"Bang!"
A tremendous crash came from outside the private room, as if someone had knocked down the door—or as if one of the murals hanging on the wall had come loose and fallen to the floor.
"Put it on my tab! Put it on my tab!!" Wanderer Wizard raised the bottle in his hand and shouted toward the door, then shot Big Rat on the sofa a vicious glare. "Are you planning to make me renovate this whole place?"
Rat Immortal felt very wronged.
"I didn't move just now." Its round little small eyes flicked instinctively toward the tail hanging from the sofa and winding out of the private room. Then it exerted a little force through its tailbone.
The thick rat tail surged out of the room like a wave.
Another clattering uproar sounded outside.
Only then did Rat Immortal lift its head and look very firmly at the owner of the Wander Bar. "That commotion was my doing... but the one just now really wasn't me!"
Wanderer Wizard stood there with his mouth half open, one hand pinching the brim of his pointed hat, as though considering whether to stuff this Big Rat into it.
"Old Rat! Hurry, hurry! Giant Zero Three just moved!" A voice shrieked from outside the room, drawing closer and closer like a train blasting its whistle as it burst from a tunnel, crashing into the cramped private room in the blink of an eye.
An ocher-colored "ball" rolled unsteadily into the room.
Rat Immortal and Wanderer Wizard exchanged a glance.
"Whoosh!"
The thick rat tail recoiled like a startled giant python. Another burst of clanging came from outside. A cloud of white vapor rose from Rat Immortal's head, and the wrinkles on its face seemed to have been smoothed out somewhat by the