Sophia, Maya, and Chloe were relaxing together in the mansion’s living room when things suddenly took a weird turn. While watching the flirty and comfy couple, the fox-girl was reminded of the tis when she used to watch cheesy romance movies in the evening. On the other hand, the tiger seed to prefer cheap soap operas, and the two had a little quarrel over which of those was better, only to eventually realize the actual issue at hand.
The tiger didn't get to ask what was going on, though. The mont she jumped off the sofa in shock, while dragging Maya with her, the couple was suddenly bathed in a bright white light and found themselves in Canir's domain without prior notice. It seed like sothing important had co up, according to him.
“So, what did you do?” Sophia was still suspicious about him having called her over so suddenly and out of nowhere. "If you're honest and tell the truth now, I won't get angry with you."
"You know I watch people a lot, right?" Canir looked back at her. "I am well aware that's exactly what every mother says right before she gets angry."
“I’m not a mother, though. It’s safe to be honest with .”
“I don’t feel safe at all!” It had the opposite effect on him.
“Hehe.” She let out a chuckle over his reaction. “So, what is more important than finding out whether Chloe is an otherworldler or not?”
“She is.” Canir just blurted it out.
“HEY!” Sophia got loud. “Don’t rob of the suspense!”
“See?! You got angry!”
“But for a different reason!”
“She wins that round.” Maya had to side with her tiger.
"Fine…" He hung his head. "It sure was quite the surprise that you two t. I look forward to the future chaos~. The stuff Feyanis is up to is quite entertaining, as well! I wasn't expecting her plan at all~."
“What is she doing…?” The cat-girl wasn’t sure if she even wanted to know.
“Where’s the fun in spoiling the surprise?”
“AFTER YOU DID JUST THAT TO ?!”
“A-Ah.” He just scratched his cheek. “I an, it was pretty obvious if you even paid a little bit of attention, you know…? Chloe not being from that world, that is.”
“You know that I’m not good at that!”
“But that’s not my fault, is it?!”
"I'm not sure about that!" Sophia had no intention of calming down anyti soon. “My boosts have settled down for the most part, but who knows what your influence on any of this was!”
“Were you good at paying attention to stuff like that before we t?”
“…” The tiger chose not to answer him.
“Case closed.” Canir looked happy.
“So, Chloe is actually… Wait, is she from the sa world as I or are there more?!”
“There are more, but you’re from the sa.”
“Seriously?!” She hadn’t expected that reply. “Wait, why am I surprised? If there are two worlds, it only makes sense that there are many more…”
“Exactly.”
“Chloe isn’t soone Sophia knew, though, right?” Maya tilted her head. “Judging by how alike they are and think basically the sa, I wouldn’t even be surprised if she’s actually her sister in a new, fluffy, package.”
"Eh?" Sophia and Canir just stared at her. "How did you manage to co to that conclusion…?” They were in perfect sync.
“I-I don’t know?!” She averted her head. "Sophia talked a lot about Steph, and looking at everything I noticed from Chloe's behavior and personality, they seem very similar…”
“Those two and thousands of, if not millions of other people.”
“Yesyes!” The duo continued to stare at her.
“Urgh…”
“Do you really think I wouldn’t realize Steph being my sister just because she’s a fluffy fox-girl now? Chloe's just similar enough to her that she keeps reminding of my sister. They would get along amazingly. Nothing more.”
“I-I see…” Maya felt a little stupid while she started blushing a bit.
“Also, Chloe died in their old world about 20 years ago.” Canir continued. “The flow of ti isn’t exactly the sa, but Sophia’s sister was born around the ti the previous life of your fox friend ended.”
“A-Ah…”
“So, other than … Chloe actually died for real when she ca here…?”
“Yeah… That’s the norm. You actually were an exception amongst exceptions because you didn't want to get a new body, and I felt sorry for you."
“Ahaha…” The tiger awkwardly scratched her cheek.
"I don't have much more information on her, though. I only know that Chloe ca from the sa world as you and died there around 20 years ago. I'm not the one who brought her over, so I was only inford about the essentials. It's quite amusing to watch her adventures here from ti to ti, though."
