"—You're making this sound far too simple!"
Li Meng stood before the coffee table with her arms folded, frowning as she sized up Poseidon and Zheng Su Yi Er San, who were curled up on the sofa. She shook her head like a rattle-drum. "Never mind that I don't even know where that Xuanhuang Small World is. Even if I did, we couldn't sneak in without permission from the 'world lord'... That guy is a Legendary Wizard now! Instead of thinking about how to avoid his notice, why don't you ask my cousin? She's currently responsible for registering, managing, and assigning missions to all hunters..."
"Mother Jiang won't let me go."
Poseidon stroked his large tail, his tone tinged with frustration and irritation. "...She said I'm too young and unsuitable for this kind of mission... But she gave Maodou a spot!"
"Maodou really is better suited to this sort of mission than you are," Li Meng commented with complete fairness.
"Isn't it a little inappropriate for us to compare ourselves to a dog?" Zheng Suyi, who had spent several years getting by in the Wizarding World and had grown familiar with wizards' ideas, looked at Li Meng uncertainly.
"But Dongdong should be fine," Zheng Sushuang said, biting her finger as she glanced at Poseidon's big tail. "I read in a Magical Creatures textbook that foxes and dogs are both canines..."
"—But we're Youzui hunters too!"
Zheng Susan did not join her two older sisters' discussion. Excitedly, she raised both hands and showed off the sticker bearing the You Zui Hunter Team's emblem on her arm. The wings behind her fluttered twice beyond her control, forcing Suyi and Sushuang to hold them down from either side.
"Reserve hunters, not official hunters—and certainly not registered hunters."
Li Meng calmly held up three