A sharp silver metal approached Yellian without hesitation. Yellian’s eyes were filled with fear, pupils dilating. Both ears drooped backward.
“Nyaaang, nyaaang!”
Terrified, Yellian screamed and thrashed its small body, but the more it struggled, the tighter Leonard’s grip became on the arm holding it.
Of course, Yellian didn’t give up easily either. It squirmed with all its might, desperately trying to escape Leonard’s hold. It had to avoid the sharpened, gleaming metal closing in moment by moment.
However, Leonard was no ordinary person. He spoke in a voice sharper than the metal itself.
“Stay still. Unless you want to lose a toe.”
“Nya…….”
The threat was effective. Since Leonard seemed like someone who might actually cut off a toe or two, Yellian had no choice but to quiet down, reluctantly accepting the situation.
Meanwhile, the metal inevitably came right up to Yellian’s face. Yellian couldn’t help but cry out again.
“Hnyaaang!”
“Be quiet. I can’t focus.”
“Hnyaaang-aang!”
“Looks like you want your toe cut off.”
“…….”
Under the menacing threat, Yellian tightly shut its mouth. It still wanted to scream, but since it didn’t want to lose a toe, it kept its mouth shut. It clenched so hard that its long white whiskers tilted forward.
During this, a small cutting tool, the kind used to cut lock wires, came right up to Yellian’s face.
Leonard grabbed Yellian’s soft and squishy front paw, pressing down on the jelly-like pad. Sharp claws popped out with a boing-boing-boing.
‘Slash.’
With a chilling sound, one of Yellian’s claws flew off. A tiny, insignificant piece of claw dropped onto the fluffy rug with a soft thud. Contrary to fears, no toe was lost, but it was still utterly terrifying.
What kind of lunatic would bring such a horrifying tool to trim a kitten’s claws?
Of course, expecting a cat-specific claw trimmer to exist in this era would be misguided, but surely there had to be a better alternative than such a crude tool.
Nevertheless, the reason for using such a menacing weapon to trim claws was undoubtedly because Leonard was a psychopath.
Amidst this, Leonard grabbed Yellian’s toe to cut the second claw. Yellian couldn’t help but whimper thinly in fear.
“Myaaa…….”
“Crying like that won’t change anything.”
“Damn it…….”
“Damn it?”
“Shibyaaang, shibyaaang.”
Yellian, who had let slip a curse, quickly corrected itself. No one knew which country’s cat would cry ‘shibyaaang,’ but it hoped Leonard would let it slide.
A deep vertical crease formed between Leonard’s brows, but fortunately, that was all. Yellian sighed in genuine relief, thinking it needed to do something about its mouth.
Of course, for a human who had been speaking words like ‘mama,’ ‘momma,’ and ‘papa’ for about 20 years, suddenly being in a situation where they couldn’t speak made it nearly impossible to adapt to this wretched circumstance.
Nevertheless, to survive, it had to restrain itself from speaking no matter what.
Yellian took a deep breath and cautiously observed Leonard. Leonard glared at Yellian with cold eyes before returning his focus to trimming the claws.
After a long and arduous ordeal, Leonard finally finished trimming all of Yellian’s claws without missing a single one.
For a stray cat, the claws weren’t particularly sharp to begin with. It was as if someone had groomed them just a few days ago. Even so, the claws trimmed with the cutter became much blunter.
Yellian felt displeased at the thought that with such blunt claws, it wouldn’t be able to scratch the wallpaper. It needed to cause trouble soon to get kicked out of this damned mansion, but now it couldn’t even cause proper mischief.
And since its body wasn’t in perfect condition either, it couldn’t run around and knock over household items, deepening Yellian’s worries.
In contrast, Leonard’s expression brightened for once. It seemed that this insolent feline humanoid kitten had finally become a bit more docile.
Although he had threatened to throw it out if it caused trouble, there was no way he would actually discard such a rare feline humanoid kitten.
He didn’t yet know how to make use of it, but surely keeping it around would prove useful someday.