“Wait! You aren’t the only one who can bring people from one world to another.”
“There are many with that ability.”
“Seriously?!”
“Yup." He nodded. "Every overseer can bring people from one world to another using their favorite thod."
“Maya, I hope you’re taking notes…” Sophia looked at her secretary. "I need to review them later to understand what is even going on right now."
“Sure.” She wasn’t doing any of that, though.
“Anyway, enough of your fox for the ti being!" Canir clapped his hands to get them to the topic. "You can ask her herself all about her past life once you’re back again. There are more important things to talk about now!”
“Right!” Sophia focused her attention on him again. “You wanted to tell how you ssed up, right?”
“I did not!” He got loud. “I didn’t ss up at all! I just wanted to relay this information to you as fast as possible!”
“Oh, I’m sorry, then.” She was surprisingly apologetic. “Please go on.”
“It’s always so unnerving when she suddenly gets reasonable…” Canir looked at Maya instead.
“Tell about it…”
“HEY!” Once again, she got loud. “That’s what I get for trying, huh?!”
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“Your letters have reached your family.” Canir had enough of getting sidetracked.
“E-Eh?!” Sophia imdiately gave him her undivided attention. “When?!”
"A little over a week ago. I was pretty busy, so I hadn’t had the chance to put them into the post box thing earlier. Afterward, I watched them for a few days to see their reaction and all that…"
“A-And…?” Her entire body tensed up. “How did they take it…?”
“Do you really want to know?” Canir looked straight at her. "Isn't it enough for you to know they've gotten your ssage and move on?"
“…” The tiger needed to think about it. “W-Will I regret if I want to know…?”
“A definite maybe.”
“Not helping!”
“What do you want to hear, then?" He tilted his head. "If there's nothing for to tell, you will be sad, but if there's a lot, you will be just as much affected."
“…” She took another pause. “Tell …”
“Are you sure?”
“No!” She shook her head. “Still, do it…”
"How do you understand this girl...?" He looked at Maya with a questioning expression.
"Who said I do?"
"Fair point." There was nothing for him to add. "Well, you asked for it." Canir wasn’t going to keep it to himself. “Your mother took it the way you wanted it. She was quite sad, but it also seed like it made her a little happy because it gave her the closure you wanted it to be.”
“I-I see…” There was nothing else Sophia could say.
"It also helped her to give her undivided attention to her new child. From what I’ve picked up, your fate was still weighing down on her a little. She looked less tired with each passing day I looked over her before they went on a vacation or sothing like that."
“That’s good to hear… Wait, what?” The blonde needed a mont to process it. “Mom had another child? I an, she had pretty early, and she's still young enough, I guess, but… Am I even nine months gone already?”
“Pretty much exactly nine months, going by earth ti, yes.” The overseer nodded. “It seems like she was already pregnant when you left, though. The child is a little over two months old now.”
“I-I see…” She was back to her one-liner. “I had no idea… Still, it looks like she’s doing fine, huh? I’m glad my letter helped a little even though it also hurt…” The tiger didn’t want to dwell too much on it.
“Yes.” He nodded. “Your mother seed to be able to move on.”
“What about Steph…? How is she doing…?” Her voice turned more somber again.
“…” Canir paused for a mont. “Anyway, how are you enjoying the new world during fall? Might be a bit too cold for a tiger right now, huh?"
“HEY!”
“Is it bad…?” Maya didn’t have a hard ti guessing why he was trying to change the topic.
“Well… Her sister is a little, no… quite stubborn…”
“It is Sophia’s sister we’re talking about here.” It wasn't a surprising claim for the cat-girl. "Anything else would've been surprising."
“True.” He nodded. “Compared to her, our tiger is low maintenance, though.”
“Seriously?!” This was surprising for her. “I foreshadow trouble…”
"Steph is quite the personality~." Sophia looked strangely proud before glaring at the overseer. "Now tell what is going on!"
“Fine…” He gave up on stalling for ti. “It seems like your sister never believed you died in the first place. From what I’ve gathered, she hasn’t stopped searching for you ever since your disappearance… She refused to accept that you were gone. It also drove her a little apart from your parents as she thought Stephanie's behavior was unhealthily and only made a bad situation worse. Still, she didn’t care about any of that.”
