"Sherwin!!! You idiot! Die, ow—!!!"
Early in the morning, Sherwin was jolted awake by a piercing roar.
However, he had only just opened his eyes and hadn’t even figured out what was going on when a pitch-black thing had already pounced onto his face, gnawing and scratching at him nonstop.
"What? What? What going on here?"
With a completely blank expression, the Hunter only managed to fully wake up after taking several rounds of cat punches and bites, shaking off the haze of just having woken up...
There was no helping it. Last night, using the excuse of leaving Totto Land and setting sail once more, Suika ow had dragged everyone into holding a banquet and poured quite a bit of alcohol into Sherwin.
While he hadn’t been drunk to the point of losing consciousness, his reactions right now were still noticeably slower than usual.
Sherwin first tried to get up, but just like always, he failed because other cats were pressing him down.
He could only struggle to pull his hands free and lift up the little cat that had pounced onto his face...
And then he beca even more confused.
Because this little black cat in front of him—flailing its limbs wildly and twisting its head, trying its hardest to bite his palm—was not any of the cats from the Commission.
"Seijuro ow? No, he a long-haired cat, and bigger than this... wait! This biting strength... Haibara ow?"
Finally, through the familiar sensation of being gnawed on, Sherwin confird the other party identity.
As for why he was so familiar with it...
Well, that was another sad story altogether.
"Wait... did you get sprayed by an octopus or sothing? How did you turn yourself into the sa state as Seijuro ow... pfft, pfft, pfft..."
Looking at the pitch-black little kitten in front of him, Sherwin couldn’t hold back the schadenfreude welling up in his heart and burst out laughing.
"Wasn’t this your doing, ow?!"
(=◣皿◢=)
The newly appointed "little black cat" bared her fangs and roared wildly.
"What kind of stupid nonsense are you talking about..." Sherwin pointed at Klee ow, who was rubbing her eyes on his chest, and at Shermie ow, who was stretching lazily on his belly.
"Every ti I sleep, I get completely suppressed by you little guys. Where would I even get the chance to change your color?"
"Huh? Big sister Haibara ow has beco the sa as big brother Seijuro, ow! Hahahahahaha! Big sister Haibara ow, you look so funny like this, ow!"
Klee ow, who had also just been woken up, pointed at Haibara ow being held up in midair by Sherwin and laughed so hard she rocked back and forth, eventually slipping and tumbling off him by accident.
Even so, the little Palico didn’t stop laughing, continuing to roll around on the bed while cackling uncontrollably.
"Hehe~ actually, this color suits little sister Haibara ow quite well, ow~"
After finishing her stretch, Shermie ow spoke the honest truth while licking her paw.
Indeed, Haibara ow, that little scher, really did suit black quite well.
Sherwin and Shermie ow exchanged a perfectly tacit glance...
Then he suddenly froze.
"What wrong, ow? Sherwin?"
Shermie ow, who was licking her paw and washing her face, looked at Sherwin in confusion, not understanding why he was staring at her with such a strange expression.
"Uh... before you laugh at Haibara ow, you’d better take a look at yourself first."
Sherwin reminded her with a helpless laugh.
"ow hahaha! Big sister Shermie ow face is so funny too, ow!"
After finally catching her breath a little, Klee ow collapsed back onto the bed, laughing all over again.
The beauty-loving little forest cat quickly pulled out a tiny mirror, only then realizing that at so point she had been given heavy makeup...
Long eyeshadow stretched all the way to her ears, a bright red circle sared around her mouth, and even two patches of blush added to her cheeks.
The overly exaggerated makeup not only failed to make Shermie ow prettier or cuter, it actually made her look even more ridiculous than the pitch-black Haibara ow.
"ow—!!! Which bastard did this?! I’m going to electrocute him into charcoal, ow!!!"
∑(=`Д=)
Shermie ow was so angry that all the fur on her body stood on end.
Haibara ow, who had been furious just monts ago, instantly felt much better after realizing she wasn’t the only victim—and was even a little happy...
At the very least, she hadn’t been painted this ugly.
"Jinx! Was it you, ow?!"
The enraged Shermie ow slamd her paw down on the little blue cat who was rolling around on the bed together with Klee ow.
It was normal for her to suspect this, because aside from fighting and making weapons, Jinx also had a hobby of graffiti.
From ti to ti, she would draw street-art–style images on the ship, and she had even "done makeup" on Klee ow figurehead before...
