The Strange Cat from Fuuto

"Sigh, what a life of toil!"

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Inside Dr. Maki's office at the Kougami Biological Research Institute.

He placed twelve coins in separate small plates and laid them out in front of him.

"Although Birth was taken away by that cat, I have other plans!"

Dr. Maki opened the drawer and a strangely shaped, mysterious driver appeared before him. His eyes gleaming with an odd light, he looked at the Core Medal in front of him and said:

"But speaking of which, with so many core coins, my experiments can begin!"

"Is the ultimate vessel the greedy one, OOO, or humanity itself?"

"We happen to have experimental subjects and materials now, let's begin the experiment!"

Dr. Maki, holding the doll steadily in one hand, arrived at the prison where the greedy were imprisoned. Ordinary prisons cannot hold greedy people, but with Miku's deterrence, these guys will not and dare not escape, otherwise being beaten up would be the least of their worries!

"Hey, everyone!"

With a cold expression, Maki's gaze swept over the four greedy men in the prison cell one by one.

He had memorized all the information on the four Greedy Ones. He had been observing them ever since they were resurrected. For him, if it weren't for Miku's interference, the cat-type executive, Shiro, would have been the most suitable person to observe and cooperate with.

They are ambitious, but they also have their own agenda.

Dealing with this kind of person is the easiest; as long as you find common interests, things become much easier.

But now that he had plenty of test subjects, he didn't need to think about so much anymore!

"You, a greedy person yet devoid of any desire, are the perfect test subject." His gaze shifted from the thief sitting on the ground, playing with the windmill brought by the researchers, to Aiqi. "And this one can also serve as a backup!"

"Thief, do you want the Core Medal?"

Dr. Maki spoke softly, his eyes fixed on Touuki's reaction. Upon hearing Maki's words, Touuki turned his head toward Dr. Maki and said in a simple, honest voice, "Touuki wants the Core Medal, and Aifin needs the Core Medal!"

"The thief wants it!"

With a slight smile, Daojiao reached out his hand to him and said, "Then come with me!"

"What do you want to do with the stolen horn?"

Ai-Chi was very wary of Maki. Standing in front of Toukou, Ai-Chi looked at Dr. Maki warily, while the latter said nonchalantly, "It's just a small experiment. Besides, don't you want your coins back?"

"I remember that you only have two coins in your bodies at most, otherwise you wouldn't be able to maintain your anthropomorphic appearance."

"Humph!"

"If I could get the Core Coin, I'd like to give it a try."

Suddenly, Duo Qiao, who was huddled in the corner, spoke up. Dr. Maki looked at Duo Qiao and refused, "Forget about you, my choice is him!"

"We may not be able to fight that damn cat, but saying no to you is still very easy!"

"Thief, don't go with him!"

Aifin commanded Thief Horn, but this time Thief Horn didn't obey as usual. Holding Aifin's hand, Thief Horn said in a low voice, "Aifin needs a Core Medal. Thief Horn will find you a Core Medal!"

Ignoring Ai-Chi's objections, Tou-Kaku opened the cell door and walked out on his own. Dr. Maki looked at Tou-Kaku with satisfaction and gestured for him to follow.

Upon arriving at his room, Professor Maki first handed him the Ground-type Core Medal.

"This is your Core Coin, absorb it!"

"it is good!"

The thief, having taken his own core coin, picked up a coin and inserted it into the coin slot that appeared on his forehead.

"Ding, ding, ding..."

Watching the thief fuse with his Core Medal, Maki said to the doll, "You'll see soon what happens when the Core Medals are all gathered in one container!"

The thief with the lower body armor that had appeared stopped moving, and Maki handed over the remaining seven coins, saying, "Continue!"

"But this is the core coin of the Lovefin!"

I said continue!

"Otherwise, I'll let that cat hurt Aifin!" Maki threatened Touka, pulling out Miku. The reluctant Touka took the core coins of Aifin, Touka, and Touka into his body.

