Yamato and Ace truly deserved to be good friends. Neither wanted to acknowledge his own father, and both were bent on calling someone else-or some other cat-Dad...
After seeing through his intentions, Xie Wen scratched his head speechlessly, then looked at Kaido Meow, who had already rolled onto his back and narrowed his eyes in comfort under Shirahoshi's practiced hands.
"Kaido, what do you think?"
"Meow?"
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Kaido Meow opened his eyes and tilted his head in confusion. "You can decide something like that yourself, Sapphire Star. Why ask me, meow?"
"Well, naturally, that's because..."
Xie Wen's gaze traveled between Kaido Meow and Yamato several times before he rubbed his brow and helplessly exposed Yamato's intentions. "This guy probably wants to find some fatherly love in you..."
"...Meow?!"
"Huh?!!"
"Whoa-"
"Pfft, cough, cough, cough..."
"Big Brother Kaido's going to be a daddy, meow? Yay!"
The people and cats present expressed their shock in different ways, then turned curious, astonished gazes on Yamato. Even the already-blind Issho opened his eyelids in surprise and turned his clouded eyes toward him.
Far from feeling embarrassed or wanting to explain himself after Xie Wen exposed his intentions, Yamato admitted it with complete conviction.
"That's right! Compared to that Bull-Headed Gorilla who tried to kill me several times, this Kaido who stood up for me is much more like my father!"
"But..."
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Kaido Meow had never expected that merely criticizing Kaido's behavior because he could not stand it would give Yamato the idea of "adopting a cat as his father." He scratched his ear helplessly. "I'm not even thirty yet. You might actually be older than me, meow..."
"Whaaat-?!"
Yamato had not expected this imposing-looking Big Maine Coon, with his mature and steady bearing, to actually be so young.
Now things really were a