It’S A Cat, Adopted By A Wolf Family? [EN]: Chapter 146

Is it a cat, but adopted into a wolf family? Is it a cat, but adopted into a wolf family? – Episode 146 (146/153)

The blue, round full moon brightly illuminated the ground, further highlighting the man’s blue eyes and black hair.

Eden Wibbles.

He was emanating a terrifying aura through one arm, casting a cold gaze.

Kitty swallowed hard, seeing the complete lack of warmth in his eyes.

‘Jerian’s deliberately leaked magic is being absorbed by Eden.’

Eden’s arm, bitten by Delta before, was absorbing all the dirty magic Jerian was emitting.

It looked as if Delta’s vengeful spirit, which had disappeared from the world not long ago, was clinging to Eden’s arm and plotting something.

Does that mean she has to fight Eden?

Tension and fear gradually stiffened her body.

“Kitty, Eden’s condition is— Ugh!”

“Evade him for now!”

Eden hadn’t even drawn one of the two swords at his waist, but Theo and Deon couldn’t subdue him.

It was perhaps natural that the twin brothers couldn’t harm him, as he was their longtime friend and the esteemed head of the Wibbles family.

“What is this?”

Jerian, who was watching the situation while bound by the wolf knights, soon burst into laughter, cackling.

“Unexpected help from an unexpected place?”

The wolf knights strongly pressed down on his shoulders, which were shaking with laughter. Jerian didn’t stop laughing even as his head was forced to the ground.

“Judging by the situation, it seems like he’s an important person to you, Softpaw.”

“……”

“You always get into trouble because of important people. When you think about it, it wasn’t you who stole from my food storage, but your mother.”

“Jerian.”

Thwack—

Kitty struck Jerian’s head hard with the bow she was holding. It was a tough move worthy of the wolf knights.

“Be quiet and wait without chattering, since it’s annoying.”

“Ugh……”

The surrounding wolf knights tied Jerian, who was slowly losing consciousness, even tighter.

‘To wield the bow with just enough force to knock him out precisely.’

‘I see both Karis and Jackal from her younger days.’

The wolf knights’ eyes were filled with even more respect as they looked at Kitty. But there was no time to praise the young lady at ease.

“……”

The look in Eden’s eyes, captured by the madness of the Blue Moon [a source of magical corruption], had changed slightly.

At the end of his blue gaze was only Kittyah Gridwolf. An intense madness, impossible to express in words, filled his eyes.

“Eden.”

Kitty called his name, but Eden didn’t recognize her voice and wake up from his madness.

Instead, the Blue Moon’s magic seeping out of Jerian’s chest, who had fainted, captured Eden’s body even more firmly.

Desire slowly began to show in his emotionless eyes. It was murderous intent.

“Lady Kittyah, please take cover!”

Kyle, the vice-captain of the Wibbles, squeezed out a shout. At the same time, Eden threw himself into the shelter he had been looking down at.

Despite wearing considerable armor, his landing was as light as a feather.

The wolf knights, with their nerves on edge, said to Kitty.

“Young lady, please step back for now.”

“The Head of the Wibbles you know is not the same person right now.”

From the time the Blue Moon came into the world through Delta’s body until now, the Gridwolf knights, with much practical experience, could tell that Eden was consumed by madness.

The slightly staggering yet unceasing steps, the faintly trembling hands, the occasional twitching shoulders as if resisting the strange power occupying his body.

Everything was characteristic of the beastmen who had completely gone mad from the Blue Moon’s magic.

‘Oh my, even Eden…….’

‘Is it natural since he’s absorbing all the madness?’

‘To have to fight that Eden Wibbles.’

Swish—

The wolf knights didn’t drop their swords just because they were afraid. The match was already decided, as the opponent was the young head of the Wibbles, called a genius, but they intended to hold out.

“Young lady, we’ll buy you time, so……”

“No.”

But Kitty shook her head firmly at them.

“I can’t just leave Eden like this.”

Each time she pronounced the two syllables, Eden, the murderous intent in his blue eyes grew even stronger. It seemed as if his mind was completely taken over, without any chance to fight the madness of the Blue Moon.

Kitty focused her mind and tried to figure out what was happening in Eden’s body.

‘Sigma said so. Delta was also harmed because of the Blue Moon.’

It was as if the goddess’s jewel, the Blue Moon, had a self and was trying to choose its master.

Delta was an owner that the Blue Moon didn’t like, so she couldn’t withstand the potent magic or gain immunity to the madness.

If we assume that the jewel has a self, then we can explain why Jerian’s chest, visible through his shirt, is a mess.

‘There’s no way a jewel that didn’t like Delta would welcome Jerian.’

Moreover, Jerian even squeezed magic from the baby foxes and inflicted it on the Blue Moon.

It was only natural that the goddess’s jewel would be furious and emit dark magic it had never felt before.

‘But if it’s Eden…….’

Kitty carefully met Eden’s eyes.

