"Mm, if you're planning to hold a criticism meeting, then besides the parrot and Qingqiu Club incidents, I suggest adding one more charge." Jiang Yu, who had been standing off to the side, suddenly curled her fingers and rapped on the counter, jolting Dr. Xiao out of his gloom.
Xiao Xiao raised his head and looked blankly at the witch.
Class Monitor Jiang lowered her hand and pointed at the floor beneath their feet. "It looks like our publicly funded student didn't just send invitations to parrots this time... We have new guests in the shop."
Xiao Xiao froze for several seconds before suddenly understanding.
"Clothed Rats? They don't really count as new guests. They came before you did... But after scouting the place out, they all went back, saying they'd received some kind of message." Dr. Xiao patted his head as he stood up and explained, "Things were pretty busy just now, so I forgot to tell you about it."
"Clothed Rats?" Jiang Yu raised her eyebrows, clearly having no idea what Dr. Xiao was muttering about.
After standing, Xiao Xiao leaned over the counter and glanced downward. His mouth immediately snapped shut.
What crouched at the witch's feet were not the Clothed Rats he had expected, but a group of cats.
Big cats, little cats, tortoiseshells, calicos, long-haired cats, bobtails, and more—more than a dozen in all—were lined up neatly at the witch's feet in front of the counter. They sat there with their heads raised, staring upward with round, wide eyes. Meanwhile, the lively Little Witch Li Meng had long forgotten about the caged mice and the people around her. Happily crouching down, she was even petting the cats.
Xiao Xiao was very familiar with the cat leading them. It was the Ragdoll Cat that often followed