With Shalmeow's speed, there was naturally no way the Seastone in Cat Princess's hand could touch her. In her elemental form, she flashed half a meter away in a streak of lightning, flicking another bolt at Cat Princess as she retreated.
Unlike the warning bolt from before, however, Shalmeow was taking this attack rather more seriously.
Cat Princess's current behavior could no longer be explained away as a simple prank. Shalmeow felt she needed to teach this newcomer some manners on Xie Wen's behalf.
"You can actually turn into lightning? How interesting!"
(ΦωΦ=(ΦωΦ)
After easily dodging the lightning, Cat Princess watched Shalmeow, whose entire body was wreathed in electricity, with interest. "Were you made out of lightning too, just like those little animals?" she asked curiously.
She had barely paid attention when Xie Wen explained the One Piece world earlier, so she did not remember anything about Devil Fruits having different categories.
"I'm a purebred Palico! Much purer than you, meow!"
(=`Д=)
Already displeased with Cat Princess's behavior, Shalmeow bristled instantly. She raised a paw and created a vast net of lightning, sending it down over her opponent.
"Let's see how you dodge this, meow!"
But Cat Princess simply lowered her head and began making digging motions at the Dudu's deck. Then, in a thoroughly unscientific turn of events, a huge cloud of dust appeared around her.
Then Xie Wen and the others watched her use the dust as cover to swiftly "burrow" into the deck.
Burrowing was nothing unfamiliar to the Palicoes, but burrowing into Treasure Tree Adam, which was harder than steel-and, more importantly, leaving absolutely no trace on the deck afterward-was fucking unscientific... even in the already less-than-scientific One Piece world.
So she even inherited her original gag-character traits?
Xie Wen pressed a hand to his forehead,