Chapter 79
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 79
Chapter Title: Isn't This a Condom?
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I, isn't this a condom?
The second case is when dealing with a mating partner!
...
Mating? That was an incredibly embarrassing word.
I'm a human, though?
It's possible!
What the hell is possible?
Possible lol
Cat fucker lol
I'm cummiiiing!!!
Kim Muggle can do cats too... memo...
Suddenly, I'd become the cat fucker.
Anyway, it was one of those two cases. No matter how amazing a muggle I was, I wasn't on Grandis's level.
And calling it a mating partner...
"Nya~"
...probably not.
Anyway, it's gotta be one of those two! Only that kid knows which one!
Grandis will leave once it loses interest anyway! It's rare, so take good care of it! You can't make Grandis a familiar, but if you build a good relationship, it might lend you its power! Bye!
Wait a sec. Give me more details.
Dude! Who am I supposed to mate with! Do I team up with the muggle too? You furry!
I called desperately, but Furrylike didn't come back.
Probably rolling around with familiars again.
Butler selected lol
Thus becomes a furry...
Ah, cats... ah possible... no impossible... ah...
Why's he agonizing over it himself lol
Thus becomes a furry...
Fuck no it's not
That cat bastard
A cat that does XXXX whenever needed has appeared!!!
"Ha..."
Once Furrylike vanished, no more useful info came up.
From the start, Furrylike was the supreme authority on beasts and familiars.
"Nya~"
"You can't cause any trouble..."
No point chasing it off anyway—it'd just come back.
According to Furrylike, it wouldn't pull the same stunt as yesterday.
And if handled well, I'd gain far more power than raising a normal familiar.
No choice, then. A bit unsettling, but...
I decided to adopt it.
"I'll adopt him. This one."
"Great! That's how you become a familiar tamer! First, the adoption papers and precautions..."
The furry professor launched into a long explanation of what to know when raising familiars.
Mostly obvious stuff, so I half-listened while checking the gallery.
Title: I Became a Butler
Author: Kim Muggle
Decided to raise this guy
According to the furry, it's less raising him and more me getting selected
What do I do?
Who'd have raised a Grandis
But damn, it's impressive. Now even Grandis...
First time seeing a muggle like this lol
Should name it first, right?
Yeah, gotta name a familiar right after getting it.
"...Name?"
Name. A name.
Right on cue, the furry professor brought up names too.
"So, what're you thinking for the name? A name is the vital starting point of the bond between tamer and familiar."
"Hmm..."
Name. A name.
"Nya~"
I pondered a moment, then named him.
"So, the name's Kim Chur Isaac."
"What? Kim Chur? What kinda name is that, nya-haha-ha!"
"Kim Chur...? Ian, you're serious?"
"Hm. An amusing name."
In the end, I adopted the cat. No, Kim Chur Isaac.
I left him in my dorm room and returned to class.
Bringing him to class didn't seem like a good idea yet, so dorm it was.
He kept following at first, but after petting his head a few times, he went limp and hopped on the bed.
Cats are territorial by nature, so he'd be fine alone at home.
"Why isn't it fine?"
More than that, their reactions to the name were weird.
Chur. Cute, right? Cats love chur treats.
Honestly, I threw it together, but I thought it was pretty good.
Elrim snickered, and Hisenna's reaction was unusually intense.
"Ian! Names matter a lot for familiars! A name hugely affects their growth!"
"He'll grow up cute, then."
"He might end up demanding chur every day!"
"Nah, no way."
Kim Chur wasn't a familiar to begin with. He was Grandis.
Followed me on his own whim.
Hisenna kept nagging beside me, but I liked the name.
Title: Tried Naming the Cat, Whaddya Think?
Author: Kim Muggle
Kim Chur <- Whaddya think of this name?
I think it's cute but big-boobs keeps nagging hing
No effort...
Names matter for pets... er, familiars
Are you insane?
^^;
Become a cat obsessed with Kim Muggle's chur foreverrrr!!!
The gallery's reactions were similar.
Ignorant fools.
I tsked and closed the gallery.
Anyway, time to head to the next class.
The previous one had ended early due to Kim Chur business.
Next was a moving class, so change locations.
"Ahem. I'll head out first."
As I packed up, Chayuri bolted from class.
Lately, he always did that. Bolted alone during moves or breaks.
"What's up with him lately?"
"Bathroom emergency? Weak guts."
"Weak sphincter?"
"Still uncomfortable with us? We were shocked he's a girl, but now he's fine as a friend..."
He'd lived as a guy, then revealed as a girl.
Going to bathrooms or changing rooms with the girls might still be awkward.
Normal people might feel that way, but
"Dunno if Chayuri cares about that."
But Chayuri didn't seem the type to mind.
If he did, he wouldn't strut so openly.
Shirt buttons flung open, half his massive watermelons out and all.
"Yeah... true for Chayuri's personality."
"...Hing."
Hisenna nodded.
Elrim thought a bit, glanced at her chest, then suddenly deflated.
"Let's go anyway."
We got up to head to the next class.
But in the hall, a 2nd-year cadet was pacing in front of class.
"Senior Nayu?"
It was Nayu.
Then it hit me why Chayuri kept bolting.
"Ah, Junior Ian! Where'd Chayuri young lord... er, lady... er, whatever go?!"
