Hearing the tavern owner's counterquestion,
the Black Gemstone Cat was stumped.
Because it truly didn't know why it had come here today.
Fortunately, this matter was not unsolvable.
"What did you do today?" It folded its two front paws together, shifted into a more comfortable position, and lay down. Its ears twitched with interest. "Just give me the short version. I'll help you analyze it."
A clone helping others analyze its original body's thoughts.
There was something rather strange about that.
"Nothing much?"
Colmar blinked, putting on a thoughtful expression. "I just had a meeting with Old Yao, listened to Dr. Duzem explain the principles behind the Special Configuration... Oh, and he ran naked in front of me once."
The Black Gemstone Cat raised a paw and rubbed its ears.
It suspects it had misheard.
"He did what?" It propped up its upper body slightly, assuming an attentive pose.
"He ran naked in front of me... you know, without any clothes on."
The witch calmly repeated what she had just said, utterly ignoring the little cat springing straight up in shock. But seeing its tail tuck in, she seemed to think of something and added solemnly, "That said, Zheng Qing usually looks so fair and clean. I didn't expect him to be so well-endowed. Ahem, I mean, he has a pretty good figure."
The Black Gemstone Cat went completely numb.
It looked helplessly up at the Firefly Beetles beneath the ceiling and sincerely felt that being an insect might not be so bad. At the very least, their simple little brains would not be mashed into pulp by the sudden, illogical chains of cause and effect that life threw at them.
One person.
One cat.
Big eyes stared into big eyes.
They silently faced each other for a long while.