"Waaah~"
The money spent had achieved its intended effect.
The river rushed violently, churning up sheets of white spray, yet bizarrely surged upward without pause—from low to high, from slow to fast—in defiance of physics.
Jiang Han sat inside a large wooden barrel, letting out startled cries and laughter.
She leaned over the barrel's edge, reaching out to touch the grass and trees along the mountain path, and laughed again.
On the mountain path beside the waterway, above the thick wooden steps, Angelite floated upward without her feet touching the ground, supported by magic.
She glanced sideways at her, the corners of her mouth tugging up slightly into a smile that looked both natural and unnatural.
"..."
Was that happiness?
Jiang Han wondered.
Before she could think any further, a sudden wave of centrifugal force hit her—the sensation of being flung through the air, limbs going weak and sore.
Light spilled before her eyes. Beneath the moonlight, through the reflection in the clear spring water below, she saw herself clearly.
—Like a cat: frantic in form, yet still elegant.
The impact sent the wooden barrel flying into the sky, and I was thrown out with it.
The thought had barely crossed her mind before she splashed into the spring water, so full of tranquil purity, shattering its peace in an instant.
But just like noisy Cat Lamps, who knew whether, whenever their meowing and howling broke the silence, the secluded, peaceful air was also smiling wryly:
What a pack of cats drifting with the current.
Glub glub...
The traits of an aquatic Cat Lamp combined with Jiang Han's Sea Siren traits gave her, at the very least, an "Aquatic Expertise" rating of three Ss plus five more plus signs.
She breathed leisurely underwater, while the cat ears atop her head