"At last, I've caught you."
Looking at the little demon god whose hand Cycloze had firmly seized, Su Hao let out a sinister chuckle, sounding like a villain.
"Wah, it's a trap! Bad lizard, let Hoopa go!"
No matter how hard Hoopa strained, it could not pull its little hand free, as if it were trying to yank out a stubborn radish. It screamed in a slightly shrill voice.
The moment he heard that voice, Su Hao felt like his dna was stirring.
That was it, exactly!
It had such a Kugimiya flavor to it—absolutely incredible!
Seeing that it truly could not break free, Hoopa puffed out its cheeks in frustration. It stopped Levitate altogether and hung limply before Su Hao, looking as though it were prepared to sacrifice itself.
"Kill me or torture me, do whatever you want!"
"But Hoopa wants to taste that yummy thing!"
Even as a "captive," Hoopa had not forgotten about the hamburger patty—
What a complete glutton.
Su Hao sighed inwardly. Rather than continue scaring Hoopa, he placed his own hamburger patty before it and said, "Go ahead and eat. We don't mean you any harm."
At the same time, he gave Cycloze a look.
Cycloze, which had also been busy preparing to devour some meat, immediately released its grip.
But Hoopa was completely absorbed by the hamburger patty before it. It did not even realize it had stopped floating and simply plopped onto the lawn.
"..."
For a moment, Hoopa was utterly dumbfounded.
"...It hurts."
Hoopa pursed its lips, looking as though it might cry the next second.
Su Hao instinctively set the plate right in front of Hoopa. The moment it caught that enticing aroma, though, its attention was entirely captured.
Ignoring the pain in its backside, it picked up the plate