Chayuri still hadn't explained to Nayu, huh.
Since Chayuri dodged, Nayu kept hunting him down.
And Chayuri kept avoiding.
"Chayuri went ahead to the next class."
"Ah... I see."
"Haven't talked to Chayuri since then?"
"Nope. For some reason, Chayuri young lord... whatever won't meet me. Then during field training, I saw him and suddenly watermelons appeared."
"...""
We were speechless.
Nayu probably crushed on Chayuri for ages.
Hard to swallow the red pill for someone like that.
But luckily, Nayu spoke first.
"Chayuri young lord... was actually a lady?"
"Uh... well..."
"I want the truth. Actually, thinking hard, it wasn't impossible."
Nayu spoke with a pained expression.
One struggling to accept reality.
But not rejecting it.
Breaking old beliefs. Nayu endured it well.
"Sometimes he acted weird. Especially overhearing talks with his wife..."
Nayu listed odd moments from the past.
Moments where Chayuri seemed dubious as a guy.
Seeing him as a girl now, it clicked—he'd been crossdressing all along.
Makes sense; over years, slips happen.
Hiding those watermelons while living as a guy was the real mystery.
"So... Senior Nayu, you okay? The crush being same sex actually..."
Hisenna asked carefully after the tale.
Nayu silent, we held breath.
"Confusing, but... I'm okay."
"...Really?"
"My feelings weren't about that anyway. Details for Chayuri whatever directly. But he won't meet me."
Girl's fine too, huh.
Shocking statement, but serious mood, so no reaction.
Instead, another thought.
"But Chayuri keeps dodging you?"
"Still, Chayuri should talk to Senior Nayu directly."
Elrim and Hisenna worriedly chatted.
They needed to talk anyway.
We could help.
Bonus: Something to ask Nayu too. Perfect.
"Then we'll help, Senior Nayu. But tell me one thing in return."
"R-Really helping? What do you want to know?"
During my spar with Nayu before, he summoned a massive mystery crossbow.
Probably his specialty.
Like Professor Jury's engraved mana stones aiding magic, or tamers using familiars.
Mages have 'specialties' to boost their magic.
Sure, I got Kim Chur now.
But he wasn't a familiar, and unknown if he'd help properly.
Still wanted a specialty before the subjugation festival.
Teams capped at 3.
Specialty means outperforming larger teams.
Nayu's seemed solid.
Added direct attack option.
Gallery good for advice, but seeing firsthand not bad.
Teaching better from gallery, but excuse to help Nayu-Chayuri.
That moment Nayu charged professors to protect Chayuri still vivid.
Hunting every hour showed his heart.
That dejected face too pitiful not to help.
"I'll ask later. For now, just set up a talk with Chayuri?"
"If I can just meet to talk."
"Got it."
Easy.
After class that day, we acted.
"Nayu won't be here... right?"
Chayuri cautiously scanned surroundings leaving the academy.
Lately, he checked everywhere for one reason: Nayu.
After coming out as a girl, he ignored stares.
Loved proudly showing her true self.
Hisenna nagged about overexposure, but Chayuri didn't care.
Thrilled by freeing her femininity.
Mother's fragmented memories lingered messily.
But this liberation eased that pain.
Even Chayuri struggled showing this side to Nayu.
Nayu was a good guy. She knew.
But from first sight, Nayu overwhelmed her.
8 years ago? He'd proposed then.
Learning he'd courted a crossdressing girl from childhood... how shocked would Nayu be?
"You saw back then..."
Caught during joint field class, maybe.
But confessing directly to someone who'd followed for years? Tough.
Couldn't face that despair. Too guilty.
Lifetime love pledge to a girl.
If Ian were a girl, it'd crush her too.
"No, hmm. Nah."
Shook off weird thought.
Anyway, she slipped out of academy.
Appointment with Ian.
Why'd Ian invite only her to eat?
That pork stir-fry place before. Couldn't eat properly, so now.
No taboo mages now; carefree date.
She knew Ian went alone with Hisenna to organic familiar club.
Pretended not to know then. Forgave since he asked her out.
"Ian's not here yet...?"
Said meet at pork stir-fry spot, but no Ian.
Chayuri sat first.
Good timing. Mirror check, prep before Ian.
Duh, no co-ed dorms.
Opposite dorm = penalty points.
But off-campus city inns? Fine.
Info said many cadet couples did it.
Nothing forgotten. Chayuri rummaged bag humming.
Then, distracted by bag—
Someone entered pork stir-fry place, appeared before her swish—
"Chayuri young lor—"
"Kyaa, eek?!"
It was Nayu.
Chayuri startled, dropped bag.
Contents spilled on floor.
"A-Are you okay?!"
"F-Fine! No, Senior Nayu how here, no wait...!"
Chayuri flailed in panic.
Sudden Nayu, spilled bag—chaos.
Startled bad; knee-banged table, tumbled.
"I'll pick 'em up!"
As Chayuri blanked, Nayu gathered items.
Chayuri reacted late.
Wait. If he sees bag contents...!
"N-No!!"
Shouted desperately, but too late.
Nayu held item from bag, frozen.
"Th-This... no way..."
Nayu stared blankly.
Chayuri saw hope.
Yeah, pure Nayu might not know what it is.
Vitamin candy maybe.
But Nayu's next words shattered that hope.
"I, isn't this a condom?"