[22] An Unforeseen Calamity

[22] An Unforeseen Calamity

Chapter 22: An Unforeseen Calamity

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[Third Person Point of View]

The Jaguar Warrior has been here in Japan for a few days now. The Kuoh Town, as he was warned, was filled with people from the Three Biblical Factions. Devils, mostly.

The lady of the House Gremory, and the lady of the House Sitri were both present here, playing as school girls. He couldn't understand why people like them would waste their time this way, but he supposed they were too young to understand. Plus, being the siblings of Satans, they perhaps felt too comfortable to use their time properly.

Whatever the case, he was told to avoid getting involved with them, and he was doing just that. Laying low and searching around. That's why yesterday, he didn't meddle when he saw a Fallen Angel mercilessly murder a human boy, who was promptly saved by a devil.

Jaguar Warrior wasn't the only one sent here, it was impractical for a search team to consist of one person, so he was accompanied by a Tzitzimitl warrior woman, who was an Avatar of Quetzalcoatl when she was still alive.

Named Xihuitl, she was strong, though weaker than her prime, since nowadays she was mostly attuned to wind arts which allowed her a great assist for searching things.

"Jaguar,"

Just now, the two of them finished eating dinner, and Xihuitl stood up from the ground. Her black and blonde hair danced as she did so, as even if her Avatar powers were mostly gone, her beauty remained.

"I sense something odd. I will go check it out, wait for me here." She looked at the distance with a frown.

The place they just had dinner at, and have been roaming around for the past few days, was called Kuoh Park; the place where the Treasure of Xolotl was last detected. They've been waiting here in the hope for the culprit to walk by, so that they can scan their mana and note if the signature was the same, to then catch them.

"Be quick," Jaguar said as she nodded and vanished. Her speed was nowhere close to him, but her wind made her quite fast anyway, she would vanish from normal human's eyes.

To his surprise, even after half an hour passed, Xihuitl didn't return. It was odd, she was usually back soon. Jaguar Warrior didn't worry much, but it still bothered him a little. When he got up to go check on her, just in case – since there were dangers in this town. Yet, before he could leave, he froze when he felt a mana scan over him.

Jaguar's head snapped to one side, his senses running after the mana to locate the person a few miles away. That was an impressive distance, but the reason why he tracked it back was that the signature matched slightly with the signature that was sensed in this park a few days ago, the energy that caused a stormy night.

"Not the exact same," Jaguar kicked the ground, vanishing towards the person. "Must be a family member. Should help me track down the real culprit."

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[First Person Point of View]

The aura led to a graveyard, which was a bit surprising. However, once I saw the state the graveyard was in, I frowned. The gravestones were broken, the terrain had marks of large claws, dozens of them, and everything was scrambled as if a strong storm had hit the place.

I slowed down as I reached closer to the person I had sensed earlier. I also instantly knew why the terrain was like how it was. Firstly, I had to pause for a second at the sheer beauty of the creature. It was a cat-girl to the normal eye, with reflective silver hair and golden slit eyes. She wore a school dress, the one from my school, with tights covering her legs, as she sat under a tree and noticed me.

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Behind her was a scrambled dead body, and by scrambled I mean it was cut into a dozen pieces with seemingly sharp razor claws. The dead body's blonde head was in one spot, and her ankles were on another, while her intestines lay on the ground.

"Divinity..."

I could sense a bit of divinity oozing out of the dead blonde woman that was entering the body of the cat girl. It wasn't enough to make anyone God, but it was divinity, which transformed into pure energy to make the cat girl stronger. That blondie was someone working for God, she couldn't have been weak. Yet, the cat girl didn't show any signs of damage.

The most surprising part was that I already knew who the cat girl was. Even with her hair and eyes changed, with her glasses thrown to the side, I couldn't mistake her face. Plus, she was wearing the school uniform when she went missing.

"Tsubasa?"

I landed on the ground a few meters in front of the yokai that was my friend. Even before she spoke, I knew it wasn't Tsubasa who I was talking to.

