Chapter 14 “Funeral Send Off Part 1”
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In the face of Dawn’s question of dealing with the ghost, Boink merely shook his head while the cat lady frowned in contemplation. It doesn’t look like any of them has a good plan.
“I have an idea.” Shadow unexpectedly spoke up, “But we will need you to participate in the plan Landlord.”
“What’s the idea? Elaborate!” Dawn’s eyes lit up because he had no intention of staying out of the matter to begin with.
“We wait. Once they start fighting, we will swoop in like a sparrow and knab the prize once they’re weak.”
Boink immediately objected, “Che~ And here I thought you had some amazing plan in mind. Those monster hunters will likely set up an interference barrier once the battle starts. How will you find them? The suburb here is so big so you can’t expect us to run around every day to look, do you?”
“Stupid hamster, do you really need me to teach you some common sense? While you were asleep yesterday, the monster hunters already visited the house. I secretly snuck a strand of my hair on one of them to track them using that. You should be thanking the Landlord and me for keeping you safe.”
“Huh??” Boink’s face got all shocked. First eyeing the cat lady to make sure she’s not bragging and bullshitting himself, the hamsterling quickly realizes it’s the truth once Dawn nods as well.
Why do I get the feeling that I’m always on the losing end against her?
After suppressing the hamster’s arrogance, Shadow continued, “The connection with my hair will be cut once they set up a barrier. At that point, we only need to head over to the last known location.”
Dawn became overjoyed due to how reliable and good-tempered the cat lady was. If all monster kind were like this then the world would be a lovely place to live in.
“What can I do?” The guy asked curiously.
“Pretending to be a monster tamer, a fringe profession similar to a monster hunter.”
As said that, the lady immediately took out two black collar-like necklaces from god knows where and handed one to Boink. “These are taming collars I stole from a monster tamer hundreds of years ago. Don’t worry, the guy’s likely long dead by now so they’re ownerless.”
Boink took the black collar with a dazed face. He’s heard of this profession from only the books he read, never has he seen anything from this profession in real life.
Unlike monster hunters who would immediately exterminate any supernatural creatures they come across, monster tamers wouldn’t do that. Instead, this group likes to control monsters like slaves. It’s a fate worst than death.
Where did this catling come from to get her hands on something this rare?
“Landlord, you have to pretend to be the tamer in charge of us two; otherwise, those monster hunters will consider us in the same category as that ghost and attack us.”
Dawn’s eyes got a strange look in them: “I say…. It can’t be that you were scheming this on the monster hunters to begin with?”
“Ahaha, how is that possible? I’m a monster, the last thing I want to do is get in their faces, how can you think that way?” Shadow snorted and turned away to hide her guilt.
“In short, we will use this free time to prepare ourselves for the upcoming fight. Landlord, you only need to hide once the battle begins. Leave everything to this hamster and me.” After saying that, she jumped off the windowsill in her cat form and headed for the living room.
“So what do you plan on doing right now? Do you need my help with the preparations?” Dawn asked due to how motivated he has become.
“I’m cooking of course. Watching you all night has made me hungry.” Shadow said naturally, “Landlord, if you are okay then come help me wash the rice.”
“Okay….”
In comparison to Dawn’s mentality of facing an epic mission at the 007 James Bond attitude, these two tenants are too hard to read. They were still discussing a heavy topic a second ago and now they’re readying to eat breakfast. Honestly, this cat lady had no sense of urgency at all.