"Meow!!!"
Blue Cat let out a shrill cry and leaped into the air, but instead of pouncing on J in a desperate fight, it jumped straight down from the tree and landed in the waiting arms of Agent K below.
Yet even after Blue Cat left the branch, the tree did not stop shaking. If anything, it grew more violent. Its leaves rustled nonstop as if battered by a gale, while its trunk trembled fiercely, as though the roots beneath it were about to burst from the ground.
The next second, the branch snapped back and coiled around Agent J like a snake, wrapping him into the shape of a spring roll. Then it stretched out into a tentacle and began repeatedly slamming him left and right.
"Thud thud thud thud!!!"
Drumlike impacts rang out as Agent J's head struck the ground hard enough to compress into his chest. The tree had come alive, and it was beating the hell out of J for climbing onto its head.
First came an old-tree-entwining-roots move, followed by a set of Soviet squats. It treated J's head like a walnut to crack.
Not far away, Agent K, who was petting the cat, sighed. He had told J long ago that he couldn't handle it, but J insisted he could. In the end, he had not even figured out which one was the alien.
He took out his sunglasses and put them on, then handed the kitten to the old lady waiting nearby. The cat had a collar, which meant it had an owner. Combined with the fact that the old lady had called the police, it was obvious that this cat was an Earth native—a perfectly ordinary cat.
J had been talking to a cat, so naturally the translator had not worked. Otherwise,