The Palico who had appeared out of thin air looked a little younger and smaller than Klee Meow, and her appearance bore a seventy to eighty percent resemblance to hers. Her fur, however, had tabby markings like Hua Mei Meow's, while her eyes were ice blue like Ai Haibara Meow's.
To put it simply, she was a long-haired tabby kitten.
But a closer look revealed more details, such as the curly tufts on her ear tips, exactly like Sanji Meow's, and her bootlike black hind paws.
Her paws also looked a little bigger than an ordinary Palico's. Meow Jūshirō and Link Meow shared this trait: both the little black cat and the little leopard cat had bigger paws than most Palicoes. In Meow Jūshirō's words, paws like these were born to hold swords.
Besides that, her nose was black like Meow Jūshirō's.
Klee Meow, Sanji Meow, Meow Jūshirō, Hua Mei Meow, and Ai Haibara Meow were all Palicoes Xie Wen had summoned before the "Art Is an Explosion, Pretty Black Cat Big Sister Maria" had been remodeled into the Toot Toot Forward.
So... had the Dudu's Klabautermann already appeared back then, or rather, taken shape?
No, Xie Wen looked more closely and noticed that her fur wasn't entirely tabby-patterned like Hua Mei Meow's. There were a few spots as well. It seemed Link Meow, who had joined shortly after the first remodeling, had also been included in the Dudu's Klabautermann's "material library."
As for her clothes, they were unlike any of the Palicoes': just a plain but cute white princess dress.
Xie Wen glanced at the Toot Toot Forward's cute design. That made sense, too.
"Who is she? Big Brother Xie Wen, how could you secretly summon a companion without telling Klee, meow?!"
Little Plushie, who still hadn't figured out