It felt refreshing to hold a conversation for more than ten minutes with someone of the opposite gender.
Yam did not realize when he had gotten comfortable, but he was now able to talk properly with the girl without forcing himself to be confident.
The girl's name was Elara and she was indeed a resident of this world.
"...by the way, do you like cats?" Elara asked Yam as their conversation flowed.
Yam did not have any opinion of those creatures as he had not come across them.
He shook his head and said honestly, "I have never seen one so I do not know."
"Oh my..." The girl seemed visibly surprised as she covered her mouth and gasped softly. "...you have missed out so much..."
Yam could only smile helplessly at that.
The girl then shook her head and said, "It's so sad that you've never seen a cat. My house is full of them and they roam everywhere, I thought it was quite common."
"It can't be helped, aha..." Yam chuckled nervously.
"No, this won't. You must see the beautiful creations bestowed upon these lands..."
Elara got up and looked at Yam.
"...please come with me. I'll show you one."
Yam raised his eyebrows in surprise. Instead of feeling like he was a country bumpkin and losing interest, the lady was actually interested to show him that!?
In one split second, Yam forgot everything about cats as he thought of how beautiful this lady really was. She was so understanding and kind. It almost brought a tear to his eyes.
"Why have you not moved yet? Please hurry..." Elara turned around and said from a distance.
"Ah, right. Coming." Yam snapped out of his stupor and said while hurrying towards her, almost stumbling along the way.
Watching him follow Yam, Lith and Keith were both dumbfounded.
Lith turned to the devil and asked, "That really did happen, didn't it?"
Even the devil was surprised and said while looking back at Lith, "Yes."
"Oh my..." Lith couldn't believe this was real. He had lost all hopes in this boy but who would've thought that there would be someone who would not mind his awkwardness and accept the differences.
"That girl has a soft spot for cats in her heart, and he accidentally ended up touching that. Talking about luck. Tsk. Tsk."
Keith nodded, then got up and gave her hand out to Lith to hold.
Lith was taken aback by this, but did not show it on his face and maintained a calm demeanor.
"They have traveled a bit. We need Short Jump." Keith said.
He looked around and then turned to ask, "Where's the cat? I'm having some trouble finding it."
To Yam's surprise, the beautiful girl wasn't there when he turned.
Right when he thought something had gone wrong...
"Me... yaow~"
A seductive voice rang in Yam's ears as a chill went down his spine.
Someone wrapped their arms around his body and he felt himself hitting his back onto something soft.
Right beside his ears, he felt someone's face creeping closer.
"Fuuuuu~"
"Hiiiiiii—!"
Yam shivered as a cold breath of air passed through his ears.
"That's a cute reaction, fufu..."
Elara's soft yet seductive voice rang in Yam's ears again.
At a bit of a distance from the two...
"Sniff..."
Keith was wiping the tears streaming down Lith's face like a damn waterfall.
"I can't believe... sniff... I can't believe that he ended up hitting a jackpot like that..."
Keith failed to understand what Lith was saying. How was getting kidnapped, then forced upon by an older woman a jackpot?
Lith saw the clueless gaze of Keith's when he said that and elaborated, "My love, you won't understand, but this is every man's dream..."
"Dream?"
Lith had called Keith a lot many endearing terms ever since they arrived here. Her mind would thus just glance over them as if it was normal and focus on the important bits.
"You wouldn't understand even if I explain." Lith shook his head. He held her hand and turned around, not staring at Yam anymore.
"Let's get going. He will come back to us after a few hours."
Keith followed along, but was genuinely confused as to what happened here.
She turned to look back at Yam and Elara, only to find that the slender woman had started undressing the boy and herself.
'Oh... so it's going in that direction...'