"Power has a cat?"
Denji's impression of Power was that she was crazy and kept to herself.
But keeping a cat took patience and a sense of responsibility.
Clearly, Power showed no sign of either virtue.
"How did you know I had a cat?"
Power looked suspicious.
She had planned to trick the two of them into rescuing her cat.
Then she would knock them out when they weren't looking.
That would give her something to trade to the Bat Devil for her cat.
But Meng Fan had blurted out an offer to find the cat, throwing off Power's plan.
"When you were in the hospital room, I kept seeing you leaning on the windowsill watching the stray cats outside. I figured you must have had a cat."
"You even noticed that? I'm liking you more and more." Power smiled and moved closer to Meng Fan. "I do have a cat, but she's gone missing."
"So Power really does have a cat. I can't believe someone like her keeps one. Bet it ran away on its own."
"You... I don't think we're the same kind of person," Power said angrily, pointing at Denji.
"We never were. If you didn't have something I wanted on your body, I wouldn't even bother with you."
"I have something you want?"
"He means these." Meng Fan pointed deliberately.
"These?" Power looked baffled, then asked, "Don't you have your own?"
"Are you a pervert? Who gropes their own chest? Besides, I'm a guy."
"Boring. You're only interested in my pecs and can't see any of my other good points." Power was unimpressed by Denji's interests.
"Other than being big, you don't seem to have any good points."
"All right, stop bickering. If we don't get moving, I'm afraid the Bat Devil will use your cat to replenish his blood."
"The Bat Devil! You even know about the Bat Devil!" Power was so shocked that she looked Meng Fan over again. For the first time, she felt curious about a human.
"Tell me, have you been stalking me? When I lived in the woods, I often felt someone following me. That must have been you."
"The Bat Devil? What are you talking about?" Of the three, only Denji was completely lost.
"The Bat Devil took Power's cat, and he's using the cat to threaten her, demanding a human in exchange."
"That bastard!"
"How do you know everything? You've definitely been stalking me!"
"You'll never understand my secrets," Meng Fan said with a smile. "But once I rescue your cat, you have to agree to one condition."
"No problem. As long as you help me save my cat, I'll agree to anything." Power answered readily, without even thinking.
"Can I grope them?" Denji perked up at once and hurriedly asked.
"No problem. You can do whatever you want." Power agreed just as readily. As a fiend, she didn't care about being groped.
If anything, she thought trading a grope for her cat was an incredible bargain.
"Can I use both hands?" Denji asked again, only for Meng Fan to rap him on the head.
"This is an agreement between Power and your master. If you want that, find another way."
"Then you don't want to grope them, Master?"
"Grope my ass. Your master isn't that lecherous."
With that, he hailed a taxi.
"Get in. We'll talk about the rest on the way."
Once the three got in the car.
The driver greeted them with a smile.
When he saw that the passenger in the front seat was a fiend, his smile instantly froze.
"A devil..."
"Don't be scared. We're Public Safety Devil Hunters, the helpful, harmless kind."
"Public Safety Devil Hunters?" The driver was sweating profusely, his hand already gripping the door handle.
"Next time, I have to ask Himeno for a police ID. Otherwise, I'll have to explain every time."
"Relax, old man. I'm not interested in older men like you. All you need to do now is drive. If you delay me from rescuing my cat, I'll be very unhappy."
Power glared at the driver.
The driver's legs had already started shifting toward the door.
His hand slowly pulled the door handle.
But Power immediately caught on and grabbed his arm. "If you dare run, I'll twist your head off right now."
"I... I won't run. Where do you want to go?"
The driver hurriedly drew his trembling legs back.
"The outskirts. Just keep driving, and I'll tell you where."
With that, Power leaned back and propped both legs above the car's air vents.
"Okay, okay."
The driver wiped the sweat off his forehead.
Then he started the car.
"Don't be scared, sir. We're all good people. We won't hurt you, and we'll pay the fare."
Seeing that the man's legs were trembling so badly he couldn't drive, Meng Fan hurried to reassure him.
"I can tell. Otherwise, I'd already be dead." The man forced a faint smile.
"How about turning on the radio to lighten the mood?"
"Okay." The driver didn't dare refuse.
A cheerful song played through the car's speakers.
The man instantly felt much more relaxed.
By the time they were halfway there, his worries had gradually faded, and he started chatting on his own. "What are you going to the outskirts for? Is it a mission?"
"Yeah, we're going to save my cat."
"Save a cat? That cat must be very important to you."
"That's right. She's very important to me. She was my only companion when I lived in the woods."
"If you're going all this way to rescue a cat, you must be a kind girl."
Hearing that they were going to rescue a cat.
The man finally felt safe and no longer regarded the three passengers as bad people.
"She's only kind to cats, not to us," Denji couldn't resist sneering, as though he couldn't stand hearing anyone praise Power.
"If your master weren't here, I'd definitely knock you out and hand you over to the Bat Devil."
"If it weren't for getting to grope you, I wouldn't have come."
"I never said you could grope me. Only your master can. I'd even let him do it all night."
"What?! All night?" Denji felt as though he'd been struck by a bolt from the blue. Something that blissful was actually happening right beside him.
Then his attitude did a complete reversal. "Don't worry, Power. I'll definitely save your cat."
"Tch, I don't need you. Your master is way stronger than you."
"Master, could you let me have this chance?"
"Even if I agreed, Power wouldn't."
"Then... make sure you shake my hand when you're done."
"What are you thinking?" Meng Fan rapped Denji hard on the head. "Your master isn't that kind of person. I have a different request."
"What request?" Power turned around and asked.
"I'll tell you once we've saved the cat."
"What are you going to grope?" the driver cut in.
"What, you want to do it too?" Power asked fiercely.
"If you need help, I could give it a try."
"Fine. Since you're driving us, you can do it too."
"What?! Even the driver gets to?" Denji was shocked all over again.
"That's right. What about it? You're the only one who can't."
Power stuck her tongue out at Denji.
In the back seat, Denji was already positively sour with envy.
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