"(°°) La meow!"
Hearing that strange, lively cry, Fang Ran immediately sat up from the sofa and looked at the limp black Meow Ball, picking it up from the carpet.
"You little thing. Why didn't I notice you following me everywhere before?"
Looking at the mysterious creature that had shown up not only last time at Midnight, but this time too, he stared at it with a strange, astonished expression.
"La meow~"
The picked-up La Meow let out a la meow cry, then leaped down and darted around every corner of the bedroom. It seemed thrilled to have arrived somewhere so large and beautiful.
"La meow! La meow! La meow! ︵︵︵(*≧▽≦)"
Watching it bounce around everywhere, Fang Ran thought that after arriving at a mansion luxurious to the extreme, this thing was even more excited than he was.
"() La meow, la meow, la meow~"
After hopping around once, it jumped onto his lap, twitching its large triangular ears and bumping against him again and again as it made soft, persistent cries.
Having raised it for quite a while now, he roughly understood what it wanted. Unable to do anything against this adorable little creature, and figuring his train of thought had already been interrupted anyway,
Fang Ran finally sighed in helpless surrender.
"Fine, fine, we'll go see what's around. But first—"
He grabbed it and held it before his face, silently fixing it with a serious warning.
"The things here are ridiculously expensive. Don't go eating anything randomly, got it? If I can't afford to pay for it, I'll pawn you off to Veronica."
"La meow!"
Whether it was a promise or not, it answered with an energetic, spirited cry.
Fang Ran placed La Meow on top of his head, then looked beyond the bedroom. Aside from where the