Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Zhang ZIan was speechless. Vladimir was a very common name in Eastern Europe, but Richard even linked it with Putin. It was absolutely a deliberate ridicule.
“Ga ga! Have you not heard, ‘If you don’t know King Putin, then there’s no use calling you a hero!’” Richard started talking nonsense again.
Vladimir did not know that Richard was teasing him. It answered seriously, “If it’s in vain then let it be in vain. I’m not a hero anyway.”
It answered so seriously that Richard did not know what to respond. “Ga ga! So you have some self-awareness.” Richard had thought for a very long time before responding.
Vladimir raised up a front paw and clenched it tightly, then said solemnly, “I’m not a hero, and I don’t need to become a hero. A single person’s strength is weak; the strength of a group of people is the strongest! All the glory belongs to the cat citizens!”
Richard was unable to respond again. It could only sigh and say, “Ga! This is really boring. There’s no point in even teasing Vladimir. It’s more fun to tease the idiot below me.”
Zhang Zian: “…”
Old Time Tea and Famous introduced themselves to Vladimir separately.
“So strong!” Fina suddenly muttered in a low voice.
“What?”
Fina’s voice was very soft that Zhang Zian almost did not hear it.
“I’m saying that it is very strong.” Fina widened its eyes, staring intensely at Vladimir’s back. “I have never seen a cat of so much strength. It’s even slightly higher than mine…”
Zhang Zian was so shocked that his mouth hung open. “What? Stronger than you?”
Fina was a cat that the game said was “half-epic and half-legendary, just a step away from god level.” If Fina itself admitted that Vladimir could be even stronger than her, then wasn’t that a real legendary elfin?
No, no… Vladimir’s rank was half-epic and half-legendary, as well. It was probably not a legendary elfin. At maximum, it was just half a step away…
Now that they were on the topic, there had been a lot of questions about Vladimir from the start. Zhang Zian suspected that before the game showed the hints that it was already in the capital; the strange stray cats that seemed like they were watching them could prove that point.
Another piece of evidence was that the crawler program that [Collapse The World] had written had started to gather information from before, but had not found any evidence that there were cat abuse cases in the capital. If it was not Vladimir’s doing, that would have been impossible.
If his guesses were true, that could only mean that it could control when it was detected by the game, and that was an ability the other elfins did not have. Of course, Galaxy was an exception. After all, Galaxy could not be caught and could only be drawn from the lucky draw after finishing the beginner’s task.
“At least not weaker than me.” Fina did not look like it was joking.
It could feel that the power of belief in Galaxy was as elusive as a nebula, and its strength was hard to estimate. The power of belief in Old Time Tea’s body was as quiet and restrained as a mountain, and the power of belief in Vladimir was unshakable… Like a burning wildfire, it could erupt at any time and burn everything up.
“Right-–why did you complain that my name is long but not its name?” Fina suddenly thought about that, then coldly looked at him. Its gaze told him that she would decide how to deal with him based on his answer.
“Meow, meow, meow! Your Majesty, do you even need to ask? It must be that he’s favoring one over the other and wants to make things hard for you! Your Majesty, why don’t you send him to the service room?” Snowy Lionet took advantage of the situation, working hard to alienate them from each other.
Zhang Zian did not think that Fina would actually remember such a thing. He was not prepared for her question at all.
At that time, he had complained that ‘Fina Paris XIII, The Protector of the Kingdom of Eternity’ was too long and too hard to say, so he had simplified it to “Fina” on his own. Now that Fina was challenging his logic, what was he to do?
However, he had a lot of experience after constantly battling with wits and bravery, and he was smart in times of crisis. “It’s not that I’m favoring one over the other, but it’s just that when your name is simplified, it’s still very nice. When its name is simplified, it won’t be nice! Think about it––Vladimir… When you shorten it, doesn’t it become lackey? How unpleasant to hear!”
“Zhi zhi!” Pi also nodded its head to agree, expressing that it was easier to meet the word count like that…
He did not know whether Fina agreed with his explanation, or if it was because he said that Fina’s name was nice, but either way, Fina hmphed and was not angry anymore. It did not question him any further, which made Snowy Lionet feel very disappointed.
“Horrible man who just spouts flowery language all day long, you’ll be sent to the service room eventually!” Snowy Lionet said fiercely.
Old Time Tea and Famous introduced themselves to Vladimir, admitting that they were the ones who had followed Zhang Zian in their invisible states to chase it that day.
Vladimir did not express any unhappiness, but it was curious about how to become invisible.
After Galaxy was released, looking thoughtfully out of the window in some direction in the darkness, its silver-grey eyes twinkled and it then turned its head to stare sideways at Vladimir.
“What is it, Galaxy?” Zhang Zian was done with dealing with Fina troubling him. He noticed Galaxy’s odd state and walked over to talk to it.
“Meow. It’s nothing.” Galaxy shook its head. It happily ran in front of Vladimir, raising its front paw and saying, “Meow. I’m Galaxy. You play hide-and-seek very well. Do you want to play hide-and-seek together?”
Vladimir laughed loudly. “Hide-and-seek? You think that’s a game? All right, it’s all right to call it hide-and-seek. The trick is very simple: it’s ‘Enemy advances, I retreat. Enemy stationery, I disturb. Enemy tires, I attack. Enemy retreats, I chase.’ A sixteen word proverb only.”
Galaxy tilted its head, showing that it did not understand.
Zhang Zian said, “…Wait, what you’re saying isn’t the trick to hide-and-seek, right?”
No wonder it was always running in circles around me. The assh*le used military tactics to deal with me!
Thinking back to the whole process of chasing the Warding Off Evil Cat, besides the lack of “enemy tired, I attack,” the whole thing was basically exactly the same as the other 12 words. Was that considered killing a chicken with a cow knife?
Vladimir heard the sound of flowing water in the bathroom and asked curiously, “Who else is here?”
Zhang Zian waved his hand. “Don’t need to bother with it. That’s a big-breasted, small-brained mermaid. She’s called Sihwa. She’s currently a mess, so just wait to meet her tomorrow.”
It nodded. “We can talk about hide-and-seek when we have the time to. Let’s talk about actual things now. Where is the cat abuser? I’ll f*cking beat them up!”
Fina was also very concerned about that problem and was even more concerned about the location of the Holy Cat Statue. It was precisely because Zhang Zian promised that he could find the solution in the capital that it had followed him.
Zhang Zian waved his hands. “This problem cannot be clearly explained in such a short time. We can talk about it again tomorrow. Everyone is so tired, so let’s get some good rest tonight. It’s not that pressing.”
Actually, he was just pacifying Vladimir. Its likability was not high enough yet, so how could it leave the pet shop?
