The Strange Cat from Fuuto

Upon seeing this, Serena silently closed the door and took out her specially made magic ring from her pocket.

"Power!"

Turning the knob on the ring's face, the magic began to take effect. Feeling full of power, Serena took a deep breath, closed the door, and locked it.

Three minutes later, Miku, with a bruised and swollen face, and Ichi, with a large bump on his head, sat obediently in front of Serena.

"Tell me, what exactly did you encounter?"

Serena poured herself a cup of tea and began to ask Miku why she was in such a sorry state. Miku flicked her tail and said, "Heh, I just ran into some arrogant daughter-obsessed guy and got beaten up!"

Miku himself hadn't expected that he would suffer such a setback in his Rider form, something he hadn't done in a long time. He hadn't experienced such a significant loss since fusing with Extreme.

Although he was only out of a coma because of the great damage he had taken, he couldn't swallow this insult and would get revenge on that bastard Bai Mo sooner or later!

"Even with Jungle's power, they can't defeat him?" Serena asked calmly, her brows furrowed, and she even put down the teacup she had just picked up.

“No, Jungle Mode’s specialties in magic absorption and sealing are completely ineffective against that guy.” Miku shook his head and said with a serious expression, “So I need even stronger power now!”

"Even stronger power!?"

"Yes, I know you don't want to talk about it, but give me that magic gem!"

Serena's face darkened when she heard that Miku had his eye on her treasured magic gem, recalling her experience of acquiring it in the first place.

"No, that magic gem is an ominous one. You don't need to think about it anymore. I'll use my connections to find you a better one!"

Serena, who had firmly refused Miku, rubbed her temples and said wearily, "Alright, if there's nothing else, you can go out now. The food prepared for you is in the kitchen. I need to rest for a while!"

"Fine!"

After giving Serena a long look, Miku left the tea room, leaving Serena staring blankly at her teacup.

Miku, who was leading Iggy to the kitchen, was somewhat absent-minded. If he wanted to avoid revealing his true power at this stage, he could only rely on the power of the Rider. However, the power of the Rider at this stage was still too weak, not even half of his monster form. Even after sublimation, he could only fight back and forth with his monster form.

"We must make the Rider Form stronger!"

Miku, talking to himself, jumped onto the table and used his tail to lift the lid of the casserole.

"Damn it, it's still beans!"

..........

In the middle of the night, Miku, who was curled up on the sofa with Iggy, opened his eyes. "If you don't give it to me, I'll take it myself!"

Miku jumped off the sofa without making a sound, and tiptoed upstairs like a ghost.

Miku, his golden pupils glowing slightly, knew that if he forcibly took Serina's magic gem, there would be no possibility of cooperating with her again!

However, in order to make her plan proceed more smoothly, Miku hesitated about whether to activate the power of her monster form.

Miku, who had just arrived at Serena's room, noticed that the door seemed to be ajar, with a crack through which a sliver of light shone into the hallway.

"Aren't you asleep yet?"

Approaching cautiously, I found Serena standing on the balcony. The curtains on the balcony door fluttered wildly in the night breeze, and the cool moonlight fell on Serena, as if draping her in a thin veil.

"Miku!"

Serena's sudden question made Miku's tail involuntarily wag, but he quickly replied calmly, "What's wrong, Serena?"

Do you really need that magic gem?

Turning around to face Serena, his black eyes were like a deep pool, profound and unfathomable.

"Hmm!" Miku nodded after a few seconds of contemplation. "That's right. I need more power now, and only that magic gem you treasure can make me stronger!"

Why are you always chasing after power?

With a soft sigh, Serena stepped into the house from the balcony and opened the hidden door to the bookshelf.

"Because this is my nature. Only by becoming stronger can I be free from any constraints and protect everything around me!"

Miku entered the house, closed the door, and walked into the dark room with Serena.

"Snapped!"

As the lights came on, the magic gem in the center refracted a hazy glow under the light.

“I can give you this magic gem, but you have to give me a reason!” Stepping onto the central stone platform, Serena gently picked up the magic gem, and only then did Miku get a clear look at its appearance.

However, it was only the size of a fist, yet it possessed an extremely bewitching blood-red glow, and its shape was a perfectly formed heart.

Serena held the magic gem in her hands as if she were holding a heart!

Staring at the heart-shaped crimson magic gem, Miku paused for a moment before saying, "I feel like this guy and I are a good match!"

"They match well?"

"It was just an intuition; the moment I saw it, I knew it was meant to be mine!"

"That's it!"

Serena, holding the magic gem in both hands, walked to Miku's side and said, "It's not that I can't give you this magic gem, but you should know that it is an ominous stone that has been stained with blood."

"An ominous stone stained with blood?"

"Correct!"

Serena crouched down and stared at the magic gem in her hand, her eyes revealing a look of reminiscence. "That was twelve years ago. I went to the Amazon rainforest in South America with some close friends. This stone was originally a creature of a reclusive tribe in the rainforest. The tribe sacrificed it with the blood of their prey."

