Chapter 2: Section 2: New Life, Step 1.
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After living for a month, Malin had come to understand a bit about the world he was in.
First of all, the girl by his side, who looked more like a little leopard than a little girl, was named Maya, scientifically known as a Panso Cat Person. Of course, he thought of her as a Leopard Girl, it's just that in this world, there were no cats with triangular ears nor leopards with round ears, and "Cat Girl" was still the common societal perception.
Of course, don't think this girl is harmless just because she acts cute. When Malin went out with her to buy daily groceries, he witnessed her use the throwing knife at her waist to take down those big rats—easily from at least thirty meters away. Malin felt that if it were up to him, the only thing he could hit from five meters away would be the planet beneath their feet.
Right, Malin also saw adult Panso Cat People. The males were generally around one meter eighty to two meters tall, very strapping. The females had a bit more variation in size, ranging from a petite one meter fifty to a standard height of one meter eighty—these were members of a Panso Cat People merchant caravan, and judging by their full armament, there shouldn't be any minors... If there were, they'd probably be inside the carriages.
"Malin, come on, let's go this way." Compared to Malin, Maya was definitely a native of Carterburg—he followed her and had never gotten lost, perhaps owing to the Panso Cat People's strong sense of direction.
Anyway, Malin had been going out with Maya for a month, and he still wasn't confident that he wouldn't get lost in Carterburg.
That's right, he'd forgotten to introduce the city. This city is called Carterburg, located at the northwestern corner of the continent. Carterburg got its name from an old noble who settled here a thousand years ago. Back then, Carterburg was nothing but a pile of rubble, a few outposts, dozens of people, and mountains teeming with various spirits—and every day was a dramatic struggle between man and nature, with the occasional person climbing out of their coffin to come back to life.
Nowadays, Carterburg is a city-level municipality, with a population of about fifty thousand and several satellite villages.