Chapter 3024: Catching the Moon

The leopard cat's pace was light and swift, the snow slightly concave under its paws, but leaving no extra traces. Its body was low, muscles taut like steel strings, and the next moment it sprang out violently, like an arrow off the string piercing the cold wind, even bringing up a snow mist.

Its eyes reflected the light of the starry sky like amber, and it rushed over while the silver wolf was surprised. The silver wolf, reacting, hurried to accelerate, but the leopard cat chasing closely behind was clearly faster.

If viewed from a high place, the distance between the two was shrinking rapidly. Even if the silver wolf running in front had almost turned into a brilliant silver light, it still couldn't stop the leopard cat behind it from getting closer and closer.

Until the distance between the two was close enough, the leopard cat pounced on the silver wolf from behind, and then they rolled together, rolling on the snow surface for a long time before stopping.

The silver wolf struggled and wanted to get up and run away, but was held down by the leopard cat that was more than a size larger than him. However, although its body was smaller, the Xia De wolf wasn't really without the power to fight back, so seeing that it was really blocked, it immediately began to wave its claws to resist.

So a wolf and a cat fought together under the moon. First, the leopard cat held down the silver wolf, then the silver wolf turned over and overturned the leopard cat, pressing it down.

Eight claws kept scratching together, and even the tails had to become weapons and entangle each other. The Yellow Moon illuminated this slightly bizarre scene. After a while, it was the silver wolf who broke the deadlock first, taking the opportunity to overturn the leopard cat again, and leaped upward.

The silver wolf turned into a ball of light under the moonlight, and then a huge moonlight dragon appeared in that ball of light, and then spread its wings and flew toward the higher sky. But it stopped after flying upward for less than a second, and looking down, a yellow rune chain was tied to its right foot at some point.

Continuing to look down, the yellow-haired witch who manifested in human form grabbed the chain and pulled it violently in the cold night wind, forcibly pulling the dragon down from the sky.

"Didn't we agree to use animal forms?"

【Who agreed with you?】

"She" asked with a smile.

This wasn't Xia De intentionally faking it. After being locked by the witch's chain, he really felt that he had lost his ability to fly, and then was pulled directly toward the bottom in a surprise.

The silver dragon crashed straight into the witch, and the "snowfield" under its feet, because it was actually just a layer of snow covered on the canopy, was pierced through by the giant dragon, and the dragon and the witch fell toward the bottom together.

Or simply put, Xia De punched a big hole in the canopy.

He restored his human form in the air, reaching out to hug Miss Olandon, wanting to protect her during the fall. The two hugged, falling straight down with their heads facing down along with the snowflakes and branches. It wasn't until the heat affected the surrounding temperature that Xia De suddenly realized that this was directly above the "Moon Sanctuary":

"There's such a thing?"

Before they really fell into the hot spring, the snow and branches falling with them were blown aside by the wind summoned by the witch. With a splash, they fell into the water together, but the splash didn't cross the top of the silver curtains, so the cat sleeping beside the hot spring just shook its ears again, not even turning its head to look at the movement behind it.

"Oh!"

Xia De, soaked all over, poked his head out of the hot spring water and breathed heavily. The fair arms were wrapped around his neck, and Blaney Olandon's bright yellow eyes were close at hand:

"Game over, Xia De, I caught you."

"Yes, yes, you won."

The witch was also soaked because she fell into the hot spring, but she didn't seem to care at all.

"So we finally fell back to the starting point, is this also your arrangement?"

Xia De, wiping the water off his face, asked. The witch's eyes stared at him:

"Coincidence."

"And the transfiguration you showed just now, I haven't heard that you can also transfigure before."

"Just a rough understanding of transfiguration, not as exquisite as you and Flora Winster."

Actually, it was already very exquisite.

"And..."

He still wanted to ask what kind of cat the "leopard cat" that was chasing him on the tree just now was, but the witch reached out and pressed her index finger on his lips, making Xia De have to stop his words.

The bright yellow eyes were getting closer and closer to him. Xia De, in a trance, couldn't distinguish whose heartbeat the thumping sound belonged to at this moment.

"I won, right, Xia De?"

"Yes, you have already asked this question once."

"I caught you, right, Xia De?"

"Yes, but is there a difference between this question and the previous one?"

She pursed her lips and seemed to smile, and then moved closer to Xia De's body in the water. After a series of running and chasing, the witch didn't produce a strange smell, but instead showed the floral scent she originally had more intensely.

