Feline fanatic

Nyoan trembled as she sat in a chair. She was now garbed in a bathrobe, but her head was still cold and hairless. Though the greatest inconvenience for her was the beautiful woman with wavy blue hair stroking her hairless cat ears along with her bald head.

"My, you really got a smooth cut, my kawaii little kitten. Your head’'s now almost as smooth as my skin," the woman cooed.

"If you want a smooth head so badly, shave your own damn head, nya!" Nyoan fumed.

"No, I much prefer not to look like a monk. That and it truly is quite the spectacle to see you with fleshy cat ears in addition to your normal ears."

"My ears again!? NYA! STOP IT WITH MY NEKO EARS, NYA!"

"You truly were a hilarious sight when you came back. Why, I almost mistook you for a hairless giant possum, but it was just my kawaii little kitten."

Nyoan tearfully blushed as the woman began scratching her chin. "Nyo, nyot nyow, nya. I'm too embarrassed, nya."

"Hmm, I've always wondered what it would be like to have a sphynx cat. How would it feel to have a fleshy cat instead of a furry one? Well, now I know. Nyoan, I'm going to keep you shaved forever."

"FOREVER!? NYOOO! I WANT HAIR AGAIN, NYA!"

"But it feels so good to stroke your ears."

"I- I could just keep my ears bald."

"No, I want the full package."

"BUT I LOOK LIKE A FREAK, NYA!"

"Then just wear a hat, do you want me to knit you one?"

Tears and snot streamed down Nyoan's face as she nodded yes. No matter how much she tried, she could never say no to this woman. 

The woman was Nyoan’s self-proclaimed master, Kuon Nanya. She was a cat fanatic, though didn’t have a single cat in her house. Rather, she considered the two women living with her, Nyoan and Nyogaku, her cats. In her youth, Kuon was hailed as a child prodigy at chess, however, her road to fame hit a roadblock in the form of the woman who would eventually become the highest rated female chess player. While Kuon currently had a respectable rating of 2699 as well as the title of grandmaster, she was always second fiddle to her rival, much to her dismay. This jealousy is what ultimately led to her secretly teaming up with the Desperado league.

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The next morning, Nyoan blushed as Kuon finished shaving her. "Why weren't you kidding about making me bald forever, nya?" Nyoan groaned.

"Because I'm your master, what I say is absolute," Kuon smiled as she wiped down Nyoan's head with a towel. "Don't worry, I'll make this enjoyable for you," she whispered into Nyoan's cat ear.

Before Nyoan knew it, she was purring in embarrassment as she received a head massage from the woman.

"Doesn't this feel good, my kawaii little kitten?" Kuon whispered into Nyoan's cat ear.

"It feelz so good, nya," Nyoan blissfully purred, now completely under the woman's trance.

"Good, now head off to school like a good kitten, then after school, head to the Lagoon pathways hotel for the tournament."

"Yez Kuon-sama, nya."

Once she was released, Nyoan happily left for school without a care in the world she was bald.

"Ara, she was making such a big fuss about her ears and being bald. Yet now she's strutting away with pride, and not even wearing the knit hat I made her. Well, cats are very fickle creatures," Kuon thought as she began doing pilates. Just then, a woman with curly orange hair and cat ears yawned as she came down the stairs. "Ah Nyogaku, you just missed Nyoan. She's now a sphynx breed."

"Oh she's a sphinx? Sweet, she got mummies and sand?" the orange-haired woman grinned.

"No my dumb little neko-chan, a sphynx as in a hairless cat."

"Yay, now she won't shed. Uh, what's a hairless cat again?"

"They'll tell you at the university, now run along or you'll be late for class."

"Nyan, nyan," Nyogaku happily purred as she ran out on all fours, still in her pajamas.

"Oh Nyogaku, you used to be so smart and uptight. I do love seeing you act like a dumb little kitty cat," Kuon sneered as she finished her stretches. "Hmm, the house could use some more cats. With Nyoan and Nyogaku being in school, I'm usually by myself at home. Perhaps I should consider getting an older one that isn't in school or college. I could even get a male cat. Hmm, there are plenty of cute guys that would make great cats. Maybe I'll get two, that way my two cats will have mates. Though they'd have to be strong, I don't want weak kittens. I guess I'll see if there's anyone at work that catches my eye, after all, it's not like they'd beat me," she mused as she gazed at a DESPER sitting on the table while heading towards the door.

Ever since Kuon joined forces with the Desperado league, she began studying the schematics of the DESPER. Through her research, she found it was possible for it to give a person cat ears and a tail as well as allow users with lower ratings than their targets to implement an odds challenge, though the higher rated target could still refuse, thus nullifying the challenge. She was also the one who first discovered it was possible to imprison people in playing pieces during a match. Yet despite all that, Kuon Nanya was not registered with a DESPER, nor did she plan to.

"Hmm, I don't feel like going to work today. Guess I'll sleep for the day. After all, I'm very fickle, like a cat," Kuon smirked as she slid out of her heels, threw off her lab coat, and headed back towards the living room to lay down on the sofa."