Unifates

Kaito looks around for the woman who brung him here. He can't find her so he forgets about it. 

He sits at a table. "Wonder what to do from here?" He thinks. He could find more boxes to sleep in, but decides against it. 

The woman from the desk come over to him. She spreads some papers across the table. "These are quest you're permitted to take." She says to him. 

Kaito looks at his options. "Farming eggs, lost cat, bathroom cleaning?!" Kaito looks at these quest appalled! They're all boring! "Can I have more options?!" He asks. 

She shakes her head. "It's this or nothing, it's against coalition rules to give you anything higher.

Kaito reads a paper and he sees a word Blastie, with a number written next to it. "What's Blastie?" Kaito asks, since it's listed as a reward. 

The woman rolls her eyes. "Blastie, you know? What you buy things with?" She sarcastically explains. 

Kaito nods, but she's clearly speaking gibberish. 

He accepts the lost cat quest and he goes on his way. "Good luck." The woman says.

Once Kaito exits the doors the other woman behind the counter laughs. "So what do you think of our newbie?" She asks. 

The woman that has been dealing with Kaito goes back to her papers. "Nothing special, just gonna be another nobody." She coldly says as she takes another adventurer. 

Kaito walks around town again face in the paper looking for the address of the woman. He eventually finds it and he knocks on the door. 

A woman opens the door and looks at him. "What?" She rudely answers the door. 

Kaito shows her the paper. "You lost your cat?" He asks. The woman laughs. "Oh, sorry about that. I thought you were about to ask me for Blastie." She says. 

She then shows him a picture of her cat. "He likes to wander around and sometimes he ends up in the woods." She explains. Kaito nods. "I'm a great tracker! I'll find your cat in no time miss." Kaito says. 

She nods. "Yeah thanks." She says as she closes the door.

The interaction was a strange one. The woman didn't seem all that worried about the cats safety. If it was his pet missing he'd go after it himself.

Kaito chooses not to worry too much about it and he leaves.

Kaito makes his way to the nearby woods. "Where would I be, if I was a cat?" Kaito questions. 

He feels in his bones he must become a cat to truly solve this. Kaito crouches down on all fours and walks around. He ends up finding paw prints and he follows them step for step. Like a cat.

He tracks them until he finds they end by a log. There's a bigger beast clawing at it. Kaito runs over and scares it away. 

He peeks inside of the log and he sees the cat. 

Kaito is relieved until he sees the cats eye is bleeding.

Kaito reaches for it, but the cat hisses at him and crawls back. Kaito feels bad, he can understand why the cat would be afraid.

"It's ok." Kaito softly says as the cat looks back at him. "I won't hurt you, I promise." He says as he holds his hand out to it. The cat slowly, approaches Kaito's hand. 

He pets the cat as he picks it up. "See it's ok." He says comforting it as he lets it. 

The cat purrs and once it gets comfortable it falls sound asleep. 

Kaito,s heart melts a bit. "This thing is adorable! How could that lady let something like you get hurt!" Kaito says as he admires the cat. 

As he looks at it, he notices the scars, how some of the claws are missing, and the bruised eye.

"How did you get these scars?" Kaito wonders as he looks around. He noticed that from the looks of it, the beast from earlier didn't get to it.

He ignores is and walks back to Mozam.

Kaito arrives back at the woman's house, and knocks on the door. 

She looks at the cat ignoring Kaito. "Thanks." She blankly says as she goes to take the cat.

The cats fur stands up as it's jolted awake by the woman's touch. 

The cat screams and howls, it runs behind Kaito and meows loudly, dodging the woman's hands.

She fake laughs. "Stop being silly now, you're gonna worry the neighbors again!" She shouts.

She grabs the cat, and something about all of this feels wrong. 

The cat should be delighted to see it's owner but when Kaito looks at the cat, all he can see is fear. The cats tail is puffy and it's panting.

The cat claws and squirms violently to escape the woman's hold. Before the woman closes the door Kaito snatches the cat from her hands.

The cat burrows it's head into Kaito's jacket. "You're not getting this cat!" Kaito yells. The woman looks annoyed. "Give me the cat, it was your job to grab it, not take it cause the stupid thing doesn't wanna listen." She says.

Kaito looks furrows his brow, "the cat isn't a stupid thing, and there's a reason it's so scared of you!" Kaito shouts. 

"Why would you hit this cat!?" Kaito questions. 

The woman rolls her eyes. "It's my property and i'll do whatever I want with it!" She shouts,

Kaito face says it all here, as he doesn't seem amused. "Not anymore, because you don't get pets to beat them! You're supposed to love them!" Kaito says as he walks away with the cat. 

"Bring me my cat back!" She yells, but Kaito just leaves.

Kaito pets the cat, "don't worry i'll take care off..." he checks the cat. "I'll take care of you little guy."