Chapter 106 – Spirit
. Where did you go…….”
A sullen Dinah wandered alone through her messy streets.
Kami was so happy that he hugged her and didn’t let go, so the frustrating Kaka ran away.
“Can I go to that place normally?”
Rather than blindly chasing the direction Kkami ran, it would be faster for her to go to the place where she met Kkami often.
But when she got there, Dinah lost her words.
She knew deep down, but seeing it in pieces here and there with her own eyes made me feel strange.
Of course, the whole of Star City was in such an uproar, but it might be strange that only here is fine…….
“It can’t be here… ….”
No matter how unusual a cat Kami is, it is unlikely that she would still want to stay here.
‘… Is it true that the cat that came up is the one?’
Suddenly, I had such a question.
Originally, cats and humans merged, but?
‘Actually, it doesn’t really matter.’
Turns out she’s a kkami. Even if she’s not a cat, she’s a kkami.
It means that she is just a cute cat.
She’s not a cat, but she’s a cute cat, contradictory but true.
Come to think of it, it’s funny how she didn’t notice until now.
Somehow the cat doesn’t eat or sleep, and it’s always clean even though no one is washing it.
It’s strange to cover people up, and it’s strange to be able to avoid the touch of an Awakener just because you don’t like it.
Moreover, on the topic of cats, they understand everything a person says, and there are even cases where they react before speaking out, perhaps even reading minds.
Now it’s to the point where I wonder if he’s walking around on his own two feet and talking to people.
But until now, my cat is super smart… ! And passed it over without much thought…….
‘I was a fool…….’
It was at this moment that she truly doubted her own intelligence.
Heaving a sigh of relief, he called Kakamie to her just in case, and hovered around the area for a while.
“Kkami! Clammy! Are you here?”
Cami did not appear despite the passage of time, when it would have come running before.
It could be that they simply aren’t here, or maybe they’re just not coming out.
In the first place, I always caught on when Kka-mi told me not to go, but this is the first time I got out of my arms first because I was sulking.
“Uh, what should I do… ?”
Dina doesn’t know how to calm the heart of a pouting person, but she doesn’t even know how to ease the heart of a pouting beast.
That moment when you half cry and try to turn your feet to another place.
Slowly.
Something soft brushed past her ankle.
When Dina was startled and looked down at her, Kami, who was loitering near her feet, meowed at Dina with a sharp expression.
Somehow, it seemed like he was reprimanding me saying, ‘Don’t do that next time!’
Dina, who was watching Kkami like that, smiled and picked her up and hugged her and smashed her cheeks.
“Kkami! Sorry for bothering you!”
Nyaaak-!
Cami’s angry voice rang out once again.
“… Dina?”
Her familiar voice reached her ears.
Looking back at her, she was looking at her with a slightly awkward expression… There was Sally holding Siwoo’s hand with her dainty hand.
“Hi, sister!”
“Oh, hello….”
Shelley waved her hand and greeted her, and Dina received the greeting slightly awkwardly.
Of course, Dina didn’t forget Sally all along.
Didn’t they talk until just before the raid two days ago, and even use magic with Sally’s help?
“It’s the first time I’ve seen it since then… ….”
“I will.”
Sally accepted Dina’s words with a smile.
“… ….”
“… ….”
And she didn’t say anything, she didn’t go on her way, she just laughed.
Siwoo opened his mouth after a long time in silence.
“… Didn’t you ask me to go somewhere with you?”
“Yes!”
“Then you should keep going instead of standing here… ….”
“Have you arrived?”
“Huh?”
“Here!”
Siwoo put on a dumbfounded expression for a moment, then asked again.
“Here?”
“Yes!”
“… What are you doing here?”
At Siwoo’s question, Sally smiled brightly.
“That depends on what your sister and her brother do!”
“Me, me?”
Dina, who was quietly staring at her while holding her kkami, was startled.
“Why am I…… ?”
“That’s right, I came to see Kka-mi… ….”
Sally’s gaze slowly moved down to Kami in Dina’s arms.
“Because your sister is holding Kkami?”
“…… Aha.”
Dina, embarrassed, put her kkami down on the floor.
