The Strange Cat from Fuuto

The mage, who had just come downstairs, witnessed this scene. Seeing this, he didn't just stand by and watch; he immediately materialized the driver.

“Drive on!”

The Wizard Driver appeared at the Wizard's waist. After slipping the red Flame Ring onto his left middle finger, he casually removed the silver ring from it.

"Transform!"

"Flame, please!"

"Hi, Hi, Hi, Hi..."

After the fiery red magic circle passed through the mage's body, the transformed mage lifted the hem of his skirt at his waist.

"I'll help you!"

"Where did this guy come from, calling himself a Kamen Rider?"

Medusa stood upstairs with her arms crossed, looking down at Miku, who was stepping on the cat fairy, and the mage who had come to help.

"One is annoying enough, and now another one has appeared!"

Medusa, whose face was expressionless, revealed a purple glint in her eyes: "She must be dealt with!"

Just as the mage reached Miku's side, Miku stepped aside, and the mage lifted her skirt, raising her right leg high and sweeping it out mercilessly.

"Oh!"

At the critical moment, the cat fairy who had been protecting herself with her arms was kicked away and sent flying like a skateboard.

No wonder he was a former professional football player!

"I'm sorry about what happened last time!"

The mage clasped his hands together in apology, looking rather embarrassed. He hadn't observed carefully at the time and had been fooled by the illusion, genuinely believing that Miku had burned Nara Shunpei to death.

For this, he even punched a cat whose heart was smaller than a needle!

"It's alright, after all, urgent matters require the best of judgment!"

Miku patted the mage on the shoulder and generously didn't pursue the matter, but his eyes under the mask kept glancing at the wizard's ring hanging at the mage's waist.

"It's so great that you understand!"

"Alright, stop talking, or that guy will run away!"

Miku pointed at the cat fairy and vanished in a flash, leaving only one sentence: "I'll go hold him off first, you follow!"

"learn!"

Just as the cat demon was about to sneak away, he felt a weight on his shoulder. A white gemstone mask with black fang patterns leaned close to his ear and said, "Hey, little brother, what are you planning to do?"

My mom is calling me home for dinner!

The cat fairy, whose shoulder was being put under her arm, chuckled and pointed ahead: "I won't stay any longer!"

Just as the cat demon was about to run away, its waist suddenly tightened, and it fell to the ground.

Why are you running so fast?!

Miku, whose tail was wrapped around the cat fairy, flexed his hands and said, "Take this Six Kings Spear!"

Miku, using the force of her tail to pull the cat fairy up from the ground, clenched her fists and brought them together, one above the other.

"Wait, no!"

Before the panicked cat fairy could react, Miku, with bulging arm muscles, slammed both fists into the cat fairy's chest.

As Miku's fists slammed into the cat fairy's chest, Miku took the opportunity to loosen its tail.

"what!!"

With a mournful howl, the cat demon flew backward like a kite with a broken string.

It had barely landed when it turned into a giant firework, exploding into pieces out of thin air!

"So strong!"

Just then, the mage, who had just run up to Miku, exclaimed in admiration while glancing behind Miku.

"what?"

The mage, afraid he hadn't seen it clearly, rubbed his eyes and looked several more times. "It actually has a tail!!!"

"What's wrong with having a tail? Is it strange?!"

"No, it's just that why is there this thing here!"

The mage, curiously reaching out to grab Miku's tail, fully displayed his inquisitive nature.

"The long tail is due to my driver and the Phantom inside me. When I don't transform, I look no different from a normal person!"

"Oh, I see!"

Releasing his grip on Miku's tail, the mage was incredibly relieved that his driver had no other function and that the dragon within him wouldn't interfere with him!

If someone like this transforms and still has a tail hanging behind them, that would be incredibly embarrassing!

"By the way, speaking of which, what kind of ring did you use last time that could create such an illusion!"

