"Just how much do you all love eating... pizza?" Squinting at the several pizzas laid out on the coffee table, Haruhi bared her teeth. "You know, you're all drenched in a pizza smell that just won't go away!"
"Oh, then you don't have to eat any." Jiu Ming flipped through the Card Collection Book for a while, then pulled out a Sealed Card. "Want some canned octopus? They say it's made from the carefully prepared tentacles of a giant deep-sea octopus."
"Really? Let me try it." Haruhi unceremoniously reached out and swiped the canned octopus from Jiu Ming's hand. As she tore open the lid, she kept talking. "What giant deep-sea octopus? It's obviously just an ordinary octopus."
"Ah, don't sweat the small details." Jiu Ming smiled amiably. He really had seen a giant deep-sea octopus—and that thing had been rather unlucky to catch the eye of Jiu Ming while he was in his 'Deification' state. After taking two slaps from Jiu Ming, it had surely been left with an indelible shadow in its heart.
"In the world I'm currently carrying around, even 'ordinary' octopuses are pretty impressive."
Did his world even have ordinary octopuses? Aside from hatchlings, a normal octopus was at least three meters long...
And those counted as the small ones. So ordinary canned fish was one thing, but canned octopus like this was pretty expensive on the market... after all, it wasn't something you could just cast a net for and haul up by the bucketful, right?
Well, perhaps home-raised ones were safer to slaughter.
"Strange... isn't this expanding a little too fast?" Jiu Ming looked at the flagpole on the grass. After walking forward for some distance, he confirmed it: the actual range, which had originally been nine kilometers, had now become ten... well, perhaps