11:30 a.m., dining table.
Shalala chewed slowly, eating the feast before it with a rather elegant posture.
"Do you like it?" Teacher Mikala asked gently as she looked at it.
"Xia Xia."
Shalala's eyes curved into crescents as it nodded while eating.
"Mo Mo?"
Dragon Overlord looked at Qiao Sang and called out with concern.
"Steel Chief."
Gang Bao called out in her mind.
It's asking whether these dishes taste good.
Qiao Sang fell silent for a moment before saying, "They're good."
"Mo Mo."
Dragon Overlord wore an expression that said, "Then I can rest easy," before finally starting on its own portion.
"Do you feel like Dragon Overlord has been acting a little strange lately?" Qiao Sang asked in her mind.
"Steel Chief." Gang Bao called out in her mind, indicating that it had noticed. The timing was roughly when you announced that Little Silly Fruit was Shalala and received a promise from the Tenth Seat. Either it thinks more highly of you now because of Shalala, or it wants that promise now that you have one from the Tenth Seat.
Qiao Sang considered this before saying in her mind:
"Then it's probably the former."
After saying that, she sighed. "I thought it had already started thinking highly of me when it wanted its junior to contract with me. Who would've thought that only happened now?"
"Steel Chief."
Gang Bao paused in the middle of eating an Energy Meal and explained in her mind what Dragon Overlord had shouted back in Wolin.
Qiao Sang: "???"
What? I thought it couldn't bear to part with the Moli Dragon, and you're telling me it was shouting for the Moli Dragon to take it along?
Qiao Sang could not help glancing at Dragon Overlord.
Noticing her gaze, Dragon Overlord looked back at