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The Artist said 'pet all the cats'.
Why is it important?
Who knows?
But that is what you're going to do!
"Your Majesty, more cats are appearing.... Truly, are we to pet all the cats? I do believe we're going to fail."
Several cats jump up on a concrete wall and stare at your little group with curiosity. Then down the street, other cats peek around the corner of a wall. Cats by the seconds begin appearing from their hiding places.
<span class="mu-r">"Screw your courage to the sticking place, and we'll not fail."</span>
You set the vassals to work, advising them to tread softly, offer a hand, and speak sweetly to the cats to achieve much petting.
"Why are there so many cats?!" Yatagarasu grouses. Your vassals, stunned by the sheer number of felines everywhere, desperately pet each one that crosses into their sight. It is sometimes a painful task, as cats would scratch or bite hands as a toll occasionally before allowing the petting. Such as the one biting your hand as you swiftly give a soft pat on its head. It purrs with delight afterwards and remains sitting as you walk away to the next cat to pet. Your passage through the street is a painfully slow voyage; it is sheer luck that no drunk has stumbled upon you.
This is damn unnatural. This neighborhood isn't known as a haven for cats, yet at this hour and place there are dozens of cats. Even stranger, they're not fleeing.
"Do you think these are the feline recruits of Kizaemon? I can't figure out why there are so many cats hanging around and not running away."
"Meep. Even if they are, four days have passed since Lady Kizaemon and our comrades passed by here. Why would these cats obey orders to loaf about in the open like this for so long?"
Your vassal has a point. If these are not the feline recruits of Kizaemon, then whose are they?
"Your Majesty, I see a cat in the window of that house! Shall we break the window to pet it?"
The warrior Baphomet points at the second floor of a nearby house where a black cat with a white spot on its chest sits proudly, it surveys every single move of your little group scrambling to pet cats. This is getting ridiculous.
"At least this neighbourhood doesn't have any apartments. Yatagarasu, give me a Silence Stone from your pack. I'll get up there on an ice pillar and then crack open the glass."
