"Are you really her biological brother?" Fisher Tiger asked instinctively. Though he did not voice what he truly wanted to ask, his expression made it easy to guess.
Mousse looked a little embarrassed and explained, "She only trained for a few years. At the time, I hadn't found a better method."
That only made things sound worse. Fisher Tiger unconsciously clenched his fists, wanting badly to beat Mousse up on Praline's behalf. "A few years? Even one minute would be torture! Wait, by your account, your sister must have been pretty young when she trained in the Drying Room, right? That's child abuse!"
"Braised Fish, don't talk about my brother like that! He did it for my own good!" Yet those words enraged Praline, the supposed "victim." She rushed straight up to Fisher Tiger, rolling up her sleeves as she prepared to fight.
Fortunately, Mousse had Observation Haki active and foresaw her movement. He had Amon block her in advance, preventing the extremely discourteous incident of a guest getting beaten up.
"Praline, apologize! He only said that out of concern. And you're already a grown woman—how can you not even understand basic manners?" Mousse scolded his sister with a dark expression, while Praline obediently took the reprimand without daring to argue back.
Their interaction made Fisher Tiger understand somewhat. Lowering his head, he instead apologized to Mousse. "I can tell you siblings are very close. I misunderstood. As long as you're willing, outsiders shouldn't meddle."
Mousse accepted Fisher Tiger's apology and explained why he had pushed his sister to train so harshly back then. "At the time, neither my family nor I were as powerful as we are now, and we had fallen out with the World Government. Seeing that my sister had great talent, I was stricter with her."