Father’s Ordeal

Brrr—!

He shook his body, setting a light rhythm.

“Kkkuung~~”

Yu Seha stretched his limbs.

Every hair on his body stood on end.

He realized the airflow along his nose—something he couldn’t sense as a human—felt vivid.

‘So this is the sense of smell of the cat-people.’

He opened and closed his hand.

Each finger tingled with a faint sensation; even his sense of touch felt extraordinary.

‘Mm, mm. Good, good.’

Yu Seha first checked his pants.

As befitted an expensive artifact, a tail hole for beastfolk had appeared right away.

Through it a long, cute cat tail trembled, drawing a graceful curve.

‘Hmm, so there’s one tail…’

According to the , it manifests features as much as possible, but two tails did not appear.

Sure enough, two tails aren’t a trait of the ‘cat-people’,

but instead seem to be unique to Meowi.

‘Maybe if my Complete Devour mastery gets higher I can reproduce it.’

He’d find out with time.

Yu Seha raised his hand and stroked something sprouting near his temples.

A pair of soft, highly sensitive cat ears twitched.

‘Nice.’

Yu Seha closed his eyes, ready to resolve a question he’d had for a long time.

Always angelic,

Hmm, now a devil?

In any case, he decided to satisfy the curiosity he’d felt whenever he petted the very cute Meowi.

He focused solely on his hearing.

For some reason, he clearly heard Meowi’s panting breaths—‘mua, muaa…’—as if gasping.

It was a panting that signaled extreme arousal.

“Wow, this is really amazing…”

He’d wondered from the start.

Why do most beastfolk have four ears?

And if there are four, how on earth do they process information?

‘It all gets integrated.’

Sound clearly came from all four, yet there was no confusion.

They seemed to process and perceive auditory information from all ears at once.

Yu Seha twisted his body this way and that.

He felt an excellent physique—different from when he had been a half-elf, half-vampire.

Without thinking, he licked the back of his arm.

An almost instinctive action.

It was grooming.

He stuck out his tongue and ran it over his fingers.

He felt slightly bumpy, hook-like skin.

‘I see, it’s a structure for grooming fur…’

Yu Seha continued grooming.

He couldn’t stop.

Was it like a drug?

He immediately understood what it meant that resistance to the cat-people’s special urges was difficult.

A desire arose from deep within to groom his fur all day long.

‘Come to think of it, I’ve never seen Meowi grooming…’

It seemed like a personal difference.

Or perhaps due to upbringing.

‘They give the impression of a very neatly made humanoid species—quite cute.’

Compared to all his previous transformations, this one was modest.

There wasn’t any overwhelmingly strong power.

But the species itself felt highly refined.

The Tyrant, who had been listening, interjected.

Not only ordinary humans,

but many beastfolk can interbreed with them.

They may seem structurally insignificant, but they’ve evolved traits favorable to survival,

so the completeness of their bloodline has remained fairly high through generations.

It was certainly a reasonable statement.

Yu Seha finished his roughly three-minute evaluation of the cat-people.

He moved toward the door in front of him.

‘Shall we go in then?’

Not only his height,

but even the cat-people traits were perfect.

They let him pass without hindrance.

“All right, Meowi, shall we stop now…?”

“M, muaaa…”

“……?”

Huh?

But Meowi’s condition seemed strange.

Meowi stared blankly, covering her face with splayed hands.

Only a low ‘m, mua, muaa…’ escaped her lips.

Even in the dark underground, her face was startlingly flushed.

As Yu Seha froze in embarrassment,

Meowi stammered and asked,

“Se, Se, Seha. Th-This unbearably adorable appearance is… what on earth…?”

Ah—he hadn’t told Meowi he could transform into a cat-person.

Yu Seha calmly explained in his cute, childlike cat-person state.

Ma Hana listened silently to Yu Seha’s words.

No—honestly,

not a single word sank in.

All her attention fixed solely on his two pupils.

She stared only at Yu Seha reflected there.

‘Mm, mua, muaa…’

Ma Hana’s face flushed deeper and deeper.

Heat spread to the nape of her neck,

her body warmed and a drop of sweat slid down her jaw.

In the end, Ma Hana couldn’t hold back.

Ignoring Yu Seha, she stepped forward.

“Meowi?”

“Mua, mua, muwaa, mua, muaa…”

Ma Hana, repeating only ‘muaaa’,

showed signs of extreme excitement.

