Chapter 214: Princess Meisian (1/2)

“Why is it everytime I visit, I find you two lazing about…” Anmi greeted the two guards with an unabashed tsukkomi you would expect from friends or close acquaintances.

“Sir Anmi, what are you doing here? Didn’t you say you wanted to stay away from this fiasco? Don’t tell me you’ve finally seen the light and decided to help Princess Meisian?” Replied one of the guards with an awkward smile. From the looks of things, this probably wasn’t the first time they were caught skiving.

Anmi gave a quick but discreet glance at Sinmosa before saying: “Well, the reason is…complicated, mhm. How about helping me send word to the princess first. Just say that I have guests with me.” As he said that, Anmi made a show of how important his position was in the clan. “Carry on then, my affairs aren’t to be delayed.”

In the midst of all that, Anmi continuously winked at the guardcat.

“Sir Anmi, what’s the matter? Your eyes keeps on blinking so quickly, is there something stuck inside?” Asked the silly guardcat, clearly not getting the intention behind his actions.

“No…it’s nothing…” Anmi’s body immediately stiffened.

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I bet he really wanted to kill himself right now. Knowing him, he must’ve wanted to send some kind of secret message to those cats but they were too stupid to realize that. Truly, was a there any better phrase to describe this situation than ‘what’s scary isn’t an opponent on the level of God, rather it is the dumb-as-a-pig teammate who you should fear.’

‘Heh heh…maybe I should ask them in Anmi’s stead: “Does your family know that you’re this stupid?”’

“Just go!” With that howl, Anmi clearly ran out of patience for the two pig-cats.

“Alright, I’ll go report in.” The guardcat who replied then proceeded to jump over the castle wall… ‘Jump over the wall? Isn’t there a perfectly fine looking entranceway over there, why climb over the wall?’

I couldn’t, for the life of me, figure out why that guardcat decided to jump over the wall like that but judging by all the cat steps on the castle wall, it clearly wasn’t some kind of ability unique to him. As everyone knew on Earth, cats were extremely agile animal who could scale anything with a bit of effort; given that then, it wasn’t all that surprising to learn of their wall climbing ability in this world.

The walls and cat steps were all pitch black and if one wasn’t looking hard enough, he would most likely miss them entirely. That was why I didn’t notice it till now.

A short while later, that guardcat came climbing back over the wall, nimbly leaping off each step and covering the entire ten meters in mere seconds. Upon touching down, the guardcat greeted us: “The Princess has decided to welcome you all personally, please enter the castle.”

“Just pass through that hole and you’ll reach the main hall for receiving guests.” Anmi gave a gentle leap, climbing over the greater half of the castle wall before we even had to chance to react to his words.

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Seeing that, the two Cerberus glanced at each other after which Sinmosa asked: “Should we enter?”

“Yeah, after all that trouble it took us to get here, there’s no way we’re leaving empty handed.” I nodded my head and then took the first step ahead of the group.

“Wait for Mo Na, Mama…” Mo Na rushed off with Cinderel in tow, following closely behind her were No.3 and Big 4.

Seeing that we had all left, Sinmosa gave a helpless glance at her husband before following closely in our footsteps.

As we continued walking through the hole-like entrance, Sinmosa spoke up as if talking to herself: “Strange, why would the Purgatory Shadowcats not use this entrance? Is it just a force of habit?”

With regards to that question, I had previously given it some thought as well but soon tossed it aside. After all, we weren’t some researchers studying the habits of Purgatory Shadowcats; such mundane matters really didn’t matter at all.

“Haha, they really entered it.”

“Ahahaha, they entered the hole, they entered the hole…”

Not long after we stepped into the entranceway, the ominous sound of cat laughter came echoing from behind us. ‘Exactly what did they mean by ‘entered the hole’? This is clearly the main entrance don’t cha know.’

The first thing we saw upon entering the castle was a field of black grass and some strange trees formed of rock. Right ahead was a two hundred meter tall, three-storied stone structure that was both wide and long, almost like those universities from Earth. From a distance away, the joined structures seem to form a prone ‘T’.

There, Anmi stood waiting for us at the entrance of the first floor. This time, it was a normal looking entranceway with a couple of stone doors and a door frame.

“You…took the hole, I see.” Seeing us approach, he took the initiative to receive us with a wide grin on his face.