"Has Huamei left, meow?"
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Klee Meow furtively poked half her face out from behind Xie Wen's head. Only after cautiously looking around did she let out a long sigh of relief.
"Phew-Klee was scared to death! I almost got locked up by Huamei again, meow!"
(=3)
Not knowing whether to laugh or cry, Xie Wen tapped her little head. "Didn't Huamei already say she wasn't bothered by what just happened?"
"She said that, but it's still scary, meow!"
(=`ー=)
The little Ragdoll, lively again, planted her paws on her hips and huffed, sounding confident despite having no grounds to be. Who knew what she had to be so proud of?
After muttering smugly for a while, Klee Meow suddenly remembered something and began fiddling with Xie Wen's ear again.
"Xie Wen, now that we've got a new Logia Devil Fruit, can we summon another friend, meow?"
(=ω=)
The Cat Princess, who was fighting her own clone nearby, kicked it into a puff of smoke when she heard this, then darted over too.
"Are we summoning another Palico? I haven't seen that before!"
(ω)
But Xie Wen disappointed them.
"Ugh! Don't even mention it!"
Xie Wen waved a hand dejectedly. "We're still a long way from summoning a new kitty!"
Xie Wen hadn't been wrong about Sakazuki's Magma-Magma Fruit carrying more weight in the plot than Monet's Snow-Snow Fruit. It just hadn't carried as much as he had imagined...
After the "Technical Adjustment," a Logia Summon Ticket had gone from requiring three Fragments to five, so Xie Wen hadn't held out much hope of getting a whole ticket. But surely it would at least give him three Fragments, putting him on par with before the adjustment, right?
Instead, he had only gotten two.
Those damned Hunter's Notes were as