"Titch!"
Qin Ran cried out in surprise.
He surveyed his surroundings.
Before him stretched a straight stone passage. Behind him stood a stone door, and ahead lay Titch, curled up with all four paws tucked beneath its body, yawning incessantly.
Of course, that was not the most important thing.
What mattered most was that, the moment he appeared here, system notifications began popping up one after another-
[Side quest: Reinforcements (complete)!] [Main quest: Push open the unknown stone door (complete)!] [The player will leave the special instance in five minutes...] [Please take only items you can carry as your loot!] (Note: Items exceeding your carrying capacity will automatically be identified as items that cannot be taken out of the instance!)
He stared at the string of notifications on his retina.
Unless he was an idiot, Qin Ran knew that the stone door behind him was the very door he had been unable even to look at last time.
And now?
Push open the stone door?
He had clearly done nothing, yet he had entered.
And here, he had encountered an unexpected "person."
As for Titch, this cat...
Qin Ran truly had no idea how to describe it. He could only treat it as a person.
"Yes, yes, it's me!"
Titch nodded repeatedly, a smile appearing on its face as it watched the astonished Qin Ran.
A smile like that on a fat feline face could certainly be called endearing.
But right now, Qin Ran had no interest whatsoever in its expression.
"Was all of this arranged by Lei?"
With Titch's appearance, almost all of Qin Ran's questions fell into place.
It had begun with the "prophecy," followed by the Sunshine Mary, then Moerduosi, and immediately afterward, the Holy Knight's trial and the appearance of the "deity's" remnant.