"Big Sister Huamei~ We're back, meow!"
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The slave traders they had expected never appeared. Instead, Xie Wen returned to the others with the three Little Furball Cats and several bulging bubble bags.
Meanwhile, Meowrah and Ai Haibara Meow had long since finished their research and material gathering.
"Admiral, something's a little strange, meow..."
Hua Mei Meow patted the head of the Little Plushie who threw herself at her, then sprang onto Xie Wen's shoulder. After rubbing against him out of habit, she leaned close to his ear and quietly told him what had just happened on their end.
"...Even if I knocked out everyone watching us, they shouldn't have gone this quiet. They should have sent more people over, meow."
"Probably because this isn't a good place to make a move." Robin came over as well and offered her analysis. "I just checked a map of the Sabaody Archipelago. Area 40 isn't directly connected to the Lawless Zone, and since this is the whole island's 'public face,' there are quite a few Marines on duty here. So even if those people have designs on us, they wouldn't choose to act here... meow."
After a moment's hesitation, she still added the cats' verbal tic at the end.
As someone who had spent twenty years on the run, Robin was actually very good at disguising herself. So even though she had only been whispering to Xie Wen and the others, where no one else could hear, she still diligently played her role as "Ottilia of the Cat Mink Tribe."
Besides that, dressed in her cat suit, Robin imitated the Palicoes' usual expressions and movements in everything she did. She would even lick her "paws" a few times and "wash her face" when she had nothing else to do.
*If those young