Mousse's intelligence, exceeding 500, truly defied common sense. At such a young age, he handled so much work without delaying his research in the slightest.
Before Mousse had even reached his twelfth birthday, research into the Mink Tribe's moonlit-night transformation had already yielded results. Cat Viper and Dogstorm could finally take Momo and his sister, along with Kin'emon and Kawamatsu, back to Zou.
Through a series of experiments, Mousse proved that the Mink Tribe's claim that "normal humans are merely Minks without fur" was wrong. In truth, the Mink Tribe, like Fish-Men, were hybrids created by modifying humans with animal lineage factors.
The full moon was like a trigger that could activate the normally suppressed animal lineage factors within the Mink Tribe, granting them greater strength.
However, if a Mink who saw the full moon lacked sufficient strength of soul or body, activating their animal lineage factors could cause their consciousness to be overwhelmed by animal instinct, leaving them unable to recover. They could go completely mad or even die from exhaustion.
Once Mousse understood that the determining factor behind whether one lost control was actually strength of soul and body, rather than the willpower the Minks themselves believed it to be, he realized that the boost brought by the Full Moon Lion transformation was likely a fixed value.
After finding a way to suppress animal lineage factors, Mousse recruited more than a dozen Mink volunteers from within the country to serve as experimental controls. The results proved that his hypothesis was correct—or at least mostly correct:
Unless they were too young for their bodies to have fully developed, or so old that their bodies had become excessively weak, the increase in vitality after a Sulong transformation did not vary much. In any case, the experimental deviation always remained within