Jiwoo peeked his head through the door and spoke. "Hey, Mr. Kayden and Ms. Vera... You'll be here when I come back again, right?" Jiwoo asked, he's so cute. "I will be, kid."
"You promised to feed me for the rest of my life after all." I answered with a soft smile on myself. Jiwoo turned to Kayden and asked, "How about you, Ms. Kayden?"
"You're not well, so you should stay with me! At least until you are in a better state." Jiwoo reasoned. "...Huh?" Kayden was baffled. "Please! Promise me!" Jiwoo exclaimed as he left the house.
Kayden had a conflicted look on his face as he finally sighed, speaking; "Since he insisted, I have no choice. I'll stay here for a bit." He looked at the window to his left which reflected him.
Kayden's face scrunched up as he was reminded of his cursed look. But he saw something else that was reflected, it was my face, adorning a smug look upon it. "Heh, Hardcore tsundere."
Kayden's face gained a couple irk marks as he looked back to see me. "You..." But as he was about to punce on me, Jiwoo's three cats suddenly appeared and swarmed around me.
"Meow~" "Meow~" "Meow~" I sat there in the middle, enjoying all the warmth that the cuddly three cats gave me. "Now, now. My lovely subordinates, let us eat the meal provided for us."
I spoke as I stood up and went towards the bowls of food, with the smaller three cats following right behind me. As I, and the three other cats were about to dig on the food, Kayden got upset.
His force aura was released, and my three-underlings got too scared to eat. That got me mad. "Hey." I spoke as I released my own force aura, I set it to the light attribute.
"Kayden," With the light having the warm and healing touch the three shivering cats stopped shaking in fear, but they got behind me, still in fear of Kayden's ominous deterring aura.
"What do you think you're doing, huh?" I asked as my force aura suddenly erupted and skyrocketed in density. It was a stand-still for a second before Kayden broke the silence.
"What exactly are you?" Kayden asked with narrowed eyes, increasing his own intimidation factor. "Hah!" I scoffed. "I was once human like you, but also like you, got turned into a cat."
I also narrowed my eyes and looked him in the eye. "But unlike you, it wasn't voluntary. I just suddenly turned into a cat and now I can't do anything about it." I answered.
I wasn't lying. After all, I was once human, but suddenly got turned into a cat. It's also true that I can't do anything about it for now. "Fine. Not like I like cat food anyways."
Kayden spoke, withdrawing his force aura. As he did, I also did. There was no need for continuance of violence, I had three underlings to feed. "Remember Kayden." I spoke.
"These three cats were the one to lead Jiwoo to your half-dead body back then." I look towards my three subordinates, and they stared back at me with curious and pleading eyes.
"It's alright now, you can eat your fill." I smiled at them as they voraciously ate the cat food on the middle bowl. The black and white cat wanted to eat Kayden's part, so I took it away.
"No, that is bad. You three already have your bowl of food." I spoke as I brought Kayden's bowl towards him. "I don't need it." Kayden grit his teeth at me, though his stomach seemed to disagree, growling.
I scoffed, "Just eat it, I won't judge you or anything." I spoke as I headed back toward my bowl, and ate together with the other three cats, occasionally looking back to see if Kayden was eating.
I finished a part of my bowl, that's all for now. I can't gobble all of it for now since I need to reserve some food. I lifted head to see that Kayden hadn't eaten his part at all.
I approached him and stopped right in front him, just when his stomach let out a thundering growl. "C'mon, Kayden. You gotta eat, you're starving right now." I spoke in a worried tone.
"Why would I eat the food you offered?" Kayden looked away without even sparing the cat food a look. "Just eat it, abandon your pride. Its useless right now. I am genuinely worried about you."
"Fine, I'll eat." Kayden hesitated for a moment before he stood up and took a bite of the cat food. "Satisfied? Why are even worried about me? We only met for a night." He asked.
I smiled. "Well, to tell the truth, you might not believe it, but I knew you far longer than that. Anyways, I'm going back to cuddle with my three subordinates." I answered honestly, there was no lie in it.
My words struck something within Kayden as I turned around and walked towards my three subordinates. I looked at them as they lined up and sat up straight like soldiers meeting a superior.
"Good." I spoke curtly after as I looked at them. One was brown, one was black, and the last one was black and white. Although they were easy to differentiate by colours, it was heartless to just call them "hey".
