The score was currently 9:6. Ovi's team had failed to get a cat-bird ball, missing their chance to stretch the lead to a commanding 11:6. There were only three points between them now, and Hildenet's team had yet to take their shot—they still had a chance to level the score!
Hildenet's team used an extra-time thinking card, gaining an additional five minutes to think over their strategy.
Due to Cat Golf's special time restrictions, there were quite a few special rule cards, as well as cards replenished at every rest stop. [Extra-Time Thinking] was somewhat like a timeout, but the particularly obnoxious part was that it consumed only the opposing team's time, not its own. It could be called an immensely beneficial powerful card, one used for a desperate comeback at the very end.
Yet Ovi Lamp was not flustered by its use so early on. She smugly swished her tail, meowing and howling in mockery.
But in Jiang Han's eyes, this cat was being far too smugly "meow-howly." Ovi could have securely taken a cat-bird stroke if she had played well, yet she had deliberately hit a standard cat stroke. Fortunately, they were two points ahead, which was why the giant cats let their "leader" play.
"..."
Once the extra-time thinking ended, Hildenet's team still chose Cat Milo, the Tower Giant Cat Lamp who had been performing well today.
Cat Milo's information in the Cat Golf Meow Formula Book was:
``` Strength B+, Agility C+, Technique A, Spirit C.
Excels at powerful shots and high-arcing finishing shots. The special static electricity in her tail fur can briefly control the rolling direction after a high lob lands, making her especially suited to hitting on the sixth station of Wave Cat Golf Course, with its complex small-island terrain.
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