I, the little cat, am a substitute for others who are starving and thin

"Then, I'll find someone who can't die."

Yimi raised her hand.

Meihong taught her very well. She still remembers the word "fuck".

"I can't die... Is she the captain of the Self-Defense Force? I remember she seemed to live outside the Lost Bamboo Forest, but it's easy to get lost if you go inside. Do you want me to lead the way?"

The man handed the orange cat in his hand to the hired man beside him.

"want."

He extended his broad right hand: "Take my hand."

Yimi grabbed his fingers with her little claws.

The man was in a trance, as if he saw another child through her.

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Chapter 29: Not suitable for children.

Lost Bamboo Forest, as its name suggests, is a bamboo forest where people can easily get lost. If an ordinary person strays into it, they will most likely never find their way out.

Deep in the bamboo forest there is a pavilion called Eientei, which is the residence of the doctor that Marisa was looking for before. In addition, there is a woman who is said to be the most beautiful. She is the legendary protagonist, Taketori-hime, who is also known by many people in the outside world.

Legend has it that she was a princess exiled from the moon, a sinner forever.

"Is there anyone on the moon?"

Yimi looked up at the man who was telling her the story, although all she knew about the moon was that it was a sphere that glowed at night.

"There should be."

"Is there anyone in the sun?"

Yimi looked up and squinted her eyes to look directly at the sun, which was not a very comfortable feeling.

"Probably not."

Yimi was puzzled: "Haven't you seen it?"

"I can't go. The sun is so hot."

The man answered her patiently.

"Stupid, won't you go again tonight?"

"Yeah, why didn't I think of that?"

Meihong's home is at the edge of the Lost Bamboo Forest. The reason for this location is that on the one hand, she didn't want to interact with others at the beginning, and on the other hand, it is because she has a lot of grievances with the princess deep in the forest.

Her surname is Fujiwara, and her father Fujiwara no Fuhito was once one of Kaguya's suitors. Later, when Kaguya proposed that she would fall in love with her if they could find a magic treasure, his fraud was discovered. He was humiliated by Kaguya's poems and had no face to live in the world, so he chose to commit suicide.

Although she was just a marginalized child with no high hopes, it was natural for her to hate her father for dying because of pursuing this guy.

It's ironic to say that he is still alive today thanks to the efficacy of the elixir of immortality, but this elixir was left by the princess.

"Then I'll leave this child to you. Although I'm sorry, please take her home before dark. If you're willing to take her to my shop, I'll pay you."

Mr. Wu Yu gently pushed Yi Mi to the side of Meihong, who was rubbing her eyes as if she had just woken up.

There are not many non-human creatures that humans in the world can trust, and Meihong, who is suspected to be a human, is one of them.

In the beginning, she was actually very indifferent to humans. At most, she would help guide those who got lost in the bamboo forest and leave without saying a word afterwards. But since she occasionally asked Huiyin for help in driving away the monsters that came to make trouble, everyone, including herself, unknowingly began to regard herself as the Self-Defense Force.

"Leave what to me?"

Meihong was confused and watched Mr. Wu Yu leave until he disappeared.

He looked down at the kitten, which was raising its head and looking at him expectantly.

What was she expecting?

Meihong leaned over, pinched Yimi's cheeks with both hands, and said, "Why do I have to see you on a non-weekend day?"

"study."

Yimi shook her head and shook off her hand, then she snuck past Meihong's hand holding the textbook and went into the house.

"Rua!"

He pinched his nose and crawled out again.

"What do you mean, does my room stink?"

Meihong sniffed unhappily.

"The smell of smoke is terrible."

The kitten moved away from her.

"What do you know? That's what adults are like."

Meihong picked her up with one hand and carried her to her room.

The more she didn't want to come in, the more Meihong let her in.

In fact, apart from a lot of clothes piled on the chairs, the overall appearance is quite clean. The small house can almost be seen in its entirety at a glance.

Yimi covered her face with her arms, covered her nose with her sleeves, and asked in a low voice, "Why don't you have a bed?"

Although there are no beds in Reimu Shrine, at least there are quilts. There is not even a shadow of a quilt at Meihong's house.

"I'm not used to sleeping lying down. I usually sleep sitting down. I only lie down on a bed when I'm sleeping with other people."

Meihong threw the clothes on the chair aside to make room for her.

"Who are you sleeping with?"

The little girl blinked her big eyes curiously.

"Hey! What did you just say you wanted to learn from me?"

Meihong abruptly changed the subject.

"Knowledge."

Yimi put the textbook on the table and opened it.

"This is something Huiyin would obviously do, right? I have other things to do."

