Lost Child from Another World

Starlight

Edited by: Chip

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Atlas quickly forgot about his encounter with the cloaked kid and those assassins. On his way back to the carriage with Cyrus and Sophie, Atlas and Sir Walter heard a piercing cry coming from some sort of animal.

When Atlas looked in the direction of the sound, Sir Walter had already jumped out of his arms and transformed into a normal-sized wolf. Atlas ran after him, confused as to where Sir Walter was going.

Cyrus and Sophie looked at each other like, "Again?" because there was never a dull moment with Atlas. They followed behind Atlas once again, trying to keep up.

They just finished their high-speed chance and found some assassins trying to kill His Imperial Highness the Prince, now Sir Walter was running toward the sound of an animal's cry for help. This was just one outing with Atlas... Hopefully, this was the last thing of the day.

When Atlas finally caught up to Sir Walter, he saw Sir Walter standing in front of a small kitten. He was growling at a man with a wooden paddle.

The man who was holding the wooden paddle felt threatened and took a step back. Still, he held the paddle like a weapon, ready to defend himself from this menacing wolf. "Get away from me you crazy wolf! Who the hell is your owner?"

"He is my friend, and he wouldn't be growling at you if you were a good person." Atlas looked at the mangy and injured black kitten that was lying on the ground, breathing heavily and panting. Its eyes were closed showing that it didn't have the strength to even open its eyes.

Then Atlas saw the drops of blood on the paddle and felt his anger rising. "I suggest you run away or I won't be nice."

Sir Walter bared his teeth and growled, as though to threaten the man.

"Shit! Fine, I'm leaving." The man hurriedly turned around and made a run for it. He didn't even try to get the kitten he bought from the sketchy merchant in the black market.

That black market merchant said that the kitten was a legendary beast that could grow into the strongest companion for a tamer. It was pretty cheap so why not? As a tamer, he struggled to find strong beasts and monsters which was why he resorted to going to the black market to find his first partner. He was a weak tamer through and through and needed to rely on his tamed companions to help him in battle.

When he tried to tame the kitten, he was not only rejected but his leg was bitten. That was why he decided to teach the damn kitten a lesson by beating it up to show who was the real master.

Unfortunately for him, Sir Walter and Atlas came to save the kitten. He decided it was best to not fight the wolf and ran off.

It was cheap anyway. He would save up a bit more money to buy a better beast.

Seeing the man run away, Atlas quickly went to the kitten and accessed his wounds. They were quite serious. He was still learning healing magic, so he wasn't confident that he could help the poor kitten...

Luckily, Cyrus came just in time.

Cyrus was a lot better at using healing magic, so when Atlas saw Cyrus coming, he immediately picked up the little kitten in a cloth he had in his item box and rushed over to him.

"Sir Walter heard this little kitten being abused." He looked like he was about to cry. "Can you save him?"

Cyrus looked at the little kitten struggling to even move. He nodded. "Let's go to the carriage first."

Atlas, Cyrus, Sophie, and Sir Walter went to the carriage and headed toward Norrs estate, Sophie's home. Cyrus opened up the cloth and saw the full extent of the kitten's injuries.