Nyx was sitting in a dark corner of Jace's apartment; before her was a bowl of food.
She was enjoying her dinner, but it was suddenly interrupted as she felt her spiritual intuition flare with a sharp prickle.
Immediately getting to her feet with alert eyes, she turned toward the source of the disturbance in the middle of the living room.
She saw a figure come into existence slowly, the air rippling like water.
It was Jace, dressed in his formal outfit with a leather bag slung over his shoulder.
Nyx heaved a sigh of relief and continued eating her food.
She found the human she lived with quite strange; most of the time he was out, and when she asked him why, he simply said he was "acting."
When he was in the house, he would stay in the apartment playing with that silver ring of his.
With that ring, he would use all kinds of different and strange abilities.
This disappearing and reappearing ability was one of them.
That human once disappeared only to return half a day later on foot with a haggard, exhausted appearance.
Young humans of Jace's age were usually fawning over girls according to Nyx's observations, but Jace seemed to like that ring too much.
She couldn't help but think that Jace was obsessed with the ring; once she even caught him caressing that silver band and saying, "My precious~" in a strange, raspy voice.
Even if Nyx was a cat, she wasn't an ignorant one. She knew that the ring was a Sealed Artifact, and according to her observations, she found that the ring was able to imitate the powers of other Beyonders.
Jace couldn't wear it for more than half an hour, and he would often come to her afterward and ask her to 'placate' his agitated mind.
It was an interesting artifact, and Jace had three more.
Unfortunately for her, she couldn't use any of them.
The ring wasn't something a cat could wear, and while there was a gun, she couldn't pick it up with her forelimbs.
The others were a cane and glasses. The cane was out of the question, and she once tried on the glasses. They worked, but the powers were useless to her. Jace, meanwhile, had a good laugh looking at her while she was wearing the glasses.
'How unfair,' she thought.
After finishing the food, she went out of the apartment and started looking for her patients.
Yes, patients.
After seeing Jace regularly act to advance and become powerful, Nyx too felt the desire to advance, so she started to act.
But instead of humans, her patients were animals; they were easy for her to figure out, she could treat them just as well, and it was just as effective for digesting her potion.
Besides, Nyx didn't like humans much, except for Jace whom she lived with. He never bothered her and always bought her food, so she liked him well enough.
Looking around in the dark hallway of the building, she finally found the patient she was looking for.
It was a small rat near the stairs.
Poor guy; the rat had first resided in the neighboring building, but an 'evil' cat had chased him for four days straight.
It was a traumatizing experience, but the rat had escaped and come into this building.
Nyx, of course, knew the said 'evil' cat; it was one of her other patients who was starved by its owner.
The rat initially was terrified of Nyx, but Nyx had chased the rat and placated him, gradually starting her treatment.
It turns out that treating one of her mortal enemies worked quite well for digesting the potion.
When she approached the rat, the creature was startled, but it did not run; it stayed, seeing that it was his "Doctor Cat."
The treatment began as Nyx used 'Placate, on the rat and started communicating with its tiny, frantic mind.
A several minutes later, the treatment came to an end.
Nyx nodded in satisfaction as she felt that this rat was fully cured of his trauma.
The rat stood still before her, showing her what seemed like gratitude before turning around to leave.
Just as he turned, Nyx pounced on him, biting the rat on his neck with enough force to kill him instantly.
After killing the rat, she started feasting on the body.
It was not right for a 'Psychiatrist' to harm the patient, but that rule was for humans.
Besides, a rat was a rat and Nyx was but a cat; for her, rats were just food, and until now, she was just playing with her food.
The cat feed Jace bought for her sometimes got boring to eat, so this was good for her taste palate.
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While Nyx was feasting on her 'patient,' Jace was in his bedroom sitting at his desk, contemplating things.
It had been nearly two months since he became a 'Magician', and he had been acting regularly and constantly.
His digestion rate was fast enough that within another month and a half, he should fully digest the potion.
But he decided it was time to make some changes and digest it even faster.
Pulling out a drawer of his desk, he took out a stack of small business cards.
Since Jace was acting regularly and at different places, he had attracted the attention of quite a few entertainment performers.
They had given him these cards because they wanted him to perform on their stages.
It was an opportunity to perform for a wider audience.
This was like a professional job that could help him digest the potion as well as get some money.
It was a win-win situation.
So, he decided to visit some of the people from the cards.