Unlike other ship spirits that like to hide from people, after the Dodo Advance ship spirit revealed herself, she never disappeared again, spending all day mingling with the juvenile group like Klee ow and the others.
As expected, our ship spirit really is different!
Although the Dodo Advance ship spirit looked very much like a troubleso little kitten when she first appeared, in reality, Huai ow workload didn’t increase because of her. On the contrary, it beca much lighter.
Because once the little kittens knew of the ship spirit existence, when they were being naughty—so long as they didn’t go completely overboard—they would still pay attention to avoiding damage to the ship.
As a result, even though the number of little kittens increased, the level of chaos actually dropped to a certain extent.
Of course, as the price for reducing the abuse suffered by the ship, a certain so-called Hunter, who was in truth nothing more than a living cat climbing fra, naturally beca the little kitten substitute target...
Originally, Sherwin already had two cats permanently stationed on his shoulders, fully equipped in a state that could be described as wearing "Felyne pauldrons."
After adding the even smaller ship spirit kitten of the Dodo Advance, his head now also gained a "cat helt."
What more, this little fellow Dodo Advance especially liked to lie upside down on Sherwin head, then let her big brush-like tail hang down in front of his face, flicking it from ti to ti...
It was as if Sherwin face had gained an oversized windshield wiper.
Aside from that, Dodo Advance also helped Huai ow reduce the burden of navigation.
A ship spirit can freely control her own rudder and sails, so now Huai ow only needs to tell Dodo Advance when a change of direction is required.
There no longer any need to constantly have Sherwin or the Felynes—who are in charge of steering but have rather average sense of direction—make repeated adjustnts like before.
Only when they encounter especially violent storms or waves, situations where Dodo Advance alone can’t properly control the ship, do Sherwin and the others need to lend a hand.
And precisely because of this, Sherwin, who was already quite idle aboard the ship, beca even more leisurely—though it also conveniently gave him more ti to be tossed around by the little kittens...
Well, the timing worked out perfectly.
Of course, the appearance of the Dodo Advance ship spirit wasn’t just about giving the little kittens another playmate or activating an auto-sailing function...
"Ah! It ti! Dodo Advance! Co into the lab with , ow!"
Haibara ow, who had been chasing and playing around with Dodo Advance, suddenly stopped, turned around, and grabbed one of her arms.
On the other side, Purah ow also set aside the machine she was assembling, rushed over, seized Dodo Advance other arm, and together with Haibara ow dragged the utterly unwilling ship spirit toward the laboratory.
[owuuuu... I don’t want to eat anymore, let go, okay? Sister Klee, save , ow!]
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The little kitten twisted her head around and looked pitifully toward the small doll she was closest to.
"But... wasn’t this sothing you agreed on with Sister Ai and the others, ow? Klee really shouldn’t interfere."
The little doll, who had originally wanted to step forward and help plead her case, imdiately stopped in her tracks after eting Haibara ow gaze, which was full of warning...
Sister Ai potions sll far too terrifying—this isn’t because Klee doesn’t want to save you, ow.
The little doll, who had learned to be sensible from Sherwin, silently recited this in her heart and then sent Dodo Advance an encouraging look.
And the reason things turned out this way was actually because it had been Dodo Advance own request in the beginning.
After all, faced with a miraculous existence like a ship spirit, Haibara ow and Purah ow, the two research-minded cats, were brimming with curiosity.
But out of consideration for Dodo Advance feelings, they restrained themselves from dragging her straight into the lab for research.
Then, when it ca ti to eat, Dodo Advance watched everyone enjoying their food with great relish and imdiately grew curious, taking a bite out of the roasted at in Sherwin hand.
However, despite being able to interact with everyone normally—grabbing things, and even biting Sherwin ear at tis—after she swallowed that bite of roasted at, it imdiately passed straight through her body and went "plap," dropping onto the deck.
After a series of further tests, Dodo Advance discovered that she simply couldn’t eat at all.
Drinking water or beverages was possible, but she couldn’t taste anything either...
So Haibara ow, that little scher, took advantage of Dodo mont of dejection and tricked her into the laboratory on the condition that she would help her get sothing to eat.
And thus, Dodo began her miserable life as a lab test subject.
Of course, Haibara ow and Purah ow would never actually hurt Dodo. Otherwise, there would be no need for Sherwin or Klee ow to step in—Dodo herself could simply turn into the ship spirit state and hide back within her original body.
The reason Dodo resisted so strongly was mainly because scientific experints were inherently tedious, and for Dodo, as the experintal subject, the process was even more boring.
For a ship spirit with a cat-like personality, this was naturally far from a pleasant experience.
Fortunately, Haibara ow and Purah ow were still quite considerate toward Dodo, their youngest sister.
After so bargaining, they agreed that Dodo would only need to cooperate with their experints for one hour each day.
Even so, every ti it ca to that hour, Dodo acted as if she were being sent to be tortured.
Actually, if the goal were simply to let Dodo eat food, Sherwin did have a thod in mind, and Haibara ow had thought of it as well—that was to have Dodo original body "eat" a Devil Fruit...
After all, both Sherry and Dodo could eat.
But unfortunately, Dodo original body was a ship. If she were to eat a Devil Fruit, she would be completely unable to sail,
because objects that have "eaten" a Devil Fruit, even if they do not switch into an animal form, will instantly go limp upon contact with seawater...
even if their original body was solid steel, it would beco soft and droopy like plastic lted by heat.
Although this problem could be solved by switching to the Valstrax form or the floating wyvern form, the sa issue remained: Dodo essence was that of a ship.
Compared to flying in the sky, she preferred sailing on the sea surface, and doing so would also render the sea leviathan form effectively useless.
So this thod was the one thing that simply could not be used on Dodo.
And although Haibara ow and Purah ow failed to find a way for Dodo to eat, the several experints were not entirely without gain.
At the very least, they gained a deeper understanding of the characteristics of Dodo as a ship spirit.
For example...
When Dodo original body switches into different forms, the clothes on her ship spirit also change along with it, transforming into the corresponding Felynes armor set.
However, this is rely a change in appearance. Dodo does not gain any additional attributes like in the gas, and the ship spirit herself also seems incapable of training.
After Haibara ow testing, Dodo physical condition was found to be completely fixed.
Whether it was strength, speed, or vision and hearing, none of it would decrease due to environntal changes, nor would it improve through training.
This was actually easy to understand. After all, Dodo original body was a ship, and the concept of "training" naturally did not apply.
As for whether further modification and enhancent of Dodo original body could improve the strength of her ship spirit, that would have to wait until they could find a shipyard later and test it slowly.
However, neither Sherwin nor the two research cats placed much importance on this experint.
After all, they were not at the point where they needed to send a ship spirit into battle, so whether Dodo beca stronger or not did not really matter.
The main research focus of Haibara ow and Purah ow, aside from finding a way to let Dodo eat, was solely to figure out the true nature of ship spirits.
"Once we figure out the essence of ship spirits, maybe we’ll be able to make the Spark Knight and the Angler also give birth to ship spirits, ow!"
That was the big promise Haibara ow dangled in front of Klee ow, and it was also the main reason—one of them—why the little Ragdoll so readily gave up on going to rescue Dodo...
Well, those prototype potions made by the little kitten were still quite intimidating.
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