I Will Never Submit to Miss Grim Reaper - Chapter 308

Chapter 308: Many Cardboard Boxes, Can Sleep Inside

During these two months working at the café, regarding creatures like cats, I’ve transformed from someone who “only saw them on the Cute Pets section of Tongmeng Net” into a true “cat slave” who understands their various personalities.

When it comes to cat personalities, I can only describe them as “capricious”. Some people describe children’s personalities as changeable. In my mind, cats’ personalities are “demonically changeable”.

Cats are completely different from dogs. Dogs might be timid, outgoing, or aggressive, but once they become familiar with their owners and recognize them as their true masters, even the most individualistic dogs will prioritize serving their owners in front of them. Cats, on the other hand, prioritize their own personalities. It doesn’t matter who you are; they won’t budge.

Ouyang Xue once told me a story about her previous experience of raising cats. At that time, her cat loved eating beef very much. Ouyang Xue always took good care of her little cat, buying beef from the supermarket for the cat to eat on holidays or when she received bonuses from the company.

Later, she found a very strange and annoying situation with the cat. Ouyang Xue usually sliced the beef in the kitchen with the door closed, but the cat, smelling the meat, would rush in. Ouyang Xue would cut a piece, and the cat couldn’t wait to eat it.

Eventually, whenever the cat saw Ouyang Xue coming back from work, it thought the owner had gone out to buy beef, so it would jump onto the cutting board in the kitchen to wait. Sometimes, Ouyang Xue couldn’t bear to see the little cat waiting eagerly on the cutting board, so she would buy some meat from the market.

However, when she cut it and the cat smelled it, it would run away. Ouyang Xue thought maybe the beef she bought wasn’t right, so she specifically went to the supermarket to buy the best quality beef, but no matter where she bought it or how good the quality was, the cat wouldn’t eagerly wait like it did at the beginning.

However, the cat didn’t refuse to eat completely. Sometimes it would finish it all in one go, sometimes it wouldn’t eat at all. Sometimes, Ouyang Xue felt it was a bit wasteful since she had already sliced it, so she would put it in a small bowl next to the cat’s nest. Sometimes the cat would eat a little.

The frustrating thing here is that, no matter how the beef Ouyang Xue brings back is, every time the cat gets hungry, it will run to the cutting board and meow incessantly, waiting for Ouyang Xue to slice the beef.

If Ouyang Xue slices the beef, the cat will sniff it but won’t eat it and walk away. If Ouyang Xue doesn’t slice the beef, the cat will keep pestering to eat, but once it’s bought, it won’t meow anymore and won’t eat. Ouyang Xue thought the cat wanted her to “stock up” on beef, so she put the beef next to the cat’s nest.

However, the cat would rather eat cat food than touch the beef, stubbornly waiting for it to go bad. It demands the owner to buy meat, but once bought, it won’t eat, a complete waste of money. This situation is exactly the same as some cats in the café.

When I worked at the café, I saw too many “completely unreasonable” cat behaviors, feeling that they do things without any logic.

Some cats like to push things off the table, but if you tidy up the table neatly, they will bring things back one by one.

Some cats like cardboard boxes.

Despite their large bodies, they insist on squeezing into small delivery boxes that can’t even fit a mineral water bottle, but when you give them a bigger box, they just take a look and leave. Because of my experience in raising and caring for cats, when I saw the sudden appearance of a cat on Moon Orchid Island, I instinctively felt a headache.

?Would she be as unreasonable as most cats?? That’s what I thought at the time.

“Yueyue, this cardboard box is too small and tattered. It’ll get chilly inside at night.”

“But I really like this one! It’s small, and lying inside feels like the whole world! It’s super cozy!”

“Uh… What I meant is, we have a better cardboard box than this one. How about taking a look?”

“Do we? Let me see, let me see!”

Luckily, Yueyue didn’t seem to be that kind of cat. She could communicate. I felt that was the biggest factor, Yueyue could communicate with us. After all, cats who are obedient… are actually quite rare.

“This one, we got it as the outer packaging of a computer case we bought at the expo. There are two, this one is the outermost cardboard box, and inside is the case box from Jialan Company. Which one do you like?”

“Oh? One green and one yellow!”

“That’s right, most of Jialan Company’s products are green. This yellow one is just the regular packaging…”

We had quite a few cardboard boxes at home, especially since Xiongxiong had just helped assemble a computer, and the packaging box for the computer case was very large. Let alone one cat, I reckon I could fit two in there.

“Then I want the yellow one!”

“Do you need a pillow?”

“No need! I’ll just ask Dolly to close this gap for me when we go to sleep later!”

“At night, won’t you catch a cold?”

“No, no! I’m a senior fire-type mage! How could a trivial matter like catching a cold affect me? Hehe, thank you, brave hero Nuo’er!”

“Just call me Nuo’er…”

The first cardboard box actually held a lot of sentimental value for me and Xiao Mo. I slept in it once, and Xiao Mo hid in it another time. We even reminisced about childhood games together inside, so we never got rid of it, we just left it in Xiao Mo’s old room.

I didn’t expect the new cat to fully embody typical cat traits, loving fish and cardboard boxes alike…

“Well, let’s stop here for tonight. You two can sleep with Sister Fei Luo, and Dolly, are you okay sleeping on this bed?”

“No problem.”

After roughly explaining the situation in the rental house, Xiao Mo and I helped Dolly set up their beds, fetched two sets of small blankets, and gave Yueyue a small towel from the box as a makeshift bed.

According to Xiao Mo and Fei Luo, although Dolly and Yueyue were young, they were both very sensible and trustworthy children.

As for Dolly, it went without saying. Her mother and the hero were close friends, and Dolly’s mother admired the hero greatly. She used to tell Dolly all kinds of heroic tales since she was young, so whenever Dolly saw me, her eyes would light up as if she were a fervent fan meeting her idol. Yueyue, as Dolly’s good friend, would often be influenced by Dolly and showed exceptional respect towards me as the hero.

Furthermore, Dolly’s mother is one of the “Twelve Heroes of the Demon King’s Battlefield” on the Beastkin side. This honor was awarded by the emperors of various empires after the war, only bestowed upon individuals who made outstanding contributions during the war.

Among them are Dolly’s mother, Momo, Gabriel, Fei Luo, and Yueyue’s mother, who could also receive the title of “One of the Twelve Heroes”. Naturally, she is also a legendary figure, and her children are completely trustworthy.

“If you have any questions, you can discuss them with Sister Fei Luo. You should know about her, right?”

“We know! The Dark Dragon King! The Demon Dragon Princess!”

“Hey hey, you’re making her sound so evil. You need to improve your language skills. She’s just the Black Dragon Princess, not some Demon Dragon. Just call her Fei Luo.”

“Well then, Nuo’er and I will head back now. Let’s all have breakfast made by the hero tomorrow morning!”

“Oh…”

After finally resolving various issues with the two little ones, Xiao Mo and I returned to our small bed in the room after midnight.

“Good night.”

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