"Mhm? Who are nyou? Ah, wait," she said and blinked. "You're my daughter's friend. Ah, a naughty friend."

"Cat,"

Her claws were just an inch away from my face, as she froze in time.

"Kneel."

It hurt, as the [Tiger Icon] resonated within me, and my calm voice boomed with beastly authority. The woman couldn't resist the authority of the Void Devouring Tiger that was I, as she just sprawled to her knees, wetting her dress as she did so. The ground crackled around her until the pressure subsided.

"A mere little girl dares." I felt my eyes turn cold as I looked down at the woman who dared try to kill me.

Icons were a strange power system, and I almost feared I wouldn't be able to call them in this world. Luckily, I managed. Though it didn't manifest in the sky like it usually would have, it's fine since if it did manifest at the stage where it'll appear physically, I'd have died. It just resonated within me for now.

My body wasn't that of a tiger right now, so it hurt a lot. Gold power level was also not enough to bear the weight of an Icon; I should advance to Underlord soon. Still, my soul helped with the pain as I had lived as a White Tiger for long enough that my soul accepted me as one. It was similar to the term "Dragon Soul" but instead a Tiger one. All that is feline will submit if I let out this authority.

"W-what is..." the woman stared up at me with reverence, while I healed my internal organs with Pure Storm Baptism. I really will die if I spam this authority.

I leaned down and reached out a hand, it stroked her chin and then held her in a choke as she closed her eyes and purred.

"Leave her body or I next time the order will be less merciful than just kneel," I told her even as she purred with a blush.

To my annoyance, all she did was crawl to me and grab my legs while sniffing my crotch.

"I can't, darling. It will kill me, and Tsubasa herself will be hurt at a fundamental level. Oopsies, sorry but I saw such things coming when I planned this, so I couldn't help but take these measures." She hugged my legs as she spoke. "Leave me be? I'll stay inside her and look after her like a guardian spirit. If she's in danger, I'll come out and help. By the way, wanna give me a new child?"

I ignored what she said at the end and grabbed her by the hair. She moaned, even as she grumbled and stared at me with a sadistic smile. She stood up, her claws shaking as she really wished to sever me, but her blood refused to leash out towards its king.

"You're telling the truth," I stated.

"How can I lie to you, baby?" She said.

I stared at her. I think she was called the Sex-Addicted Cat in the Monogatari series? It made sense, given how she was acting, even in this other world.

If I spend a few days, or weeks at most, I can probably find a way to delete her soul from within Tsubasa. But... her proposal was kind of solid. Plus, she was strong. If I severe her, Tsubasa will retain her vampire powers and tiger blood, but this Yokai part will be gone.

I always considered her normal, but with this level of power and potential, she can be a great addition to my Sect. She can keep Tsubasa safe as she said, too. She wouldn't want her host body to die, even if she might not care for her daughter. Plus... I have to admit, I kind of found this situation – and more so the kitty itself – amusing. A mother in her daughter's body, their personalities clashing all the time, it sounded funny.

"Fine," I grabbed her chin and looked into her eyes. "Do that. But be careful, I'll keep an eye out. If you try anything funny, I will find a way to get you out of her body."

She gave me a cheeky smile, and I had a moment of irritation where I thought if I should slap her or not. By the time I had that thought, my palm was already planted on her cheek as she stared at me once again with dagger eyes even as she moaned.

"Baby, you're so touchy. I might think-"

She stopped. As did I. We both sensed the aura rushing towards us as we went serious. Our acts dropped as we took a battle stance, and before we knew it the enemy landed in front of us.

"Oh," it was a large man with tanned skin, with spots of yellow spread on his body. He looked like a jaguar in human form, with said ears of a jaguar popping out of his head. His eyes wandered to the dead body behind us, while my eyes wandered on his hand.

He wasn't alone. He was carrying someone in his right hand, it was a blonde girl whom he was holding by her throat.

"Ruby...?"

She was unconscious so she couldn't reply, but the blood dripping from her nose and empty eye sockets were all I needed to see before I rushed forward.

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