Two hours of pinching and five minutes of investigation. When Xia Ye returned to Lillian's home, it was already close to noon.
"I'm back!"
Lillian was not seen in the living room, but there was faint movement in the kitchen. It seemed that Lillian was preparing lunch.
Xia Ye closed the door, took off her shoes, and walked to the kitchen on the smooth floor.
Only halfway through, Lilian, wearing a light pink apron, poked her head out of the kitchen:
"Sister Xia Ye, you are back...ah!"
The girl exclaimed and almost dropped the spatula in her hand: "You, you, your head has grown?!"
"It's not that it grew..." Xia Ye explained, "I thought of some ways to make a temporary head for myself. Although it's just a body, it's better than nothing. Without a head, it's inconvenient to even go out. .”
She didn't tell lies, but she didn't tell the complete truth either. After all, Xiuji was not a creature of this world. Xia Ye thought it would be better not to tell its origins easily.
But Lillian's focus was obviously no longer on the origin of her head.
"Sister Xia Ye, you...you..."
She stared straight at Xia Ye, her big blue eyes unblinking.
"...You are so beautiful!"
"What do you mean 'actually'? I've always been so beautiful." Xia Ye boasted shamelessly.
"It's not because you have been wearing that strange hood that I think you are so scary..." Lillian muttered in a low voice.
Xia Ye had already walked to the floor-length mirror in the living room and once again looked at the appearance she had made.
Snow-white waist-length hair, beautiful ruby-like eyes - when pinching her face, Xia Ye determined the hair color and eye color almost immediately according to her own preferences, and never made any changes after that.
Under the slightly messy soft bangs, there are two thin eyebrows. The corners of the girl's eyes are slightly raised, as if she is looking around vigilantly at all times, but the tail of her eyebrows droops at the opposite angle, which not only neutralizes the aggressiveness of her eyes, but also gives her a sense of weakness like a small animal. . The wonderful combination of eyebrows and eyes seemed to produce some mysterious magical reaction, giving the girl a special allure.
The nose is small and delicate, the lips are light pink, and the cheeks have a slightly childish roundness, but it is not as obvious as Lillian's. Compared with the latter, Xia Ye's face is less cute, but more cute. Delicate and charming.
Ever since she first saw Xia Ye with a head, Lillian never took her eyes away from her face. As if she couldn't get enough of it, she walked around Xia Ye, as if Admire a stunning piece of art.
until--
"Chi..."
An unpleasant sound came from the kitchen, followed immediately by a burning smell.
"Ah, my bastard!"
Lillian finally remembered that the frying pan was still on the fire, screamed, and hurried to the kitchen.
ten minutes later.
Xia Ye and Lilian were both sitting at the dining table, and above Xia Ye's head lay the black cat that Xiuji had transformed into.
"Sister Xia Ye, today's lunch is - deep-fried fish with potato chips. Well, I'm sorry that the fish is a little burnt..." Lillian said with an apologetic look.
"It doesn't matter." Xia Ye picked up a piece of fried fish, put it to her mouth, and took a bite. Through the magical connection, she can now taste the food directly from her mouth.
The crispy and salty outer shell, the tender and juicy interior, although it still has a slight bitter taste of being fried, but in the face of the overall deliciousness, this flaw can be completely ignored.
"Well...it's delicious!" she praised sincerely.
Then he picked up another piece with his other hand and shook it toward the top of his head: "Xiuji, come and try it too! Cats probably like to eat fish the most...but don't eat it on top of my head, otherwise it will be broken. It’s all in my hair.”
Xiuji let out a "meow" to show that he knew, jumped on the table from above his head, took one bite of the fried fish nugget in Xia Ye's hand, and swallowed it into his mouth in a few times.
"Meow~ It's delicious, have another piece~" it said, wiping its oily mouth with its paw.
"As expected, you are always rude when it comes to eating." Xia Ye had no choice but to take another piece of fried fish from the plate and give it to it.
"Sister Xia Ye, is this...?" Lilian had seen the black cat from the beginning, and now she could no longer suppress her curiosity and asked.
"This is my pet, named 'Xiuji'." Xia Ye introduced.
"Ehhhh?! Pet?!" Lillian's reaction was unexpectedly large. Not only were her eyes filled with surprise, but her cheeks seemed to be red.
"Yes, pet, what's wrong?" Xia Ye looked confused.
"So does Sister Xia Ye also have a pet? Ah, no, no, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with having pets... But, she doesn't look like a witch... How could she be Sister Xia Ye's pet... Ah! Could it be that she was originally a witch, but was turned into this by her sister? Is there such a way to play it?! So... uh... curious..."
Lilian was waving her little hands around and talking incoherently that Xia Ye couldn't understand.
Xia Ye: "???"
Xiuji: "???"
"Stop, stop, stop -" In the end, it was Xia Ye who made Lillian stop temporarily.
"After all, I come from somewhere else, so even if we use the same language, sometimes individual words will inevitably cause ambiguity." Xia Ye said, "So, in my understanding, pets refer to..."
She briefly explained the role of Xiuji and its relationship with herself. For example, she needed to provide the other party with magic power every day, and the other party would help her fight and do other things.
"Ah, that's it!" Lillian suddenly realized: "Xiu Ji is actually Sister Xia Ye's 'familiar', right?"
"Familiar?" Xia Ye knew this word, but she didn't expect it to be used in this kind of place.
"Yes, if a creature that does not belong to the same category as us becomes our helper through a contractual relationship, it is called a 'familiar' in Debso Tower." Lilian explained.
"Okay." Xia Ye nodded, touched the hair on Xiuji's back with his hand, and said, "Then let's introduce it again: Xiuji is my familiar."
She paused and suddenly smiled: "In addition, I am also a little curious. If 'familiar' refers to a creature that is not of the same type as us, then what does 'pet' mean in Debsotta? "
Lilian's expression suddenly froze again.
"Ah... that... I, I'm not sure... hehe..."
"But, you just said it, right? 'Xiuji is not a witch no matter what.' So, what exactly does 'pet' mean here?" Xia Ye said that she was really curious.
"Sister Xia Ye...I really don't know how to explain this..." Lilian blushed so much that she almost burned up. "Actually, when you see it with your own eyes, you will understand it right away..."
"See? Where?"
"There are many places."
"Oh..." Xia Ye thought for a while and suggested: "Then, let's go out this afternoon!"
"Huh?"
"I went out to buy something." Xia Ye said, "Look at me, I don't have a hat, a crystal ball, or a broom. I only have this one piece of clothing on me... I have too many things to buy. I’m not familiar with this place, so I have to ask you to be my guide.”
