The Strange Cat from Fuuto

"The ring you requested is finished!"

With a gloomy face, Serena slapped the newly made ring in front of Miku and walked awkwardly upstairs.

"What a powerful aura!" Miku had just opened his mouth, slightly pursing his lips at Serena's back, when a murderous glare shot over.

Miku, feeling a chill run down his spine, quickly turned his head away. Serena then gave a satisfied hum and headed towards her room on the second floor.

"Damn it, that old woman is terrifying!"

He also learned some things about Serena. She looked like a young girl, but she was actually over forty years old.

The reason it remains in this state is entirely due to the violet-patterned ring on its hand.

The ring that can keep people young forever requires a lot of magic to maintain, which is an important reason why Miku and the other party were able to cooperate.

"These rings are quite interesting!"

Miku picked up a ring with his tail and examined it closely, a satisfied smile slowly spreading across his lips.

Antique shop, Mianyingtang.

There was steaming hot tea, carefully prepared snacks, and sugared donuts on the table, but the mage had no desire to eat any of them.

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, let the Phantom experience true despair, only then can we warn the remaining Phantoms to seriously consider the consequences of daring to act!"

Miku's words were still echoing in the mage's mind, and the mage, with his fingers interlaced, was still slowly pondering what Miku had said.

"What's wrong, Haruto!?"

Sitting next to the mage, Alex looked at him with concern and asked, "What is it?" The mage then came to his senses and said, "I was just thinking about what that guy said!"

What did he say?

He said that to deal with the Phantom, one must retaliate in kind, making the Phantom experience true despair!

"I had a feeling something was off, but judging from his tone at the time, that guy was really serious!"

After learning the reason why the mage was troubled, Alex reached out his small hand and placed it between the mage's eyebrows, gently smoothing out his furrowed brows.

"Haruto, why do you think about these things? You have your own way of doing things, you don't need to learn from others!"

"But..."

Before the mage could speak, Alex pressed his finger to his lips and stared intently at him with bright eyes, saying, "There are no 'buts,' Haruto can just stay where he is!"

"Because you and him are different, your gentleness is the key to your continued success!"

"My gentleness?"

The mage staring blankly at Alex seemed to have something touched in his heart, and the two people, gazing at each other, slowly brought their faces together.

The closer they got, the closer they became, to the point where they could feel each other's breath and temperature.

"what...."

I'm heartbroken!

The shop door was pushed open, and Nara Shunpei and Wajima Shigeru, arm in arm, walked in making howling noises.

This separated Alex and the mage. Alex, his face flushed, quickly got up and hid in the small room behind his counter.

"Damn it, that cheating woman who's seeing three men at once!"

Swearing and cursing, Shunpei tore down all the colorful flags he had hung in the shop, and Wajima Shigeru sadly took out the small box he had prepared.

"A relationship that ended before it even began!"

He then took out a wizard's ring from the box and picked up a hammer from the side, ready to smash it down.

"Hey, Mr. Wajima!"

The mage who had stopped Wajima Shigeru quickly inquired about what had happened to the two. After listening to their story, the mage looked at Wajima Shigeru with disdain and said, "I can understand Shunpei's age, but Uncle Wajima, you already have your own junior sister, why are you still going out and messing around?"

"Dirty!"

Alex's merciless finishing blow from behind the counter startled Wajima Shigeru.

"Ah, junior sister, I'm so sorry!"

Wajima Shigeru, sobbing and pounding his chest, stormed into his studio. Wizard and Alex sighed helplessly at the sight.

"Ring ring..."

The phone rang, and Alex answered it immediately. After listening to the call, she said to the wizard with a serious expression, "Haruto, the Phantom has appeared!"

"learn!"

Haruto grabbed his coat and helmet and immediately headed out. Alex watched the wizard's retreating figure and said, "Be careful on your way!"

"Okay!"

.......

"ah..."

As Aimi fell to the ground, she stared in horror at the strange man in front of her who was dragging a giant sword as wide as a door, and screamed in terror.

Her carefully applied makeup was now completely ruined by tears and snot streaming down her face from fear.

"Now, succumb to despair!"

Phoenix, who had tossed aside the nearly dead four-eyed man Yamagata like trash, dangled his broadsword behind him.

The broadsword plowed a deep furrow in the ground, and the soil inside the furrow rolled outwards.

"Now it's your turn, [Door]!" The crouching phoenix lifted Aimi's chin with its hand and sneered, "Sink into despair in the fear of death!"

He raised the broadsword high in his right hand, its surface wreathed in blazing flames, the blade gleaming with a sharp, cold light.

"Die!"

With the phoenix's roar, the broadsword fell swiftly.

"Connect, please!"

Suddenly, a magical chant rang out, and a fiery red magic circle with a dragon pattern lit up beside Aimi.

A hand reached out from the magic circle, grabbed Amy, and pulled her out from under the phoenix.

"boom!"

The broadsword fell like a grenade dropped on the ground, causing the ground to crack and sending rocks and dirt flying everywhere.

This was just one of his usual attacks; the fiery and energetic phoenix could burn everything in its path to ashes.

This is also why Medusa usually doesn't allow him to act on his own. Once this guy loses his patience, if [the guy] is desperate, that's fine, but if he isn't desperate, he'll be beaten into a pulp.

"Tsk!"

Seeing his target escape, the phoenix clicked his tongue and, with a displeased expression, slung his broadsword over his shoulder and said, "It's you again, you ring-wearing mage!"

"Hmph, what a coincidence, it really is me!"

The mage, who had shielded Amy behind him, used the Link Ring again and retrieved the Wizard Gunsword from it.

"In that case, I'll burn you and the [Door] to ashes!"

The phoenix, with its five fingers bent, condensed a ball of blazing flame and threw it at the mage.

"Get out of the way!"

The mage, who had pushed Aimee to the side, jumped in the opposite direction.

Everything in the path of the flames turned to ashes, and the mage's expression became very solemn upon seeing this.

"This doesn't look like an ordinary flame!"

"In that case, I'll use this one!"

After removing the ring from his left middle finger, the mage put on the Flowing Ring, pulled the silver ring down, and placed it on his waist.

"Water! Please!"

"Sui, Sui, Sui, Sui!"

As the driver chanted, the mage passed through the flowing magic circle and transformed into a water-like form.

"Ordinary water cannot extinguish the fires of my hell!"

The phoenix, grinning maliciously, raised its right hand again, a flickering flame burning on it.

However, at that moment, a chant mixed with the roar of a beast rang out from not far from the two.

"What is this?"

"what?"

The mage and the phoenix, turning their heads at the same time, looked in the direction of the sound and saw a tall figure standing there.

His left hand rested on the drive at his waist, and a verdant magic circle appeared from the void.

"Jungle Start!"

Chapter 18: From today onwards, please call me Mi-Hokage, the First Hokage!

"Jungle Start!"

A chant mixed with the roar of beasts rang out, and at the same time, tender buds sprouted from the ground beneath Miku's feet. The buds, which had just unfolded their leaves, suddenly swelled up, and countless tree roots, like tentacles, firmly wrapped Miku.

In an instant, a wooden cocoon appeared in front of the mage and the phoenix.

"Pop, pop, pop..."

With a soft rustling sound, flower buds sprouted from the tree trunk, and the buds bloomed rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"call...."

A gentle breeze blows, the flowers tremble, and pollen is released from them in abundance.

A magic circle, composed of branches, leaves, trunks, flowers, and fruits, emerged from the pollen and swirled through the wooden cocoon.

"Oh!"

The wood chips exploded with a muffled thud, and the flowers transformed into countless petals that floated in the air.