She shot out her hand like lightning.

Her hand didn’t hesitate to toy with Yu Seha’s cheek.

“M, muwaa…”

“Meowi…? Can you hear me?”

“M, muaaa…!”

This level of skinship couldn’t suppress Ma Hana’s urge.

Holding him, she rubbed him all over.

Her two tails wound around Yu Seha’s tail like a twisted doughnut.

Her small, cute hands grabbed his fern-like ones and stroked the jelly-like pads on his palms.

Finally, her tongue flicked at his cat ear.

“…!?”

“Mua~”

It was easy to understand why she reacted this way.

To Ma Hana, Yu Seha was a man she could give everything to, a beloved partner.

She felt both mental and physical attraction to him.

Yu Seha already had a perfect 100 points of charm.

And with Yu Seha, of all things, being a cat-person,

he transformed into someone who aroused sexual excitement in a fellow species.

This struck her deep-seated nature like a meteor.

‘Mua, muaa…’

I like you, I love you.

I want to hold you.

I want to be with you all day long,

and other physical instincts flooded in, literally breaking down the wall of affection.

Additionally, his shortened stature gave him the cute appearance of a child of barely ten.

Maternal instinct and protectiveness mixed in.

Ma Hana didn’t know what to do with the whirlwind of desires.

Her twenty-year-old body and mind combined and reached a conclusion.

‘Seha is…’

Yu Seha was the most perfect ideal type.

Hearts naturally formed in Ma Hana’s pupils.

She felt warmth in her lower abdomen spread through her body.

She knew what this was.

A periodic, violent desire.

Commonly, it was called rut.

“M, Meowi!?”

“M, mua… Se, Seha’s smell is so good I could go crazy…”

“M, Meowi, s-suffocating…”

“Mua, mua.”

About fifteen minutes.

It took Ma Hana about fifteen minutes to hold Yu Seha, groom him thoroughly, and finally relieve her rut.

“S-sorry, Seha… I-I couldn’t hold back.”

Ma Hana apologized, looking ashamed.

Yu Seha looked at her and smiled warmly.

His whole body was covered in cat fur and drool marks, as if to show he belonged to Ma Hana.

“No, it’s my fault for transforming without warning.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

“…Huh?”

He had expected the reply ‘No, that’s not it,’ but the answer that came back was completely different.

Yu Seha was momentarily puzzled.

Ma Hana fixed him with a gaze full of strange longing.

She grinned.

Soon, she drew heart-shaped pupils in her eyes.

“Seha?”

“…Yes?”

“Will you transform often for me?”

“…Into what?”

“…You know… huh? Do it often? Huh? ‘Promise’?”

“O-okay, yeah, I got it…”

“Mhehehe…”

After the noisy, joyful farce ended,

about two hours later.

The two had by then succeeded in reaching the deepest part of the <Trial>.

There were various traps and enemies along the way,

but Ma Hana’s level was far too high to be threatened by them.

She was currently a lower-mid A-rank talent.

And as for Yu Seha, his strength went without saying.

Shortly after, they arrived at the innermost part.

The largest cavern among the rooms they’d encountered so far revealed itself.

Ma Hana, sniffing, asked vaguely.

“Muaaa, Seha, here…”

“Yeah.”

The two instinctively understood.

That the entire place was surrounded by a powerful protective barrier.

Yu Seha murmured softly.

“This place seems to have been made to seal something.”

“Mua, yeah, I felt the same.”

Surely, a place designed to suppress and put something powerful to sleep.

One thing caught their eye while they were at it.

“Mua, Seha, over there.”

At the far end where Ma Hana pointed was a small shelf-like object.

They moved toward it and soon found a small square groove on the shelf.

Ma Hana searched her bosom.

She pulled out a book left by her father, Ma Tae-han.

She slipped it into the groove as if entranced, and it fit perfectly.

Vrrrr—!

Intense mana trembled from the shelf.

The book flashed as if it had existed for this very purpose and projected an illusion.

Starting from the toes, an image gradually completed.

It formed a tall, over-190 cm, well-built man—commonly considered handsome and likable.

“…”

Ma Hana, who had been staring blankly, suddenly shed tears.

She took a step forward.

She spoke in a trembling voice.

“Da, Dad…?”

A being opened his eyes at the call.

Undoubtedly Ma Hana’s father, Ma Tae-han.