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Chapter 14: A pervert and a cat in school

Chapter 14: A pervert and a cat in school

[Alysha's Pov]

I really felt like tearing the head off of the rest of pervert's body. This guy's totally looking at my breasts, and it's not like I have any, I barely do! 

Thankfully, Yuuna soon enough came out from the cluster of men and saw me. Then saw the pervert's stare and slapped his face, sending him onto the ground. I think I heard a few gasps from the audience of soldiers... 

"Yuuna-chan why did you slap me?" He says with teary eyes. Idiot, that's not going to save you. I walk forward and he looks at me for a second before I slap him in the face too and say. "Pedophile. Lolicon. Pervert." and walk away. The pervert was dumbfolded and had tears in his eyes now, not that I care after all. I'm probably gonna have him chasing my tails even if I become the god damn demon king, which might not even be a bad idea. 

The general swiftly took him up and started blabbering with the idiot, but I could feel his gaze switching between my ears, tails and breasts. Seriously, if he actually dares to touch me and/or my tails/ears I'll cut off his manhood and shove it down his throat. I can't stand perverts.

I walk torward the buffet and buy a good-looking steak. It's steaming hot and looks really good. I think it's because of my cat-like body, but I simply can't bring myself to eat vegetables or for that part anything that isn't meat. I mean, it's just so tasty!

I grabbed my food and went torwards a rather high tree that was inside the camp. Ignoring the strange looks I receive, I climb it up very quickly. It became quite easy to climb trees, as I can simply stab my nails in the tree and pull myself upwards. It's gotten harder to find branches that can support my weight though...

I climb about 20 meters up and sit on one of the bigger branches, then begin eating my dinner in peace. It's quite peaceful up here isn't it? Just ignore the pervert, ignore the pervert... Ignore the pervert...

"What do you want?!" I scream at the pervert that keeps calling me from below. He looks up and sees me all the way up here. He then shouts "Helloooo Alyshaaaa, Whyyyy Didddd Youuu Runnn Awaaaay??" I facepalm and climb down the tree. 

"Pervert, why the hell did you keep shouting for me around? Seriously, leave me alone. If you think I didn't see how you kept staring at me then you're seriously retarded." I say and he flinches a bit then says "Ah! I never did such thing though!"

I facepalm myself and say "... Just what do you want from me?" and he says "Ah, yes! The general said that you were going to attend a magic school right? Well, I was going to enter too and I wanted to confirm if you truly were going." My mouth was hanging open by now. Consider, Alysha, consider. Is learning magic worth dealing with this pervert? Consider...

I simply sigh and nod. Then I say "Yes, I'm going. You'll probably end up in the highest possible class while I end up in the lowest, so it's not like we'll see each other anyway." He looks at me curiously and says "How do you even know that?" 

I facepalm myself again and say "Because you're the fucking 'Hero' and that let's you do whatever you want without retribution and I'm stuck being discriminated because I look like a demon. So shut up and go away, I don't want to talk to you." I say and jump up at the tree again, trying to ignore his gaze following me. I end up in the highest branch possible, as far away from the pervert as I can. 

I then spent the night gazing at the stars. Conflicted on what to do for my future. I want to learn magic, but I know it isn't really necessary. I also know that I will have to eat mages to increase my mana, and that's quite hard considering how rare mages are. 

If I remember correctly, the school should start in 3 months. That should be enough time for me to hunt down a couple tens of lone mages and eat them. I think it'll be worth it in the end.

[Lazy Author Timeskip Magic Activated~]

I spent my next 3 months hunting down bandits, rogue mages, strong wild beasts (although none even came close to the snake) while at the same time trying to run away from the pervert, whom for some reason just kept being in the same place as me.

I've also been officially declared as a S-rank adventurer after the first month and then SS-rank the second. People now call me either by my nickname 'Bloody Cat' or some other stupid titles I earned like 'Bandit Cat' because I subjugated at least 20 different groups of notorious bandits. 

