It went better than Riko had hoped for. A few of the other women joined in and made short work of those pesky skeletons, though she suspected it was mostly Aira’s roar that drove them off. Having been perched in her windowsill above the noise of the battle, she heard every word that word that the dragon had spoken, but in typical feline fashion, she completely ignored it. She found herself amused by the irony that the one person who probably didn’t care about the human was the one who likely did the most to save him.<br/><br/>Not only was she wide awake now, but her magic was beginning to return to her. She could tell it was still pretty weak, but some is better than none. At least it would be enough for her to change into her animal form. She laughed as she jumped from the windowsill to the ground below. Her laugh was not evil or maniacal but cheerful and mirthful, showing genuine amusement.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(201, 94, 22)">“You’re in for it now, human,”</span>she called out as she approached him and the other women.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(201, 94, 22)">“You’ve awakened <i>the mighty dragon of legend.”</i></span><br/><br/>A tiny brown-eyed tiger cub emerged from the shadows. Riko was dismayed at her tiny form, one she hadn’t had since she first started using magic. She remembered Daniel laughing at her and telling her how cute she was. Still, the tiny, cute form should work perfectly for what she had in mind. A small, girlish chuckle emanated from her throat. It was time to show these women how to handle a human male. She  approached the man and pressed one of her cheeks against his leg, blatantly interrupting the apology he was giving to Kogasa, then rubbed her flank against his leg before turning and weaving between his legs.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(201, 94, 22)">“Now really, Reign,”</span>she said in a soft, feathery voice,<span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(201, 94, 22)">“You know you completely feminized the man by trying to make him your sheathe.”</span>The funniest part was that he actually agreed to it, which was the last thing she expected from a macho adventurer.<br/><br/>She looked up at the man’s face with a pleading look in her big, brown eyes and spoke to him in the same soft and feathery voice.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(201, 94, 22)">“My guess is you didn’t come all this way looking for demon girls? You’re probably after the Lord Balthoros, aren’t you? That’s what adventurers do, right? Slay the vile dungeon lord? Well, you’re gonna need some help for this one.”</span>What she didn’t tell him was that she, like the other women, were trapped in this prison, and she thought he could help them escape.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(201, 94, 22)">“We have a common enemy, after all,”</span>she added just before she ran out of magic energy and changed back into her humanoid form. And she had left her clothes on the windowsill when she changed into her animal form. So now she was in her humanoid form, naked, and in between the man’s legs, which was not a proper place for a lady who had been taught modesty. Her face turned red, but otherwise she kept her composure.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(201, 94, 22)">“Now, surely you wouldn’t turn down an offer of help from the nekomata who single-handedly defeated an army of crusaders, would you?”</span>It wasn’t really an army, but that was a minor detail.