Elf: Sailing since being taken in by New Leaf Cat

Chapter 5 Hell Girl?

After eating a plump grilled fish, Qiu Qing's state of hunger finally disappeared. He usually only has two states, hunger and...sleep. It's time to sleep after eating.

The night breeze by the river blew New Leaf Cat's fur softly. After seeing that he was full, the cat got up and walked towards the spaceship. He had been staying nearby because he was worried that the other party would be attacked by wild Pokémon.

"Meow~"

"I'm coming."

Qiu Qing hurriedly followed up. Now her affection for Maomao was completely maxed out, and she was completely counterattacked. He was someone who could be taken down so easily.

However, he also knew that this new leaf cat was very unusual. The information displayed on the Rotom cell phone said that the cat was less than a month old, but to you... does it look like a baby that was just born?
He is just stupid, but not stupid, but these are not important. Although the cat has a somewhat aloof personality and is not approachable, he likes this new leaf cat very much, so he does not care too much about it.

Although just as he guessed, cats are indeed unusual...

Xinye Miao easily jumped onto the deck of the spaceship, stood on the guardrail and looked back, quietly waiting for Qiu Qing to climb up from the ladder, while also thinking.

Although it has only been born for three weeks, it miraculously hatched from a bad egg that was buried and processed in the breeding house.

I still remember that day after it hatched, when it crawled out of the soil, it was raining heavily and there was not a single person around. It was so weak that it fainted quickly under the wash of the rain.

It thought it would die like this, but when it woke up, it found itself in this broken ship. Its body was warm and not hungry at all. It must have been taken care of. It was speculated that it might have been saved by a passing Pokémon. , so he stayed here.

It's just that this small body is very unaccustomed to it, and it took several days to get used to it. It is still more accustomed to the posture as a magical masked cat, and the identity of a hell girl...

Hell...some people also call it the spirit world. It is the place where the souls of humans and Pokémon will go after they die.

And Hell Girls... are the masters who cannot leave Hell, and are a profession born because they are full of resentment towards this world.

If there is unquenchable resentment among living beings in this world, then the Hell Girl will appear and send the person he hates into the abyss of hell.

But this curse is double. While sending the other person to hell, his soul will also fall into the abyss of hell and suffer torture after death...

And this was Xinye Miao's job in the past. Over the past thousand years, it has sent countless souls to the abyss of hell. As for the reason for choosing this profession, it has completely forgotten.

So it's really not a good cat...

As early as hundreds of years ago, its performance had been maxed out, and it could enter reincarnation with its memories and choose a new life. This was a reward given to them by the Lord of Hell, but it refused.

Because it doesn't know what it wants to do in life, and as a hell girl for a long time, it has seen too much darkness and injustice among humans and Pokémon in the world.

So what is the difference between this world and hell?It's better to continue working as a hell girl, at least there will be something to do.

But in order to make way for new people, it will not take the initiative to do the job, but waits for the job to find it before going out. Therefore, many new hell girls worship it as their predecessor.

Occasionally, it will share the work with its Death friends in hell, coming to the world as an agent of Death to collect the souls of those who are about to die...

In this way, it was not until more than ten years ago that it, an old-timer who occupied a position and received wages, was forced to retire, but Hell Girl's graduation benefits were still there. After a long time, it finally made a decision, and it chose the last Terrible spawn point.

It wanted to die quickly after being born, so that it could go back to hell and start over, but the development was not as it expected. It was about to die and didn't know who saved it... So it accepted the reality, just because it didn't want to Letting down the Pokémon that saved him.

However, Xinye Miao still doesn't know what she should do. She is aimless, has no daydreaming, and has no dreams in her heart, so she always has this listless expression...

At this time, Qiu Qing climbed up the stairs to the deck. Seeing Maomao still waiting for him, he couldn't help but smile on his face, even though the other party was always cold.

The short time he spent with Xinye Miao today gave him, who had been growing up alone, an indescribable feeling in his heart. This was the first time that he had experienced being cared for carefully as long as he could remember...

He looked up at the bright starry sky again, thought for a moment, and asked with a smile: "Cat, can you look at the moon with me for a moment?"

"Meow?"

Xinye Miao heard these words as soon as she jumped off the guardrail. Then she saw Qiu Qing walking alone to the end of the deck and lying down with her hands on her pillow.

After hesitating for a moment, it still walked over. When she saw it coming, Qiu Qing sighed and asked, "It's so good... you can see such a scenery when you leave the room, don't you think so? Cat."

