It’S A Cat, Adopted By A Wolf Family? [EN]: Chapter 30

While the wolves were engrossed in their difficult and serious conversation, Kitty detected a sweet scent drifting through the air.

It was distinctly different from the food prepared in the kitchen, a scent that intensely stimulated her instincts.

‘Where is that coming from?’

Kitty stretched and climbed down from Theo’s back. The three wolves, deep in discussion, didn’t even notice her disappearance.

Kitty trotted along, following the alluring scent. Soon, she came upon a cluster of plants.

‘Such a nice smell coming from the grass…?’

Kitty bent down to take a deep breath to confirm. At that moment…

*Poof!*

The strength drained from her body, which had been maintaining a human form, and she instantly reverted to her cat form.

But there was no time to feel upset or embarrassed. Buried in catnip, Kitty felt her body becoming endlessly languid.

“Awoo… So good.”

Kitty mumbled in a listless voice, rolling around. Each time her soft paws touched the catnip, a richer fragrance wafted up, and moans escaped her lips.

“This is the best!”

Kitty lay on her back, exposing her fluffy, soft belly, and flailed around. Just as she was about to bite off a mouthful of the sweet-smelling leaves…

“What are you doing, you little rascal, while I looked away for a moment!”

Deon, startled, shouted and scooped up Kitty, who was buried in the catnip. He shook the limp Kitty, and the scent of catnip filled the air.

“She’s completely wasted,” Eden clicked his tongue. The three wolves moved away from the catnip and howled to summon the mansion’s doctor.

“Let’s calm Kitty down quickly in the meantime.”

“Right. If Mom and Dad find out that Soft Paw [Kitty’s nickname] has become like this, they’ll scold us.”

It was a stroke of luck that Kitty was buried in catnip and not a poisonous plant.

The catnip planted on the outskirts of the mansion was intended to incapacitate leopards, so it didn’t contain any harmful ingredients.

“I don’t know anything,” Theo and Deon grabbed Eden, who was trying to slip away. Eden sighed and examined the drunk Kitty.

“Awoo, just a little more…”

Kitty was opening and closing her paws, showing off her pink jelly bean toe beans, craving more catnip.

Theo plucked some wild grass with detoxifying properties and waved it in front of her, but she only bared her tiny, rice-grain-like fangs in anger.

“Soft Paw, when she’s drunk, she’s a complete menace.”

“Seeing her act like a dog when she’s drunk, she’s really become a wolf.”

Deon chuckled and massaged Kitty’s soft paws. Suddenly, he remembered an interesting story he had heard from Elliot.

“Theo, Sir Elliot said that adults reveal their true feelings when they’re drunk.”

“Do you think Kitty will too when she’s drunk on catnip?”

The eyes of the two immature wolves gleamed with curiosity. They asked in a sly voice.

“Kitty, do you like Theo or Deon more?”

“Woong… I like both of you because you’re both kind.”

A satisfied smile spread across the two wolves’ faces. Eden clicked his tongue, watching them indulge their selfish desires.

“Our father used to sober up drunkards like this.”

Eden picked up Kitty in a flash, planning to dip her in the nearby stream and pull her out.

Kitty, hearing the approaching sound of water, was startled and opened her mouth wide.

*Nom!*

“…!”

Eden, who had been bitten on the hand by Kitty, unknowingly collapsed. He had never been bitten, even by leopards. Being bitten by a drunk ball of fluff left him dazed.

“Ugh.”

Moreover, Kitty grimaced as if she had eaten something very distasteful. Theo and Deon, who were standing behind, chuckled.

A vein popped out on Eden’s forehead.

“Kittyia Gridwolf, are you kidding me?”

“Eden *niim* [term of endearment]…”

Kitty rubbed her face against the hand with the bite mark, as if she had never bitten Eden. Her soft ears gently brushed against his hand.

“Please be a little kinder to me. Heeng…”

“Why should I?”

“Because I’m Eden’s first disciple? Haaam… You have to cherish me.”

Kitty rubbed her small, fluffy body against Eden’s pants leg before settling down and lying on his shoe. It was her way of showing affection.

Thanks to that, pure white fur, which was nothing like wolf fur, stuck thickly to Eden’s black pants.

Nevertheless, Eden couldn’t bring himself to kick the Kitty, who was sprawled out comfortably.

“Sorry, Eden. Our youngest seems to be very drunk.”

“We’ll clean her up quickly.”

Theo and Deon carefully hugged the sleeping Kitty, wrapped her in a coat, and exchanged words with their mouths [secretly talking to each other].

“Kitty shouldn’t drink with men later.”

“We must never let that happen. Look at that.”

The brothers clearly saw Eden staring blankly at his shoe, his lips pressed tightly together.

On his shiny shoe, there was a small paw print left by Kitty.

“Aww, how can Kitty be so cute even when she’s drunk…”

“It’s too much, really.”

The brothers happily tickled the sleeping Kitty. Each time Kitty’s pink nose twitched, something warm bubbled up in their hearts.

“Theo, Deon, Eden.”

“Heok…”

Until they heard Caris’s subdued voice.

