Chapter 211: Is This Cat Crazy? (1/2)

“I caught you red handed, what else do you have to say for yourself!?”

Eyes glued to the two fruits in Mo Na’s hands, the flames around Anmi roared with an intensity matched only by his fury. Beneath him, the twisting shadow shot towards Mo Na like some kind of shadow demon.

“Step back.” Even while all the arguing was going on, Sinmosa’s and Sasani’s gaze never once left Anmi. Thus, the moment he launched that shadowy attack, the couple immediately dashed in front of Mo Na. Suddenly, the twisting shadow, upon being stretched to its utmost limit, waved about like a palm tree in a hurricane and sprayed a barrage of countless shadow blades at Mo Na.

Seeing that, the two Cerberuses opened all six of their jaws and let loose a sea of flames from their mouths. Husband and wife working together, this showdown between fire and shadow merely lasted two seconds before the roaring flames completely overwhelmed the shadow.

“Nyaaa!!”

Still surrounded in flames, Anmi hissed furiously before rushing forward in a blind fit of rage.

Like that, cat and dogs met once more and a heated battle ensued.

Sinmosa and Sasani were already at the level of Five-stars but Anmi was clearly stronger than them, though he still wasn’t quite at the level of a Six-stars yet. Because of that, this battle was basically a done deal right from the get go. This was especially so since the Purgatory Shadowcats didn’t really possess much of an advantage in a melee, let alone in one where they were outnumbered.

While Anmi’s shadow magic was still a fearsome and unpredictable threat, it wasn’t to the extent where he could take on two enemies roughly at the same level as him.

Seconds later, a visibly suppressed cat laid before us on the ground, held down by a paw from Sasani.

“Hmph, and here Mo Na thought you were some kind of super kitty. Look at you now, you ended up pressed against the ground after all.” Now that the battle was over, Mo Na was more than ready to resume her gloating, having stowed away some of the fear and shock she had on just now. “Hah, next time pick a fight with someone your own size.”

“If it wasn’t for them ganging up on me…I wouldn’t have…oof pfft..lost in the first place!” Having been pressed to the ground by Sasani’s paw, the furious cat struggled to even talk as pieces of black weeds entered his mouth from time to time, causing him a great deal of discomfort in the process. “Pfft pffft pffft…let me go, you fiendish thieves!”

“Thieves this, thieves that, how annoying, ever since we met you, you’ve been saying that we stole your fruits, well then, do you have any proof that the fruits belongs to you?”

“Those Meowberries were all grown by me, if I say they belong to me then they belong to me.” Anmi obstinately staked his claim over the fruits. However, the very next second later, he was thunderstruck by what Mo Na said.

“What a joke, it’s yours just because you say so? Mo Na says these fruits were all grown by Mama and me.” As she said that, Mo Na lifted up a fruit to eye level and gave it a thorough look see. A long while later, she then shamelessly declared: “You say this is a Meowberry? But I don’t see your name on it, how about you call out to it and let’s see if it responds to you.”

“…” Anmi almost spat out blood upon hearing those words, his chest heaved and if looks could kill, his eyes surely would have murdered us all: “You claim to have grown those Meowberries, well, are your names on it then? Will it respond to you if you call it?!”

“Names huh, of course they are, just give Mo Na a second, she will find them for you.” She then pretended to search around the fruit while in actuality, she was clearly etching her name onto the fruit in question.

“Alright, here you go, those devil words are Mo Na’s name.”

Mo Na lowered the Meowberry to Anmi’s eye level and lo and behold, the devil words she mentioned were etched on it as she stated. The only problem however, was that they had clearly been etched on not too long ago…

Furious, Anmi spat out each and every word with deliberate force: “…I’ve never met such a thick-skinned, shameless thief in my entire catlife…”

“Hehehehe…you’re too kind.” Meowberry still grasped tightly in her hands, she placed a finger on her lips and gave a very, very smug smile.

“Mhm.”

For the most part, I didn’t find her mischievous and carefree nature to be a bad thing. However, I knew I had to separate the two of them before she thoroughly incensed Anmi. After all, we still needed the help of the Purgatory Shadowcats and offending Anmi too much was clearly not a good way to start that off.

*Ahem*

Hearing me cough, Mo Na knew that the gig was up so she unwillingly stepped away albeit with a pout on her adorable lips.

“Mister Anmi, if I let you go, will you calm down and talk to us?”

“…isn’t it a little too late for that…” Anmi tried to glared at me but he was swiftly fed a mouthful of dirt by Sasani’s paw press. Clearly humiliated and in great discomfort, the restrained cat did his best to struggle free but upon discovering that there was basically no hope, he finally caved in: “If…and I’m just saying if…you all are willing to talk…”

‘…you make it sound like we were the ones out for blood instead.”

I nodded at the Cerberus couple and the two lifted their paws off the poor cat. Still not too sure of Anmi’s trustworthiness, the two of them maintained a wary posture even after letting him go.