"—A creature that exists between two and three dimensions is still a creature."
Black Cat sat upright on the bluestone path with his tail curled around him, his paws resting before the small saucer of fried dried fish. Yet he did not keep eating. Instead, he narrowed his eyes, his tone slow and unhurried, like a professor lecturing a Young Wizard.
"If it's a creature, it has to absorb energy to survive. It's just that three-dimensional life needs to eat food in a three-dimensional state; two-dimensional life needs to eat food in a two-dimensional state; so a two-point-five-dimensional life can only look for food that exists between two and three dimensions. The only problem is, finding a kind of 'food' that exists between two dimensions really isn't easy."
At this point, he lifted one paw and gestured in the air.
It seemed as if he had drawn an invisible line.
A faint ripple appeared in the air, only to vanish in a flash.
Fordes widened his eyes and did not even dare breathe too loudly, his round face full of concentration, afraid he might miss even the slightest movement or word from the Legendary Wizard. But after staring carefully for a long while, he still saw nothing.
That left him a little dejected.
"...But Yan Hua is still very clever."
Black Cat withdrew his paw, lowered his head, and licked the fur on the back of it, his voice growing a little muffled. "Since it couldn't find two-point-five-dimensional food, it settled for the next best thing and sought out 'causal lines'—in all things, where there is cause, there must be effect. A causal line is a dimensional line that truly exists, yet cannot be seen. In dimensional theory, Wizards often group it together with dimensional lines such as 'thought' and