Huh?
What the heck did you eat??
After the jar spoke, Xingyan paused for two seconds. He understood what the jar was saying, but that was exactly why he found it so hard to believe.
What?
You... ate the scale I gave you???
Did you even chew it before you ate it???
There were so many things he couldn't wrap his head around that Xingyan was getting a little confused. His huge dragon head was full of even bigger question marks.
Smack!
Seeing Xingyan sit up instead of lying down, Old Shaman immediately smacked the jar on the back of the head with a paw.
"Even if it was something Boss gave you, you can't go and destroy it, meow!" Old Shaman said righteously. "That was the first scale Dragon Slayer Boss ever bestowed on us, meow! It's a sacred treasure of the tribe, meow!"
"Roar, roar!" (He ate the whole scale? Ask him how he managed to eat it.)
Seeing that Old Shaman had completely missed the point, Xingyan asked directly.
"Meow, at first I was only licking Boss's scale, meow." It was hard to imagine a black cat's face turning red, but the jar really did look embarrassed. He meowed softly, "It was such a wonderful gift from Boss, meow. I admire him so much that I had to lick it every day, meow."
Xingyan: "..."
What do you mean, licking the cat?!!
But licking and eating were two different things. Given the Grimalkyne's chewing strength, Xingyan couldn't imagine the jar being able to chew through his scales. There had to be more to the story!
"Meow, I don't know how long it went on, but one day I suddenly thought that this wasn't enough to bring me closer to Dragon Slayer Boss, meow!" the jar said proudly.