“G-Great…” Even though she used that specific word, her expression was the complete opposite of great. If anything, she looked devastated.
“The letter probably made it worse, too. After getting the confirmation that you're, in fact, not dead, she got even more motivated about finding you.”
“So… The exact opposite of what I wanted with the letter…?” Sophia hung her head in defeat.
“…” Canir didn’t answer.
“You can’t do anything to, uhh… prevent her from doing anything stupid, right…?”
“Not really…” He shook his head. “My influence on earth isn’t that strong, after all. I an, if sothing happens while I'm watching over her, I have so options, but you can't expect to watch her all day, every day.”
“I… I wasn’t going to ask you…” The blonde paused for a mont. “Well, Steph can be even more stubborn than I, but other than , she knows when to give up for good. Once she notices that she can’t find , she’ll eventually give up… She has a good head on her shoulders, other than , again… It'll work out, and she'll get over it soon enough.”
“You’re taking it quite well.” Canir was a little surprised after she had turned so emotional the last ti the topic ca up.
“Well… I’d like to cry right now… Cry a lot, actually, but… What good will it do?” She sniffed once before continuing. “I’ll always love and never forget her and what used to be my ho, but I belong to the world Maya and the others co from now…”
“Seems like both sisters have a good head on their shoulders.” The cat-girl liked her reply.
“It sure seems like it.” Canir agreed.
“T-Thank you…” She got a little bashful. “While we’re at it… thank you so much for delivering the letters and giving an update on them. That was very generous of you.”
“I accept paynt in fun events and semi-catastrophes~.” He was glad that she seed to be mostly fine.
“Only semi?” Her mood really was improving.
“I also take big ones. Okay, at least to the size where I don’t have to intervene to literally save the world, that is.”
“That’s fair.” The tiger nodded a few tis. “I can do without that, as well. That was too scary for my liking.”
“Good.”
“I’ll try my best with the semi-catastrophes for a while, though!”
“Looking forward to it!”
“You also have to co down and visit us again!” Sophia smiled at him. “Last ti was a lot of fun! Let’s get comfy in our living room with the wolves and drink a lot! A LOT!”
“With your enjoynt for alcohol boosted?”
“YES!”
“Sounds fun!” He smiled back at her. “I’ll put it onto my to-do list.”
“With a priority marking, please!”
“Sure.”
“Great!” Her mood was great again. “I can’t wait to get stupidly drunk and tease you all night long!”
“Sounds like a plan!” Maya was imdiately on board with the plan.
“You two are the worst…”
“We know!” The couple was in perfect sync.
“I won’t hold back!” The blonde’s smile started to turn into a grin.
"I'm incapable of doing that when teasing others in the first place~."
“Yeah, yeah…” He just waved his arm. “Well, it seems like you’re doing good, so go back where you ca from and take your sassy cat with you!”
“Ehe---” As he didn't want to look at their smug expressions for even a mont longer, Canir didn't even let Sophia finish and teleported them out of his domain with a snap of his fingers.
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“Mommy, mommy, look! Those weird girls have animal ears and even a tail!”
“D-Don’t look, Billy! They’re a bad influence!” A woman in her late twenties put away her smartphone to cover the eyes of her roughly five-year-old son, who was pointing and looking at a totally out-of-place-looking tiger and cat-girl.
“E-Eh…?” It was the only reaction the couple had because they had slight issues processing the situation. "N-No way!" Sophia was especially shocked.
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The two weren't the only ones that had a rough ti. Back in his domain, Canir had also started panicking.
“E-Eh…?” The mont he was alone again, his expression imdiately changed. “W-Why did this cost so much authority that I actually felt it just now…? Wait! After we talked about her sister and her old world… I sent them back to where Sophia ca from… Uh-oh…” He started properly panicking. "Their sass threw off, and I didn't concentrate properly... I did a Sophia! T-That world is a one-way destination, too… Once you've been brought there from another world, you're stuck there as a punishnt... oh no…"
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