Yellow Flower Cat accepted the Mystic Yellow Fruit with a moved expression.
But the gentleman's cool voice drifted over from beside it, unhurried and calm. "—A reminder: when it served as my agent, it was a little arrogant and offended quite a few people. While I was around, those people spared it out of respect for me. But after I leave, whether They will trouble it is hard to say... They will not go too far, of course, but it certainly will not escape a little suffering."
No wonder Yellow Flower Cat had been so desperate to advance to Legendary!
Regret appeared plainly on Zheng Qing's face.
But the tabby reacted even faster. Before the gentleman had finished speaking, it snatched the fruit with Swift Eye, stuffed it into its mouth, tugged its ears, flicked its tail, and vanished from before the two wizards with a swish.
Without the slightest hesitation.
"—You should have told me earlier!" Zheng Qing sighed heavily.
"Would telling you have given you any other choice?" The gentleman chuckled dismissively. "There are rarely perfect solutions in this world. Your time is short, and there are not many suitable candidates... Giving the fruit to it was the least bad option."
Zheng Qing considered it briefly.
Then he let it go.
"True enough. That cat has a terrible personality, but comparatively speaking, it is still quite reliable." The young wizard laughed at himself, then changed the subject and brought up what the gentleman had said while giving away the Mystic Yellow Fruit. "—You just said that how I handled this fruit would determine whether I accepted those three 'small' troubles... How exactly would it determine that?"
He stressed the word "small" especially hard.
The implication was that those matters might be trivial to the gentleman, but to him,