chapter 5: Two strays

A sudden jolt of electricity awoke me from my stupor, before I could try to retreat I was suddenly slammed to the ground head first and my vision blacked out after that.

...3rd Person POV

Kuroka breathed heavily as she held her injured hand, never had she expected the weak looking 8 year old laying on the ground below her to suddenly attack with such vigour and skill, the little runt also had teeth sharp: enough to cut through her skin easily.

What puzzled Kuroka even more was how the child found this place, she had used illusions to cover her presence, but the child had since locked onto her, she followed her no matter how hard she tried to shake her.

When she confronted her the girl suddenly ran away puzzling Kuroka even more. Kuroka was livid! Not only did the runt bite her but she also called her ugly, granted she did take back her statement but she wanted to punish the little kid more for her transgression.

Sadly her instincts had caused her to finish the fight earlier since the girl's bite was very dangerous, proof of that was the blood dripping from her forearm.

Her instincts as a nekomata didn't allow her to keep the girl out of her sight, whether it was out of fear or fascination, she really couldn't tell due to still being too shocked.

Kuroka decided to pick up the passed out girl, she really didn't feel like killing her, so she would just tie her up and decide what to do when she woke up.

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3rd Person POV

Morning had come and the sun illuminated a tranquil forest, at first glance this forest wasn't anything special, normal trees, with small rodents and bigger animals roaming around.

However, this was simply an illusion that was cast because the forest was fortified with magic traps and a strange mist lingered all around, anyone who breathed in this mist would partially lose their senses and walk out of the forest in a trance state. For the more stubborn ones, they would be assaulted by motion triggered traps of varying elements and effects.

Naturally, only high ranked devils could enter the forest and survive, any less and they would die. So it came as a surprise for Kuroka when a tiny girl sleeping soundly on the lush grass was somehow able to avoid all her traps and even resist her illusion mist.

The little girl was even fast enough to take a big bite out of Kuroka's forearm. Although she suspected the girl was some kind of devil or angel at first, she thoroughly checked and found out she was neither of those.

Her pride as a strong devil was a little bruised after last night, but she had better things to worry about.

The little girl was starting to stir, her eyes fluttered and opened forming thin slits as the girl cutely rubbed them. It seemed as if she had the best sleep of her life, this was most unusual since Kuroka had struck her hard enough to kill a normal human. Not that Kuroka believed the little girl was human in the first place.

"It's good to see you're up, now I can finally get my answers." Kuroka said in a rare serious tone.

The little girl tensed and slowly turned around to face the nekomata.

"Big sis, I don't know how you were taught where you come from, but where I come from we say good morning." The little girl spoke casually as she stood up, Kuroka had taken the liberty to change the girl's clothes.

Now she wore a black kimono like her and her long white hair was tied into a bun. Her dark caramel skin was her most prominent feature, she had black eyes that sucked in light.

"I'm sorry, I'm just not used to seeing strays come around my place." Kuroka replied sweetly.

"It's okay, but work on it next time. As for who I am well I don't know, don't know where I come from and I'll be out of your hair, thank you for not killing me." The little girl said.

Kuroka was a little startled, the girl had answered all her concerns even before she was asked, and Kuroka could tell she wasn't lying, she would've picked up any lies as soon as they left her mouth.

Our mc obviously wasn't fully honest either, but she was truly clueless of hi- well her real name and where the former owner of this body was before a few days ago. Although, she stood before one of the sexiest woman in the dxd universe the mc wasn't some retard obsessed with making a harem, she'd rather explore her new world and try to access her abilities.

Speaking of that, it seemed that she had grown stronger after biting Kuroka, if her sharp eyesight and overall light feeling in her body was anything to go by then she was slowly going back to her peak physical state.

Her other mysterious ability hadn't shown itself yet, maybe she'd need to meditate to draw it out? Or a training montages was in order? But now was not the time to mull this over.

Getting rid of useless thoughts, she started checking out her new clothes and nodded in satisfaction. As she was about to leave, Kuroka who was now out of her shock stopped her.

"You're definitely not normal, if you leave you might run into some stray devil and you'll die kid." Kuroka warned, she herself was still in her early teens but she was not a young as our mc right now.

"Aren't you also a stray miss?" The little girl asked.

The temperature suddenly dropped as Kuroka looked at the little girl.

"So you know about me huh?" Kuroka asked.

"We'll yeah, you have cat ears, a tail and you smell like a cat. I don't see you're owner so it was kinda obvious." The little girl said as she did a gutsy pose, Kuroka cooed at this sight. She also sighed in relief after hearing the girl was not aware of her.

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Chapter 5!! YAY!! Almost there, how are you liking the book so far? If you like it alot get ready to support my pa tr eon!! I'll post it when we hit 15 thousand words here.