"Isn't it normal for a mouse to be afraid of a cat? Why are they talking about this for so long? " Canine Deacon mumbled, "But I'm more curious about why Angor brought it out all of a sudden."
Dog Deacon said as he tried to get closer to take a look at Little Mouse, half drunk.
However, before it could get any closer, Nakobei's fur stood up again and began to run around frantically.
This time, it was even crazier. Even when it bumped into the cage, it would stand up and run in another direction.
Seeing this, Luigi sighed and moved to block Canine Deacon's way, as well as Nakobei's vision.
Nakbi calmed down a little when he didn't see the dog deacon. However, his milky white fur was still standing on end because the dog deacon's aura in the air hadn't really disappeared. This made him very frightened.
Luigi looked at Nakobei's cautious movements and looked at Canine Deacon's stiff expression. "Don't mind it. Like you said, it's normal for a mouse to be afraid of a cat. Isn't it normal for a mouse to be afraid of a dog?"
Canine Deacon frowned at Luigi's words. But it couldn't refute because Luigi was right. Nakobei's reaction was proof enough.
"What a coward." Canine Deacon looked at the mouse cage and cursed under its breath. It returned to its paw pillow. "If you're scared of me, won't you be scared to death if you run into snakes, owls, and weasels in the future?"
Luigi rubbed his chin as he listened to the dog deacon's ridicule. He pondered seriously and said, "What you said makes sense. In the future, we really have to train its courage or prevent it from meeting its natural enemies."
Canine Deacon rolled its eyes at Luigi. "I'm not giving advice. Let's get back to business. Why did Angor bring it out? What's wrong with it? "
Canine Deacon was asking Angor, but Luigi was the one who answered.
Luigi said, "Didn't I just say that?"
Dog Deacon: "???" When did you say that?
Luigi snorted. "I asked Angor a question just now. Don't tell me you forgot."
Of course, Canine Deacon didn't forget Luigi's question when Angor brought out the cage: "Is Nakobei awake?"
But was that the reason?
Facing the dog deacon's suspicious gaze, Luigi nodded. "That's the reason."
Canine Deacon looked at Angor in disbelief. Angor nodded in agreement. "Yes, that's a good reason."
Canine Deacon: "…"
Seeing Deacon's reaction, Angor's's explanation, he explained Nakobei as well as the Behemoth.
"In other words, it's actually not that important. What's important is that it's tied to the Behemoth, and the Behemoth is the inventor that you all value?" The dog deacon gave a conclusion based on his own understanding of the situation.
Angor did not find anything wrong with this conclusion. That was the gist of it.
But after Luigi heard that, he refuted, "No, Nakbi is also very important. .. it.............
"What's so valuable about it?" Canine Deacon frowned.
Apart from its resemblance to Pi Feifei, Nakobei had no other strong points. Not to mention its intelligence. What was so valuable about it?
Luigi snickered. "That's because you can't see it."
Luigi dragged Angor to the side. "Angor knows about it too, right?"
Angor: "???" What do I know?
Before Angor could say anything, Luigi added, "Angor was the one who told me about Nakobei's uniqueness."
Angor realized that the "Riddler Effect" was working again.
It had been so long, yet Luigi still remembered Angor's "performance" back then. Angor didn't know what to say.
But since he was the one who performed the "Riddler Effect", Angor didn't want to ruin his own performance. He nodded with a smile.
Seeing Angor nodding, the dog deacon grew even more confused. He even began to doubt his own judgment. He knew Luigi was unreliable, but Angor … didn't seem like someone who would lie about something like this.
Did Nakobei really have something valuable that Canine Deacon didn't know about?
Nakobei carefully inspected Nakobei's cage and used Mind Reading on it. However, apart from "scared", "terrified", "full", and "want to run laps", Nakobei didn't get anything else.
It could roughly understand the first two messages, but what were "I'm so full" and "I want to run laps"?
Nakobei began to observe Nakobei carefully, which led the others to look at it as well.
However, Little Red and Shipolov were observing Nakbiben while Luigi and Laplace were scanning the cage. The reason why they were observing the cage was because they found something strange.
"It's gone …" Laplace muttered.
"It's gone. Did Angor put it away? Or was it … eaten by it? "
"What's gone?" Canine Deacon looked at Luigi in confusion.
Luigi didn't answer. Instead, he looked at Angor, as if asking for his opinion.
"I didn't put it away. It must have eaten it …" Angor answered.
After a while, Canine Deacon finally got an answer from Angor.
They had a "pointed fruit" with a spiral pattern on it, which was an inferior version of the "Orc Speech Fruit". It could help animals that couldn't talk.
Because Nakbi was too stupid, he couldn't even learn how to speak. Therefore, they found the sharp fruit and planned to use it to help Nakbi open his mouth.
The reason why Nakbi fell into a coma in the cage was because he was stimulated by the spiral patterns on the fruit.
Even though Nakobei was unconscious due to the energy, they didn't take the fruit away. Instead, they left it in the cage.
Nakobei was the only one left in the cage, and the spiral pattern was nowhere to be seen. Nakobei ate the pointed fruit after waking up.
Angor wasn't surprised at all. Back then, he used an illusion spell to convince Nakobei to eat the fruit, which was exactly what Nakobei wanted to eat the most.
Nakobei fainted, but the "hint" didn't end there. When Nakobei woke up, the "hint" took effect again, and Nakobei immediately went to eat the pointed fruit. This was perfectly normal.
The only thing that surprised Angor was the size of the pointed fruit. It was almost as big as Nakobei. How come Nakobei couldn't tell that it ate it? Nakobei did look a little chubbier, and its stomach was a little bigger. But when Angor looked closer, it was just an illusion.
