My New Life as a Catgirl

We arrived at the mercenary guild at sunrise where we met with a young orc woman dressed in gold armour. On her chest was an engraved silver crescent, so I could only assume that she was a member of the Crescent Moon Warriors. Standing beside her were three human men, dressed in casual wear.

She grunted, “You must be the last two individuals. Alright, come along then, it’d be good to not be late. The others are already through.”

We followed the orc woman for a couple minutes before we arrived at the back end of the town. Most of this side of the town had no stone wall, instead using the cliff of the mountains as a natural defence. There was one exception though.

We headed towards the metal gate that blocked off the pass. It was the only section that was guarded, and had over a dozen people manning it.

I had been worried at first that we would be caught when leaving the pass despite our precautions. While I could wear the bracelet through the checkpoint, it wasn’t like I could wear it for the entire trip.

Not only had we temporarily dyed my hair brown, we had also dyed Elaina’s a dark black. Although it only lasted a week, my hair would remained dyed until we reached the southern continent. I was wearing the red cloak to cover my tail and the hood up to cover my ears. Still, the guards might still arrest me if they searched us and found Elaina’s elf ears.

Elaina though hadn’t been worried. The guards didn’t even bother to ask us to even pull down our hoods once they noticed the orc woman and her armour. Perhaps it was due to the reputation of the Crescent Moon Warriors, but the guards quickly took our silver and let us through.

It would make sense though that they didn’t investigate us. Most of the people who could regularly hire mercenaries were merchants or nobles, and it wouldn’t do to offend them. On top of that, they likely didn’t expect escaped slaves to have a pile of gold on them to be able to hire the Crescent Moon Warriors.

There were another dozen men and women of varying races waiting for us. While each one carried different weapons, all of them had the silver crescent engraved somewhere on their clothing or armour.

Three wagons lead by horses waited beside them. All of them were carrying some goods, except the back one which was mostly empty with only a little cargo.

“Ah, are these the individual passengers? There’s no need for them to walk, I have plenty of space.” The fat man in the last wagon said.

We saw no reason to refuse and climbed in after thanking the man. The three humans though graciously refused, preferring to walk.

“Name’s William Hensworth. Most people just call me William though.”

“I’m Aria and this is Katherine, although she usually just goes by Kat,” Elaina responded with a smile. She had chosen our fake names, and had had quite a good laugh at my own.

The man gave a polite laugh, the fat on chin wobbling up and down. “Pleasure to meet you, Miss Aria and Miss Katherine.”

“If I may ask, why aren’t you carrying any merchandise?” Elaina asked politely.

“Ah, that’s simple miss. They don’t buy my goods in the south. Even in the Anos Empire where it’s legal, its only for certain races.”

“You’re a slave trader?”

“Only as a side job. I rarely do trips myself unless I’m called up here by someone. Even though I’m a Marquis in the Revilon Empire, I don’t make nearly as much money to keep my hobby going.”

I sat quietly next to Elaina on the wagon while she asked more questions, as we made our way through the pass. Keeping my hood up, I didn’t dare look up just in case anyone recognized my face, although it was doubtful. The posters being spread with my face were only vaguely detailed.

While Elaina made small talk with the Marquis, I was a little more reluctant to. He was a slave trader after all. Instead I decided to start going over my stats, especially the new gains I had gotten in the past week.

STATUS
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Name: Kitty
Race: Beastkin
Gender: Female
Class: Sex Slave
Rank: D

Over the past five days, I had gained quite a bit. Not only had I ranked up twice, I had gained a new skill as well as two new traits. However, everything I gained seemed to be related to sex. The [Dexterous hands] trait I had ‘copied’ using my aspect from Elaina had turned into [Erotic Hands] just a few days later.

It was annoying, but I supposed the only reason I was ranking up so much was because of the sex. Still, Elaina had been doing the same thing and reached D+ without nearly as many erotic skills and traits. In fact, the only sexual skills she had were from me.

We had done some experimenting with the aspect. It would only activate once per day and only if both partners climaxed. Obviously, we didn’t test it with other people. But since it only worked when I had sex with Elaina and not when I was Lilith, it was likely because she and I were special in some way, as the Demon lord of Wrath had said.

Eventually, I grew bored and went back to the conversation between the Marquis and Elaina. At least it was more interesting than staring at the same Status screen.

“…Revilon Empire would probably be your best choice. Anos is only a good choice if you’re human and the Dominion is quite a ways south. Although, Revilon is suffering from a little trouble nowadays.”

“Trouble?” Elaina tilted her head.

“I’m surprised you haven’t heard, it was pretty big news. Lili— The Demon Lord of Lust managed to kidnap the Empress’ darling son, Prince Adrian. Well, it was mostly the kids fault for getting too close to the border trying to be some kind of hero.”

“But I thought the Demon Lord of Lust was only interested in woman?”

William nodded. “She is. Odd for a Demon Lord of Lust but I suppose all the demon lords are cracked in the head.” He leaned in and dropped his voice to a whisper. “Don’t tell anybody, but she’s been actually kidnapping boys to turn them into girls. A full transformation spell.”

“Full transformation? That’s impossible.”

“Of course it is for us normal folk. But a demon lord could make it possible. Although I heard that she still hasn’t succeeded. It’s really too bad. Since woman usually sell for double the price of men, I could make quite a bit more if it was possible.”

Hasn’t succeeded yet? Aren’t I living proof that it is possible?

“A shame too about the prince. She could have made a fortune selling the boy back to the empress. He was one of kind. Well, two of a kind.”

“What? Was he special in some way?”

“Mmm, he was descended from a nymph along with his twin sister. Since the nymphs are supposedly extinct, or at least haven't been seen in over a millennium, it is quite a big deal.”

“Oh! Do the two get any special powers from it?”

“I’m not quite sure, but possibly. It would be classified information though,” the fat man gave a toothy smile. “They do have natural pink hair, ears and a tail though which is pretty interesting.”

I felt Elaina tense up beside me as I felt my own body go rigid.

Don’t tell me I stole the body of this important prince?