In the end, the little ragdoll cat was furious, and Sherwin, together with her—the real culprit—had to coax her for a long ti before she finally cald down.
Besides, those little fur cats who had drawn on Sherwin face back then had included her as well... she had a prior record!
However, Shermie ow soon let Jinx off the hook, because Jinx own face had been drawn into an absolute ss—looking even worse than her own heavy makeup.
"Ahhhhh! They actually dared to prank ! Who on earth was it, ow?!!"
(=益)
After Haibara ow and Shermie ow, Jinx—the little mad cat—also exploded.
In truth, the little blue cat quite appreciated the street-art–style graffiti on her face.
But appreciation was one thing it didn’t stop her from wanting to give a ruthless beating to whoever dared to prank her.
After a bout of total chaos, everyone who had gathered on the deck discovered that this ti, the victims weren’t limited to just Haibara ow and the others.
Originally, the little black cat Seijuro ow was probably the least affected of all the cats—he only had a crescent moon drawn on his forehead, cosplaying Judge Bao ow for a bit...
Well, Sherwin had naturally told the cats plenty of detective stories before. But with Haibara ow around, Conan wasn’t easy to talk about, so he told them stories about Young Justice Bao instead.
Link ow situation wasn’t serious either. Since he mostly communicated through expressions, he only had a big black "X" painted over his mouth.
Sanji ow had a pair of peach hearts drawn over his eyes, with extrely exaggerated "drool" sared around his mouth.
The little alcoholic Suika ow had several spiral circles added to her head, probably symbolizing how she was drunk all day long, along with blush on her cheeks carrying the sa drunken implication.
Aside from the cats, the crybaby Shirahoshi had two strings of teardrops painted on her face, while Robin had gained a pair of "glasses" that suited her temperant perfectly, as well as a small flower on her forehead representing her Devil Fruit ability.
All in all, although it was a prank, that mysterious individual was not just scribbling at random.
"So that ans only Sherwin, Klee ow, Purah ow, and I weren’t pranked, ow?" Huai rested her chin on her paw and pondered.
"I can understand not drawing on , but why weren’t the three of you drawn on either, ow? Were you trying to confuse everyone, ow?"
The other victims, bristling with anger, surrounded the three of them, clearly intending to conduct a thorough interrogation.
As for Huai, no one thought she would do sothing like this, so she was the first to be eliminated as a suspect.
"Talk! Which one of you did it, ow?!"
(=`Д=)
The "little black cat," with her fur standing on end, shouted as she questioned them, her gaze mainly locked onto Klee ow—the little troublemaker with a prior "record"—and Sherwin, who had once been drawn into a big ss of a face and thus had a possible motive for revenge.
"It wasn’t Klee," the little ragdoll said, waving her paws repeatedly and shaking her head in denial.
"If Klee did sothing that would definitely get her locked up, she would for sure drag companions along to share the punishnt, ow, and she would definitely draw on Brother Sherwin too! Just like last ti, ow!"
"I’m still right here!"
Sherwin knocked lightly on her little head with an annoyed look.
Although the little ragdoll reasoning sounded sowhat childish, everyone accepted her defense with surprising ease.
As a result, Sherwin imdiately beca the target of everyone suspicion again.
"I already said it—if I had done it, you guys lying on top of would definitely have noticed," Sherwin shrugged.
"And besides, if I were getting revenge, how could this little one Klee ow possibly escape?"
Klee ow imdiately answered Sherwin with a decisive kitty punch.
In the end, everyone looked toward Purah ow, but honestly, just like Huai ow, no one really believed that the usually well-behaved little Devon Rex would do sothing like this.
Purah ow, however, said, "I wouldn’t be that stupid. If it were , I’d definitely draw a few strokes on myself too, just to clear suspicion, ow... Co to think of it, could the culprit actually be among you, ow?"
As soon as she said that, the cats who had been pranked imdiately began glaring suspiciously at one another.
"I think I might know who it is..."
Just as the cats were falling into mutual suspicion, Sherwin suddenly understood why the four of them hadn’t been pranked.
He gently tapped the deck beneath him and said, "It was you, wasn’t it? Dodo Advance."
"What kind of stupid nonsense are you saying, —ow—!!!"
Haibara ow, her face full of irritation, was cut off halfway through her words and jumped three feet into the air in shock.
Because a Felyne none of them had ever seen before was cautiously peeking out from behind the mast directly in front of Haibara ow, sneakily sticking out her fluffy little head.
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