"Lady Durandal, it is time to get up and eat breakfast..."
Today is a very unique, or rather, a novel day for Miss Rita Rossweisse....
The Golden-haired Valkyrie who usually wakes up early to wash up and go to the gym for morning exercises seems to have vanished today....
Whether in the indoor gym or the outdoor training ground, Rita did not see the Golden-haired Valkyrie anywhere. The maid, whose doubts gradually built up, thought of a somewhat unlikely situation....
"Hmm.... So Lady Durandal can also sleep in?"
Pushing open the bedroom door, the maid, as expected, saw a certain someone lying on the bed... no, if Bianca were to describe her own current state, she was the Golden-haired Valkyrie frozen on the bed.
"Lady Bianca?"
Having received no response, Rita tried another, more intimate name... but the Golden-haired Valkyrie herself remained frozen on the bed without moving at all—
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Miss Bianca, the former, did not want to ignore Rita's call... It was simply that her brain was overloaded and unable to process multiple streams of information.
The situation before her caused the young woman's brain to crash... And the one whose thinking circuit had also short-circuited was a white and purple cat-girl.
The two stared wide-eyed at each other, and the petite cat-girl was even held by the former against her chest, who knew how many times the "chest-kill" incident had occurred last night...
However, thanks to the special constitution of Honkai Beasts, Stan seemed to have endured it... She just didn't know how to explain to her equally stunned owner and make her believe that she was the cat she raised...
And Durandal now dared not move at all, the thought of wanting to ask about the origin of this very familiar-looking cat-girl vanished instantly after Rita burst through the door...
"Lady Durandal... Are you feeling unwell?"
Having still received no response, the confusion in Rita's heart formed a new hypothesis...
"Then please do not worry, girls always have those few days... Rita will go and prepare some medicine and supplements for Lady Durandal right away."
Seeing Rita seemingly comprehend Bianca's state, she gave a slight bow to the figure on the bed and hurried to leave, going to prepare some essentials for a girl's "monthly visit." This allowed Durandal, who lay on the bed clutching Stan and not daring to move, to let out a sigh of relief.
As the sound of the bedroom door being shut again echoed, the golden-haired Valkyrie's tense body finally relaxed. She grasped the petite cat-girl's hands and lifted her up. After carefully examining her, she asked the equally stunned white-and-purple cat-girl, her voice uncertain:
"Are you Stan?"
"Meow!"
The latter nodded vigorously, desperate to confirm her identity for fear that Bianca would blast her out the window with a single straight punch in the next second.
"..."
Upon receiving the confirmation she had guessed, Durandal instead fell into silence.
[How to handle a third party suddenly appearing in a harmonious life with a maid friend?]
[What should I do when my pet cat suddenly turns into a cat-girl?]
Waiting online, very urgent!
Not long after, a new post like this appeared on the Schicksal Valkyrie Anonymous Forum. It soon received a reply from a user named Shadow of a God on Earth:
[Why are there so many questions? Raising a cat is raising it, so raising a cat-girl is raising it too. If you don't want the cat-girl, you can give her to fellow netizens. We can raise her as a daughter.]
"Raise her as a daughter...?"
The Goose, who had received an unexpectedly off-the-wall reply, looked at Stan beside her and fell into a dilemma.
"Raising a daughter is like having a child... having a child means getting married first... but I'm not even married yet! Stan, can you turn back?"
Durandal, whose mind completely failed to bend back to normalcy, placed her hopes once more on Stan, who was munching on dried fish snacks beside her. Under her hopeful gaze, the latter shook her head, took a piece of white paper and a pen from the bedroom desk, and clumsily scribbled "24h" on it.
"Stan, you mean it'll take at least 24 hours to change back?"
Durandal looked on the verge of collapse at Stan, who was now munching on dried fish and slipping into fool-happy mode. The clever little cat had already seen through everything: she was the one who wouldn't be unlucky; only the one responsible for scooping the litter box would have a headache.
Seeing the cat-girl who had already started looking blissfully happy, Durandal rubbed her temples. She knew she couldn't count on Stan now and could only ask the all-knowing but goofy netizens again.
[Raising a daughter, but I'm not married. Suddenly having an adopted daughter like this...]
The golden-haired Valkyrie replied to the goofy netizen with the ID Shadow of a God on Earth.
[Are you stupid? An adopted daughter! Don't you know? Even Snow Apocalypse, the nominal leader of East Schicksal, has an adopted daughter named Ninti...]
[Or is your cat-girl bigger than you? Send a picture, hurry up, everyone's waiting to see the kitty-girl!]
The goofy netizens' replies were just as lightning-fast. Within a few minutes, the comments flooded the screen, sparking a new wave of excitement:
[A cat-girl? Where is there a cat-girl!]
[Is it that white cat who's been all over the community recently? I've got her full photo album!]
[I want that one too! Post the pictures and don't keep them to yourself! You know what I mean, right?]
The conversation seemed to be spiraling out of control... To quickly steer the topic back, Durandal immediately decided to exploit Stan's looks.
She whipped out her phone, took a quick photo of Stan, and decisively posted it on the forum.
[This is my cat... She was sleeping soundly last night, and when I woke up this morning, she had turned into a cat-girl and was in my arms...]
[.....]
In a sense, the thread fell silent.
[I showed this to my cat. He said it's fake, just special effects.]
[The person above, have you considered the possibility that your cat is male?]
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Of course, the ones who truly fell silent were the few people in the World Serpent Base who were using the terminal Imhotep left behind to brag on the Schicksal Forum...
"Jackal, does this look a bit familiar?"
Raven held the Schicksal Valkyrie's terminal, raised an eyebrow as she looked at Stan's "glamour shot," and patted Jackal on the shoulder, gesturing for her to come and take a look...
"This is Stan??? No way, I need to go find Lady Imhotep..."
"Hello, Lady Imhotep? Oh? Gray Serpent, you're here too? Come over here, we just saw something incredible on Schicksal's internal forum."
As his former owner, Jackal recognized the silly, happy cat-girl's true identity at a glance and immediately started calling her companions to come join the fun...