"It doesn't sound any different, does it?"

"That's where the problem lies. The entire tribe of a hundred people vanished overnight. When we arrived, we found hundreds of corpses that had all turned into mummies, and all the blood had been consumed by this guy!"

“At first we didn’t pay attention and thought that the group of ignorant wild monkeys had accidentally activated the power hidden in the magic gem. But we never expected that after we brought the stone back to human society, in just one night, thousands of people in the town where we were staying, as well as my friends, all died at the hands of this magic gem.”

"I will never forget the scene where the magic gem floated into the air, and under the illumination of the blood moon, the blood of all living beings within the moonlight was drawn out and slowly devoured by the magic gem!"

"So how did you survive?" Miku asked, staring at Serena. Serena revealed the ring on her right hand. "Thanks to it. I thought this ring was a curse, but I didn't expect that under that power, this gem could actually maintain my condition!"

"Its ability is not just to maintain eternal youth, I guess it's more about state solidification, completely solidifying my state of wearing this ring, so that neither the power of this magic gem nor time can shake it!"

“That’s truly an amazing ring!” Miku slowly raised his claws, focusing his gaze on the magic ring on the middle finger of the other person’s right hand. “Don’t worry, no matter how bloody or ominous this magic gem may be, I can handle it, because I am much stronger than you think!”

Miku smiled confidently, and Serena promptly placed the magic gem under Miku's claws, which Miku then placed on top of it.

"Boom!!!"

The magic gem suddenly emitted a dazzling light, while a blood-red mist filled the surrounding air.

"Wow, that's really violent!"

Miku chuckled as he realized his claws were completely absorbed by the magic gem. His eyes flashed with golden light as he looked serious, and the shadow behind him twisted and transformed into a roaring demon god, his fur moving without wind.

Serena naturally witnessed this scene, and with her mouth slightly open, a glimmer of hope arose in her heart, "Perhaps this cat really can do it!"

"You little rascal, you really have a bad temper!"

Miku, radiating waves of heat from his entire body, caused the air to distort.

Feeling the intense heat, Serena quickly released her grip and retreated. The magic gem floated in mid-air, and Miku's claws were firmly attached to it.

"Behave yourself!"

With a shout, Miku exerted his strength and pressed down the floating magic gem.

"Crack!"

The magic gem, forcefully suppressed by Miku, was embedded in the floor. Sensing that Miku was not to be trifled with, the magic gem began to flicker slowly like a colored light, and the thin layer of blood-red mist in the air was completely burned away by Miku's outburst.

"Hey, this thing actually looks pretty interesting!"

Miku chuckled as he retracted his claws, and Serena, speechless with shock, exclaimed, "What kind of monster are you?"

"Me?" Miku swished its tail and narrowed its eyes. "I'm just a traveling cat!"

Chapter 31: First suffer setbacks, then unleash your full power – that's the treatment a main rider gets!

Early morning, antique shop, Mianying Hall

"I'll rescue them now and try to get Alex's ring back. Rinko and Shunpei, you two also go and try to find Medusa's whereabouts!"

After releasing the three malleable beasts in her hand, Sister Fa changed into the boots that Daimon Rinko had prepared for her.

"Haruko!"

"Ok?"

"be careful!"

"no problem!"

With a smile, Sister Fa closed the door and left Menkage-do. Wajima Shigeru, with her hands clasped to her chest, exclaimed in admiration, "Oh my, Haruko is just so adorable right now!"

"Uncle, Wawajima!"

Alex, speaking slowly and deliberately, grabbed Wajima Shigeru's ear and dragged him to the studio. Daimon Rinko and Nara Shunpei exchanged a glance and then shrugged in unison.

"Get to work!"

Riding her motorcycle named Mechanical Flyer, Fa-jie's expression under her helmet was not as relaxed as she had been at the Shadow Hall.

Even those jokes were meant to reassure others and let them know that everything was alright.

The reason for the changes in herself is still unknown, and the enemy who cast the spell on her is also unknown.

Now that Medusa has taken Alex's ring, Alex has no time to think about the changes in herself. She must get the ring back first, otherwise, once Alex's magic is exhausted, she will fall into a deathly slumber.

If this continues for too long, her body will slowly rot away.

Just like a real corpse!

Behind the Mechanical Flyer, a white Garuda silently followed behind the Magician, its two tiny eyes capturing everything it saw and transmitting the information to Miku on the other end.

In Serena's mansion, Miku, who was lying in front of a round mirror, yawned with his mouth slightly open.

Since Miku got his hands on that heart-shaped magic gem, Serena has been using it to make a ring, and she's been working on it for almost seven hours straight.

Looking back now, it should be almost done!

He didn't want to go out and run around before the ring was finished, so he simply reactivated the white Garuda that the White Demon had sent earlier and took control of it, sending it out to monitor the Mage.

"Tsk tsk tsk, she's really pleasing to the eye after turning into a girl!"