So it’s a dark panther, rather than a black panther. Okay. But what does lapispine mean? I wondered, though there was no time for that now. I shouted “Huddle around the panther!” to Leafa and Lisbeth, and pressed Yui against the neck of the beast. The other girls draped themselves over the thick, soft fur on its stomach.
The cat’s body temperature was high, and the warmth bloomed through my near-freezing skin. I exhaled with relief. My HP stopped dropping, and the freezing Debuff icon disappeared. The icy particles were still streaming in from the entrance, but they didn’t reach the back of this little cave.
Feeling secure at last, I asked a question to no one in particular.
“…What does lapispine mean? Like intestine?”
Leafa rubbed at the bluish part of the panther’s back and replied, “Probably because of this lapis-blue patch on its spine, right?”
“Oh…lapis spine…”
Lisbeth asked, “So what are we calling it?”
“Hmm? Well…it’s black, so it should be Kuro,” I said after two quick seconds of consideration. Leafa and Liz cried out “That’s so boring!” in unison. But Yui said, “It’s simple and good.” I decided to ask the creature in question.
“It’s a good name, right, Kuro?”
The black panther barked, “Graar!”
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