"Alright, since Firefly's side is finished, it's this cat's turn."
Seeing that it was already late, Cipher stretched and sat up from the bed.
Next, she opened her system backpack. Looking at the 23 million credit points stored in her quantum storage, her eyes twinkled slightly.
She had already used credit points for thirty-nine pulls. According to the system's pity at ninety pulls, she still had fifty-one pulls left that she could exchange for with credit points. That was only eight million credit points, which was more than enough for her right now.
Should she pull now? Or... wait until she collected the bounty, raided the base, finished the commission...
"Forget it, I'll save up the credit points for now. I don't really need to pull for anything anyway, and I'll need to use the system for the 'Lies Forced into Reality' feature later. That's going to be a major credit point sink."
Thinking of this, Cipher tucked the quantum storage away, then rolled out of bed and said to Bartholos nearby:
"Bartholos, prepare to work!"
"Right away, Boss!" The moment Bartholos heard Cipher finish, he became instantly excited. "Boss! Is it finally time?!"
After speaking, Bartholos floated up and continued to Cipher:
"Hm! What do you want me to turn into?"
Hearing its question, Cipher rested her chin on her hand and thought for a moment. Soon, an idea flashed through her mind.
She then directly transformed the cup in her hand into a metal ornament shaped like a cat's paw. On this metal ornament, several red gems were embedded to serve as the cat paw pads.
"Turn into this."
"This metal ornament?" Looking at the ornament before it, Bartholos was a bit confused. "Boss, I've never seen you take out an ornament like this before?"
"There's plenty you haven't seen." Cipher crossed her arms, looking as if he simply hadn't seen much of the world. "Just turn into this. I have my own plans for everything else."
"Understood!"
Seeing how firm she was, Bartholos didn't have any objections. After all, it was just turning into an object, and it wasn't like he hadn't done it before.
After finishing, a burst of white mist flashed. In the next instant, Bartholos, who was still floating in front of her, turned into an ornament identical to the one in Cipher's hand.
Transforming the ornament in her hand back into a water cup, Cipher stepped forward and picked up the ornament that Bartholos had turned into.
'This is practically indistinguishable from the real thing. Truly worthy of being the original Trickery Titan, Zagreus.'
Feeling the cold metal texture in her hand, Cipher marveled in her heart.
"Since you is ready, it's my turn."
After speaking, a burst of white smoke also flashed around Cipher. In the next instant, her appearance changed drastically.
Her originally silvery-white hair instantly became light brown with blunt bangs and shoulder-length hair. Her cat ears also turned light brown, and on the back of the ears, there was a golden diamond-shaped pattern.
As for her Tail, it became a dark brown tabby-striped Tail. At the end of the Tail hung a decoration made of six metal plates joined together, with a diamond-shaped purple crystal at the very end.
The iconic black and purple bodysuit she usually wore also vanished, replaced by a black tube top on her upper body and purple and white shoulder sleeves.
The cat-eared girl opened her eyes. Unlike Cipher's blue-purple pupils, the cat-girl before her had light blue pupils, making her appear even more lively and cute than Cipher.
"Transformation successful! I think I should find a mirror first to see what I look like now."
The cat-eared girl muttered to herself, and the water cup in her hand instantly transformed into a small mirror.
"This is exactly like Pardofelis from the Elysian Realm! To avoid exposing my original appearance, I'll get myself caught in this form!"
Looking at her appearance in the mirror, the cat-eared girl nodded with satisfaction.
Then, she suddenly felt a burst of inspiration. She put her hands on her hips and raised her head proudly, shouting:
"Well then, from now on, this cat is Pardofelis!"
"Oh, right. Although it isn't quite appropriate, I still need this thing to prove I'm 'Cifera'."
As she spoke, Pardo flipped her hands, tossing a silver cat-paw coin into the air. After the cat-paw coin flipped in the air, Pardo snatched it up.
When she opened her hand, the originally silver cat-paw coin had turned back into the gold and purple coin with a grinning, one-eyed cat head.
"Next, it should be the clone that catches me."
Tucking the turning over coin into her pocket, Pardofelis murmured to herself and then snapped her fingers.
Accompanied by the crisp sound of the finger snap, another burst of white mist flashed. A Black Robed Man carrying a greatsword and wearing a mask appeared beside Pardo.
This clone was precisely in the form of a Flame Reaver.
"A Kevin successfully apprehending the thief Cifera, only to discover that Cifera looks exactly like Pardofelis... the world has suddenly become quite strange."
Pardofelis shook her head and stopped her stray thoughts. Then, she hung Bartholos, who had turned into a cat-paw ornament, on her right leg.
"Everything is ready. Now it's time to contact the people from the Reverse Current Alliance."
After speaking, she took out her terminal and anonymously dialed the number for the Reverse Current Alliance.
The phone rang twice before being answered, and a woman's voice came from inside.
"Hello, this is the Reverse Current Alliance. How can I help you?"
Seeing the call was connected, Pardo handed the terminal to her Flame Reaver clone.
"I caught... Cifera... bounty... where get."
A perfect accent of someone so eroded by the Kindling that they could barely speak a complete sentence.
"Alright, I will contact my superiors immediately. Please do not hang up the phone."
The operator on the other side didn't seem surprised by this news, which actually surprised Pardo a little.
She had originally thought the other party would be very excited.
After a short while, a man's voice sounded from the other side.
"Are you sure you can prove that the one you caught is Cifera? Let me state this beforehand: we can verify whether the token you bring later is the same as the one in our commission. More than a dozen people have already claimed they caught Cifera, and the tokens they produced were all forgeries without exception."
The man's voice on the other side sounded somewhat impatient.
"I'm sure."
"Fine then. Bring the target and the token to Apartment Building No. 19 on Rustblade Street in the Pit Bottom District. We will be waiting for your arrival there."
After saying this, the man on the other side hung up the phone, leaving only the 'Beep... beep... beep...' of the busy tone.