Chapter 15: It’s Awesome When Catgirls Kiss

Chapter 15: It’s Awesome When Catgirls Kiss

“Empress Lumi, the forces are ready to deploy.” My ever trusty steward says, flicking her tail towards a holoscreen. Her emerald green eyes don't stray from mine however, and I nearly get lost thinking about how fluffy those ears of hers are…

Mot shifts and her long black hair obscures her ears, snapping me out of it.

I glance at the holoscreen and our plans for this investigation. Something about a strange anomaly on this planet known as ‘Earth’. “Yes yes, thank you, Mot.” As a bit of a reward, I brush my tail against hers ever so gently, prompting her super fluffy ears to perk up.

Scandalous it may be, but who is going to stop me? I am the Empress after all.

I let out a loud sigh and then jumped up from my throne. “You two, come with me.” I point to Mot and my maid, Luna.

Luna catches up and clings to my arm and purrs in my ear. “As you wish, my darling.” Damn, telling her to call me that was the best choice I have ever made.

I use my free hand to give a few scritches to Luna’s ears as we walk out of the bridge and towards the mess hall. Though Luna doesn't make it easy to ignore her, I can feel those stunning green eyes of hers burning into my cheek.

Mot trails behind us, I can sense her hesitation, so I poke her nose with my tail. She sneezes cutely, but then takes the cue. She steps up and takes my other arm. I really am the luckiest girl in all of reality.

We sit down for a nice meal of canned tuna, the finest delicacy this side of the orion belt. Or so the briefing said anyway. Apparently the fish is native to this ‘Earth’ and is delicious.

Rather than sit in a chair, Luna takes a seat in my lap. She wraps her tail around my waist and squeezes. This damn maid…

“Darling, say ahh” She holds out a fork with a nice chunk of tuna on it.

I laugh and accept the gesture. I usually let such tastes process for a moment. But in this case, I cannot stop myself from expressing my delight. “Nyaa~ oh my stars, this is demeowcious!”

I flinch as I realize I just nyaa’d… thank goodness It is only Mot and Luna here. I glance at Luna and she is blushing profusely, fork hanging in the air.

Hmm… I lean in and kiss her.

Standard imperial code dictates that when the Empress embarrasses herself, it is up to the retainers to take that embarrassment unto themselves. As decided by me, right now.

Luna deepens the kiss and grabs my head to pull me even closer. Damn, my wonderful hairdo is going to be undone. The silver was braided neatly with some golden thread…

The kiss ends and then I purr into Luna’s ear. “My my, how forceful you are with your Empress. Perhaps that shall deserve some punishment later~”

Luna lets out a small nyaa before covering her mouth with her hands. She quickly hops out of my lap and bows. Then, she leaves the room.

Did she seriously nyaa at me? I shall have to address this later, for now there are other things to focus on.

Mot coughs and I turn my attention towards her. She is twirling her hair around a finger and staring at the wall. But I can see her ears are perked up, and her tail is swishing back and forth.

“Mot.”

“Yes, my Lady?”

“Come sit on my lap. Well, if you want to, that is.”

“Well uhm…” Mot’s face turns bright pink, “I would uh, really like that.”

I smile as she nervously walks over. She takes a seat in my lap, but doesn't lean in very far. I of course fix that by wrapping my arms around her waist and pulling her close. She is super warm and a bit more muscular than Luna.

My arms travel across her abs and up to her arms. I lean in and purr in her ear. “You know you don’t have to be so shy…”

“Okay.” Mot says and then turns around to look me in the eyes. “In that case…”

She uses one hand to cup my face as she leans in and kisses me deeply. Her tail runs up and down my back, sending shivers down my spine.

Her other hand finds its way to the top of my head. No, she wouldn't.

But, she does. Her hand finds my ear and begins scritching it. My body melts into hers and I lose track of time.

It seems Mot has some stuff she hasn't been sharing with me. Oh well, I guess I will just have her tell me all about it.

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A ‘bit’ later

I finish buttoning my uniform up as we step into the bridge. The crew bows to me and then salutes to Mot.

