Busy official duties. (Signing with cat paws.) Decisions requiring meticulous thought. (Find a cat to take the blame.)
In short, the witches were exhausted by a series of complicated tasks!
"Quitting time is almost here."
No one knew who said it, but Jiang Han exchanged glances with the other two giant cat witches. With perfect mutual understanding, they stopped working, then rose to their feet in unison.
The moment Jiang Han stood up, she heard a "tremor." It was not a sensation, nor something felt by touch, nor the result of magic detecting it. She genuinely heard the sound of something called a "tremor" being triggered.
She had not expected to hear it.
Tilting her head, she felt warmth rising from her stomach. Beside her, Du Lingxuan had clearly heard it too, muttering, "Giant cats..."
A little farther over, Xiya had heard it as well, putting on a sweet, adorable smile as camouflage. "Giant cats."
Though their words were nearly identical, and their meanings were exactly the same, one had been a question and the other an answer.
Jiang Han felt that perhaps she ought to add something else to the exchange:
"Quitting time's here."
The moment she said it, she froze. The other two froze as well. The air was like when, at a class reunion, the quiet fellow everyone had assumed was a stuffed gourd suddenly cracked a joke. After that brief stunned pause, Xiya was the first to let out a snickering laugh, followed by Du Lingxuan clutching her stomach and bursting into laughter.
Du Lingxuan wiped at her eyes.
"You're absolutely right. Only when it's quitting time would there be a sound like that. Shall we leave a minute early?"
What she meant was probably that the three of them counted as part of the lordly