"Ahem... um... sorry about that. I didn't know that little rascal Klee had asked for it herself."
Xie Wen looked at Ivankov, whose face now bore a fist mark in addition to the cat claw marks, and apologized with an awkward smile.
Then he irritably tapped Klee Meow on her little head. "You little dummy. You called Yamato an idiot for thinking of himself as a man earlier, so why are you copying him now?"
"Oh, right! Klee doesn't want to be a dummy, meow!"
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The little dummy was still easy to fool. As soon as Xie Wen said that, she shook her head with a rumbling purr.
Feeling offended, Yamato protested indignantly, "You two! That's so rude!"
But Xie Wen ignored him, because someone else there had reacted even more strongly...
"I can't pretend I didn't hear that, Xie Wen-boy!"
As a standard, pure member of the LGBT+ community, Ivankov immediately expressed his displeasure at Xie Wen's words.
"Whether you're a man, a woman, or an Okama! What you want to become is your own personal freedom! I transcended boundaries like gender long ago! This is a brand-new kind of human! A 'new human'! Hee-haw!!!"
New human, my ass... I might as well say I'm a New-Type!
Though in the One Piece world, New-Types (Observation Haki) weren't exactly rare.
Speechless, Xie Wen rolled his eyes at Ivankov, who was loudly proclaiming his views while striking exaggerated poses, the corners of his mouth twitching wildly.
Rather than engage with Ivankov, he turned and tapped Ai Haibara Meow, Suika Meow, and Jinx Meow on their little heads, one after another. They had surrounded Ivankov along with Klee Meow earlier.
"Klee doesn't know any better, but don't you two? What kind of big sisters are you? Huh?!"
"Meowhahahaha! I thought