Cat Princess and Human Knight

The regent wailed silently in the imperial palace, unable to accept the cruel reality.

Meanwhile, the fallen black cat judge, Morga, Darkclaw, has personally traveled to the canyon where the dwarf cat princess summoned Yi Yin, hoping to uncover some truths.

In the canyon, the Black Cat Judge coldly stared at the statue of the Earth Mother Goddess and asked in a deep voice.

Is this the place?

Behind him, two black cats belonging to the Shadow Guard knelt on one knee and spoke respectfully.

Yes, that's right.

"Look, here's the buried corpse of a black cat. It must have been the work of that high knight of the Golden Flame Knights."

Judge Black Cat glanced at the pit where Black Cat was buried and gave a cold smile.

"The Earth Mother Goddess's cat is always so hypocritical."

After saying that, he stretched out his black claws, which were even blacker than black, like a black hole that had sucked out all the light around them.

Judge Black Cat raised his hand and threw out a point of black light, which covered the pit and the black cat's corpse buried in it, making it disappear without a trace, as if a hole had appeared out of thin air on the ground.

"Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, the dark soul belongs to my Lord."

Two black cats lay prostrate behind them, looking with the utmost respect at the vanished crater, envying their comrade who had successfully returned to the embrace of darkness.

Judge Black Cat shook his hand, and Dark Claw reverted to its original cat paw form. He turned back to look at the two black cats and asked.

"When the three of you were chasing Princess Sophia, was it here that you encountered that human? Are you sure he died at the hands of a human?"

"Yes, sir."

We had already managed to hold off the high knight of the Golden Flame Knights. The paladin dared not break the precept against killing cats, which allowed us to successfully stop him.

We sent the third cat to kill the princess, thinking the assassination would go smoothly, but then we encountered human traces, and one of the humans even intervened and saved the princess.

We saw the humans from afar and dared not approach, so we could only return to the capital to report to you and the Regent.

Judge Black Cat narrowed his eyes and scanned his surroundings. In this dilapidated altar of the Earth Mother Goddess, he felt that he had overlooked some clue.

Suddenly, he wrinkled his nose and faintly smelled a faint, almost imperceptible odor of blood.

He crouched down and carefully observed the seemingly chaotic but actually purposeful clods of earth and rocks on the ground.

"Move these rocks and clods of earth!"

"Yes."

The two black cats quickly moved the stones aside, and the black cat judge's eyes widened, his pupils slitting upwards.

A magic circle smeared with blood appeared before him. Although the traces had been deliberately erased, the remaining appearance still allowed the Black Cat Grand Judge to recognize its purpose immediately.

"A forbidden summoning array... A human suddenly appears... Princess Sophia... Your talent truly exceeds my expectations and astonishes me."

The forbidden summoning technique that the Mankikan royal family had painstakingly researched for so many years without success was actually successfully performed by a runaway princess after the royal family's downfall. How ironic!

Judge Black Cat looked thoughtfully at the statue of Mother Earth, as if talking to himself.

"Is this Princess Sofia's exceptional talent, the last struggle of the Mankikan royal family, or... a miracle of yours?"

Mother Earth, you should not have interfered in the war between the two gods and the otherworldly human king. The final battlefield has not yet ended, and the war between the two sides continues.

You should remain neutral, right?

As Judge Black Cat spoke, cracks appeared in the statue of Mother Earth, and in an instant, the statue shattered into pieces, raising countless clouds of dust that covered everything on the ground.

The black cat judge, covered in dust, shook his head, speechless.

Contrary to Shi Mao's imagination, Mother Earth is not kind and tolerant; on the contrary, she is quite cunning and shrewd.

The shattering of the statue stirred up dust that completely buried the forbidden magic circle on the ground, leaving the Black Cat Grand Judge, who had lost all clues, with no way to investigate further.

He could not prove that the human beside the dwarf cat princess was the otherworldly human king, nor could he know whether the Earth Mother Goddess had secretly interfered during the summoning.

Just as Judge Black Cat was pondering, the two black cats behind him suddenly became alert and protected his back.

A dark figure leaped out of the forest and knelt before the black cat judge; it was also a black cat.

Judge Black Cat dusted himself off and turned back to ask casually.

"What is it?"

The black cat, who was later, bowed and said...

"Illya Onyxia, the Oath of Ice and Fire, returned to the capital, personally shattered the Regent's sapphire, and declared that she would sever all ties with the Shadowmoon Clan before turning and departing."