Caris overtook the doctor, who was climbing the hill with her, and sat next to Theo and Deon.

When she saw the limp Kitty, the color drained from her face.

“What… What happened?”

“Ah, Mother. This is just…”

“Soft Paw got drunk because of the catnip.”

“What?”

Caris, who had been feeling as if her heart was breaking, interrogated her sons with fierce eyes. She had howled for a doctor, thinking that they had been bitten by a venomous snake.

“Eden, come here too.”

“…Yes.”

Caris, holding Kitty in her arms, was about to give the three little wolves a stern look.

“Aeong!”

Kitty woke up with a loud cry. Realizing that she was in Caris’s arms, her cat eyes were filled with happiness.

“Caris *niim*!”

“Yes.”

“Would you like to see my meow dance?”

“…?”

“Eucha!”

Kitty stepped on Caris’s lap and stood on her two hind legs. She then began to dance an unidentifiable dance, swaying her ears, tail, and soft paws.

She looked like a white dough floating on the water.

“Hoi, hoijja!”

During the six seconds that Kitty was dancing the meow dance with strange shouts, Caris’s frozen expression melted away.

Kitty smiled and rubbed her pink nose against Caris’s face.

“I become happy when Caris *niim* smiles.”

“Oh my, baby…”

Caris kissed Kitty’s pink nose and then hugged her tightly. Only then did Kitty close her eyes tightly and start to sleep.

The doctors examined Kitty, who was in Caris’s arms, and frowned.

“Madam, something is a bit strange. If she smelled the catnip planted on the mansion’s hill, she shouldn’t be this okay.”

“She shouldn’t be able to exert strength in her muscles by now. But the young lady is…”

It was natural for the doctors to be puzzled, as they had witnessed Kitty standing on her hind legs and dancing the meow dance for a full six seconds.

Caris hugged Kitty, stood up, and commanded.

“Let’s return to the mansion for now. And you three.”

Caris unconsciously put strength into her stomach and spoke as if she were the commander of the Knights. Theo, Deon, and Eden froze at the sound of her voice.

“Write a letter of apology by tomorrow night.”

“Yes…”

The three little wolves’ shoulders drooped.

* * *

“This is the experimental report on the improved catnip planted in the mansion, and this is the doctor’s opinion after examining Lady Kittyia.”

Late at night, Elliot entered Jackal’s office and reported. The atmosphere was heavy, considering it was just a report on the catnip incident that happened during the day.

Jackal’s golden eyes sharply dissected each sentence.

“My youngest daughter’s healing power is surprisingly fast.”

“That’s right. At first, the doctors thought that the young lady was exposed to a small amount of catnip. But…”

Jackal looked at the report attached below. The catnip had been strongly improved as it was a trap set up to prevent the leopards from invading the mansion.

Even if they inhaled only a small amount, they should be in a drunken state for four days.

‘It’s only been half a day since she was exposed to the catnip, and she’s mostly recovered?’

This was not a figure that could be simply dismissed as excellent recovery power.

Jackal narrowed his eyes and made various assumptions before ordering Elliot.

“Elliot, go and bring Cleed Foxtain from the Fox Squad.”

“Understood.”

Soon, Cleed arrived. The drowsy boy straightened up when he saw Jackal’s stern face.

“I heard you called for me, Jackal-*nim*.”

“Ah, yes. There is something I want to ask you. I heard that you have been showing interest in my daughter recently.”

Cleed was dumbfounded for a moment. He was woken up and called in the middle of his growing period just to ask about that?

‘Temporary adoption, but the wolves are obsessed.’

However, since he was living as a guest, he needed to make a good impression on the homeowner. The smooth-talking tone unique to foxes came out.

“She is so adorable, after all.”

“Is your reason for approaching my daughter only affection?”

“…”

“Cleed, you, who are the most sensitive to magic among the foxes, must have noticed something and acted, right?”

“Well, rather than noticing something, I’m just placing weight on the possibility. Weren’t you the one who knew something and adopted her, Jackal-*nim*?”

“I want to ask if your ancestors left anything related to this.”

Cleed quietly closed and opened his eyes. Red magic flickered like mist in his eyes.

The ability that the heads of the Fox family inherit from generation to generation, the Mana Record [a magical archive of knowledge].

Foxes who have completed the succession as the family’s successor, like Cleed, could glimpse the records that the previous family heads had engraved in their mental world with magic.

This was also the reason why Jackal was having a serious conversation with Cleed, who was a ten-year-old boy.

“It’s been a while since I’ve used this, so I don’t know if it will work… Oh.”

Cleed moved his eyes left and right as if reading something that was invisible to Jackal.

After a while, the red flame in his eyes disappeared, and Cleed’s eyes narrowed.

It was thanks to discovering a record about cases of quickly recovering from abnormal conditions such as poison or curses.

[Beastkins generally cannot quickly detoxify poison or curses with the magic they commonly use. However, the beastkins who guarded the goddess’s relics had an astonishing increase in healing power. We believe the reason is…]

“Jackal-*nim*, it seems you’ve adopted something amazing.”