"No! No way! Get off!" Morgaine screamed at Isha as she tried to push her off, but she only earned Ryuk and Isha's evil giggles as they watched Morgaine flare out all her hidden energy—yet still failing to move Isha even an inch.
Ryuk, lying on the opposite side, just watched with an evil smirk.
"I swear, Ryuk! Take back Isha this instant! Can't we just have a good night's sleep without any disturbance!?" Morgaine complained, her hands finally collapsing in exhaustion.
Pushing Isha away didn't work at all. She was like a mountain.
"Nope!" Ryuk said, burrowing himself deeper into the mattress.
"You dickhead! Why did you even let her grow this big!? What are you feeding her, you dickhead!?" Morgaine roared in frustration, pushing against Isha's stomach, who only giggled devilishly as she felt the press against her sensory-filled tummy.
A massage like that was rare.
"Tch, in your dreams!" Morgaine huffed, getting down from the bed and running to Ryuk's other side, trying to force her way.
But the moment she fell onto him—Ryuk was gone.
In a blink, Isha had moved Ryuk to her other side, and Morgaine was back at square one.
"You! You dickhead!" Morgaine screamed again, but then her eyes flashed as she rose from the bed and laid down on the golden gem floor.
"And what are you doing?" Ryuk asked when he no longer felt her presence on the bed.
"I won't be sleeping on the bed," Morgaine declared.
"Why is that?" Ryuk asked, perplexed.
"Because of Isha! She's... she's... Yes! She's too cold. I can't handle the cold oozing from her!" Morgaine said, watching as Ryuk's and Isha's gazes dropped.
"Isha's been on the bed since the first day we slept on it together, and you've been fine," Ryuk pointed out.
"Well, I didn't want to complain before, but now, I can't accept it any longer! Get Isha off the bed, or I stay on the ground. Your choice..." Morgaine smirked sinisterly.
Ryuk looked at her for a while before sighing helplessly and burrowing even deeper into Isha's side.
"How comforting..." he mumbled before drifting into sleep. Soon, golden smoke puffed out of Morgaine's nose.
"That's it!"
"Ryuk, you dickhead! I won't forgive you!" Morgaine shouted as she rose up and pounced toward Ryuk, a golden ball of energy shooting forward.
But halfway through, a claw appeared, tearing it into bits.
But that didn't stop her at all.
Morgaine kept lunging, punching, and throwing blast after blast toward Ryuk, but every single one missed due to the claws intercepting them.
The confrontation got worse and worse—until Morgaine started sweating hard.
But then the entire house also began shaking so badly that, in the end, Ryuk could only sigh as Isha disappeared back into the Pet Space.
The remaining golden blasts, still on their way to him, suddenly vanished as a dark void materialized in front of Ryuk. The energy balls disappeared into the darkness.
"Huh?" A puzzled noise left Morgaine's lips. She had never seen Ryuk use a vortex ability before.
Then, she turned to look toward the window, where another void opened up, spitting her golden blasts into the sky—dispelling them into nothing.
Only then did she turn her gaze downward—toward Ryuk's chest—and discovered a new presence.
A dark cat, the size of a mature puppy.
"SCRRRRHHHHH!"
The sharp growl left the cat's maw as it bared its fangs at Morgaine—but then quieted down when Ryuk gently rubbed it's head.
Its aggressive expression softened into a cute:
"PUUUUURRRRRRR."
"You! You got a new pet?" Morgaine asked in shock, but then she finally remembered—Isha was gone.
She desperately crawled toward Ryuk, using a finger to swerve the cat to one side and wrapping tightly around him like a python
"What the? Get off..." Ryuk tried to say, but he fell silent when he felt soft lips wrapped around his. His words stuck in his throat, and half his brain abilities flickered off.
It lasted long enough for him to forget what he wanted to say as Morgaine whispered:
"Do you still want me to get off?" She looked up with puppy eyes.
Ryuk hesitated before replying:
"You know, on second thought... I think I don't actually mind you staying..."
"Giggle. You pervert!" Morgaine mocked.
But her eyes flashed when she suddenly saw a dark vortex appear on Ryuk's chest—and the cat soon stepped out of it. Its pitch-dark blue eyes narrowed at her.
Only now did she remember—she had pushed it off to one side previously.
A guilty expression appeared on her face as she stretched her hand toward the cat, who bared its maw at her—but calmed down after Ryuk's petting.
Morgaine tried to stretch her hand to touch it, but it quickly dodged and bared its maw at her again, forcing her to retreat.
"You never told me you got a new pet! And why do they never like me!?" she screamed in injustice, glaring at the cat, who was acting cozier than she had ever seen Isha act toward Ryuk.
Yet, whenever she tried to touch it, she only received a warning snarl.
She still remembered the first time she had met Isha—how the creature had welcomed her by slapping her hands away from Ryuk.
And now, this cat was preventing her from touching it at all.
They all loved Ryuk.
But none of them liked her.
Even till now, Isha only found her interesting because she was mischievous and loved testing her patience.
"Maybe you're just not the animal type..." Ryuk said with a shrug.
"I am more of an animal person than you'll ever be!" she pouted.
Ryuk smirked sinisterly. "I don't disagree."
"You! You dickhead!" she screamed, her voice drowned out by Ryuk's evil chuckle—until he got serious.
He only brought the cat out because he wanted to introduce her to Morgaine in the first place.
"The cat is newly born. It's grown bigger than I thought, though, and it's even already using its ability," Ryuk mused to himself as he looked at the kitten and couldn't help but notice—it had gotten a little bigger than before, about 4 times bigger.
And now, it was already about to use its Void Vortex ability to move itself and even teleported Morgaine's golden ball away from him, throwing them outside the house.
That was some massive improvement in a little more than three weeks.
"The cat? That doesn't sound like you. Haven't you named it yet?" Morgaine asked.