Chapter 130 - Raven

"Pst, are you dead?" a purple bird seemingly chirped while pecking on Petunia's forehead every time she groans.

"W-Wasjfgsfdhg!" Petunia said, trying to say something from her sleep but only ended up with jumbled letters and words.

"What? Why are you such a sleepy head? I heard you talk to those people earlier, are you also cursed like me?" the raven asked while continuing her goal to wake Petunia up.

"AJujuhsuhhh!" Petunia talked trash again which made the blue bird facepalm.

"Why is it so hard to wake this cat up?" the raven croaked and used both of his wings to slap this sleeping silver cat to life.

"Arggh! Who dare disturb my precious sleep!? Now I have to forget about that damn formula again just to sleep!" Petunia shouted with a fist on the air and her eyes, still shut closed before falling to the bed and snoring again.

The bird who was caught aback by Petunia's wrath suddenly furrowed his eyebrows. "She's strong." Is all that he said before smacking the cat with his wings again..

"Arrrrrghhhh!! Didn't I warn you already-?!" Petunia stood up again with her balled paw in the air but suddenly halted when she saw the dark room and the yellow eyes in front of her.

She was being illuminated by the moonlight from the open windows but the eyes in front of her weren't and her heart began to beat a lot faster than normal after remembering the fact that Venedette and the others were out to get a wolf without her tonight.

"Finally," the bird said with a deep voice.

"W-What do you want from me? Who are you?! You're not human so how can you talk?!"

"I was about to ask the same-" the moment the raven took a step from his position, Petunia immediately glued his feet to the bed using her Gummy control powers.

"What? You're small!" Petunia exclaimed in relief after gluing a set of bird feet to the bed and illuminating it with Gummy cloud's faint purple glow.

"Of course I'm small! I'm a bird! What are you even expecting, didn't you feel my wings flap on your face?" the bird said as if telling Petunia something obvious already.

"Wait, you're a talking bird…" Petunia said the obvious again, but this time, the bird was now paying attention to her words unlike before. 

"And you're a talking cat."

"I'm a human but I turned into a cat-"

"Me too! I knew it! You're just like me!" the bird said and flapped his wings out of excitement which made him realize that the gummy was still tucking his feet to the bed.

"Do you know my name?" Petunia asked while cautiously moving closer to the black bird.

"No, but I heard those people call you something earlier… Was it Pet? Are you their pet?"

"What?! No!! Of course not! Why would a talented alchemist like me end up as those people's pet?!" Petunia exclaimed in anger which made the bird regret his words.

"Okay, sorry. My name's Monica, and you are?" 

"Monica? Why is your name so girly?"

"Because I'm a girl," Monica said with a low voice which led to Petunia's misunderstanding of her gender and overall form earlier.

"Oh, okay. My name's Petunia." Petunia said and reached for the gummy under Monica's feet that she immediately removed in just one swift motion.

"What happened to you? I haven't heard of a girl named Monica in our village before." Petunia said while returning the used Gummy back to her cloud.

"I got cursed," Monica simply said but Petunia didn't understand what she meant by it immediately.

"I'm sorry, what? You turned into a bird because you got cursed? Is that some kind of new power? I haven't heard of that one before."

"No, I don't know for sure what happened to me. One day I was diagnosed with a terminal illness and the next day, I just suddenly turned into a bird." Monica explained in a hurry.

"And when was that?"

"Just two years ago."

"Two years?! And you didn't tell anyone about it?"

"Because no one could understand me! For them, I was just an unlucky chirping bird that was always looking for attention! There's even this wolf lately that kept calling to my name as if he knew what happened to me. I'm afraid he might eat me if I show myself so I try my best to hide while watching my family from a distance but I'm really running out of ideas right now."

"Okay, first of all, let's confirm one thing. You're not from my village, right?"

"I don't know where that is but I'm sure I was born and raised in this village so no."

"Okay, you're not one of us but you turned into a bird and you can only communicate with animals." Petunia said out loud, listing all the things she has gathered from Monica so far.

"How about you, what happened to you? Didn't you say you were a human too? How did you turn into a cat?" Monica asked out of curiosity.

"I cursed myself, I guess." Petunia answered as nonchalantly as ever because of the brewing formula in her mind.

"You can curse people too?" the innocent Monica asked, seemingly believing Petunia's misleading remarks.

"Of course I can't, dummy! Didn't you pay attention to what I was saying earlier? That I'm a very talented alchemist?"

"Oh, you make potions?"

"Yes!"

"But if you made the potion that turned you into a cat, then can't you make something that can undo it?"

"That's the problem," Petunia said after getting Monica in the same lane as her, "I didn't make the potion and I don't know the exact ingredients of it."

"What?! That's bad! How long have you been a cat, though?"

"For almost seven years now."

"What?! That long?! And you haven't found a cure yet?! Ahhh, I'm getting more hopeless the more I think about it!" Monica chirped in frustration.