‘A familiar?’

“A familiar? This airheaded perverted fox?”

“That’s right. If keeping me by your side feels too burdensome, I shall become your familiar, Master.”

The lovesick fox puffed out her chest as if she were making some grand gesture, but I couldn’t find the words to respond.

Her offering to become a familiar was, admittedly, worth that kind of reaction.

At Soul Academy, familiars are basically like pets. You tame a specific creature and use it as you see fit.

Like most systems in the game, though, you can’t tame just any creature, and the stronger a creature is, …