Kami, who has been released from Dina’s arms, shakes her body and stretches her body.
Siwoo, who had been watching him quietly, opened his mouth again.
“… Then why do I… ?”
“Yes? What?”
“If you were just going to see Cami, you would have needed to bring me along… ?”
Shelly pondered for a moment before she smiled.
“Just like that.”
“… ….”
Siwoo looked at Sally stroking her kkami in silence.
And it was the same with Dina who silently fixed her gaze on Sally.
*
To be honest, there’s no way I’m offended that Shelly took me out of the infirmary.
She might have choked to death in that tiny health room with her first bosses.
Of course, looking at the way they treat Sally, she seems to have changed a lot from [Oeyoung], So I didn’t have to worry….
But it’s still scary.
She honestly didn’t know how to get out of it because she was working hard on her head.
In the midst of that, it’s fortunate that Sally suddenly grabbed her by the arm and dragged her out…….
Why is this guy suddenly going to pet a cat, but he dragged me out with me, whom I’m not even close to?
Why is Dina with Kami?
Why is Dina so excited that she is petting Kkami together?
I don’t understand anything.
‘I just want to go back to the dormitory and rest.’
What was I thinking when I went to the health room…….
Above all, the biggest question is…….
‘Kamiga… I’m fine…….’
Did Dina come back after her transformation ended?
‘I’ll have to find out what Kami’s true identity is.’
If you look for a strange cat or some kind of legend, you’ll find it.
Then she cried out brightly as Sally held her kami tightly in her arms.
“I’ve never seen a spirit creature follow people so well!”
“Cats don’t follow people very well…… Spirits?”
The spirit creature I know?
Seeing me and Dinah making silly faces at the same time, Embarrassed Sally looked at us and asked cautiously.
“Ho, didn’t you know until now?”
“… ….”
“… ….”
She lowered her head, and Sally, who had a conversely puzzled expression on her face, muttered as if she didn’t really understand.
“I know it when I see it, so why don’t I know… ….”
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Those words became sharp daggers and pierced her heart! She does and she digs in.
Yes… I see… …. Cami was a spirit creature…….
I never thought that such an insignificant and cute cat could be a spirit creature…….
She looked at her kkami with new eyes, and for some reason the displeased kami meowed sharply at me.
“Is it possible to become a spirit creature regardless of what kind of animal it is?”
“Yes? If you live in a place rich in mana for a long time, you become a spirit creature.”
“… ….”
Well, Star City isn’t rich in mana, so it’s full of energy.
If I had lived here for a long time, I could have become a spirit creature.
Would you like to live for 30 years? Or 40 years?
Sally muttered in passing as she lifted the paws of her cami and met her eyes with her cami.
“I think he lived about 200 years… ….”
“Yes?”
Dinah looked at Celie in surprise, her eyes widening.
“200 Years?”
“Maybe a little more than that… ?”
“Kkami… Kami is 200 years old…….”
Dina was shocked and with her face as if her soul had been drained, ‘Kami is 200 years old…’ .’ Repeated her murmur.
Wow…. She’s 200 years old anyway.
I looked at her kkami and said a word.
“Shall I call you Elders from now on?”
Hyaaah-!
“Sorry.”
She doesn’t seem to want Kami, so she decided to call her Kami from now on.
“But is it true that spirits originally merged with humans?”
“Yes?”
Sally looked at me with an expression like what kind of nonsense is this?
“Last time, Kami disappeared and Dina changed like Kami…….”
As she gestured with her hand to indicate that she had grown cat ears, Celie put her chin on her chin and pondered for a moment.
“Certainly… It seems that there has been such a case. It might be possible for a spirit creature that lived about 200 years…….”
“Oh, that’s right! The strange thing for me at that time was that her body was stolen by Cami who entered her body!”
Suddenly, Dina interrupted and began to explain what had happened before.
Perhaps she thought this was an opportunity to clear up the misunderstanding, she continued to make excuses after that, but I was already distracted by Sally’s muttering.
“However, I know that in such a state, the spirit of a spiritual creature disappears and the body’s owner’s instincts are amplified… ?”