Chapter 4: Change! Give me the change!

He chased the fat bird into an unfamiliar neighborhood, and because of the animal affinity spell, even though Fish had invaded the other cats' territory, they didn't attack him, but they didn't get too close to him either, they just ignored the tabby kitten.

In any case, Fish had no intention of taking over the territory of his own kind, and it only happened because he wanted to eat the fat bird.

The fat bird with an envelope in its mouth flew into an ordinary-looking house.

Crawling behind a flower pot, the tabby kitten was puzzled, didn't humans deliver mail in those red mailboxes and those noisy things called cars?

And the house where the fat bird came in gave Fish a funny feeling.

He didn't know why, but he didn't want to go near it.

After a moment of confusion, Fish decided to stay outside, but changed the ambush location to the roof of the building facing the window where the fat bird had entered.

After a while, the fat bird flew out the window, but this time it did not have an envelope in its beak, but seemed to be carrying something tied to its talons.

The owl then flew directly over Fish's head.

Ready to go, Fish leaped forward and swiped the fat bird on the wing with his talons, while at the same time bit one of the bird's legs, knocking the owl down....

The owl stumbled in the air, but with a flap of wings flew back up, Fish's weight no big deal for an owl that usually carries cargo for mages.

But still, the owl struggled with its talons.

The bite of the tiger-spotted kitten that suddenly attacked him was truly terrifying!

Even through two layers of parchment, the owl felt as if its claws were about to break.

Fish, who was biting at the Owl's claws, wasn't having a good time either, as the big bird's strength was much greater than he expected, and his small body wasn't very convenient for knocking it out of the sky.

'If only it were a little bigger...', Fish thought as he struggled to pull the owl's talons.

'While being small can be useful at times, when it comes to fighting, it's the bigger ones that have the upper hand.

And then ...

A familiar feeling suddenly came.

[Shape-shifting: Change your shape to a certain extent.]

The moment the spell awakened, Fish understood its use.

"Meow!"

Fishy meowed excitedly, grabbed the fat bird's thighs with his claws and pulled hard, using the force to throw its body upwards.

The owl was dragged up and fell back down, while the tiger-spotted kitten climbed back up over the owl.

Fish's body swelled up like a balloon, and his short tiger-spotted fur grew wildly, replacing it with a long black and white striped coat, and even his face changed a little, becoming a bit more imposing.

He was the largest of his species Fish had ever seen, a Maine Coon cat from North America who had moved to Christchurch Road with his owner.

In his Maine cat form, Fish now stood about half a meter tall and, by sheer size alone, was slightly larger than the owl in front of him.

With an enormous force of gravity, Fish stepped on the owl's back and opened his mouth wide to bite the fat bird's neck.

"Gah!!!"

The owl let out a high-pitched scream, and dragged by the suddenly huge cat,

It fell from the sky and crashed to the ground, breaking its bones and dying within moments.

Fish, who had also fallen from the sky, rolled twice on the ground and shook his head, unharmed.

Fish's body had been transformed by the golden basin and was already very strong, and cats were always good at falling from heights, not to mention the fact that Fish had awakened abilities called Cat Glide and Cat Lightness, so he couldn't be hurt at this height.

Taking small, graceful steps to the side of the fat dead bird, Fish picked up the owl's body and scrambled into the grass beside it.

Now he had to find a safe place to enjoy his prey.

...

Fooled!

Fish spat the feathers into his mouth in frustration.

The bird looked so fat, but it had a thick layer of feathers on the outside, AND it didn't have much meat on its body!

It wasn't even as fat as the pigeons in the square!

But the meat of this bird is much tastier than that of the pigeons.

And even if they had little meat, Fish wouldn't let them go if he came across them in the future.

After all, cats are born hunters by nature, and his instincts will lead him to attack these flying creatures.

Sticking out his tongue to clean his fur, Fish deftly hopped over to a nearby wall and walked along the wall in the direction of the noise.

Where is this...?

Fish crouched on the wall, wagging his little head and looking around, his triangular ears erect and swiveling from time to time.

He seemed to have been taken by the fat bird to an unfamiliar place, where the buildings seemed taller than where he had been, and there were more of those rumbling four-wheeled monsters.

After gazing for a while at the steady stream of cars and two-legged beasts moving back and forth, Fish soon accepted the fact that he was starting a new life in a new place.

He's not particularly concerned about the issue of survival. Anyway, as long as there were humans, food was not a problem at all, and others of his own species posed no threat to him, so he could live anywhere, but it was a shame he had had to make do with the area he had been given.

Fish climbed down from the wall and began patrolling his future territory.

Because of the animal affinity spell, the humans around him were no different from the previous group, always trying to get close to him.

However, as always, Fish was only concerned with the food given to him by the humans, not the petting.

After taking a quick look around the area, Fish got a good idea of what the area looked like, and was about to return to a tree he had been eyeing for a rest when he was startled by something in a nearby tent.

It was a square wooden box with a slightly curved piece of glass on the front.

It was a television.

The TV was showing a documentary on animal ecology.

And today, it turned out, they were showing the tiger.