209 Picking a Kitten Up (2/2)
Before it even tried to get up and escape, Takaw barked once and caught its attention. The scheming cat that wanted to run away immediately became submissive after hearing the soft bark. It felt threatened as it watched the small dog in front of it.
To prevent the white-furred house cat from doing anything troublesome, Takaw jumped and sat on its body.
”So what are we going to do about this?” Erin asked.
”If we bring it back to town, it would be slaughtered in a second due to the number of casualties it caused. We can't leave it alone since it could kill more people.” Emman turned to Anna and said, ”Should we kill it?”
Jennie heard their discussions through her enhanced hearing and turned to them in shock. The whole time she fought the mutated cat, she only felt that it was angry about something, and fought her playfully. It was her inattentiveness that caused her to get hit.
Feeling down and worried, she stepped forward wanting to object but someone beat her up to it.
”Wait! Please wait!”
A high-pitched voice of a woman from the other end of the street wearing a black cloak resounded. The three-meter mutated dog she rode dashed towards the group while dangling its tongue to the side, swaying with the wind. Several seconds later, it halted a few meters away from them and sat down.
The cloaked woman that was hanging on dear life as she hugged the neck of the mutated dog. The mutated dog ran towards them from the end of the street while dangling its tongue to the side swaying with the wind. It had black fur but unlike other mutated dogs, there were no empty patches of fur to be found.
When the dog stopped a few meters away from the group, the cloaked woman slowly unclasped her trembling frail arms, then slid down the mutated dog's smooth back and landed wobbly on the road.
”Hello everyone. I'm... I'm someone not important. I've been trailing this mutated cat for so long. Can you give it to me? I'm willing to pay for it.” said the cloaked woman straightforwardly.
”Whoa, she seems loaded. Do you think we can trade the cat for a lot?” Emman remarked as he whispered to Erin.
”Do we even need money?” Erin replied with displeasure. After getting recruited to Black Haven Elite Scanger Squad, they have enough allowance and gear to not worry about whether they have money to spend on their leisure.
Emman who didn't understand what she was hinting on, pouted and looked ahead.
Anna saw that the cloaked woman was looking at the three of them as if looking for the deal maker, so she spoke and decided for the group.
”We're about to kill the cat, so we don't need your money. At the same time, we can't give you the cat unless you show us that you're capable of handling it. It's quite ferocious at the moment and it injured a lot of people who were clearing this barangay.”
”I apologize.” the woman bowed immediately when she heard that a lot of people were injured, then continued, ”I think it's partially my fault that people got injured. You see, I was trying to tame this cat and it got away.”
”You can tame mutated animals? How did you do it? Have you submitted this to the Black Haven Information Desk?” Emman excitedly asked. Just thinking of owning such a huge dog made him gleeful and forget about the recent troubles.
”Uhh...”
When Erin noticed that the other person was not comfortable in answering the question, she nudged Emman with her elbow and apologized. ”I'm sorry, this guy's a bit bad in the head.”
”Hey, that's rude. I'm not an idiot!”
”Ssh! Just shut up! You're embarrassing!”
The woman was uncomfortable at first but smiled in the end after seeing how close they were to each other. She waved her hand and said, ”It's fine, its nothing too important and it's quite crude so not a lot of people use this. Besides, I already submitted this to the Information Desk.”
”I found two ways to tame a wild animal. Since animals that ranked up have become more intelligent, its either you convince them or beat them up.”