Cenora had finished locking the fence and was about to re-enter the house, but her eyes caught sight of a black, tiger-like figure on Ichigo's roof. Cenora walked closer to the railing again to better see what it was.
'Ichigo… Is that your true devil form? You are a black tiger demon,' Cenora could only say in surprise as her mouth covered her hand.
Right now Cenora was looking at a black tiger with a huge body and long tail. But strangely, how does a tiger have wings? That's what Cenora saw that the black tiger she saw was Ichigo's figure in the form of a tiger demon. She remembered very well those big black wings were the same as Ichigo's.
Seeing the large black wings that flapped, made Cenora know that the big wind she felt around her wasn't a hurricane, but the result of Ichigo's large wings fluttering.
'The tiger looks charismatic. A beautiful black tiger but it's undeniable that he's also scary. What exactly is Ichigo doing up there?' muttered Cenora again silently.
"Ouch!" Cenora shrieked as her face was struck by a small spider that was blown away by the big wind. And just as Cenora wanted to hold it properly, the spider seemed to crumble slowly to ashes.
'Ah, it's a spider demon,' Cenora again wiped her hands from the dust before looking at the black tiger that was still up there.
Cenora gasped as she paired colored irises as they pointed sharply at her.
'I was caught. How is it?' Cenora was confused and after that, she chose to go back into the house and shut the door tightly.
"What will he see when he finds out I'm secretly peeking at him doing something weird?" said Cenora in her current unease.
***
The windstorm that had lasted a few hours began to subside. Cenora, who realized this, ventured to look around her house. At the same time want to see what happens to Ichigo after the big wind has disappeared.
'The strong winds have done subsided, so what is Ichigo doing now? Is it still on the roof of his house?' Cenora muttered under her breath after opening her door.
But, before Cenora stepped out, her feet saw a black cat gasping for breath.
"Why is there a black cat here?" mumbled Cenora. Then she crouched down to pick up and lift the black cat's body. The cat's body also felt stiff and cold.
"Are you gasping for breath and your body cold because you were hit by the big wind that just happened? You are so weak, poor black cat!" said Cenora to the half-opened cat.
"Hey, Demon Lord! A victim of your enormous demon wings flutter. This little cat has also been affected, you know?" Cenora grumbled as she turned her gaze towards Ichigo's house.
Cenora went back into the house taking the cat with her.
"Where will I put this cat, will you? I don't have a basket or anything like that," Cenora muttered slightly confused.
She started looking into the kitchen hoping to find something with which to put the black cat down to make it more comfortable.
And finally, Cenora's eyes fell on a woven bamboo basket used to hold fruit belonging to her aunt who often helped her at home.
Cenora laid the cat down in a fruit basket previously lined with a soft cloth.
It was already dark and the clock on the wall in her room was already ten o'clock at night. It's a break.
Even though she had enough sleep throughout the afternoon, maybe because a lot of blood was being drained from her body due to contamination with poison, Cenora's body was easily tired and yawned.
Between eyes that were not yet fully closed, Cenora glanced at the fruit basket containing the black cat that she had placed on the table next to her bed. The black cat had not made any warm movements ever since, even though its body temperature had warmed up again.
"Hey, cute cat. Why haven't you made a move until now? Is your body so weak that you don't even want to open your eyes? Just look at me, I know you didn't sleep too well! Your ears respond to my words, you know!" Cenora tried to get the cat to talk.
But unfortunately, the cat was lazy to open his eyes even though his face was stroked repeatedly.
"Yeah, I'm also sleepy again. If tomorrow morning you are still weak, I will ask my aunt to take you to the veterinary clinic, okay! I'm going to bed now," Cenora said to the cat who didn't budge at all.
"Ichigo, what did you do earlier? Then how are you now? Did you not inhale even a little of the poison? I'm confused, should I worry about you or not?"
Cenora's muttering was low as her eyes began to close and she drifted off to sleep.
For a while Cenora's voice was muted and replaced by regular gentle breathing, the black cat began to open its eyes.
'You're already asleep. It's good, you need to rest a lot to recover your strength again,' said the black cat in his heart.
The cat began to rise from its comfortable basket and down from the table beside Cenora's bed. The cat was trying so hard to get through the gap in the blanket that wrapped Cenora's body and finally succeeded.
'Just a few more hours, honey. Until tomorrow morning I want to sleep with you and cling to your warm skin. I'm so weak and cold,'
The cat looked at Cenora's face from that close. That pair of golden eyes looked closely at Cenora, who was still asleep while she was sleeping. But when the cat's hand touched Cenora's cheek, the owner of the face seemed disturbed by the length of the cat's nails.
"Hmm, you here? Why did you get out of your basket? Is it not warm enough up there that you insist on sleeping with me?" Cenora muttered to the cat.
The cat didn't answer and instead leaned its head on Cenora's chest as if seeking even more comfort.
"Okay, tonight I let you sleep with me. Hopefully tomorrow morning your body will be better. I hope the same goes for my body, which continues to feel weak. Let's go to sleep, sweet cat!" continued Cenora as she hugged the black cat tightly in her arms.
'Your body is so warm, especially in this chest. Ahhh, this is so soft. If my body wasn't in the shape of a cat like this, I would have devoured these two chewy things to my heart's content. And I think I'd be willing to be a little cat every night if I could sleep with you like this all the time,'
'If you knew I was a demon that you hate, surely you wouldn't have embraced me warmly like this, my dear…' thought the black cat again as he settled his position on Cenora's chest.
***
The sun's rays were already slipping into the air holes in Cenora's room. Slowly but surely her eyes began to blink again and again.
"Oh, it's morning. I have to wake up!" muttered Cenora who seemed lazy to get up from her comfortable bed.
Cenora started to sit on the edge of the bed and yawned like a sleeper. Her eyes immediately fell on the fruit basket where the black cat had placed last night.
"Eh, where is the cat? Didn't the cat sleep with me last night? Did he suffocate from being crushed by my body when I was unconscious last night?" Cenora started to panic a little and immediately checked the blanket, confirming whether the cat was dead or not.
And when Cenora removed the blanket, she was even more confused.
"There is no? So where is the cat now? My room isn't even open at all!" she muttered confused. Cenora scratched her still disheveled hair in thought.
'Could it be…' she thought starting to get suspicious and making her immediately panic and examine her body.
"Ah, thank goodness nothing happened," said Cenora relieved when she found her body had not experienced anything like what she imagined.
She was already very afraid that the cat with her last night was a demon disguised as a weak cat.
However, there was something that still stuck in Cenora's mind.
'Could it be that the black cat from last night was…' she thought to herself, 'Ah, no way? He's not a cat demon, he's a tiger demon, right? After all, his form last night was so big that it made the wind blow like a hurricane.'
'How could it be that after that he curled up into a weak little cat. Ah, I'm too bothered about things that I don't need to think about!' she continued muttering again and started rushing to get ready for school.
***
"Hey, Cenora! Has your body improved? Teacher Kris said you should go home early because you fainted after tripping over the spider webs that filled our school!" Cenora's classmate said to her in greeting.
"Spider webs?" answered Cenora confusedly, "It looks like I did faint, but is it because-"
"Ah never mind. You don't fall because of cobwebs, you fall too easily!" The rest of her classmates immediately cut off Cenora's unfinished speech.