civilwarnovels Chapter 951 The Last Routine 130
Chapter 951 The Last Routine 130
Chapter 951 The Last Routine 130
this day.
Lynn was arguing with Duster on the street; no, to be precise, Lynn was unilaterally berating Duster.
"What did you say?" Lynn glared at Duster with hostility and demanded, "What do you mean you can't pay back the money? Didn't you say you had extra money to pay it back?!"
“No, well… I did have some…” Duster scratched his head awkwardly, avoiding Lynn's gaze, and explained softly, “I accidentally lost it all in Elord. Damn it, if only the higher-ups hadn't intervened to settle things…”
"You idiot...!" Lynn looked at him with exasperation, then sighed deeply, saying, "When are you going to improve? I really can't stand you anymore..."
"What's wrong with spending lavishly! Men are all creatures with dreams!"
Duster, not to be outdone, loudly retaliated.
Then, as if he had just remembered something, he clapped his hands and said, "Oh right, I made an appointment with Xiaolin to go look at weapons today, so let's talk about the money next time!"
Then, without giving Lynn a chance to speak, Duster turned and quickly slipped away.
"Wait a minute! Duster! You won't get away today!"
Lynn quickly followed after her.
But she was, after all, just a Grand Magus, and her physical abilities were no match for Dust, who was outwardly a swordsman but was actually a knight of a high rank. Before long, she was left far behind by him.
"Ha...ha...ha...ah!"
Lynn, panting heavily, leaned on her legs, clenching her fists in frustration, and cursed angrily, "Damn it, he got away again...! I'm so tired, I guess I'll rest for a bit."
"Meow meow……"
Just then, a kitten was meowing leisurely in the distance. It was taking a nap on the big tree that Lynn was leaning against, looking carefree and enviable.
“Ha…” Lynn looked at the kitten with great envy and sighed, “Cats are so carefree, able to take a leisurely nap. Ah, I really want to be like you, carefree and not thinking about anything.”
She felt a deep sense of envy.
Just then, the door opposite Lynn's room suddenly opened, and a familiar person walked out.
It's Wiz.
Lynn chased after Dust and somehow ended up at Wiz's magic item shop. Wiz, seeing Lynn sitting opposite him, asked with some surprise and curiosity, "...Um, Miss Lynn, what are you doing in a place like this?"
"Miss Wiz...!" Upon seeing a familiar face, Lynn's pent-up frustration burst forth. She immediately threw herself into Wiz's broad chest and complained, "Listen to me, Duster, he...!"
Such and such, such and such.
After a brief explanation.
"So, he got away again today." Lynn clenched her fist in frustration, then sighed with disappointment, saying, "...Seriously, where did that guy go?"
"I see, I see... That must have been quite an ordeal."
Wiz said this with great sympathy.
Then, she smiled and reminded her, "If you'd like, how about buying something to change your mood? We have a lot of items on the shelves, I'm sure Miss Lynn will like them!"
"Miss Wiz..."
Lynn gave a slight twitch at the corner of her mouth.
Can we say that Wiz is a qualified business owner? Although her shop is always in the red, her dedication is truly admirable. She always manages to find a moment to promote her products, making one marvel at her perfect timing.
“Yes.” Lynn rubbed her aching forehead, trying to temporarily escape from Duster’s annoyance, and said, “Since we’re here, let’s take a look.”
As he spoke, he walked up to the shelf.
Indeed, as Wiz had said, there were many new goods on display, a dazzling array of items. Among them, one thing caught her eye.
“…Oh my?” Lynn picked up a cat ear hair accessory from the shelf, remembering the carefree kitten she had just seen outside, and couldn’t help but ask, “This hair accessory is so cute, is it also a magical item?”
"That's right!"
Wiz was delighted to see the hair accessory and exclaimed, "Wearing this hair accessory will make you as agile as a cat!"
"Oh, is that so? Not only is it cute, it also enhances abilities!"
