The Hooded Samurai

Chapter 1: El Principio [Part 2]

We just awkwardly stood there staring at each other. She kept on fiddling with her hands. STOP FIDDLING WITH YOUR HANDS, YOU'RE MAKING ME MORE NERVOUS!

"Uh...could you...elaborate?"

I guess she didn't realize that what she said sounded kinda off without context. She blushed.

"Ah...I mean, my ears and my tail..."

"OH! Right! I totally thought you meant that! Hah!" I definitely didn't think she meant that.

I slowly approached her and examined her ears before touching them. Poke poke~ They're so fluffy. How interesting.

She let out an odd sound after I poked her ears. I stared at her, and she stared back at me.

"I don't even know your name yet and you're telling me your secret."

"Oh, right! Gosh, how stupid of me! My name's Katie Kat! You can call me Kat though." She replied with a smile.

Yeah, that name totally isn't straightforward.

"Well, nice to meet you, Kat. My name is Wafflez."

I continued to stare at her. I don't think I realized how long I had been staring at her. Damn, I probably looked stupid.

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We finally left the inn and I decided to head home. Finally, time for my nice bath~

"W-Wait-!"

I focused my attention toward Kat.

"Could I...stay at your place for the night...?"

...

What?

"Uh...Why? Don't you live nearby? Or at least have a room booked here?"

She seemed hesitant to reply.

"Well...I can't afford any rooms...I'm basically homeless."

Ok, first of all, this random lady bumps into me while running away from some fatso wanting to use her for money. Second of all, she's a cat-human. And now she wants to stay over for the night? I really gotta stop being so nice.

I was thinking to myself facing away from Kat. When I turned to face her, she had the most adorable wide-eyed expression that begged me to let her stay. Dammit.

"Yeah sure, c'mon."

"Yippee! Finally! No more garbage eating~!"

"What?"

"Huh?"

.....

We awkwardly walked back to my house.

I took a quick bath and relaxed as I let Kat make herself at home downstairs. Hmm...I wonder what she's doing?

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While Wafflez took a relaxing warm bath, Kat was downstairs roaming around the house, running back and forth through the halls. It appears as if though it had been her first time being able to stay in a house after a long while.

Kat noticed something shiny. And, as cats tend to do, she decided to fiddle with something she didn't understand.

Wafflez had been keeping a sacred relic in his house thinking that it looked cool, not knowing that it wielded great and unthinkable magic within. Hence why his intelligence is so low.