"Besides, it's raining outside right now."
"Look, Mimi's already a little wet."
"What if she gets sick..."
The little girl hugged the cat and chattered away as she turned and went back into the living room with her mother.
"Heh heh~"
The Pipa ghost waved toward the sky.
It knew.
This was what goodbye meant.
Hmm?
The Pipa ghost looked up, sensing something.
An umbrella?
"Pipa ghost."
A familiar voice.
The Pipa ghost hurriedly turned its head.
And saw Lord Xiao Xiao smiling at it.
The Pipa ghost grinned, too.
"Heh heh~"
After the cat and the monster had said goodbye, Xiao Xiao walked over to the Pipa ghost.
He moved his umbrella over the Pipa ghost.
Then he called out to it.
"It's been a long time."
Xiao Xiao and the Pipa ghost strolled slowly through the residential complex.
"Was that the cat who came looking for me last time?"
Once before, the Pipa ghost had been trapped by a formation, and it was the Pipa ghost's cat friends who had found it.
They had asked him for help.
He'd been deeply impressed by those clever cats.
"Heh heh~"
The Pipa ghost nodded.
Remembering what had happened last time, it was grateful to its cat friends.
And it was grateful to Lord Xiao Xiao, too.
They had saved it.
"It was adopted."
Xiao Xiao's eyes crinkled with a smile.
The cat he'd just seen was practically a different cat from the one he'd seen last time.
Its fur was clean and well-groomed.
Its face had grown much rounder, too.
Its bony body had filled out considerably.
Its bones no longer stuck out.
"It was being very well cared for."
"Heh heh~"
The Pipa ghost smiled happily, its eyes narrowing.
It animatedly told Lord