Lynn's eyes lit up slightly.
Then, looking at the hair ornament in her hand, she said with a sigh, "If I were more agile, I probably wouldn't have let Duster escape... Okay, I'll buy this! Here, take the money!"
Thinking of Dust who had accidentally slipped away because of this, Lynn gritted her teeth and bought the magical item. If she could buy a magical item specifically for Dust, Dust could die without regrets!
“Thank you for your patronage!”
Wiz laughed heartily, then added, "However, there's one thing to note about this hair accessory—"
“Okay, I feel more motivated now!” Lynn interrupted her, saying earnestly, “Miss Wiz, thank you! I’ll go find him again!”
Without giving Wiz a chance to finish speaking, Lynn pushed open the door of the magic item shop and left quickly.
"Ah, um, it hasn't been explained yet!" Wiz hurriedly reached out to stop Lynn, but Lynn, wearing the cat-ear headband, was as agile as a cat and disappeared in the blink of an eye. "...She's gone, are you alright?"
Wiz said this with some concern.
It's worth noting that Wiz has rather peculiar tastes, and every item he buys has some very strange flaws, including that cat ear headdress.
Just then, Barnier walked over and, seeing Wiz, scolded him with some displeasure, "What are you daydreaming about, you useless shopkeeper? Get back to work!"
“Okay, okay!... As for work, I’m doing it right now!” Wiz suddenly became very self-assured, puffing out her chest and saying smugly, “Just now, Miss Lynn also bought a hair accessory!”
As the mascot of the magical item shop, she naturally has reason to be proud of selling a magical item.
"Hair accessories... which means, now—"
Barnier's expression twisted slightly as he pondered, seemingly searching for the scene that would unfold through his eyes that could see into the future.
the other side.
Lynn had barely left Wiz's magic item shop when she spotted Dust strolling down the street. From a distance, she shouted, "Don't even think about running away—! Dust—!"
"Eeeeeeeeeee!!!" Duster screamed in terror, shouting, "Someone save me—!... Ah, what's that—"
He spotted someone familiar and quickly ran behind him, pleading for help.
"Kobayashi! You've come at the right time! Help me!"
"I reject."
Kobayashi refused Duster's request for help without even thinking about it.
“You want to abandon your friend in trouble, you heartless bastard!” Duster said angrily, then quickly pleaded, “Please, if you don’t hurry, Lynn will—”
"What will happen to me?"
In the blink of an eye, Lynn caught up. She glared at Duster, who was still trying to escape, but blocked his escape route, leaving him with no way to run away.
"Whoa!? They've caught up!" Duster screamed. He hadn't expected Lynn to catch up so quickly. He yelled in fear and pleaded, "Sorry, I really don't have any money right now...!"
"Further words are useless!!!"
Lynn was furious. She didn't want to listen to Duster at all. She stormed up and shouted, "Today I'm going to make you pay back all the money you borrowed, meow!"
"...Meow?" X2
Kobayashi and Duster looked at Lynn with some surprise as she suddenly uttered a quirky phrase, not expecting her to suddenly say "meow."
"That's strange, what did I just say?"
Lynn also sensed something was wrong and covered her mouth. She hadn't expected that she would inexplicably utter a meow-like tic.
"Yes, it's too late after all."
At that moment, Barnier walked over.
His face wore a helpless expression, perhaps regretting that he was late, or perhaps angry that the magical items he sold had obvious side effects that he hadn't told his customers about, thus damaging the shop's reputation. In short, he looked very unhappy.
“Mr. Barnier!?” Lynn was also surprised to see him, and at the same time, she felt nervous and scared about what Barnier had said. She couldn’t help but ask, “You just said it was too late, what did that mean…?”
“Young lady,” Barnier sighed deeply, “that hair accessory you bought… that’s something extraordinary.”
"what?"
"That will turn the wearer into a cat. Not just in behavior... but also in their heart."
