Sometimes, it really was hard to tell whether Teacher Yu was genuinely bad or just pretending to be bad.
If she was genuinely bad, then well—she had at least made it into the next round.
Any contestant who could reach the second round under the Eileen Cup's NT format was a ruthless figure. Even Cat Han could be considered "no ordinary meow-ow."
But if she was pretending to be bad, she really was pretty bad.
She had had time to prepare, yet despite the possibility of running into Cat Han, she had not done any targeted training against the tactics Jiang Han had exposed in her previous match. So all that could be said was that she was pure—pure, unadulterated bad.
Jiang Han's victory in the first round had come so easily that Cat Capital could hardly believe it.
When Jiang Han returned to the lounge, she even found Cat Dula and Mao Philia dozing off. Cat Gernis, dressed in that hunter's outfit and tricorn hat so cool no cat could befriend it, lay on the sofa with her eyes closed, resting.
The little cats called out, and only then did the three giant cats open their eyes and look over.
"Meow-ow-ow! I was about to sleep for another minute and nourish my fur!" Cat Dula complained.
"Meow~ ow-ow-ow..." Mao Philia let out a Giant Cat Lamp-sized yawn and adjusted the recording, fast-forwarding through it once.
The three giant cats were utterly stumped by Teacher Yu.
The big cats stared at one another, cat-eyed and wide-eyed. "Meow-ow, if I'm not mistaken... with Cat Lina's legendary spell's exact power already exposed, she wants to force a head-on clash with a surfing charge? Meow-ow..."
A baffling choice.
The Yu Sitong sisters left an indelible impression in the cats' minds.
For once, the