Creepy Cat - Vol. 3 Ch. 317 - Shattered

[Candymon]

Why do I feel Coffee will have to get used being used as catana or caton/baton?

 

[Darthskippy]

@Candymon I can picture Coffee sticking out all his arms turning into a Kanabō (studded two-handed war club).

 

[BasilD]

You know what @DarthSkippy ? You're damn right, I like that interpretation a lot. We know creepy cats are supposed to be weird and "rare" but appear so often in this series, why not another hundred-foot cat too

 

[Darthskippy]

@BasilD Now I'm just picturing super rare creepy cat variants, like the oldest hundred-foot cat being a Creepy Jörmungandr.

I am remembering a phone game that revolves around sending different cats towards the enemy base to win and they go from normal cats to eldritch horrors, and I want that but with Creepy Cats.
Quick google search and found it, its called "The Battle Cats".

 

[Mato]

@Darthskippy exactly, he's breaking anything he seems suspicious, that's a reasonable action. Also, I laughed a lot with the bitch slapped! Perfect way to describe it!!!

 

[zanonyn]

"Mirrors holding/reflecting the soul" is a pretty common trope honestly, it appears in tons and tons of works. Mirrors have always fascinated, and in fantastical works been everything from containers to gateways.

Also as a practical matter it's frankly not particularly hard to grasp in this situation that the only "ordinary" object she chose chose to bring into this demon magic forest for some ritual might have some real significance. But it's Oscar works for an agency that as well as policing seems to deal with occult threats, wouldn't even be surprising if basic training included "smash the suspicious mirror/statue/[other common magic tools] rookies!" amongst other pro-tips.

 

[Nimroth]

I can't help but wonder why that mirror was there so easily exposed in the first place though if it is their fatal weakness.
Like what if she dropped and broke it herself by mistake...

 

[ringkun]

Glad oscar had his hero moment

 

[Nergeyn]

She was evil, but she was hot.

 

[Wolfwhistler]

Talk about weak. She makes it sound like she's done this before and she's defeated instantly?

 

[nobodygattaknow]

When you use your 100-foot cat to beat someone up

 

[Luke_chase]

Damn Oskar finally grew some balls

 

[RevereShin]

Oscar Oscar Oscar, look, Flora is right there behind you. At least say the “evil deed” was trying to burn Flora’s paintings and kill her. You know, to earn bonus points and stuff.

 

[Lucrecia]

If we take into account how the mirror was the closest thing to the witch that stood out from the eye (the brush is definitely too small to be noticed, and if I saw a mirror lying on the ground in a clearing where a sacrificial ritual is being performed, unless I thought that the witch is quite narcissistic and wants to control her hair all the time, I would immediately think that it has something to do with the ritual itself) and assuming in a somewhat metanarrative thought that Chilo and Nada have explained in broad strokes during the journey the powers of the witch herself and how to possibly beat her - after all, it's not that in a 4-koma you can really explain all the steps by the wire or by the mark, or it would be a series ten times longer - the fact that it's the first thing that Oscar has broken is not so strange and forced.

The only true point to be made is that the mirror, apart from the only time it was shown a few tables ago to show the demonic reflection of the witch was never mentioned, which makes the narrative spectator a bit forced (all we expected was the brush, or maybe the cucumbers, and instead it was a completely unexpected element). Then I honestly didn’t notice if the mirror actually appeared more often and I just didn’t notice...

@Wolfwhistler
maybe just because the witch has performed the ritual a lot of other times with ease gave the positive result for granted, a bit like when you are in the mountains you pay a lot of attention in the most difficult sections, and then stumble and roll in the stretch of flat and smooth road because you no longer pay attention to where you put your feet. Not expecting anyone to attack her, she completely skipped the security of the area.

 

[HDMI1]

What if Coffee's species is a natural counter to Demonic-Witches, and that's why she tried to kill him before the ritual started?

 

[onipuck]

Breaks mirror, while swinging around a black centipede cat.
How many years bad luck with that be?

 

[manabi]

@HDMI1 In 254 she says she needs to prepare the sacrificial blood before opening the jar that Coffee was supposed to be in, so I don't think it's that. She apparently found a substitute for the blood, so it's not even clear a hundred-footed cat was required for the blood sacrifice.