Everyone stared at the pack of wolves Chen Yu had led over behind him.
They were too frightened to take even a step forward, and none of them knew where Chen Yu had found the pack.
Suika and Senku, however, noticed the wounds on the wolves. They looked as though something had whipped them or bitten chunks out of them.
Had Chen Yu bitten them?
"There's more." Chen Yu clapped his hands. "Mimi, come out." A massive creature slowly emerged from the bushes a short distance behind him.
"A tiger?!" Senku and Gen, who recognized the creature, immediately started shouting.
Senku might not have thought much of a wolf pack, but if Chen Yu could tame even a tiger, that was seriously nuts.
"Mimi?" Gen asked, trembling as he looked at the tiger sitting behind Chen Yu, licking a paw.
"Yep, Mimi, a big tabby. What do you think?" As he spoke, Chen Yu patted the tiger's head-no, Mimi's head.
"Mimi?" Kohaku was dumbfounded to see the tiger and wolves behaving so docilely.
"Mimi sounds like such a cute name, but looking at this..." Suika trailed off as she glanced at Mimi.
There was still blood on the tiger, and the heavy reek of it made the sight downright chilling.
(We already have aliens. Surely adding a tiger isn't going too far?)
"Apparently, back where Chen Yu comes from, lots of people call their cats Mimi, or name them after foods like Pudding, Jelly, or Fries. For dogs, straightforward names based on their colors seem more common, like Big Yellow, Big Black, Big White, or Little White," Gen explained after calming himself down.
"Cats? Dogs?" Kohaku, Suika, and the rest of the people from Ishigami Village looked bewildered.
Suika had a dog herself, but she didn't think she had ever