Developing the Demondrug line of potions still needed a little time, but processing Suika Meow's alloy took hardly any effort, so Ai Haibara Meow soon put together another member of her "Slime Army" using the Tiger-Tiger Fruit...
Though given the Tiger-Tiger Fruit's circumstances, calling it the "Cat-Made Logia Army" was actually more appropriate.
Without the ability to turn from gas into liquid, its body consisted entirely of solid metal powder, so the Tiger-Tiger Fruit Xie Wen had named "Jean" could not freely change her size like Sherry and Vermouth.
But for the cats, who had Spatial Backpacks, that was hardly a problem. Ai Haibara Meow only needed to store most of Jean's body in her bag and take it out when it was actually time to fight.
Normally, Jean kept herself a little bigger than Ai Haibara Meow, roughly the size of a large dog, and served as her mount...
Well, Ai Haibara using Gin as a mount was a certain kind of reversal of the natural order.
Besides Ai Haibara Meow, the two little ones, Klee Meow and Dudu, would occasionally run over to ride her around the deck.
Klee riding Jean, and a Klabautermann responsible for carrying people getting a mount of her own-those were another two different kinds of reversals of the natural order...
Xie Wen increasingly felt that the name he had chosen could not have been more fitting.
"Why do you keep staring at Jean, meow?"
(=ω=)
Ai Haibara Meow noticed Xie Wen occasionally glancing at the metal tiger, and also realized that most of those glances came when they were riding her...
After pondering for a moment, the clever little kitten raised a paw and patted Xie Wen's thigh, comforting him. "Don't worry. Even with Jean around, we still prefer being on you, meow~"