Orange cats.

They're a mystery.

Some say that they're very aggressive towards others. Some say that they're very warm and friendly.

Personally, I don't really care. I love every cat, they're all beautiful. But I also like orange as a color, so maybe I like orange cats a little bit more.

In my past life, I practically lived in the hospital, so I didn't have the chance to actually own a cat.

But I'm also very reluctant to own one in this life. Mainly because I'm scared of when it would die. It's sad, and I don't want it.

I mean, sure, if I go to the Infinite Range, the mountain range where the dragons live, and then somehow yoink the blood of an intelligent dragon, I can extend the lifespan of my cat, but I can't do that just yet.

If you ask if that's overkill or not, using dragon's blood for a pet cat, I'd say your question is worthless. Of course it is not overkill.

But still, there's an alternative.

A cat girl.

By combining the charms of a girl and the cuteness of a cat, we get a holy amalgamation of excessive overloading adorableness and sweetness.

A holy cat, if you will.

Coincidentally, there's one in front of us right now. She's a divine cat, literally.

''-So, that's why they say mother goddess was the one who gave life to us, and we-''

And we're getting a lecture about how great the goddess is, I feel like I'm about to be tricked into joining a pyramid scheme at this point.

To understand what in the hell happened, we need to go back to the beginning of the class today.

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Ah~, that was embarrassing. I get shudders every time Christina looks at me with those obsessive eyes. It's... the same feeling I get when Emy and Liana were doing it with me.

...Am I into obsessive girls...?

...Let's not think too much about it.

Now that I think about it, I don't see the delinquent dude who got destroyed by Liana the other day anywhere, and the cat girl as well.

Ah, here's the professor. It's mana control class again. Welp, poor professor, almost all of her students are not even listening.

There's only 4 or 5 students who's actually taking notes and pay attention.

But regardless, I can't really get anything from this either, let's do something else instead.

So I turn to Emy's direction and ask the three girls who look like they're bored out of their minds. ''Hey, do you guys wanna do something else?''

All three of them almost simultaneously give me a nod.

So we went out of the classroom, and it seemed like Christina was still pretty mad, because she challenged Liana to a match.

And now, they're fighting at the sparring area. I'm sitting on Emy's lap watching them.

It's a fight between scythe and spear, unusual, if you ask me.

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''What's wrong, Princess? You won't be able to be with Sylvie if you're this weak!'' Liana said after parrying Christina's stab with the scythe.

''Tch!'' Christina charges in again, this time doing wide slashes from all angles.

However, Christina is only a 2 star Advance, while Liana is bordering master level already, her strikes were easily parried by Liana.

This sequence repeated for a while more. Ah... This is just Liana toying with Christina.

Well, aside from that, there's also the cat girl here, which now that I think about it, is pretty reasonable. Divine magic, which the cat girl uses, is categorically a type of magic, but in actuality, it is a whole different kind of energy.

Therefore, the mana control class is pretty useless for her, probably why she did hot pot the other day. Anyhow, besides healing, divine magic can be used to create barriers as well. Although not as strong as mana-base barriers, they are apparently more flexible, that's why a lot of priests coat their hands and feet with divine barriers and practice martial arts for close combat.

Just like the orange cat girl over there, she's doing some kind of martial arts with her arms and legs glowing yellow.

That looks pretty cool, actually, a priest who gets physical when dealing with enemies.

Turning my head backward, I can see Emy looking at the cat girl as well. She then notices me and gives me a kiss on the forehead. Ah~ Cuddling like this is so good.

''Argh!'' I heard Christina moans in pain.

Turning back to the two, Christina is barely standing, leaning on her spear, while Liana is still pretty much fine.

''Get some healing, then we can go again.'' Liana said.

''...Fine.''

Then Christina limps to the cat girl and ask her for some healing. We decided that it would be fine to fight moderately serious because of the girl's presence here. Liana asked her beforehand as well.

Immediately after the treatment was done, Christina went right back to attacking Liana, to which Liana accepted readily, it looks like Liana wants to train Christina, somehow.

The cat girl looks at the two fighting for a minute, then she walks to us.

''Why is the princess so agitated?'' She asked, fanning her sweaty face.

''Ah~, it's complicated, but you can think of it as Liana over there pranked her.'' I said, using magic to blow some cold air to her.

''Thanks!'' She said cheerfully.

''No problem, what's your name?''

''Mine is Anastasia, what about you guys?''

''I'm Sylvia, this one behind me is Emilia.''

''Nice to meet you!'' Anastasia smiles broadly while sitting down besides us on the bench.

This girl is so sweet.

''Yeah, nice to meet you too.''

''Right, but... You guys are so strong, are you actually like, 100 years old or something?''

''Nah, we're just around your age.''

Anastasia widen her eyes. ''Really?!''

''Yeah.''

''I'm jealous... I wish I had that kind of power too...''

''Well? What do you need more power for?"

Anastasia grimaces. ''Mhmm, actually, our cat-kin clan was attacked by dragons. Our territory is near the Infinite Range, you see. I want to be stronger to protect my clan.''

''What... This is the first time I heard about that. Is there any reason why they attacked your clan?''

''Well... We never really knew why they attacked us out of all people either.''

''That's rough.''

''But now I can get stronger!'' She suddenly brighten up, her azure eyes sparkling. ''I was just a powerless girl back then, but mother goddess gave me power! If I keep training and worshipping mother goddess, I can get stronger and protect my clan!''

''I'm infinitely grateful to her!'' She continues excitedly, I don't have a good feeling about this. ''You know mother goddess Eva, right?!''

''Y-Yeah?'' I do, I met her 18 years ago, she's pretty chill, actually, we're now chatting buddies as well, occasionally sharing our thoughts about films and such.

''They say that she was the one who erased the demons and gave life to our species back in the ancient time, since then, she even sent her apostles down here to help us fight against the invading demon forces!''

''By apostles, you mean Saints?''

''Yes! I would love to serve a Saint someday!''

''Heh~ That's admirable.'' I'm excited, are you telling me I'll get a cute cat girl to help me in the future? Hell yeah!

''Um! So, about the goddess-''

Eh?

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In the end, we got lectured about the goddess for a whole 10 minutes, then Liana came back carrying Christina, who's very tired. Finally we got out of that.

This scene right now is pretty weird, I'd say, we have Christina resting her head on my lap while getting treated by Anastasia, and I am still sitting on Emy's lap, Liana is using water magic to clean herself.

Although she only got a few scratches, she used quite a lot of stamina, it seems. And she loves being clean, so.

I used magic to clean Christina off her blood and sweat as well.

''Phew~'' Anastasia sighs after she healed Christina and Liana.

After that, I introduced Anastasia to both of them, and we were just chatting normally.

Until we notice two students walking in a distance, one of them is a man with black hair, his face looks annoyed. The other one is a girl walking behind him, bowing her head, looking very submissive and pitiful.

''...Tch, that's the son of Duke Forbes.'' Christina said with a deep frown.

Duke Forbes... That's our next target.

...Don't tell me... That girl is a slave?