Cat-petting was a skill that took talent, too.
Even though he had taught Robin everything he knew, all the cats, including Sanji Meow, who was always at odds with Xie Wen, unanimously agreed that his petting simply felt better...
That made Xie Wen incredibly pleased with himself.
What was more, this talent had nothing whatsoever to do with his cheat, because even before crossing over, Xie Wen had been especially popular with the cats and dogs at the rescue shelter and in his residential complex.
Still, this talent did not put Xie Wen's cat-petting skills in a league of their own compared to everyone else's, so Robin, who had successfully mastered his teachings, was already capable of sharing his daily cat-petting workload. After all, with more and more cats joining them, his two hands simply could not keep up.
And for Robin, who possessed the Flower-Flower Fruit's ability, there was practically no difference between petting one cat and petting a hundred...
Seriously, I'm still so jealous!
Aside from their daily training and cat-petting, everyone also gathered frequently to discuss how the Toot Toot Forward needed to be improved.
Since Xie Wen had already considered the possibility of summoning a Shipwright Cat, he had asked Iceburg for the Toot Toot Forward's blueprints back then, and Meowrah used those blueprints as the basis for designing upgrades to the ship.
Ai Haibara Meow provided technical support, looking into how they could make use of all the Research Commission's existing technology, while Meowrah occasionally built a miniature model of the Toot Toot Forward to check whether the current design would actually work.
By the time they sailed back to Water 7, the new Toot Toot Forward's blueprints had reached their sixth revision. This version had also won everyone's unanimous approval and was essentially settled