss Cat use magic?”

Xiǎo Xuě, who was still not good at speaking, answered Bā Hé Mèi with action, taking the metal plate and completing the spell array halfway engraved on it.

“How amazing! It’s a miniaturized spell array!”

Bā Hé Mèi’s face became so exaggerated it looked like a JOJO pose. She also dramatically explained, “What! What kind of speed is this! Though it’s not yet at Master Qiǎnxià’s level, it already surpasses every witch here! This newly transformed Cat Girl…”

“It’s me who prepared this substitute teacher for you!”

Mother stood next to Xiǎo Xuě and said, “I can’t keep teaching you all the time, nor can I explain everything daily. So, I passed on some magical knowledge to her.”

“Substitute teacher?”

Xiǎo Xuě repeated laboriously, her speech still unclear.

“Mm, Yòuzi was also like this when she first transformed, dazed and a bit silly… She needs to adapt. It’ll be better in a few days.”

Mother said, stroking Xiǎo Xuě’s chin, and the latter, squinting her eyes, said, “I thank you.”