I travelled all around the human continent while tasting various dishes and people. I even ate a demon that called me an infidel for some reason and tried to attack me. I simply cut off all of his limbs in front of him and ate them. He died pretty quickly though, which was disappointing. 

I suprisingly grew up a bit, and now I look a bit more mature. I guess my body is in it's puberty period, so it makes sense. I grew up a bit on the front and back, but nothing at the top, so I still remain a midget...

I'm also officially the single most wanted person on the 'Assassin's guild'. I'm wanted by not only nobles anymore (I might have killed a couple hundred of them~)  but also by some kingdoms now. They all want me alive though, so not only do I have to escape from the pervert, but I also have several hundreds of assassins constantly searching for me. Nobody exactly knows my strenght or powers though, as all of those who witness it usually never return. This earned me the other idiotic nickname 'Assassin's Favourite Cat'. It's essentially a known fact that I'm constantly on the run from them, and that not even the guild can really save me. I tried asking the guildmaster of a guild in a small town what I should do and he simply shrugged and said "Turn yourself in?". Needless to say, I never visited him again. 

I visited the demon boy a couple times too, and donated him 50 gold coins each time as a little gift for helping me escape from those god damn assassins. They're not really dangerous as I can sense them kilometers away, but they're VERY annoying. I constantly have to change cities to escape them. Funny thing is that all of my kills were somehow justified, which technically makes me innocent in all of them. I find really hard to believe. Is the king at work here...?

The egg has shown a couple signs of being alive though. I once felt movement from it, but it turned out to be a fluke. The thing should be really close to hatching though. 

Luckily for me, I figured out a safe heaven from those rats. Apparently, the academy is influential enough that not even the  assassin's guild dares to intrude. It might happend, but at least not as often. 

I once met another SS-rank adventurer. I really wanted to eat him, but I refrained as it'd be very bad for me to get on the bad side of the adventurer's guild too, as they're currently my only ally. The guy was a strange magicians that had an even stranger affinity. He could manipulate the water in a person's body to control them or kill them. It was quite strong, it might've been fun to fight him, but I simply ignored him (this time... I'll get you eventually!).

My favourite thing is still to show up suddently in bandit's camp, whom by now there is not a single one who doesn't know of me, and shout "Look out! A cat is here!" It's funny as hell seeing how all the bandits pissing themselves by seeing me. Some would even throw themselves at my feet and beg for mercy. Which I never give. I think they do it because I sometimes bring the bandits to a city alive, then cut all their heads off one we're at the guild, give the heads to the receptionist, then set the corpses on fire outside in the streets. Guards would always stream down towards me, who would usually run away laughing.

I think a couple of days ago I received a marriage offer from the prince of some country I can't even remember. I think I tore it apart the moment the guild master gave it to me. 

I also finally received clothes especially made for me. My favourite one is a gothic lolita dress that has a hole that fits my tail perfectly. it looks really good too. I have a whole bunch of other wierd dresses and pants. It's a pity I often have to wash blood off of them though. It'd be nice if they were self-cleaning.

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I'm currently wearing a robe with a hood, so that I don't show who I am. It's always fun to cause ruckus everywhere I go, but I need to do this discreetely right now. After all, it's a special mission! Register on the academy! I can do it!

The academy itself looks like a giant campus with buildings all over it. There's a wall surrounding it, but it's more for show than anything really. The entrance (where I am right now) has a few gates in whom students and teachers can gain access. Luckily for me, the school accepts all races, even though it's still mostly only visited by humans. You sometimes can see a couple elves or dwarves here and there though. Since school is just starting, there's a lot of people around. I had to bribe the idiot and the general to not tell anyone of my desire to go to the school, otherwise it'd be boring. When the idiot said that he wanted to touch my tails for it, I slapped him so hard I left a red mark. Only that though, he didn't go flying, which kinda disappointed me. He then agreed to do it in exchange for a favor, which I still owe him.

Talking about the idiot, he became really strong, as or even stronger then the Tiger King I killed. He still doesn't know magic, but considering he's the hero he'll probably end up with holy magic or some shit. 

