The ice, which came with a sealing effect, completely froze the Nekomata's ability to move.
The uncontrolled blue ice flames quickly vanished into thin air.
"Meow!"
After regaining consciousness, the Nekomata struggled frantically but could only stare blankly.
"The ice flame ability has something to it, but that's all there is."
"Your performance is over, it's time for someone else to take over!"
Tenya had the confident posture of a winner.
He raised his hand and pressed down on the Nekomata's head, his Mangekyo Sharingan activating in his eyes.
He forcibly invaded the Nekomata's spiritual world. It was a world filled with mist and snow.
"Heh~ This rank of genjutsu."
Tenya chuckled lightly, his Mangekyo Sharingan outputting ocular power, easily dispersing all the mist before his eyes.
He quickly found the location of Yukino's spiritual body.
He saw Yukino squatting in a corner, hugging her knees, in a state of unconsciousness.
A miniature version of the Nekomata was wrapped around her body, and after seeing Tenya, it even bared its fangs at him.
Then, it was scared into a ball of cat fluff by a single glance from Tenya.
"Hey, Yukinoshita, wake up!"
Tenya walked up to Yukino and shook her hard a few times.
"Hmmph~"
Yukino opened her eyes from her unconscious state, her face full of confusion.
"I, I am..."
Then she noticed that her spiritual body was completely exposed, not wearing a single thread.
"Ah—!"
She instinctively let out a scream, but in the next second, she was stopped by Tenya's shout.
"Don't make a fuss."
"It's not normal for a soul to not wear clothes, is it?"
Hearing this, Yukino finally came back to her senses, her eyes widening, staring at him with disbelief all over her face.
"Yoshida Tenya, you, why are you here...!"
However, before Tenya could answer, the smart her quickly thought of something, her beautiful eyes turning frosty, staring fixedly at the latter.
"In other words..."
"You actually knew from the beginning!"
"That black cat was me!!"
Regarding Yukino's accusation, Tenya didn't make any excuses.
He just smiled and nodded. "Yes."
"You...!"
Yukino instantly became angry and annoyed.
Thinking back to the scene where the other party teased her original body right in front of her, the image was simply bursting with embarrassment.
"Lecherous!"
"Pervert!"
"Scumbag!"
Perhaps because she had been speaking with the black cat's body these past few days, her voice couldn't switch back immediately. Yukino's speech was unclear at this time, adorably clumsy.
"Pfft~"
Tenya couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"Yukinoshita..."
"The way you're scolding me now."
"It's like you're pouting."
"Do you know?"
"Baby!"
Hearing this mockery, Yukino's cheeks instantly flushed red, infuriated to the point of breaking down and cursing loudly.
"Bastard!"
"Idiot!"
"Yoshida Tenya!"
"Pouting again."
"Sigh~ I really can't do anything about you."
Tenya listened to her foul language with a look of enjoyment.
"I'm not pouting!!" Yukino emphasized loudly.
It's just that the sight of her hugging her flat chest with both hands, squatting on the ground with a face full of shame and despair, was truly endearing.
"Meow~"
A faint meow resounded in her ear. It was then that Yukino noticed a pathetic-looking black cat attached to her body.
She saw that the latter's body was almost growing on her shoulder, looking very strange.
"What, what exactly is going on?!"
Yukino looked bewildered and helpless.
A few days ago, she picked up an injured stray cat on the side of the road and brought it home to care for it meticulously.
However, when she woke up yesterday, she was shocked to find that for some reason, she had entered the body of that black cat.
What frightened her even more was that the black cat seemed to have entered her body.
Their bodies had swapped.
This was an absurd plot that only happened in TV dramas.
Yukino witnessed with her own eyes her own body crawling on all fours, scratching her face with her paws, rolling on her belly... and a series of actions that, while cute, were incredibly embarrassing.
It was true that she liked cats.
But that didn't mean she wanted to become a cat!!!
Yukino had tried calling the police for help. But as soon as the policeman heard her claim to have turned into a cat, he instinctively thought it was a prank and even scolded her severely.
When she wanted to contact her family, her mother and sister happened to be away on a business trip together.
The only person she had a good relationship with at Sobu High School was Shizuka.
It was hard to explain clearly over the phone, so she had to send a message, hinting for Shizuka to come to her house first.
However, with Yukino's awkward personality, even her plea for help was written in a very subtle and implicit way.
The general idea was for Shizuka to come to her house when she was free, as there was something to discuss.
This led to Shizuka misjudging the urgency of her situation. Coincidentally, the school had a meeting, so she didn't come in person, but instead entrusted Tenya to drop by and check on her condition.
"Actually, it's not a big deal."
"You can probably understand it as being possessed by a Cat Demon." Tenya explained casually.
"Possessed by a Cat Demon..."
"You call this not a big deal?!"
Yukino's eyes widened, and the corner of her mouth couldn't help but twitch.
"Indeed."
"If I wanted to, I could even eliminate it without lifting a finger!"
Tenya glanced indifferently at the little Nekomata on her shoulder.
"Meow~"
The Nekomata immediately trembled with fear.
It wondered who this human in front of it was, how could he be even more terrifying than a ghost?
"Eliminate it..."
"This, isn't this too cruel?"
As everyone knows, Yukino is a slave to cats. She couldn't bear to watch a cat being killed, no matter what.
"It's too late to separate."
"A part of your souls have already merged."
"Forcibly separating them is possible, but it will more or less harm your soul."
"In minor cases, it will reduce your lifespan by ten years, and in severe cases, it will cause lifelong paralysis and dementia..."
Tenya exaggerated, half-truths and half-lies.
The truth was, by using the power of the Zanpakuto, it was possible to separate the entangled spiritual bodies, but the process was somewhat time-consuming and labor-intensive.
Given the stranger relationship between Tenya and Yukino, he had no obligation to do such a troublesome thing.
"This, is there no other way?"
Yukino's face turned pale upon hearing this.
Firstly, she couldn't bear to watch the Nekomata being killed, and secondly, she was afraid of the huge risk of reduced lifespan and becoming paralyzed and demented.
"There is."
A glint of light flashed in Tenya's eyes.
This was the choice he wanted to guide the other party towards.
"Really?"
"Yoshida-san..."
A glimmer of hope flashed in Yukino's eyes.
Even though she was a strong-willed girl, encountering something as bizarre as this, which is completely unsolvable for ordinary people, she couldn't help but feel bewildered and helpless.
"Yes."
"Since a part of your souls have already merged."
"Inseparably..."
"Why not simply allow your souls to completely merge!"
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