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When the two Shadow Cats appeared on the wall simultaneously, a prompt had already appeared before Amamiya Natsuki's eyes.
You discovered two Shadow Cats. The useless biological almanac has been unlocked.
Please do not harm the kitten in front of the cat mother. The consequences will be severe.
The prompt in front of him was crystal clear.
The two Shadow Cats in the abandoned factory were mother and daughter.
Since there was a mother-child bond, the next steps would be easier…
"Madam, you don't want your daughter to get hurt, do you?"
Hearing Amamiya Natsuki say the above words so casually, everyone was instantly shocked.
Meow meow meow?
What does he mean?
Is he going to use the daughter to threaten the mother?
Shikimori's smile was strained, and she hesitated, "...It sounds like something isn't quite right."
Pansy pushed up the glasses on her nose, her tone strange, "Every word is ordinary, but when read together, I don't know why, it just feels a bit terrible."
"It's very terrible." Hedgehog-head Boy narrowed his eyes and couldn't help but complain, "Using the daughter to threaten the mother, if we switch identities, aren't we the villains?"
Facing the complaints of the three passerby players, Amamiya Natsuki was noncommittal, turning to look at Kaguya-san and asking,
"Hood-nya, what do you think?"
"It's not excessive." Shinomiya Kaguya's expression was calm and rational, "When you feel soft-hearted, you can think about your experience of being pounced on just now."
To achieve the goal, no means are too low.
Mercy to the enemy is cruelty to oneself.
Not to mention just monsters, even monsters disguised as humans, Shinomiya Kaguya would at most hesitate for a moment; when it's time to be decisive, she will be decisive.
Hedgehog-head Boy heard this, looked down at the bleeding gauze on his right hand, and remembering the moment of death when he was almost dragged away, he immediately said,
"You're right, today we're going to let that cat Madam know our cruelty!"
"Very good, ambitious." Amamiya Natsuki gave a thumbs up, looking at the Shadow Cat at the edge of the light, "Madam, did you hear that?"
"If you don't come out and surrender, Yamazaki-kun is going to do something unforgivable to your daughter."
"Hey, who would do that!" Hedgehog-head Boy was so angry his liver hurt, and he couldn't help but shout, "That's a cat, alright!"
Before, there were the three giant lizard warriors of India, and after, there was the sixty-year-old man from Malaysia, and even motorcycle exhaust pipes, and car exhaust pipe warriors; humans never stop on the path of seeking perversion.
"Madam, did you hear that?" Amamiya Natsuki looked at the cat Madam at the edge of the light and shadow, "Yamazaki-kun said that even if your daughter is a cat, he won't show mercy."
"I didn't say that!" Hedgehog-head Boy narrowed his eyes, "And how are you sure it's a female cat? What if it's a male cat?"
Pansy pushed up the glasses on her nose, "A cat made of shadows might not have a gender."
"I have a cat at home." Shikimori, holding her bamboo sword, said, "Generally speaking, cats with three colors of fur are female cats, except for orange cats, of course."
Amamiya Natsuki raised an eyebrow, looking at the three, and said in surprise,
"I was just trying to ease the tense atmosphere; why are you taking it seriously?"
"..."
The three opened their mouths, speechless.
"The method is simple." After the joke, Amamiya Natsuki quickly got to the point, "Take off the wooden board on the cardboard box. The cat we've trapped in the cardboard box's shadow will definitely try to jump out and escape."
"What we need to do is, the moment that cat jumps out, we hit it back."
"...Understood."
Regarding life and death, no one would be soft-hearted, and the key was that the thing wasn't a real cat, just an indescribable mass of shadow.
"Start now." Amamiya Natsuki's gaze shifted to Pansy, "Class President, you remove the wooden board from the cardboard box."
Braided-hair girl nodded, "Leave it to me."
Unconsciously, she had quietly accepted the Class President setting.
Amamiya Natsuki then looked at Kaguya and Shikimori, "Are you all ready?"
"Ready."
The two girls nodded.
Amamiya Natsuki called out in a deep voice, "...Class President."
Pansy understood and quickly pulled away the wooden board pressing down on the wooden box.
The shadow on the wall changed accordingly, and a cat in shadow form leaped out, precisely in Amamiya Natsuki's direction.
Amamiya Natsuki didn't hesitate, swinging the baseball bat for a hit.
Bang!
A strange hitting sound seemed to echo in his ears.
Although the bat was swung into the air, it genuinely gave feedback of hitting a solid object.
The Shadow Cat failed to escape and fell back into the cardboard box.
It could be seen that the shadow striking method could indeed cause damage, but the damage was clearly not high. In less than two seconds, the Shadow Cat leaped out of the cardboard box again.
Whoosh—
This time it was Shikimori.
The pink-haired girl pursed her pink lips, her pretty face taut, her expression serious, gripping the bamboo sword with both hands, and swung it down.
On the wall, the shadow of the bamboo sword slashed down from the air, once again striking the Shadow Cat back into the cardboard box.
After being attacked twice in a row, a faint cat's wail could be heard in the air.
The cat Madam, who had been lingering at the edge of the light and shadow, finally couldn't sit still and pounced towards the shadows of the three.
Shinomiya Kaguya's delicate brows furrowed slightly. She quickly placed the wooden board in her hand in front of the flashlight, and a thick wooden board shadow was immediately projected onto the wall, blocking the cat Madam's sudden attack like a wall.
Crack!
A crack silently appeared on the wooden board, clearly bending inward.
"Here."
Hedgehog-head Boy quickly handed over a new wooden board.
The five players worked together, doing unforgivable things to the daughter right in front of the cat Madam.
It could be seen that the cat in the trap's pouncing movements became slower and slower, and the frequency also became lower and lower, while the faint wailing in the air became clearer.
Listening to her daughter's wails, the cat Madam finally lost her sanity and calmness, no longer making tentative attacks, but frantically scratching at the wooden board's shadow.
"Now!"
Shinomiya Kaguya held her breath, quickly picked up the cardboard box she had just made, calculated the position and angle in her mind, and placed the cardboard box in front of the flashlight.
The shadow of the cardboard box precisely covered the cat, and then it trembled violently.
"Quick, reinforce the cardboard box."
"Don't let that cat run out."
Everyone's eyes lit up, and they quickly went forward to reinforce the cardboard box.
A moment later, the cardboard box finally stabilized.
"Hoo…"
Pansy couldn't help but let out a light breath, raising her hand to wipe the sweat from her forehead, "Is it over?"
Shikimori, however, did not relax her guard, "I wonder if there will be a third cat."
"There isn't anymore."
Amamiya Natsuki's tone was certain.
The prompt in front of him was quite clear.
[A family must be neat and tidy. Both daughter and Madam have been successfully captured. Parent-child donburi, tastes good!]
The others were half-believing, only Shinomiya Kaguya had no doubts, "If there were a third cat, with such a big commotion just now, it would definitely have appeared."
"Let's go."
Amamiya Natsuki clapped the dust off his hands, opened the door, and calmly walked into the brightly lit Corridor.
Shinomiya Kaguya followed closely.
The other three players cautiously followed.
The path was unobstructed.
Safe and sound, no accidents occurred.
Walking out of the abandoned factory, all players simultaneously received a game notification.
[Dungeon cleared…]
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