TOFD 325

Lucky 325

The egg started glowing, enticing Calix to get closer. The egg was protected by the thick incubation transparent glass and Calix could only look at it. 

At the lower part of the glass, there was something written. The name of the egg. 

"Chimera? Never heard of it. Is this a fossilized egg of an extinct beast?"

He never heard of a Chimera before. He didn't have a clue. 

"But for a fossilized egg like this to be put inside an incubation glass means something. Perhaps it's an important specimen. But why in the library though? This thing should be in a laboratory or museum."

It was not his problem, to be honest. He turned around and walked away from the incubation. He did not forget his priority. 

However, after walking a few feet away, Calix heard something cracking. He was surprised. 

"Don't tell me..."

He turned around. Just as he expected, the fossilized egg has begun moving and cracking. 

Calix gulped and became curious. He wanted to see the creature that would pop out of the egg. 

"Chimera..."

He muttered. This creature was something he never heard and it caught his interest. 

The egg gradually cracked and Calix could see the creature moving out of the egg. 

He first saw a white paw coming out, then an orange with black spots kitten...

'What is this, a calico cat? I thought it was an ancient beast...'

Calix felt that he was deceived. The egg was not an extinct animal but a simple calico cat! 

'I can catch a hundred of this in a day!'

Calico cats were quite common.

However, Calix forgot something important. Calico cats are mammals, they don't lay eggs!

The calico kitten slowly came out of the egg and Calix realized something different from the kitten. The kitten had a pair of wings. A pair of bird wings!

"... What the fuck am I really seeing right now?"

This was confusing as hell for him. A cat came out of a fossil egg and it had wings! 

The kitten licked its fur and meowed like a usual cat. It was cute but the wings on its back were quite dominating. It was something that Calix could never see in normal cats.

A cat with orange and black spots and white fur, with white magnificent wings on its back. Truly out of this world. Calix read a lot of books but he never tackled something like this. 

The kitten stopped licking its body and looked at Calix innocently. 

"Mama!"

"Hm?"

Calix tilted his head, he thought he heard someone speaking. 

"Mama!"

Calix almost jumped out of shock! His eyes stared at the calico cat. 

Birds treat the first moving object as their parent, but this was a cat...

"Did you just call me Mama? N- no! That's not important right now! You can speak!?"

He was dumbfounded. For a second, he almost pulled his gun. 

Calix knew that there was no such a thing as a talking animal, only talking Aberrants. 

A Demon-God Aberrant such as Bakunawa could speak because of its level. Furthermore, some unique Aberrants could speak too. 

Perhaps this calico cat was an Aberrant. 

"Mama!"

The cat didn't feel the hostility and kept calling him. Its cute little paws began scratching the glass, the cat wanted to come out and approach him. 

Calix narrowed his eyes and studied the cat. It was small and cute as fuck. 

"You don't look like an Aberrant."

To be honest, Calix could not kill a cute kitten like this. He felt that he was doing an unforgivable sin if he killed it. 

The cat was rapidly scratching the glass as it wanted to leave. 

In the end, he swallowed his confusion and opened the incubation glass. The cat was excited to see its mama and meowed happily. 

Calix didn't have a choice but hold the kitten. The calico kitten started rubbing its face against his palm and it was tickling him. It was purring, melting his guarded heart. 

'Aww, how can I hate something as cute as this?'

In the end, Calix decided that it was a crime to kill a little kitten. He didn't know why the kitten had wings and why it came out of the egg, and why it could speak, but it didn't matter. 

He decided to adopt it. Pets were allowed in the apartment as long as they were vaccinated, it was one of the perks of a rich tenant. Of course, he had to pay more since pets were quite troublesome. 

"Since you are called a Chimera, I will name you Mera."

Yup, this man named the kitten just like that, with no hesitation at all. 

"Mera?"

The kitten was amused. 

"Yes, that's your name."

"Mera? Mera!"

It was confused at first but it realized that it was its name and it became excited. It accepted the name easily. 

"By the way, I'm not your mama. I'm Calix. Come on, call me Calix."

He urged but the kitten was just staring at him.

"Mama?"

"No, Calix."

"Mama?"

"Calix."

"Mama!"

"No, I'm a male."

"Papa?"

"... Yes, you can call me Papa."

Calix sighed. The kitten was too stubborn. 

'I guess Papa is good. It's better than being called mama.'

"Papa!"

The kitten meowed again and happily licked his palm. Watching the kitten's affection toward him, Calix unconsciously smiled. 

He decided that he would keep the kitten. 

'I know it's bad to steal but this is a living being, it's not an egg anymore. So... finders keepers!'

One thing was for sure, Calix found another treasure. By fighting the Minokawa and teleporting in the library, Calix met the egg and became the parent of the ancient beast Chimera. 

Too bad, Calix was clueless about the treasure he got. 

"From now on, I am your Papa."

"Papa!"

"Now that I think of it... Let's see."

He lifted Mera and looked at the thing between his legs. 

"So you're a boy."

"Mera! Boy!"

Mera copied what he said and kicked his feet like an excited kid. Calix smiled foolishly as he watched the kitten act like an innocent child. 

"Is this the feeling of having a child?"

He asked himself. Perhaps this was a trial to see if Calix had the ability to take care of a child, by starting on a cat first. 

If you can't take care of a cat, then you don't deserve a child, because a child is more precious than a cat.