"Big Brother Xie Wen, what's wrong, meow?" Klee Meow poked Xie Wen's cheek with her little paw in bewilderment and asked curiously, "Why can Klee sense something from you... like the air Granny Cat and Grandpa Village Chief have, meow?"
"This idiot must have been crushed by you, Little Sister Klee, meow!"
Having heard their entire conversation from the mast, Sanji Meow leaped back down onto the deck. Mocking Xie Wen, he scrambled onto his other shoulder, then copied Klee Meow and poked Xie Wen's other cheek with his little paw.
"Ahem..." Xie Wen hurriedly snapped out of his state of giving up. First, he shot the little bastard Sanji Meow a fierce glare, then quickly changed the subject. "Klee, you're amazing! You really awakened Observation Haki!"
"Really, meow?" Sure enough, Little Plushie forgot their previous topic. A little proud and a little bashful, she burrowed her little head into Xie Wen's neck. "Ehehehehe... Klee isn't as amazing as you say, Big Brother Xie Wen~"
"No, no, no, you're the best of all of us!" Xie Wen pointed at Sanji Meow on his other side. "Never mind that I haven't learned Observation Haki after all this time. That little dummy Sanji is a Palico just like you, and he's older than you, but he hasn't learned Observation Haki either. Doesn't that prove how clever you are, Klee?"
As he spoke, he raised his eyebrows at Sanji Meow on his shoulder.
Come on! Let's hurt each other!
"That's because I haven't focused on practicing Observation Haki yet, meow!" Dragged into it by Xie Wen, Sanji Meow instantly flew into a rage. Flattening his ears, he yelled at Xie Wen, "Unlike you, idiot! You've practiced for so long without getting anywhere, meow!"
"That's not true, meow!" Just as Xie Wen and Sanji