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

"it is good!"

Natsuki Subaru clenched his fists and quickly reacted: "Wait, what do you mean you're not home?"

"Because I have some important matters to take care of~ Well, I'll leave this to you."

He said it so lightly that it could hardly be considered a greeting. Roswaal walked out and took off on the spot.

Magic can just sit and wait...

Natsuki Subaru turned to look at Yimi, who he thought was the most powerful at the moment: "Little Yimi, can you fly?"

"I won't."

Yimi pouted. She had suffered too many losses because of her inability to fly.

"Won't it be..."

Even someone as strong as Imi couldn't fly. This Roswaal, whose true identity was Diego, was truly unfathomable. But his departure was a good thing; perhaps he could find some clues in his room.

-

Diego suddenly flew away, but Kitty couldn't let her guard down. She wanted to seize this opportunity to go to the nearby village to replenish important strategic resources.

"What important strategic resources? You're clearly starting to lose your ambition over them, aren't you?"

Beatrice, who was following Yimi, pulled at her clothes and couldn't pull her away from the catnip pile.

"Cat grass is very important."

Yimi continued to fill the storage space.

"Is it important enough to keep you awake at night? Can't you just look to a cat like your brother as an example?"

Yimi quickly shook her head: "Don't be a mouse or a cat."

"The name Mouse Cat is so rude!"

"so cute!"

Suddenly, screams from other girls were heard not far away, which scared Yimi.

After looking at the large amount of catnip stored in the storage space, she walked towards the direction of the sound and saw the children in the village surrounding a strange-looking puppy.

"What is this thing?"

Beatrice frowned slightly.

"dog!"

Yimi took a step back.

It's just a puppy, and Yimi doesn't hate it for the time being.

Seeing her, the little blue-haired girl holding the puppy had a slightly unpleasant glint in her eyes and took the initiative to greet her: "It's a very cute puppy, do you want to pet it?"

Beatrice stepped in front of Yimi and looked at them expressionlessly: "I advise you to put it down."

"Why? It's very well behaved."

The girl named Petra rubbed the dog's head in confusion.

Seeing this, Yimi also stretched out her finger towards the puppy.

Then, the puppy suddenly opened its mouth and bit Yimi's hand.

"Let me go!"

Beatrice summoned a Yin-attribute magic bullet and aimed it at the puppy.

Yimi looked down at the puppy that suddenly showed a ferocious look, and vaguely felt a sense of malice from its fangs.

Yimi also opened her little mouth and bit the puppy's head hard.

"Woo——"

The puppy whimpered.

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Chapter 16: Super Male Kitten.

"Congratulations to the host for unlocking the achievement [Can you bite a dog if it bites you?], and receive a reward of 5% portal energy."

"Shut up!"

Fortunately, Beatrice, who thought the puppy was dirty, pulled it away quickly, otherwise the puppy would have been bitten to death by Yimi.

No, this is dead, right?

Beatrice pinched the puppy's tail in disgust. She didn't know why the puppy had become so skinny, and even its muscles had atrophied to the point where they were not strong enough to move its bones.

"puppy!"

The innocent children wailed with tears in their eyes.

"You're actually sad about a puppy that bit someone. That's why children are trouble."

Beatrice said this to the children who looked about her own age, then she grabbed the puppy's body and threw it towards a fence.

"Should I say you're just newborn calves? Playing around with dangerous monsters, you're no simple puppies. Let me see."

Beatrice grabbed Yimi's hand and checked it. There were no unnecessary injuries on the white and tender little claws, but Beatrice clearly saw that the bite was quite serious.

The Wolgam, a magical beast circling the woods outside the village, resembled a ferocious dog. And that creature wasn't a young beast, but a shaman who led the other Wolgam. A more common description would be "Dog King."

What's interesting is that this shaman has the ability to cast a spell on anyone it bites. The effect is that when it starts to get hungry, it will madly extract the mana of the cursed person until they die. In the end, it died from Yimi's starvation.

Beatrice looked at the fence and the children. "There's a barrier around here. Logically, no monster should be able to cross it and run into the village. And no monster would just sit there and let a child touch it. Is it being manipulated?"

"Be thankful. If the monster hadn't died, you might have been the ones to suffer. Go home. It's really rare to encounter such a terrible thing on a long journey."

Beatrice held Yimi's hand, but she was staring at the blue-haired little girl who had just held the dog.

"What's wrong?"

Beatrice narrowed her eyes.

"People who don't know the way!"

Yimi recognized the girl at a glance as the one he had asked for directions when he was chasing the triplets.

"Why are you here too? Aren't you in the city?"

Meili's eyes flickered, and she folded her hands as if she was very timid: "I came here with my parents. We should have never met before, right?"

