Their subsequent chat further confirmed Xie Wen's guess-Kaido Meow really was a Palico version of Flame.
More precisely, an enhanced version.
Because, besides stopping the Rampage, investigating and repelling Thunder Serpent Narwa and Wind Serpent Ibushi, accepting an invitation from a distant kingdom to travel to Elgado, repelling Gaismagorm, and all those other events from Rise, Kaido Meow had a whole series of other accomplishments.
For example, he had also defeated Akantor, Jhen Mohran, Amatsu, Velkhana, Ahtal-Ka, and Alatreon.
So Kaido Meow hadn't just followed Flame's script, but those of several other games as well, even the spin-off Monster Hunter Stories.
Xie Wen was speechless after hearing about Kaido Meow's experiences.
For reasons of platform availability and time, he hadn't played every Monster Hunter game, so Kaido Meow's actual experiences covered even more than the game stories he had played through.
And what left Xie Wen even more speechless came afterward...
Apart from Gaismagorm, the last one he had repelled, whose materials he hadn't had time to incorporate, Kaido Meow had integrated materials from all those calamity-class monsters he had previously repelled into his Kanabō. So even without eating the Sakura Dragon Fruit, Kaido Meow could still unleash elemental attacks involving wind, lightning, fire, ice, and the like.
In fact, before that, he had also added materials from other monsters to it, but compared to calamity-class monsters like Akantor, those monsters' materials hardly amounted to anything.
It was precisely because of this that Kaido Meow had named his Kanabō the Eight Calamity Ring.
What could he say?
Though it left him speechless, the name actually made quite a bit of sense...
After welcoming their newest member, Kaido Meow, Xie Wen and the others set sail again.
Xie Wen and the others had several objectives ahead of them-
Picking a fight