Luna is standing against the wall, I look at her but she averts her eyes. I sigh, unfortunately now is not the time to resolve such things.

After all, we have some so-called humans to meet.

I take a seat on my throne and interface with the ship, activating the first-contact protocols. Under the doctrine, we first alert the people of our presence, then begin negotiations with several of the most powerful on the planet.

“Well then, Scott, beam ‘em up.” I command to our resident technical expert, he is a real genius.

The window shutters open up, revealing the vast starry sky. As well as a blue planet that has a hint of green.

Large collection arrays spread out like giant wings on the outside of the ship, harnessing ambient mana to charge up the ship. We need to be ready for combat, just in case they are hostile and somehow have weapons capable of hitting us.

The runic circle in the center of the bridge starts to glow, and I watch the space warp around it ever so slightly.

Pop.

“GAAA YOU SHALL DIE, FOUL BEAST!” Shouts a ragged looking ‘human’ male in a pink dress. He holds a yellow wand with a star at the point, and it seems to be glowing with some sort of magical spell.

A small woman, a child perhaps, stands beside him. She is wearing a similar outfit, though she seems more natural in it.

Another woman? No, an elf? My eyes are going haywire around her form, must be an illusion spell. Anyways, she is in the same outfit.

Though most creepy of all is a small toad-like man – one of the other inhabitants of the planet. Who also seems to somehow pull off the outfit, just like the young girl. He however wields a larger wand that is currently wreathed in fire.

“Warning: fire detected. Activating suppressant systems.” The ship says, giving only moments of warning before it encases the toadman in a thick layer of sealing foam.

“Ornik!” The elf-woman shouts and then turns to face me, she holds out her wand as if in a threat.

“Greetings, hoomans and such. I am Empress Lumi of the Imperial Sovereignty of The Stars.” Phew, speech is going good so far, now I just have to keep it up. “Under subsection 1-a of the accord, the power vested in me as Empress grants me ownership of your planet, known as Earth. However, it has come to our attention that there is some sort of anomaly, large amounts of extradimensional energy have been detected.”

I lean forward a bit. “Might one of you care to explain?”

The three humans stare at me, mouths agape. How can this be? They are the strongest beings on the planet, their minds should easily be able to adapt to such a situation.

Rugged man is first to recover. He drops into a bow, either out of fear or reverence I have no clue. “It is an honor, your highness. I am the one known as Magical Girl Victoria. Though first might I say, what in the ever loving fucks is fucking happening!?”

Mot gasps at my side. I put up my hand to calm her, though a flash of earlier makes its way into my mind… No, focus on the current events. Such things can be remembered later.

The man, Victoria, continues. “First a bunch of wackjobs appear and start killing people in my world, now we’ve got yet more catgirls. Ones that magically abducted us no less.”

Young girl steps next to Victoria and places her hand on his arm. He seems to settle down a bit.

I laugh, which is most certainly the wrong response to such a situation. But the sheer absurdity of it. I can’t stop myself from doubling over into a fit of hysteria.

A few seconds pass before I compose myself and face the humans. “Well then, that is quite an interesting conundrum. How would you like to become the governor of a planet?” I ask.

“What?” Victoria asks, dropping his wand on the ground.

“Well, I could either set you up as the ruler of this planet. With power to solve whatever you have going on. Presuming you resolve the anomaly and figure out how to harness its power for the good of the empire of course. Or I could give you a different, safer one, and leave this one in someone else's hands.”

The elf-woman steps forward. “Who says we will just let you take ‘ownership’ over Earth?”

I smile and channel a bit of mana into my wristband. Out of thin air, my sword is summoned. “This sword is known as starslayer, passed down through my lineage. It is said to be capable of slaying even the stars themselves.

So, very simply. You can either take the nice option, or I can slaughter you and everyone on the planet below. Then, we will deal with the anomaly ourselves.”

The air goes silent.

One of the crew off to the side sneezes.

I hope I am not being too harsh. “So, what will it be, hoomans?”