There are a lot of nobles around here. It's always more fun to kill nobles then commoners because of all the ranting they make before they die, they almost always scream "I'm the count/duke/marquis/earl or some other wierd title of *insert place here*. It's so much fun seeing their stupified face as I kill them. 

Anyway, I had to wait for 4 hours even though I too am in the noble's line. The commoner's line is even longer, but very few of them will get accepted. Sad reality is very sad. Oh? Why I'm in the noble's line? Well, being an SS-rank essentially gives me the privileges of being a noble but without the same responsability. I'm also filthy rich, even more then them. I upgraded my bag and it essentially can hold the space of a mansion inside. I think it costed 1000 gold coins or something? Well, considering that I have over a million gold coins from all my raiding and extorting of nobles, I don't really care.

When I reached the front of the line, I simply passed my papers to the guy inspecting them. I had to get on my toes though, seriously, fucking tall people. 

Since almost nobody knows my true name and since I gave myself the last name of Bloodseeker (Hey, I too have some chuunibyou blood in me!) People think of me as a wierd noble, because commoners usually don't have last names. 

The guard looked over my papers, wrote some stuff on them and then let me pass. Nice! Step 1 of mission: Don't get discovered (temporary) accomplished!

Ah, of course the pervert is already here himself. God damn it. Why is my luck so rotten?! Apparently, to pass, you have to first take a test on theory and then they test your attributes. I learned theory from a book I stole from a rogue mage who really liked me, and thus decided that dying and giving me everything he had was the best idea he ever came up with. I wholeheartidly agree with him. Dying for me is the right thing to do. 

Once I was in the classroom along with 10 or so nobles and about 20 commoners, whom all of them kept eyeing the 'Hero', who in turn kept eyeing me. Since I was wearing the robe and hood nobody knew who I was. The teacher came in the classroom after about 10 minutes. He was a pretty hot guy all considered, He was 180cm tall and looked somewhat nerdy, but had a hidden strenght that very few could notice. He'd probably make it to the top of the A-ranks. 

"Okay kiddos. This test is the easier part of the entrance exam. You'll simply have to write some basic magical knowledge and answer a few other questions. Depending on the grade you get, you'll either fail or pass, there is no true grade in this. After that will come the test for mana and that's when most will fail. The minimum requirement is to have at lest 30 units of mana. We will then proceed to test affinities for types of magic." A student raised his hand at the end "Yes, you kiddo over there." 

"Sir, I heard some people have special affinities, what happends if they do?" The teacher nods at the student's question and answers "Well, you'll most likely be offered a special training and studying schedule depending on it. This will also count for other affinities. Unique magic is extremely rare though, and there are no two same types of unique magic. Anyway, let's begin!" He says and hands out the papers. 

The questions were extremely easy, and since I have photographic memory thanks to my immortality (Brain cells regenerate fast enough that she never forgets anything), this was extremely easy. I get up after 20 minutes of the 1 hour lenght of the test and walk up to the teacher and give him my paper. He looks at me with a raised eyebrow but takes it anyway.

I walk back to my seat and instinctively begin grooming my tail in my robe. Luckily for me, the robe is large enough nobody can see what I'm doing. 

After the loooong and boring hour passed, everyone had finally turned in their papers. A group of teachers then came in. They all looked C-rank or at max B-rank. Not strong at all, but that might just be my own standard. I still remember the time I touched an F-rank adventurer who was shouting stuff like "I shall purge the demon!" and he exploded. The gore scared off all the other idiots who wanted to challange me. Ops, I'm getting sidetracked. The teachers started correcting the papers and putting them either on the failed or passed boxes. After 10 minutes they were finally done. 

The teacher picked up the pass box and read the names outloud "Ok, Let's see who passes. First, *insert random noble here*, *insert yet another random noble here*, *you get the idea*, Masaki,..." He pumps his first in the air and just looks stupid. This is the guy that knows me the least and yet sees me the most. I can't stand himmmmmm!!!!