Upon hearing the mage's question, Miku was overjoyed, for he had been looking for a reason to borrow the ring from him!

"This is it!"

Miku took out the Deception Ring and handed it to the Mage, who carefully examined the patterns on the ring and its overall structure.

"It looks so familiar, but it doesn't seem like Wajima-san's work!"

"If you like it, it's yours!"

"Really?" The mage was surprised, but then handed the phone back to Miku and said, "Never mind, I have my own, I won't fight you for it!"

"Oh!" Miku calmly put the ring away, then casually asked, "Where's your ring?"

"Mine is here!"

Patting the chain on the left side of his belt that could be set with rings, the mage said with great pride, "There is an excellent ring maker in my area, and all the rings I use now are made by him!"

"What kind of ability is this?"

Miku pointed to the sleeping ring and took it off. "This ring looks interesting!"

"Its effect is to induce drowsiness!"

"He's fast asleep!"

Miku suddenly reached out and grabbed the mage's right hand, slipping the ring onto his finger. "Like this!?"

He turned the drive wheel on his waist to the right side of Miku and forcibly pressed the wizard's hand against his drive.

"Hey, wait!"

The mage couldn't pull his arm back; it felt like his arm was being clamped in pliers, and he couldn't break free.

"This ring isn't used like that..."

"Sleep, please!"

A low rumble emanated from the drive, accompanied by a slight snoring sound.

"Pfft!"

The mage, who had suddenly collapsed to the ground, tilted his head to the side. Miku chuckled and said, "Sometimes it's not good to be too trusting of others!"

"Wizard!"

"Hey, what are you doing?"

At this moment, Alex and his two companions, who arrived late, saw the unconscious Mage and Miku on the ground. Alex then asked in a stern voice.

"Shh!"

Miku, holding a finger to her lips, whispered, "Don't wake this guy up!"

As he spoke, Miku squatted down and reached for the long chain around the mage's waist with his right hand.

"You want to steal Haruto's ring!"

"How can you call that robbery!" Miku said unhappily, taking off the ring from the mage's waist. "I called it borrowing, don't you understand?"

"Nonsense, who lends money after confusing someone?!"

Miku, after taking off another ring, thought for a moment and said, "Because I don't have to write an IOU!"

Chapter 8: Oh my god, there's a beautiful woman here...

In front of Alex and the others, Miku pulled off the long chain from the mage's waist where the rings were hanging. Apart from the mage's four elemental rings and some of the more important rings, such as Engage which allows one to enter the inner world of others, and the ring specifically for the mage's form, he didn't touch any of them!

But he took all the other rings—the ones with protective, shrinking, enlarging, or burrowing functions!

"That's all!"

Satisfied, Miku tied the long chain around his waist and tossed the remaining rings onto the mage. The mage, who was fast asleep, even rolled over and scratched his butt at that moment.

"Give it back!"

At this moment, Alex gave up his verbal sparring with Miku and went straight to grab his arm. The veins on his pale little hand bulged out from the excessive force.

"I borrowed it through my own ability, why should I exchange it!"

Miku, who wanted to pick his nose, found that he could only touch the visor, so he simply twirled his finger on the visor.

"This is outright robbery! You keep saying you're borrowing, but you're clearly taking advantage of someone's vulnerability and robbing them!"

"Tsk tsk tsk, you can't say that, little girl!" Miku said softly to her as he grabbed Alex's hand. "Taking something without asking is stealing, and taking it by force after asking is robbery, but if I tell him and he agrees, isn't it just borrowing?"

"Aren't you right, Wizard!"

"You're willing to lend me your things, right?"

After staring at the unconscious mage for a few seconds, Miku turned to Alex and said, "See, he acquiesced!"

"What a shameless bastard!"

Alex made a move to hit her, but Miku grabbed her hand. Miku, holding Alex's small hand, chuckled and said, "If you don't believe it's a loan, I'll pay you some interest!"