"Meow..." Xinye Meow looked up listlessly. He didn't think so. The scenery he saw every day didn't change and he was already tired of seeing it.

However, seeing that Qiu Qing seemed to like it very much, it decided to stay here to accompany the other party, wondering what difference there was in the starry sky that it had not noticed, so that it made the other party behave like this.

The person and the cat, who were not supposed to have any interactions with each other, are now living together, quietly gazing at the night sky. Occasionally, a meteor streaks across, and Qiu Qing, like a child, seizes the opportunity to make a wish.

This made Xin Ye Miao become more and more curious about him, because Qiu Qing was... indescribably different from all the humans he had seen before.

Just like a baby that comes to this world for the first time, like a blank piece of paper, full of curiosity about everything, and an innocent character, not contaminated by the darkness and desires of this world.

This made it, having seen... and experienced those things, develop an inexplicable desire for protection. It didn't want to see Qiu Qing become like those people.

Thinking like this, driven by curiosity in her heart, Xinye Miao took the initiative to ask questions for the first time.

"Meow?"

"Ok?"

Qiu Qing turned her head and saw that Maomao had written on the deck with leaves, "Why did you come here? Where are your parents?"

"..."

Looking at these questions, Qiu Qing fell into silence and continued to look at the night sky. After a long time, she responded: "My parents... I have no memory of them for a long time. I grew up in an orphanage. There was no one else to take care of me. I did everything by myself." , although he studies very well and is a little better than others in everything he does, but..."

"Meow?"

"But I never know what I am doing. I don't have a clear goal. I have never made friends in reality. I am very confused. I can only find my true self in the virtual world... In layman's terms, I am an otaku. ,Ha ha……"

Qiu Qing paused for a moment before responding with a smile, but this answer also allowed Xinye Miao to understand him better. It seemed that it was not what he had guessed, but it was a different feeling.

Finally opening the conversation, Qiu Qing continued: "But the virtual world... I also know very well that it is just my fantasy after all. It is impossible to live in it forever. Now I have come to this world inexplicably. Thanks to meeting you, It finally allowed me to find some purpose in life!”

"It would be okay if it was online, but in reality I am not very good at fighting with others. The career of a trainer is not suitable for me, so I want to try to travel, see the world, and get to know more Pokémon and Fulfill past fantasies, my friend!”

Qiu Qing accidentally revealed her identity as a time traveler. She was indeed not alert at all, but Xinye Miao didn't notice it. She was more focused on the other person's last sentence.

Seeing the world and making more friends, this is the other person's dream... It's simple, in order to change the confused days of the past, it's just Maomao himself, but he doesn't even have a dream...

It seemed that it finally understood the specialness of the other party, and after saying so much, Qiu Qing finally reacted, smiled and scratched her hair, and said awkwardly: "I'm sorry, I seem to have said a bit too much, but you must be too lazy to listen. So… eh?”

His expression was startled, and his voice suddenly stopped. He saw Xinye Miao actually approaching, stretched out her small paws with pink flesh pads, and gently placed it on his face. The originally listless eyes were also filled with emotion. There was a flash of softness.

"Meow~"

Xin Ye Miao caressed Qiu Qing's face, looking at him with eyes that seemed to say: "Since you and I have nowhere to go, why not just go traveling together, this way, you will have friends. "

"..."

Feeling the temperature of New Leaf Cat's flesh pads and the fragrance emanating from its hair, Qiu Qing gently placed her hands on its paws and closed her eyes. But this time, New Leaf Cat did not dodge...

What kind of cat is this? It's mom!
Such thoughts emerged in Qiu Qing's heart inexplicably. This warm feeling was the first time. He, who had never had any family to take care of him, subconsciously smiled and said softly: "Xinye Miao... can be my mother's treasure." It’s a dream~”

"!?"

The words shocked the cat, and Xinye Miao couldn't help but be stunned. His brain seemed to be down for a few seconds. Then when he was about to take out his paw, he suddenly discovered that Qiu Qing had fallen asleep with a smile on his face.
Maybe I was too tired after eating and drinking enough, and after smelling the fragrance on it, I was too relaxed and fell asleep.

"Meow……"

Xinye Miao gently pulled out her claws, and then shook her head helplessly. She really had no vigilance at all, or maybe she trusted it too much.

But looking at the silly child's sleeping and delicate face in front of him, a smile finally appeared on Xinye Miao's face. Although it didn't have any dreams, but... it could protect Qiu Qing's dream!
……

(End of this chapter)