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Chapter 18: Inheritance Arc 2

Kazami smiled softly at the pup in her arms – as her friend had said, this wasn't the traditional white protective dogs that decorated the shrines but a dark fluffy little beast. Then, the new addition to her life opened his of so familiar silvery eyes, and jumped toward her, intent on covering her in slobber – and she was protecting her face from the affectionate attack, she could only laugh, and breathe "Calm down, Padfoot, you idiot!"

[Padfoot, Grimm Familiar LV1, is now soul-bounded!
+5CP, +10SP, +1PP

note that as long as Padfoot is too young to do it, you'll be in charge of his leveling]

[Soul-link with Padfoot established
you and your familiar are now attuned to each other's soul, in time you will be able to communicate mentally]

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Mizuki snorted at that outcry, and asked "Don't tell me..."
"Well, inugami are mortal souls who have chosen another path than reincarnation." Kazami explained "But last time I heard about him, he was enjoying the after-life with my parents... or well, previous parents..."
Mizuki eyed the pup that had now escaped his partner's arm and was running around in the grass "And it's not like he'll be able to answer any questions right now."

As for Kazami, she was feeling more accurately Padfoot's soul than the others around her, like announced in the notification – and it was enough to confirm that her godfather was right now a young pup, which only preoccupation was to play and get to know his new pack. Like Mizuki had said, answers wouldn't come immediately – and from what she knew of godly familiar evolution, probably not in a few decades...

She repressed a shudder – the man had been a handful as an adult, who knew what madness he would provoke as a pup! Mizuki, apparently having coming to the same conclusion, smiled "Well, we aren't about to get bored in a long time, that's for sure."
As for Padfoot, he had found his way to the Night Pack – and Kyoya was now looking at the pup, that he was holding by the scruff of his neck, under most of the Vongola X apprehensive looks – Kazami smiled, amused. Most of them hadn't yet encountered the violent teen strange love for cute small animals, and right now her dogfather turned familiar fit right into the category...

"Alpha," said boy asked "What is this?"
"Pack." she answered simply
The teen and the pup shared a long look, and finally, with a wet lick on his hand, Kyoya nodded toward the small dog – if he was pack, then the pup would be protected.
"So..." Tsuna asked
"This is my new familiar." answered Kazami with a smile "He may not be the most useful," a protesting yip was heard, making most of them chuckle "But Padfoot found me from my previous life."

Her brother nodded his head appreciatively, and patted the pup on hid head – he didn't really care that his sister had used her Tiers 1 Perk on something that, in term of strength was useless; after all the new addition to the Vongola X had followed her through the after-life, and this was an impressive proof of loyalty, and that was more important in his eyes than any new flashy power...

While Padfoot was getting acquainted by the numerous new faces around him, Kazami was perusing her familiar Status windows, deciding how to use the characteristics, skills and perk available to him – she played with the idea of taking the Dogfather Perk, but decided it could wait a bit and instead settled on the Grimm Perk, that would be useful in the long run; she also wasn't surprised at all to see that the little beast had an unusually high base Charisma.

Finally, she went back to her own stats, not having yet chosen her new Specialty – she was wavering between the HitMan specialty of Reborn and Takeshi, and the Slayer one. The characteristic boosts of the Hit Man specialty were more interesting, but with already two guild members having chosen the option, the Slayer one made more sense – and it hinted upon abilities and skills that would go well with her own Hitohira no Senka...
That night, the Vongola X went to sleep wondering what surprise was in store for them the next day – after all, if the Training Quest was over, it meant that the next Life Quest was coming, and it was too early to be about the Inheritance Ceremony.