Chapter 440: If You Want to Eat Me, Then You’re Done For
The small temple was filled with the thick scent of incense and candle oil.
The little girl stood in the middle of the temple, tilting her head back as she stared blankly at the childlike deity statue on the altar.
This scent felt oddly familiar to her. But when she thought about it carefully, she realized that it had already been more than eight years since she had last smelled it.
“Mm...”
Lady Calico withdrew her gaze and sniffed the air. However, she had no awareness of being an offering. Instead, she was as lively as ever, wandering around the temple, climbing up and down, poking around here and there. She lifted the lid of a crude incense burner just to see what was inside.
She climbed up to pull away the red cloth draped over the statue, her clear and curious eyes inspecting what lay beneath. And as for the offerings on the altar, she had to examine each one, sniffing them all.
Was there any particular meaning behind her actions? Only the cat herself would know.
“The incense here smells bad...”
The little girl leaped down from the altar with a light and graceful landing. Looking around and not seeing her Daoist priest anywhere, she grew bored. She tilted her head upward and called out to the swallow in the tree outside.
“Let me tell you, back when I was a Cat God, the incense made by the people there smelled so much better!”
“You only think that because you're used to it,” the swallow replied from his perch. “Just like how you think rats taste good.”