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Seeing that Nova was on the verge of turning into a hissing old cat, Li Qinwu hurriedly thrust out a hand in an imploring gesture.
"Hold off on that Indominus rex form! Let me explain my way out of this!"
Then, without waiting for Nuo'er to speak, Li Qinwu hurried on:
"When Lord Regent Guilliman was five, he received an elite education on Macragge. He got mischievous and punched through a three-ton brass gate, so his mother scolded him and made him stand as punishment.
When the Gene-Primarch Lion El'Jonson was five, he survived alone in the jungle, living like a barbarian, going hungry between meals and barely having enough to cover himself.
Leman Russ slept in a dog kennel at five, Sanguinius raided bat roosts at five, and Vulkan worked a forge at five.
And our magical kitty Troy, at five, simply killed a Brain Bug Tyrant, over three hundred ordinary Zoanthropes, and tens of thousands of Tyranid Warriors. Do you know what that means?"
Catwoman Nova had already hissed three times and was ready to unleash an empowered basic attack, but Li Qinwu's words immediately calmed her down.
"What does it mean?"
Li Qinwu immediately adopted the cadence of the background narration from the new Three Kingdoms series:
"It means history has undergone a monumental change!
Even the Solar Lord would have to treat Troy courteously. Lord Regent Guilliman would let him eat at the table. If the God-Emperor could get up from the Golden Throne, even he would go, 'Pspsps, here, kitty!' when he saw Troy!"
Nova's gaze suddenly sharpened.
"All that is too far removed. Just tell me this: if I take Troy back to Terra, back to