Louis looked at the item inside the gift box, and his heart—already resigned—felt no lingering attachment to life. As expected, his intuition rarely failed him, because lying quietly inside the box was a pair of cat ears. A pair of black cat ears! Damn it!
The pair was designed with startling realism, and Louis knew that once he put them on, it would feel as if real cat ears had grown from his head.
But what concerned him even more was their proper function.
This was an era of flourishing technology, especially in mechanization. And the Aurellan family was among the leading clans in that very field. Naturally, cat ears created by Athena—the head of the Aurellan family—couldn't possibly exist to satisfy her personal whims.
Unlike most deviants in this story who fantasized about various forms of love, kinship, or friendship, Athena harbored illusions only about strength and power.