Laplace explained, "The pointed fruit is a special kind of fruit. When Nakobei eats it, the energy inside will turn into liquid and flow into its body."
This was why Nakobei couldn't tell that it ate the pointed fruit because the flesh of the fruit had turned into a concentrated energy liquid.
It didn't look like it, but Nakobei's need for energy had reached its peak. Judging from the current situation, Nakobei wouldn't need to consume any energy for at least half a month.
"I see." Angor nodded.
As soon as they said that, Luigi couldn't help but say, "Whether it's full or not is another matter. What's more important now is that since it has already eaten the sharp fruit, why didn't it say anything?"
Luigi said as he squatted beside the cage, trying to tease Nakbi to make him talk.
But no matter how hard Luigi tried, Nakobei just curled up in a corner and shivered in fear.
Seeing Nakbi ignoring him, Luigi frowned. "Could it be that the Fruit of the Beast Language is fake?"
"Correction. That pointed fruit is a lower-level fruit of the Orc Fruit. It's not the real Orc Fruit," Laplace corrected him.
"I'll correct you too. There are so many people around, including cats and dogs. Even if it can talk, it's too scared to do so."
Luigi would have refuted if Dog Deacon was the one who said that. But since Luigi was being pressured by both Laplace and Angor, he had no choice but to raise the white flag. "What should we do then?"
Angor considered. "Leave it to me."
Luigi looked at Angor's expression and knew what he was going to do, so he quickly stepped aside.
Next, Angor snapped his fingers. A thin layer of magic mist instantly appeared around the cage and completely covered it.
However, the illusory fog this time was different from before. It was one-sided.
In other words, Nakobei couldn't see the outside world, but Angor and the others could see through the mist and see Nakobei inside.
With the cover of the fog, Nakobi's stiff body began to relax.
It didn't think that the mist was just a paper lake, and it couldn't protect itself from those who would really hurt it.
It just felt that if it couldn't see the people outside, then it would be safe … It was purely deceiving itself.
But it wasn't surprising. The "pointed fruit" Nakobei ate only helped it talk, not improve its thinking. Considering its current intelligence, it was already good enough that it was able to guard itself against outsiders.
Under the cover of the mist, Nakobei slowly turned into a "rat cake". From this, it could be seen that Nakbi had completely let down his guard.
However, this wasn't enough to make it talk. Angor needed some external stimulation.
And the best way to do that was to use Nakobei, or Behemoth.
However, Behemoth was still studying in Peluzzo's base, so Angor couldn't summon it here. So, he decided to use Illusion to create an illusion of Behemoth.
Angor raised a hand, and the mist around him rolled out, revealing a gray-furred mouse.
This gray-furred mouse with a tuft of golden hair on its head was Behemoth's illusion.
As soon as' Behemoth 'entered the cage, Nakbi was awakened by the commotion. The originally limp' Rat Cake 'also became stiff again.
It timidly raised its head and looked in the direction of the "movement". It was stunned by what it saw.
When it saw the familiar figure walking toward it, Nakobei's beady eyes turned into small puddles and began to fill up with water.
When Nakobei saw Behemoth's appearance, tears began to flow out of its eyes like water.
Nakobei stood up, mumbled something, and lunged at Behemoth.
However, what it pounced on was nothing but empty air …
Angor already removed the illusion of Behemoth when Nakobei approached. Using Behemoth's emotions to trick Nakobei wasn't going to go overboard.
It was better to treat it as a dream.
Besides, their experiment was over, and Nakbi had spoken.
Angor heard Nakobei mumbling something when it was about to attack Behemoth.
Although Nakbi had only said a few words in a low voice, his words were unclear and his voice was obviously childish. But it was speaking Peluzzo's language.
It was Peluzzo's language because Nakobei was born in Peluzzo's language. Even though Nakobei couldn't understand the language itself, it had already memorized it in its mind and became the center of Nakobei's language.
Under the stimulation of the sharp fruit, the Peluzzo's language automatically replaced Nakobei's previous "mouse language" and allowed Nakobei to express its emotions and thoughts in Peluzzo's language.
Angor couldn't understand Peluzzo's language at all, but everyone else here could.
Luigi said, "What it said just now, if translated, probably means' miss'."
Canine Deacon jumped out and explained, "Yes, it means' missing '. But it added something else, which can be translated as' missing you '."
Luigi rolled his eyes at Canine Deacon. "That's more like it."
"Missing you and missing you are two different things," Canine Deacon said. "You can miss anything, but you're the only one who misses you."
Luigi opened his mouth but couldn't think of anything to say.
Little Red, on the other hand, spoke up for Luigi. "That's not right, Brother Doggy. That 'humph' is a way to address itself."
"If you want to translate it …" Little Red tilted her head and considered carefully. "You can translate it like this:
"— Ratty misses you."
"Ratty" was Nakobei's way of expressing "I", which meant "I miss you".
Luigi and Canine Deacon looked at each other and didn't say anything. It seemed neither of them wanted to accept the other's opinion.
Laplace made the final decision. "Little Red's translation is the most complete and accurate."
Little Red's thoughts were similar to Nakobei's, not only because of their similar age, but also because of their naive way of looking at things and their similar simple words.
But even Laplace didn't expect Nakobei to call itself "Ratty".
Was it trying to be humble and not trying to act cute?
Little Red's "complete translation" made everyone look at her. Little Red felt a little embarrassed being stared at. At this moment, she suddenly thought of something and said, "Oh right, I smell a very strange smell on Little Rat."
Her words successfully diverted everyone's attention.
Compared to the sample translation, this one was more interesting.
Little Red's ability was unique, and in a way, it wasn't inferior to Canine Deacon's.
If Little Red said she smelled something "strange", then it must be something else.
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