He was different from Jerian or Delta, who only knew their own gain and honor. If the goddess’s jewel chose its master based on character and spirit, he was a person worthy of being accepted as a vessel.

‘To do that, I need to calm down the magic that’s about to overflow first.’

Dark magic was constantly flowing out of Jerian’s unconscious body.

Because Eden was absorbing all that magic, the madness showed no signs of subsiding.

Suddenly, Kitty remembered what Eden had taught her during class.

“If you don’t think you can win, running away comes first. That way, you can plan for the future.”

That’s what he must have taught her to keep in mind in situations like this, but her heart moved in the opposite direction.

Kitty bravely took a step towards Eden.

“Knights, shall we purify Eden’s madness?”

“Yes?”

“Young lady, it’s too dangerous!”

“It’s okay.”

Kitty channeled magic into her bow, creating an arrow of light.

The soft and warm magic, like a cat’s fur, was concentrated at her fingertips. Kitty aimed the arrow at Eden.

“Eden, just wait a little, and I’ll make you comfortable.”

Krrr—

He revealed his fangs as if he had returned to his beast form. Delta’s appearance overlapped with his once again.

Thwack—

Kitty took the strength out of her hand that was pulling the bowstring taut. Polly’s mirror, which had become part of the bow, replicated the arrow into several strands.

But Eden was faster.

“……”

Even though he should be out of his mind with madness, Eden agilely dodged the arrows. He even knocked down several arrows using magic without drawing his sword.

The wolf knights swallowed hard at the smooth movements that seemed engraved in his body.

“Keep dodging until the end, Eden.”

Kitty drew up her magic again and shot an arrow at Eden. Every time she aimed the arrow at his chest, she felt like her heart was sinking deep into cold water.

‘But I can’t drive the madness out of Eden unless I do this.’

To purify the Blue Moon’s energy, she had to close the distance with him.

“Eden.”

Kitty kept shooting arrows. Each time the slender light grazed his body and made a scratch, Eden’s eyes trembled strongly.

Kitty continued to call his name as if flexibly digging into that narrow gap.

“Eden.”

“……”

“Eden, wake up.”

Each time she released the bowstring, dozens of arrows drew lines of light and bounced off.

Each time Kitty called his name, Eden’s body moved more sluggishly. His self, buried in the abyss, seemed to awaken and fight against the Blue Moon’s madness, causing his body to stop from time to time.

“Eden, my teacher.”

Kitty said that and checked Eden’s condition. He was the one who had overcome the real Blue Moon’s madness that Jerian had, even if it was only for a very short time.

‘Then.’

Kitty took a deep breath and then threw the bow at him.

Eden, who had been focusing on dodging the arrows, couldn’t dodge the Gridwolf’s bow that suddenly flew at him.

Thud—

His body fell to the floor with a loud noise. The Gridwolf’s bow was lying horizontally on his stomach, making it impossible for him to move his body.

“Eden.”

Kitty brushed off the knights’ dissuasion and quickly climbed onto his waist. If she dragged out any longer, she didn’t know how the Blue Moon’s magic would torment Eden, so she had to finish the situation quickly.

Soft—

“Eden……”

Kitty began to press down on his arm, bitten by Delta, with both hands to purify it.

His solid body heaved wildly as he resisted. It was a struggle to push the cat beastman who was pressing down on his body far away right now.

And this murderous intent emanating from his whole body.

‘No, it’s okay. Eden is in pain right now…….’

More than anything else, Kitty couldn’t bear the fact that he was showing murderous intent while looking at her. He kept heaving his body with a face that was anxious to kill something.

The Gridwolf’s bow was clearly pressing down on his body, but with the addition of the Blue Moon’s magic and Eden’s strength, she couldn’t fix his body firmly.

Kitty steeled her heart and said to Eden, who was showing murderous intent under her.

“Eden. Even if you try to harm me, I will purify you.”

Soft—

“Because I like you.”

At that moment, as she said that and infused magic.

Swish—

Eden moved one arm, which had been freed by his struggles, and pulled out a sword.

The blue moonlight thoroughly soaked the well-groomed blade. The murderous intent flowing from his body reached its peak.

‘Who do you want to kill so badly, Eden?’

Is it me? Are you still staring at me because you want to kill me?

In Kitty’s frozen mind, the illusion of Eden stabbing her spread like ink.

Even though she was aware that he was about to stab her, her instincts were clamoring for her to save him and purify the ominous magic.

“Young lady!”

“No, Eden!”

The wolf knights rushed towards Kitty with all their might. As Eden moved his sword, a blue light swept through the shelter.

In that moment, hot tears flowed from Kitty’s eyes, filled with fear, and fell, drenching Eden’s face.

“……Kitty.”

Eden, who barely squeezed out the words, held out the sword to Kitty. The moment she was about to shrink back in fear.

“……Stab me.”

Eden spun the sword hilt around to face her.