The Still-Unknown Hourglass

Under everyone's hesitant gazes, White Pigeon spoke with difficulty. "I don't know why, but I feel kind of sick. My stomach hurts."

And the pigeon's heart was pounding [thump thump thump—] nonstop, while its head was spinning... It felt awful.

At White Pigeon's words, everyone immediately turned solemn.

Yaochuan Guang frowned, sensing that something was seriously wrong. "Were you cursed by the [End Serpent]?!"

Cong Yu couldn't help biting his lower lip as well, considering the possibility that could it hear what we're saying?

If even their information had been completely taken away...

Then this "imaginary enemy" could no longer be called an "enemy"... It was utterly, completely unsolvable.

As everyone thought, White Pigeon, standing on the table, quickly stretched its head over the edge.

Then, coughing, it went "[blegh—]" and vomited the cake and coffee remnants into the trash can.

And at that very instant...

The sensible Dente and Xiao Cui, almost at the same time as Cong Yu, thought of something.

"Cake..."

"Caffeine..."

"Your body is a wild pigeon, isn't it?"

The three spoke at once, then immediately felt like laughing. So it had just been a misunderstanding.

It wasn't some "curse of the giant serpent." What a relief.

White Pigeon: "???"

Seeing the pain and confusion on the pigeon's face, Dente immediately explained, "Brother Su, pigeons can't eat chocolate, just like dogs."

Xiao Cui gave a more detailed explanation. "Theobromine and caffeine are toxic to many small animals."

"Tremors, vomiting, diarrhea, or dropping dead on the spot are all possible... Pigeons are one of those small animals too."

At Xiao Cui's answer, White Pigeon visibly froze. Looking at the half-eaten mini cake and half-drunk mini coffee on the table, it immediately felt dizzy.

Then the white pigeon began staggering around, as if using Lost-Trace Step, before falling