A glint of light flashed in the black cat judge's eyes, and he asked again.

"How is the Regent now?"

"After the regent panicked, he secretly ordered someone to buy a similar sapphire and hang it on his tail."

Judge Black Cat chuckled to himself.

"It certainly seems like something he would do. A lie repeated a hundred times becomes the truth. What a self-deceiving fool."

But I still need him right now, so I'll pretend I don't know for now.

The Black Cat Judge took one last look at the damaged altar of the Earth Mother Goddess; no clues could be found on the ground, which was covered in dust.

He had to return immediately to tell his true master about the astonishing discovery that the Otherworldly King had reappeared.

"Let's go back, let's go back and see our poor regent."

"Yes."

The three black cats of the Shadow Guard obeyed the orders of the Black Cat Judge respectfully, completely ignoring the mockery and disrespect shown to the Regent in the Black Cat Judge's words.

As the saying goes, a subject will die if his lord is disgraced.

But the behavior of the Shadow Guard Black Cats made it seem as if the Regent was not their master, and that their master was someone else entirely.

Looking back one last time at the concealed forbidden magic circle, even the usually indifferent Black Cat Judge couldn't help but reveal a hint of tension; his inner self was clearly not as calm as he appeared.

The King of Another World... He's really back.

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"Achoo!"

Yi Yin touched his nose; it had suddenly started to itch a little, and he didn't know why.

At this moment, he and the Munchkin Princess had just left the village. Looking at the Munchkin Princess's high-held tail, he could tell that she was in a good mood.

"Sofia, should we keep some distance from now on?"

Princess Shorty Cat stopped and turned back to look at Yi Yin with surprise, asking a question.

Why do we need to keep our distance?

"Huh? Didn't your old cat grandpa just say that you shouldn't make us seem too close, because it won't do you any good for your future?"

Why should I listen to him?

Princess Shorty Cat's words were so confident and self-assured that Yi Yin was speechless for a moment and could only awkwardly reply.

"But judging from your demeanor just now, you seemed to be really listening to what he was saying."

"Oh, I was faking it."

The dwarf cat princess looked completely at ease, which left Yi Yin a little bewildered.

Seeing Yi Yin's puzzled expression, the short-legged cat princess spoke frankly.

"Grandpa Milo doesn't support my revival of the royal family, so why should I listen to his advice?"

His suggestions were all based on the premise that I should honestly remain a viscount in Hulu Territory and live a peaceful life.

If I listen to him, how can the royal family be restored?

Yi-eun touched his nose and sighed.

"What you said makes so much sense, I'm speechless."

Princess Shorty Cat stood in front of Yi Yin, looking up at the tall man. The shorty cat, who was only 30 centimeters tall, felt her neck and head ache just looking up at the 1.83-meter-tall human.

"Why should I give up my greatest advantage? I have the support of the human race behind me. Any noble who wants to harm me will be wary of this. Even if they want to harm me, they will have to be cautious."

Giving up one's advantages is tantamount to bowing down to those treacherous nobles. One step back leads to another, and eventually one becomes a fish on the chopping block, at the mercy of others.

Throughout history, countless cats have been favored by humans, but humans are fickle and easily bored.

When the favor of humans is lost, those cats who climbed to the top with the help of humans often fall to their deaths.

Grandpa Milo was worried that my future would turn out that way, but he got two things wrong.

First, I have already fallen from the peak to the abyss, and my body and mind have been shattered. Even if I am worse off, how much worse can I get?

Secondly, you are not an ordinary human; you are a king from another world whom I summoned. Our relationship is different.

Yi Yin touched his bald head sheepishly.

"So you trust me that much?"

The short-legged cat princess shook her head.

"It's not that I believe you, it's that I have nothing left to lose, so I'm willing to gamble, to bet my crippled body on a future."

Yi Yin sighed.

"You're really good with words... Would it kill you to say a few nice things?"

Princess Shorty Cat stared at Yi Yin and suddenly started speaking in a clipped voice.

"Brother Yi-yin, will you help me?"

Yi Yin was stunned. Looking at the short-legged cat princess's bright, sparkling eyes, he was speechless for a moment.

After a while, Princess Short-legged Cat and Yi Yin turned their backs to each other and began to retch.

"It's disgusting to speak to humans using consonant sounds."

"Same here, same here. Please keep up your arrogance and cunning, and stop being so disgusting, thank you."