"Admiral, time to get up, meow!"
Early the next morning, Xie Wen was woken by Hua Mei Meow pushing his head.
He opened his eyes and looked at the sky...
"What time is it even?"
Xie Wen raised his head slightly, then immediately let it drop again, ready to go back to sleep.
"It's six o'clock, so you should get up now, Admiral, meow."
Hua Mei Meow kept pushing his head, refusing to give up.
And at the sound of her voice, Klee Meow and Sanji Meow, who had been lying on Xie Wen, woke up too. As usual, they sat on top of him and groomed themselves.
As for Meow Jūshirō...
After Xie Wen had helped bathe him last night, the samurai cat had gotten a little sulky and climbed onto a nearby cabinet, making his intention to "cut ties" with Xie Wen quite clear.
Of course, under the current circumstances, even sleeping on top of the cabinet hadn't spared him from being woken up.
"I'm not like you guys. I can't just close my eyes and catch up on sleep anytime, anywhere... Let me sleep a little longer."
Xie Wen kept his eyes tightly shut, pulled Hua Mei Meow into his arms, and reached out to scratch her chin.
But the tabby, who normally loved being petted this way, showed no attachment to it now. She twisted out of Xie Wen's arms, blocked his nostrils with her little paw, and kept urging him, "I know human sleep schedules very well. There's nothing wrong with you getting up now, Admiral, meow. You can take a short nap at noon, so hurry up and get up, meow!"
Clearly, although Hua Mei Meow hadn't grown up in the military as Li Huamei had, she had developed similar habits. On a matter