"In short, that's what happened."
Hao Ren sat on the living room sofa and told everyone exactly what had happened over at Goddess Sister's place. On the coffee table in front of him sat a rectangular wire cage he had just dug out of the basement. Inside, palm-sized mini-Vivian was flinging herself around like mad, letting out all sorts of bizarre hissing and shrieking noises and occasionally tossing out a magic arrow. Its power was roughly on par with children's fireworks.
"From now on, this little thing is going to live here... Well, at least she'll be confined here."
"Meow--I don't like this!" Roll sprawled on the coffee table and glared at the cage. "Let me eat her!"
"You can't eat this thing. It'll give you an upset stomach," Hao Ren said, rolling his eyes. At the same time, he noticed a bandage stuck to one of Cat Girl's ears, covering the spot where it had been grazed by a corrosive Blood Arrow. "Er, though I can understand your resentment."
Vivian looked troubled as she stared at the mini version of herself in the cage. The latter seemed to sense it and raised her head, but there was absolutely no communication between the original and her clone. The Evil Spirit immediately let out a series of hissing, cackling roars, looking extremely aggressive. "Goddess really knows how to give people difficult problems. She actually wants me to raise this kind of... creature," Vivian said with a headache. "Putting everything else aside, what does she eat?"
Hao Ren was suddenly struck by a sense of déjà vu. He vaguely remembered the last time everyone at home had researched this question was right after Dodo had hatched...
"I don't know. She definitely doesn't eat chopsticks," he said casually. "But she bites everything."
"Wait,