Xia De believed that at this moment, his face must also have turned very red.

"Yes, there is no difference in the question. I did catch you."

After leaning forward slightly, her lips touched Xia De's corner of the mouth lightly. In her lost eyes, she retreated a few steps in the water:

"But I always feel that catching you so easily is different from what I thought before. I thought it would be slightly more difficult."

Xia De then said:

"That's because your advance work was very sufficient. If it weren't for the various experiences we had together before, if it weren't for the various stories we experienced together, you wouldn't understand me so well, and you wouldn't have caught me so easily."

Xia De was very satisfied with his answer:

"So this hunting game of yours shouldn't really be considered as starting from just now, it should have started a long time ago."

The Yellow Moon witch's eyes seemed to light up:

"When was a long time ago?"

Xia De noticed that the big hole they just hit in the canopy was right diagonally above, and at this moment, the moonlight shot from the big hole in the canopy, just illuminating this hot spring with faint silver light.

"This hunt naturally started when you first saw me. Yes, by the campfire under the big tree in the Forest of a Thousand Trees when we first met. At that time, although you hadn't treated me as prey yet, from the moment you knew me, our stories were intertwined."

Xia De said:

"A hunter wouldn't wait until they intended to hunt to understand the habits of the prey."

"Yes, this hunt actually started from the Forest of a Thousand Trees... has it been so long?"

Her tone was a bit trance-like, as if she saw herself curled up by the campfire again, hearing the sound in the bushes, and turning her head to see the young "man" stumbling out of the darkness.

At that time, she hadn't realized the entanglement Xia De Hamilton would have with her, but thinking about it carefully, the "hunt" did indeed start from that moment.

Catching him easily tonight wasn't because she was lucky tonight, but because the prey had been by her side long ago. The reason she couldn't get him before was just because she didn't take the initiative to reach out.

She looked at the young man soaking in the water nearby, looked at his eyebrows, looked at his smiling face, looked at everything he showed in front of her at this moment. In a trance, she remembered another purpose of doing all this tonight, and remembered the revelation she received in the ruins of the temple of the "God of Hunting":

"The last step of my demigod path is to let me hunt the moon. So, the moon has actually always been by my side, but I didn't take the initiative to accept it?"

She looked up at the sky. Good eyesight allowed her line of sight to pass directly through the big hole in the canopy and see the starry sky, and see the full Yellow Moon. After figuring this out, although the moon was far away in the sky, she really felt that she could touch it if she reached out.

So she really reached out toward the drifting snowy sky, and when her fingertips "touched" the bright yellow full moon, a smile that Xia De couldn't understand bloomed on her face.

However, he at least saw the witch's body glowing slightly, but he didn't find any signs of the other party casting a spell.

He wanted to ask what happened again, but the yellow-haired witch retracted the arm she had reached toward the high sky, and instead put her hand on Xia De's shoulder with a smile:

"Pointed in the wrong direction just now, it's right now—caught you, my moon."

"Um... is this some kind of metaphor? I'm very happy that you regard me as the moon in your heart."

"Not in the heart, but in the dream."

She corrected softly, thinking of the moon she glimpsed in her dream when the two rested in the astrology room together last night:

"I should have thought of it long ago."

At this moment, as if breaking free from all shackles, as if the mountains pressing on her soul had dissipated without a trace. Her smile became more and more bright, and more and more... unscrupulous. The hand on Xia De's shoulder turned into grabbing his coat, and then she laughed and pulled upward violently. With a rip, she tore Xia De's coat directly.

"Um... what is this for? I like this coat very much, although there are three identical ones in the closet, but..."

"I won, you are my prey, so I can do whatever I want to you."

She said this with a smile, but this didn't fit the personality of this quiet and elegant witch at all. But Blaney Olandon didn't care about this at all now. Therefore, regardless of Xia De's opposition, she continued to pull the two sides of the black sweater inside Xia De's coat, and with a rip, she tore the sweater apart forcibly.

Pushing away Xia De's hand that wanted to stop her, the witch finally reached her hand under the water surface and pulled the hem of Xia De's thermal shirt, and with a tug, she also pulled the shirt off forcibly.

【You even specially put your clothes back on just now, now it seems that it was completely unnecessary.】

"She" said with a smile in Xia De's ear, but Xia De had no time to reply to "Her" teasing. ===== CHAPTER 3025 =====

"She" said with a smile in Xia De's ear, but Xia De no longer had time to reply to "her" teasing.