"... , Alysha Bloodseeker. And that's it for those who pass. All of the names I haven't called can leave the class and come back next year." I wasn't suprised when he called my name, but the hero just had to give me a thumbs up with a stupid grin. I swear I'll rip it off his face if he does it again.

After at least 3/4 of the class left, which is at least double the amount I imagined would fail, the teacher spoke again. "All right, as for those who passed, follow me and we'll test your mana amount. I don't expect more then 5 of you to pass this year. Let's go." He says and we start following him. The 'Hero sneakily came up besides me while whistling. I poke him in the side with my nail and he does a silent scream and jumps back a bit. Luckily, we were at the back of the column, so he didn't hit anyone. This idiot is so annoying... I don't know what to do anymore. I feel like he'd haunt me even in death...

I even got jealous glances from some of the girls! Seriously, I'd leave him all for you to nest with if you want! Actually, do it! Take him off my tails! Please! Also, how can you even tell I'm a girl when I'm as covered as this? I bet they don't even care either way. Wierdos. 

We exited the testing building and went over to an open park/stadium area with several seats surrounding a raised platform. I bet this is where they announce things to students... 

There were already a couple groups waiting around, and when we arrived all the teachers gathered on the platform and told us to sit down on the seats. They then began to call people one by one and tell them if they pass or not. I guess this is to shame them if they fail, so that they don't come again? It might wrong but that's from my prospective... A messed up prospective but still one!

After a while, it was finally the pervert's turn. He went down and touched the crystal like several other like him. It shined yellow, meaning that he passed. Luckily (or unluckily) the thing only told you if you passed or not, and not the mana amount. 

After yet another while, it was finally my turn too. I go down still fully covered by the robe and people can only see my shining red eyes if they tried looking at my face, which is hard considering how short I am.

I touched the thing and unsupringly, it shined yellow. I then went back to my seat and then waited around. 

When the cerimony is done, the remaining people gather around the platform once again. This time the checking is private. I go and wait at the end of the line, where three noble kids approach me.

"Hey hey, look at this shady student. What's up with you? Why are you all covered like this? You should tell us for your own safety..." He trails off with a smug smile. I can see mr. Hero getting tense over there. Hey, now would be a good time to be a proper hero. I don't want to reveal myself you know?

"Is this guy seriously ignoring us? Huh? You probably shouldn't, we might get angry..." He once again looks at me smugly. I'm seriously getting ticked off here. I might just abandon the plan of not reveiling myself, but killing him is a no-no in the campus. I don't want to get expelled before I even start...

I then luckily get called up, so I go ignoring the shouting of the three idiots. So these are the so-called school bullies? They need to learn to bully weak targets, not mass-killing indiscriminating demonic monster cats...

I get up on the platform and walk towards the teachers. They look at me with a raised eyebrow and the teacher from my group says "Alysha Bloodseeker right? Well, you're going to have to take off that hood for now. We need to see our students after all." 

I comply and take off my hood, and look up to see all of them with mouths hanging open. I bring my two tails outside of my robe and swish them a bit.

"What, Mr. teacher? Cat got your tongue? Oh wait, I'm the cat..." I say and giggle a bit at the end. 

"... What is the 'Bloody Cat' doing here?" The same teacher asks trying to keep his cool. I guess I'm famous aren't I~

I simply tilt my head and say "To study?". The teacher sighs and says "Fine. We don't discriminate between demonic cats or humans. How old are you really anyway?" I say "14, soon to be 15. And don't go asking "That can't be true, what's your real age?" because I heard that phrase at least a hundred times. I'm 14 and time doesn't lie." I say with my arms crossed and look away with a pout. 

"... Whatever. Just touch this crystal and let's get this over with." The teacher says and I do as he says. 

The crystal first shines a white color, then slowly turns silver just like my hair. I wonder what type of affinity this is. 

After maybe 20 seconds of shining, it stops and simply writes 'Moon Affinity'. I smirk at the prospect of unique magic... Heh, close your mouths teachers, they're going to fall off...