It was impossible to say that she didn't know him, because the reason she appeared in the royal capital was to carry out a mission with the person she regarded as her sister, that is, the hunter Elsa who was killed by Yimi's dream.

However, asking for directions happened in the first reincarnation, so she was confused when she pointed at Yimi.

Beatrice stared at her and said, "An outsider? Even though she's just a child, she looks suspicious."

"Merry is innocent."

Seeing her good friend being 'wrongly accused', Petra quickly stood in front of her and said, "I saw the puppy there by itself before. She was the one who rescued it!"

"..."

Originally, Beatrice was just skeptical.

Realizing that what she said was inappropriate, Petra quickly changed her words:

"But, but because the puppy was so strange, she didn't bring it back to the village. Instead, she put it in the woods over there to roam free together. Yesterday, we even picked catnip there together to tease the kitten. There was a muddy guy who could testify for us that we put it next to him! He even got bit!"

"..."

Beatrice vaguely recalled that Natsuki Subaru picked a bunch of catnip yesterday, came back covered in mud and was bitten by a dog.

She patted Petra's head, who was as tall as herself: "Thank you for the evidence."

Meili glared at Petra, turned around and ran, trying to make some move.

"Veil!"

Beatrice grabbed her back.

……

At the same time, outside the wilderness not too far away, a white-haired young man looked at his right hand in surprise and confusion, and saw a terrible wound that looked like a canine's tooth mark.

"Hey, are you serious?"

He looked around, searching for whoever might have caused this.

Compared to the unfortunate people Imi had previously framed, his bewilderment was even greater. This was because he was the Archbishop of the Witch Cult's Greed, Regulus Corneas. His power, in short, allowed him to freeze time in an unshakable state.

How could he be injured in this state?

"what happened?"

Because White Whale was killed, the gourmet food among the Archbishops of Gluttony, who had come out out of curiosity to search for the murderer, turned his face to look at him: "Ah~ injured, what a delicious taste, why did he suddenly get injured? Could the Archbishop of Greed walking with me now be an imposter?"

Regulus's facial expression twisted slightly, and he looked at him unkindly: "What are you talking about? You're labeling me a fake without my permission. Are you violating my dignity?"

-

"This situation doesn't usually happen. It seems like there's something wrong with your 'Life Gate'."

Parker folded his arms and said this to Natsuki Subaru, who was unable to cast magic normally.

"Is that why I'm so stiff sometimes?"

Natsuki Subaru had no choice but to accept this fact. He had originally been thinking about whether he could learn magic to play a role at the critical moment, at least to avoid being discovered by the two maids when sneaking into Diego's room.

"No, it probably has nothing to do with this, right? I just feel like, um..."

Parker looked at him in confusion.

"Why are you giving me that meaningful, hesitant look? What's going on... Oh, Beatrice and Little Yimi are back, and there's another one... How scary!"

Natsuki Subaru was halfway through his words when he saw Beatrice bringing back a little blue-haired girl with something that looked like a sock stuffed in her mouth, and she was humming.

"It's really rude to look at Betty like that. She almost killed you."

Beatrice directly grabbed Natsuki Subaru's hand and looked at the bite marks on it.

However, the caster is already dead, so the spell is ineffective.

"Is she going to kill someone?"

Yimi poked Meili's face.

"You're also a victim. If it hadn't bitten you to death, I'm afraid you would have been drained of your magic power. That was all under her control."

Beatrice looked down at Mellie.

She actually wanted to kill the kitten?

Yimi raised his little leather boot and kicked Meili, then looked at Beatrice and said, "Then why don't you kill her?"

"Kill him? Wait a minute..."

Natsuki Subaru stopped her and looked down at Meili.

Although I don't understand what happened, he is still a little kid and we got along quite well yesterday.

Yimi crossed her arms unhappily and said, "The cat didn't recognize her, and she wanted to kill the cat. Why didn't she just kill her?"

"Congratulations to the host for unlocking the achievement [Super Male Kitten], and receive a reward of 5% portal energy."

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Chapter 17: Gluttony.

Mary, twelve years old, is an ordinary little girl who looks cute but seems very weak. She is actually 12 years old.

She was abandoned in the wilderness since she was young, but because she possessed the [Protection of Demonic Control], she was not eaten. Instead, she was taken back by the monster and raised as a queen. She has never had any interpersonal interactions.

Until Elsa, the hunter killed by Yimi, suddenly appeared and killed all the monsters around her, and took her away to work for her "mother" together.

She had been imitating Elsa's tone and demeanor until now, but now she had lost the purpose of imitating her.

The first time they meet, the cruel 'mother' will turn her into a group of frogs. Although they are a group, they only have one consciousness. If one of them runs away, she will never be able to change back. Because of this, Mary has always been very scared and dare not disobey the other party.

As if she had dreamed about this place, the little girl who had fallen asleep couldn't help but tremble and woke up.