Meihong pointed to her calendar, where her schedule was written for the corresponding dates. *24th, beat up Kaguya. *25th, beat up Kaguya. *26th, make offal soup with the preserved ingredients.

……

"Chop Suey Soup?"

Yimi held her finger in her mouth, looking greedy.

"You don't have to be curious about everything, right?"

The girl blushed and pinched her cheeks with both hands, squeezing them flat and then rounding them.

"turkey!"

A call came from outside, making Ling Meihong smack her lips in dissatisfaction.

She slapped the window open and said, "Why, are you so unsatisfied today? I haven't even looked for you yet, and you actually came to me on your own initiative?"

"Unsatisfied? Laozi?"

The kitten held up two fingers.

Meihong is well-educated and casually said two words that she didn't know.

"Desire dissatisfaction now generally refers to the inability to be satisfied and the desire for more. Laozi was a nickname for a great man in ancient times in the East. Nowadays, it is often used by some people to claim that they are superior to others."

"Superior?"

This brought up another word that Yimi didn't understand.

System: "For example, people at a higher level..."

Maomao didn't quite understand, so he looked at the black-haired woman outside the window and saw that she was gritting her teeth while holding a half-burned comic book with marks on it.

This is the most beautiful woman, Kaguya Horaisan, known as the Taketori-hime.

If Reimu were there, she would probably recognize that the half-book of comics in her hand was the one that Reimu tried to requisition from Xianglin yesterday.

She bought the comic from Korindo through the help of several Inaba (rabbits) because the cover had a secondary plot of her favorite character. As for why she went through so much trouble... it was because she knew from the beginning that the comic about this wingless bird was somewhat sensitive and could easily lead to misunderstandings by Eirin.

Eirin has been in a bad mood recently, and Kaguya doesn't dare to offend her.

In order to prevent social death, she spent a lot of pocket money and deliberately divided it into several transfer steps, perfectly disguising it as a mother buying it for her own child and not wanting anyone to find out, to ensure that no one could find out that the final destination was her hands.

As a result, I heard this morning that the rabbit who helped her deliver the goods was beaten and his things were stolen.

Meihong also took a look at the thing in her hand and sneered: "You really bought this thing. I thought it was an interesting new comic, but it turned out to be full of content not suitable for children. Should we sell such interesting news to Tengu at a low price?"

"I kill you!"

"Wait, I can't fight you today... Damn it, listen to me! A crotch kick!"

"Using this trick again?!"

While they were fighting, Yimi bent down to pick up the half picture book.

Meihong quickly ran over during the fight, snatched the comic book from her hand and burned it to ashes, then turned her around and pushed her on the back of the head:

"Go home first. What's about to happen will be inappropriate for children."

As she was speaking, a spell card pierced the back of her head, causing a long trail of blood to spurt out.

Meihong nonchalantly pulled out the spell card from the back of her head and said, "Asshole, didn't you see I was talking to a child?"

Their fighting style was even scarier than when Yimi fought herself.

"..."

Yimi covered her eyes and walked away in small steps holding her textbook.

The cat hasn't learned much yet.

She walked back in confusion. Although she had only walked this way once, she was extremely lucky and did not get lost. She returned to the center of the village smoothly and was even lucky enough to run into the Terakoya break.

"Yimi? Why are you here? Are you here to help Reimu buy something?"

Huiyin greeted her youngest student in a friendly manner.

Yimi held his head high and chest puffed out, applying his newfound knowledge: "I'm here to learn."

"..."

The kitten felt a hint of chill.

She was caught in the hand and forced to look into Huiyin's empty eyes.

"Who taught you this?"

Yimi shrank his neck: "The one who can't die."

"Don't say that again, okay?"

"understood."

Huiyin put her down and said in a relaxed tone, "Where is she? What other words did she teach you?"

Yimi counted the words she remembered today on her fingers.

"She also taught me 'desire dissatisfaction', um... Then she said she only slept in bed with others, and said she liked to be on top (superior), and then a black-haired girl came to her, and then she asked me to go back, and then said that what was going to happen next would be inappropriate for children..."

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Chapter 30 The Tortoise and the Hare.

The human students were also on holiday today, leaving the kitten completely without school. Somehow, Teacher Huiyin's upper face, hidden in the shadows, was surprisingly gentle as she told everyone they could leave early. Then, smiling, she walked towards the bamboo forest.

The cat saw a large flock of birds startled in the bamboo forest, and several rabbit monsters running out in panic. The cat's instinct told her not to follow them.

Yimi lay on the grass, picked up the textbook and tried to read the second chapter of the text, The Tortoise and the Hare, by herself.

Aesop's Fables, she only knew the last of these four words.

"what are you doing?"