Barnier said this with a regretful expression.
"W-How could this happen...!?" Lynn was terrified and even became agitated. She quickly said, "I have to take it off quickly... Meow meow meow! It feels like it's stuck to my hair and I can't get it off at all!"
She meowed in fear.
Not only that, the cat ear headdress was also completely stuck on her head, and no matter how hard she pulled or tugged, she couldn't take it off.
“It’s no use,” Barnier shook his head and said, “This isn’t so easy to remove. Well… that one is coming soon.”
"What does that mean?...Wow!"
Duster looked puzzled, wondering what Barnier meant by something that was coming soon, but he soon found out.
Kobayashi was also a little flustered, pointing at Lynn's head and saying, "Lynn... Lynn... your head...!"
Lynn quickly touched the top of her head, her face soon changing color as she said in a panic, "...Eh, what's this fluffy thing? Is this...cat ears?!"
The cat ear hair ornament on her head had somehow turned into real cat ears. It seemed that everything was as Barnier had said, and Lynn was changing into a cat—even though she had a tanuki tail, could she eventually turn into a tanuki? That would be too funny!
……
Now that this had happened, the four of them quickly returned to Wiz's magic item shop to discuss what to do.
"So, what exactly is this magical artifact?" Dust asked Banier with a puzzled and unfriendly tone, "What will become of Lynn in the future?"
"This hair accessory is a tool to grant the wish to become a cat. Originally, it would give you the agility and speed of a cat... but the side effect is that you will become a cat in both body and mind."
Barnier helplessly explained the side effects of the magical item. In fact, Wiz had taken the initiative to purchase this item without his consent. Although he knew this, he was too late to stop her. He had told her not to sell it casually, as it might damage the shop's reputation, but unexpectedly, someone else still bought it.
After hearing about the effects of this magical item, Kobayashi also twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "It's less of a side effect and more of a curse."
He knows this kind of thing all too well!
You should know that he is constantly accompanied by curses; there has hardly been a day since he came into this world that he was not dancing with curses.
"Yes, I do have a bit of a crush on cats..." Lynn said in a slightly frightened voice, "But this isn't what I'm hoping for!"
"So, we know the effect, but why can't we still remove it from Lynn's head?"
Xiaolin asked curiously.
Knowing this very well, he understood that since the curse had already taken effect, the solution wasn't to continue complaining, but to remove the prop as soon as possible, otherwise it would cause a lot of trouble.
Then Wiz explained with a smile, "This is to ensure that the cat-like form won't fall off even during strenuous exercise; the creator made some improvements!"
"What a busybody!"
Even though Wiz meant well by saying that, it has now caused them a lot of trouble. They really shouldn't have let that creator do such a mess!
"Hey, hey, hey!" Duster panicked a bit and quickly said, "So, she'll never take it off? Is Lynn going to be a cat for the rest of her life?!"
“No problem!” Wiz said with a smile. “Because it’s a magical tool prepared for people who want to become cats, if they are satisfied with the life of a cat, the hair ornament will naturally fall off.”
So, is it the same as that magical necklace that falls off when you fulfill a wish?
Kobayashi nodded slightly.
“Little girl,” Barnier said again, “didn’t you want to become a cat to do something? Just fulfill that wish, okay?”
"What you want to do after turning into a cat...?" Lynn asked, somewhat confused and bewildered. "For me, I've already achieved my goal of capturing Darst, haven't I?"
"If you can't get it off like this, is there something else you want to do?"
Kobayashi reminded her.
I'm the most experienced one here, and I always manage to do something unexpected at these times, so I have to pay attention to things I haven't noticed.
"I can't think of anything special about this all of a sudden, meow..." Lynn said nervously and helplessly, then suddenly realized something was wrong, "Huh!? Seriously! The ending of the sentence is weird again, meow..."
His tone gradually became more like a cat's.
(End of this chapter)