And so I made up my mind. "Hmm... Listen up my precious subordinates. I am going to give each of you name to use. Be sure to pay attention to your given name because from now on you will be using them."
I looked at the brown one. "Listen, from now on, you will be Hazel!" I looked towards the black one. "And you will be Onyx!" I looked towards the last one. "And you will be Fifty!"
The eyes of my three subordinates sparkled with fidelity towards me as they kept shouting "Meow(Thank you)" "Meow(You're the best)" "Meow(You're awesome)" It only ended up stroking my ego...
"Yes, yesss! I am the best, that's right!" As my subordinates kept on feeding my ego, Kayden was looking at us like we were a bunch of cult members. "They're f*cking crazy..."
But I ignored his random ramblings and faced my subordinates who was still feeding my ego. "My precious subordinates! Let us venture out and explore our land- in other words the streets!"
"Meow(yeah)!" "Meow(yes)!" "Meow(I agree)!" They responded. "Let us go and venture out the streets like warriors! For our glory!" I shouted as my subordinates followed after me.
<< You have fulfilled the requirements of a hidden quest: [I am the ruler of cats!] and have been awarded with the title: [Cat Sovereign]. The title allows you to command any cat, from the smallest, weakest new-borns, to the largest, mythical cats! You have a passive aura that makes cats feel reverence and fear towards you. >>
<< Name: Vera Estelle | Gender: Female >>
<< LVL: 2 | Titles: Cat Sovereign | HP: 375 | SP: 375 | FP: 15,850 >>
<< STR: 6 | SPD: 8 | SNS: 20 | DEX: 15 | VIT: 15 | INT: 634 >>
<< Skills: {Harmony: Max}, [Lightning Increase: 1], [Wind Armament: 1], [Shadow cloak: 1], [Cloak of light: 1], [Bite: 4], [Slash: 3], [Jump: 4], [Sprint: 5], [Cat Language: 5] >>
<< Current Stat/skill points: 10 >>
"Miaw the f*ck?" I asked myself and my subordinates in absolute shock.
The sudden notification from the system left me frozen, what the heck happened? A new title?
"This... this new title is amazing." I muttered to myself as I even felt more encouraged to go and explore outside to test is this title really has effect. I turned towards my three subordinates.
"My subordinates! Lead me outside, for we shall recruit more brethren to our newfound kingdom!" I spoke in a grand tone as my three subordinates hurriedly Formed a line and saluted.
"Meow(Yes Ma'am)!" They spoke in unison as we soon left the house. We leapt though the fences as we explored the streets, wandering to find any new cats to join the kingdom.
We soon met one, just a block away, and the cat immediately lied down(kneeled) to me in reverence. "Meow, meow meowr(What are you here for, my lord)?" The cat asked.
"Join our kingdom. We are looking for brave cats to join our kingdom and become loyal vassals." I spoke in a grand tone, as if it were the grand calling to all cats. "Will you join us?"
The cat stood on all fours and somehow saluted to me, "I shall be a loyal soldier in your command! My skills in fighting may be useful to your royal highness." The cat replied. "Good."
I spoke as I continued exploring around but, "Hazel and Onyx, make sure to memorise the neighbourhood. We might come outside again and get lost if we do not memorise the layout of the land."
"Meow(Yes Ma'am)!" We continued lurking around Jiwoo's house and managed to recruit several cats to our kingdom. We had recruited a total of twelve cats and were separated into two groups.
The first class were the common class, they were the class that were designated to live normally, but while doing so, also gathering information in secret, in the shadows.
The second class were the knight class. As you could draw from the class name, they were the class that was designated to be the combat class that would protect and escort the common class.
And the last class were the commander class, they were assigned to command both of the groups they were leading. The current ones in the commander class were only Hazel, Onyx, and Fifty.
I stepped in front of all fifteen cats, among of which were Hazel, Onyx, and Fifty. "That is all the divisions for now, we don't have enough brethren among our ranks for further division."
"Now, divided into three groups with one commander each, there should be five people among each group to be divided equally. Common class, I expect you to report daily to your superiors."
"Knight and commander class, please come to this location every day, because I will train your fighting ability starting today." I spoke in a august tone, magnifying my royal status.
"The next days are going to be shlt." I turned around and muttered to myself. "Why am I building up a kingdom again?"