A pink figure suddenly pounced at him from the side.
Dark shifted his feet to the side, but then stopped and raised a hand.
Sylveon successfully clung to him, rubbing its cheek wildly against his.
That soft sensation was always impossible to get enough of.
But Dark did not continue indulging in that tender embrace. He held it at arm's length and said expressionlessly, "Enough. Stop pretending. You're not drunk."
"Mi..."
Sylveon's expression immediately froze.
Had its plan to pass fish eyes off as pearls been exposed just like that?!
In its panic, it shut its eyes and went limp, pretending to be so drunk that it could hear nothing.
But Dark pried open its eyelids and forcibly opened its eyes.
"Explain what's going on here."
He pointed at the several drunken Magic Spirits in the bedroom, his expression stern.
Sylveon's heart gave a jolt, and it cried "Komi, komi" a few times in an attempt to muddle through.
But Gatomon, perched atop the Cat Tree, said leisurely, "It fed those ones chocolate with alcohol in it."
Sylveon's fur instantly stood on end. It whipped its head around. "Mi! (You thieving cat!)"
But Gatomon had already lowered its head and resumed reading.
Dark's face darkened as he immediately guessed part of what had happened.
But he still did not know enough.
In truth, after Sylveon saw what happened when Gatomon secretly ate the liquor-filled chocolate that Dark had bitten into, it had wanted to imitate it.
However, it worried that if it got drunk and blacked out, it might do something bad that would make Dark dislike it.
So, after careful consideration, it came up with a brilliant plan!
It would lure several Magic Spirits into eating liquor-filled chocolates. Once they were drunk, it could blend in among them and