Li Meng stood beneath the Cat Fruit Tree, clutching Li Neng the Plush Bear in her arms. With her little hands raised and her head tilted back, she counted the big and small meowing cats on the tree one by one.
Even with the noisy meowing filling her ears, she remained completely focused.
"Eh?! Where did she go?!"
The Little Witch circled the Cat Fruit Tree, counting it again and again, but never saw that familiar figure. In the end, she confirmed that the Little White Cat her cousin had turned into was not on the tree.
Earlier that evening, Jiang Yu had worked out a secret battle plan with her. Li Meng was to trick the hunting party into gathering near the Cat Fruit Tree, while Jiang Yu, transformed into a cat, would serve as bait for the hunting party.
At first, Li Meng had refused the plan.
Something so dangerous was not something she should go along with just because her cousin wanted to mess around. She was a college student now, after all. She knew how to weigh priorities, and she understood that wizards should not stand beneath a crumbling wall.
But when her cousin pulled out a new schedule she had prepared for Li Meng, Li Meng surrendered immediately—according to the new schedule, sixteen of every twenty-four hours were marked with the words study, study, and study. On top of that, she had to get up at six in the morning, limit lunch to fifteen minutes, and so on.
It was practically the death of Li Meng.
So in the end, the Little Witch accepted Jiang Yu's battle plan with a mournful face.
But she repeatedly stressed that if anything went wrong and they were caught by either her family or the school, she would not