Still, if this feline humanoid kitten kept causing trouble like this, it would be problematic. He wondered whether to separate it into another room and make Elton responsible for it.
Since it was a rare feline humanoid kitten, he had deliberately kept it in his room to keep a close eye on its every move, but now he wondered if that had been a wrong choice, feeling a pang of regret as the clawless creature finally calmed down.
Though its gaze was still full of mischief. He thought trimming the claws was a good decision and smiled with satisfaction.
“Myaa, myaaat, myaaat, aat, aat!”
“…….”
“Myaaaat!”
Yellian let out a loud cry and started spinning around while clutching the curtain. To be precise, out of frustration, it swatted at the curtain in front of it with its front paw, only for its claw to get caught in the fabric’s weave.
Trying to free its claw, Yellian twisted its body this way and that, ending up spinning around. The more it did so, the more tightly the claw got entangled in the weave.
‘Don’t just watch, help me, you crazy bastard!’
Yellian screeched and pleaded for help from Leonard. Watching this, Leonard felt a stiffness in the back of his neck.
Were feline humanoid kittens always this infuriating? At some point, the term ‘feline humanoid kitten’ in his mind had turned into just ‘feline kitten,’ but Leonard didn’t even realize he was mentally cursing it as such.
“Myaat…….”
A dejected Yellian drooped its ears and looked at Leonard. It was a pitiful sight. Leonard let out a long sigh before approaching Yellian.
“Please, just stay still. Stop causing trouble.”
“Myaaat.”
‘This time, I didn’t mean to cause trouble. Sure, I did it on purpose earlier, but this time it was unavoidable.’
Yellian swallowed the words that almost slipped out and cried in a wronged tone.
Regardless, Leonard was busy trying to free Yellian’s caught claw. Having spun around so much in a frenzy, the claw was firmly entangled in the weave and wouldn’t come out easily. Leonard’s limited patience was quickly running out.
He couldn’t understand why he had to be the one to free a feline kitten’s claw.
Eventually, what started as a somewhat cautious touch turned into a forceful grip as he pulled on Yellian’s paw. At the same time, a chilling ‘riiiip’ sound rang out as the curtain’s weave tore apart with a loud ripping noise.
‘It’s out! It’s out!’
Having regained its freedom, Yellian raised its tail high in joy and trembled. It was a very cat-like reaction, though Yellian itself didn’t realize it.
Of course, Leonard’s mood sank to the ground in inverse proportion to Yellian’s joy.
The wallpaper was in tatters, and the curtain was ruined with torn weaves. Though he hadn’t maintained the room himself, the space that the servants had kept pristine now looked like a rag in an instant. Leonard closed his eyes and took deep breaths to suppress his rising anger.
Meanwhile, Yellian encountered a significant problem. Perhaps due to the shock of getting its claw caught in the curtain, its tiny bladder had been startled, and now it urgently needed to pee.
Come to think of it, Yellian realized it hadn’t gone to the bathroom even once since becoming a cat. Realizing this made the urge even more pressing.
Yellian moved its short little legs hurriedly toward the bathroom. It remembered Elton mentioning that there was a bathroom there.
The bathroom was excessively lavish and spacious. Yellian tilted its small head this way and that, searching for the toilet.
A large, ornate square box-like object caught its eye. Yellian approached the box, desperately holding back its bursting bladder.
Inside the box was a heap of sand. No matter how you looked at it, it was a cat litter box.
“Damn it…….”
Yellian muttered a curse under its breath, quiet enough that Leonard, who was outside the bathroom, wouldn’t hear.
Though the need to use the bathroom was urgent, the idea of relieving itself in sand with a human mind was hard to accept.
But there was no other option. Yellian steeled its resolve.
“Myaaaaat! Myaaaaaat!”
Leonard, still taking deep breaths outside the bathroom, snapped his eyes open. Hearing Yellian’s urgent cries, he hurriedly headed to the bathroom. Upon entering, he couldn’t believe his eyes.
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