The dog-eared girl thought for a moment, then widened her eyes and hugged the kitten plush in her arms as she said:
"I don't remember exactly what happened, meow. It's just that after falling into this world, I became terribly afraid of those creatures. Before my adoptive mother passed away, she also told Miao Miao to run whenever I encountered those terrifying creatures, because they're cats' natural enemies! They're really scary!"
Lynn froze, then asked hesitantly, "May I ask who your adoptive mother was?"
With a giggle, the dog-eared girl took a photograph out of her bag and handed it to Lynn.
"Meow, this is our family photo! Miao Miao always carries it with her!"
In the gray-and-white photograph,
she sat on the lap of a woman wearing a long dress, with a cat's face. Two males, one grown and one young, both with cat faces as well, stood on either side.
It looked exceptionally strange.
"The ones beside us are my adoptive father and my brother. We used to be a very happy family."
The dog-eared girl blinked and pointed at the photograph.
Lynn glanced at her. "Did your parents think you were a cat too, meow?"
The dog-eared girl paused. "Of course I'm a kitty! What else would I be?"
Lynn asked hesitantly, "Then have you ever seen what you look like, meow?"
The dog-eared girl tilted her head. "What I look like, meow?"
Lynn thought for a moment, then raised a finger and closed his eyes.
"Wait a moment."
With that, Lynn turned and went to the nearby restroom, intending to take down the mirror inside so she could look at herself.
Logically speaking, this should have been some sort of disorder of self-perception, meow, shouldn't it?
Yet his diagnosis skill hadn't detected any such condition.
That