You are a cat demon

The golden eagle is dead.

You witnessed it die right before your eyes, and you saw its owner take its body down from the holly tree, bury it in a hole like a bag of worthless trash.

You know in your heart that it is indeed dead.

But like you said, it's dead, yet it's still alive.

You always felt its presence was everywhere in Sakura Village. Sometimes, when you closed your eyes, you could almost hear its clear, resonant "whimpering" sounds, and sometimes its domineering (and still unbelievable) long howl seemed to linger in your ears. The strangest thing was that on the seventh day after its death, late at night, you don't know what happened to you, like sleepwalking, and when you came to your senses, you found yourself unknowingly walking under that holly tree. Perhaps you were seeing things, but for a fleeting moment, you seemed to see a brownish figure standing on the large branch of the holly tree…

That damned eagle! Even in death, its soul cannot find peace!

What goes around comes around. When it was alive, you always bothered it; after it died, it started bothering you.

From then on, you kept your distance from that holly tree, desperately trying to erase all memories related to that golden eagle from your cerebral cortex. Ironically, even the demon-suppressing tree in Cherry Blossom Village couldn't do anything to you, but it was an inconspicuous holly tree that subdued you.

You think you're really ridiculous.

A golden eagle that had absolutely no connection to you, whose cause of death had absolutely nothing to do with you, yet you still can't forget it. It wasn't your friend; cat demons don't have friends, and given its temperament, it would never consider you a friend. Even its owner, the hunter who spent the most time with it, only frowned for a few days before quickly buying a healthy little hunting dog from another village. Right now, he's playing with the new dog, building a bond with it, his eyes crinkling with laughter. There's no sign that he has any lingering affection for his hunting eagle, Carmen, as if it never existed.

You can understand the hunter. In this day and age, even a perfectly healthy person who was laughing and talking to you just days ago will be forgotten quickly after an accident. The same applies to other animals; even fewer people will deliberately remember a dead animal, especially one whose death was so mysterious.

The dead are dead; neither can a person or an eagle. The living must continue to live. Constantly dwelling on the past is of no benefit to the dead, and even less so to the living.

You can also treat it as a sculpture that never existed.

Forget about golden eagles and hunting eagles like Carmen!

You can continue to live a comfortable life in Sakura Village, eating, drinking, sleeping, and doing whatever you want. What more could you ask for?

……

From the depths of winter to the golden autumn, the days passed one by one. You watched the leaves outside the window gradually turn yellow and fall from the branches, and as the tranquil night gradually enveloped Cherry Blossom Village, you realized that you had once again spent another boring and uninteresting day doing nothing.

That guy is gone, and you've gotten tired of all the games Little Wakaba used to play with you. There's nothing in the whole village that can interest you, and you're even too lazy to trim the big black dog's nose. All you do every day is patrol your territory, and you've probably walked around the entire Sakura Village tens of thousands of times.

You've grown a little tired of this peaceful life, and you sincerely hope to do something exciting.

Your wish will soon come true.

Every year in autumn, Sakura Village holds a large-scale hunting event. In autumn, after a year of growth, almost all the animals are plump and strong, making this the season with the best quality prey, allowing hunters to have a good harvest. However, the autumn hunt must be completed before winter arrives; otherwise, heavy snow will block the mountains, hindering hunters' movements, and valuable prey will either hibernate or migrate elsewhere.

This event is something all hunters in Sakura Village yearn for, and all hunting hounds yearn for; perhaps now we can add you to the list.

You're neither a hunter nor a hunting dog, so why would you be interested in this kind of human hunting activity? It's all because you're bored out of your mind. If you don't do something, mushrooms will grow on your head from boredom.

The only problem right now is...

"Get off, Xiao Hei!" Village Chief Zhang Qingshan said speechlessly, reaching out to pull you off his shoulder. "We're going hunting, we'll play with you when we get back."

After your training, you weigh at least twenty pounds, which sounds like a huge fat cat among ordinary cats, but you're a cat demon, so this weight is quite normal for a cat demon. However, when you jumped straight up from a tree two people high onto Village Chief Zhang Qingshan's right shoulder, he wouldn't think that way. You're all muscle, and muscle of the same volume weighs much more than fat. If it weren't for Village Chief Zhang Qingshan's good physique, an ordinary person would have been crushed by this "cat meat cannonball."

You didn't intend to murder your "master." You just wanted to tell Village Chief Zhang Qingshan in any way you could think of that you would also be given a spot to participate in this hunting activity.

Although the method is simple and crude.

Village Chief Zhang Qingshan naturally didn't understand your meaning; he thought you were just fooling around with him. You could only nudge the hunting rifle in his hand again, thinking that your meaning should be clear enough, right?

However, you're overthinking it.

"Oh, you want to play with this? This isn't for kittens. This thing is called a gun, it's for hunting. 'Bang!' and the prey falls down..."

Does this even need an explanation?

Seeing that he still didn't understand what you meant, you became anxious and kept shouting. This left the village chief, Zhang Qingshan, completely puzzled, and he was also scratching his head in frustration.

"Wait a minute, you wouldn't happen to be...?"

You stop calling out and look up at him with expectant eyes.

Yes, keep going! Keep going!

"Are you in heat?"

At this moment, Village Chief Zhang Qingshan looked like he had just realized something, and said to himself, "That's right, you've grown up and want to find a wife. Alright, let's go hunting first, you go play with Ruoye. Don't worry, when I go to the city someday, I'll definitely bring you back a beautiful little female cat..."

you……

You're too lazy to explain.

The last time you were this speechless was the last time.

However, his words reminded you that Xiao Ruoye is still all alone at home.

In the past, whenever Village Chief Zhang Qingshan left home, Xiao Ruoye would be left with a neighbor. During this time, she would play with her friends, and you would always stay by her side. But this time…