When Luo Chuan came downstairs, the first thing he saw was the Half-Orc woman from last night's meeting squatting together with Chimera, staring at each other.
"Meow?"
"Meow meow."
"Meow~"
"Meow..."
They kept making noises, seemingly communicating.
The sight was bizarre beyond words.
"Uh, what are they doing?" Luo Chuan came to the counter and lowered his voice as he quietly asked the elf girl who might know the reason.
"They should be talking, I guess." Anno sounded somewhat uncertain. "I can't understand them."
It'd be impressive if you could...
Luo Chuan muttered to himself inwardly.
When he saw Tasha last night, he had noticed a trace of Chimera in her, mainly because their outward features shared many similarities.
Besides, the circumstances in which he had encountered Chimera had been far too coincidental. Thinking about it now, there were indeed many strange aspects to it. Perhaps some kind of Information Entanglement had played a part as well.
Now, many of those questions were about to be answered.
Chimera, who had been talking with Tasha, naturally noticed Luo Chuan's arrival as well. It abandoned her and walked straight over, nimbly leaping onto the counter and rubbing against Luo Chuan's palm.
When it came to recognizing its identity as a pet, Chimera did quite well.
Tasha walked up to Luo Chuan, a smile appearing on her distinctly feline face. "Boss."
Like the customers of Hearthstone Tavern, she simply addressed Luo Chuan as Boss.
Though they had met during yesterday's meeting, they had not spoken to each other. This was her first time seeing the owner of Hearthstone Tavern.
How should she put it?
He looked utterly ordinary. Her instincts sensed nothing unusual about him, and he was little different from a Common Human.
After all, as the king of beasts among the