"Uh... Ah..."

The bio-armor of the thief horn, which glowed with a dark purple light, was replenished and underwent new changes.

"The thief's entire body is brimming with power!"

"Lovefin, I'm here!"

"I've come to give you your Core Medal!"

The thief, having broken through the wall, ran straight toward the prison where they were being held.

"This feels like that guy who stole the horn, but this aura is too strange!"

As the mane-like creature sat up from the ground, Ai-fin leaned on the railing and looked out. Thief Horn, clad in heavy silver-gray armor, burst through the wall and came to her side.

"Lovefin, let's go!"

Ignoring the alarm bells inside the research institute, the thief carrying Ai-Fin ran wildly out of the institute.

In the chairman's office on the top floor of the headquarters building, Uncle Hongshang's landline rang. Uncle Hongshang picked up the phone and said to Miku, "Dr. Maki chose the Thief Horn as a container to hold all the Core Medals you stole, and now he has escaped from the research institute with the other three Greedy Ones!"

"what?"

The wriggling tail suddenly stretched out, and Miku said, "What is this guy doing? How could he do something so idiotic!"

"Isn't this great, Miku!"

"Acting according to desires, driven by the desires of one's own heart!"

"That's the beauty of humanity itself!"

"I don't understand you. I'm going to go and bring those guys back." Miku jumped off the sofa, walked to the door, waved to Uncle Hongshang, and said, "Following your heart's desires is not wrong, but I don't like things that are beyond my expectations!"

"Hahaha, so this is what you desire too, Miku!"

Chapter Thirty-Eight: Miku: I'm not only going to beat you up, I'm going to use my second transformation to beat you up too!

Miku took the elevator down from the chairman's office and squatted by the door, watching people come and go.

"It's a pity I'm not a greedy person, otherwise I could have found them by sensing their presence!"

With a sigh, Miku got up and walked towards the biological research institute. But was he really as helpless as he appeared?

The core issue now is the yam – it's scalding hot to handle, and eating it can burn you too.

Before dealing with the four escaped greedy individuals, he planned to have a good chat with Dr. Maki.

Soon after, Miku arrived at the Biological Research Institute and trotted towards Dr. Maki's lab. Passing the production line, she flicked her tail, catching several newly completed canning machines. Pulling open the tab, she ordered, "Go find the Greedy One! Report back immediately if you find anything!"

"Squeak squeak squeak..."

After making a series of unintelligible squeaking noises, the blue canned octopuses flew away in a group, and the staff nearby dared not say a word about Miku's behavior.

After all, this guy is practically the ancestor of the Hongshang Foundation!

Riding the elevator leisurely, looking at the thousands of vending machines displayed in the cubicles outside, Miku exclaimed, "Uncle Hongshang really went all out to help San Dan!"

"But the most important thing right now is to find that doll bastard and get to the bottom of things."

With its tail held high, Miku easily made its way to Dr. Maki's office. After opening the door, it found Dr. Maki sitting in his chair, while the doll sat posed on a small chair.

"What exactly do you want, Kiyoto Maki!"

Miku, who was crouching in front of the door, slammed the doorknob shut with his tail, blocking the doorway. He squinted at the man in front of him.

"Just to satisfy my curiosity."

“Curiosity?” Miku scoffed and continued, “I don’t believe such a ridiculous reason. Tell me, what exactly do you want?”

"I just want to see what happens when all the current core coins are put into one container!"

Dr. Maki, whose voice was always calm and composed, turned around and slowly said, "Everything in the world exists to bring about the end. I am just a catalyst."

"I'm curious whether the world will be destroyed or reborn when all the core coins are put together!"

"My personal view is... the end, the end of everything returning to nothingness!"

Miku, whose body was enveloped in a silent, emerald-green hexagonal halo, took a step forward and stood in front of Dr. Maki. He grabbed the other man by the neck and said indifferently, "I don't care what you want to see, but if you come here to ruin my plans, you're asking for death!"

"It's good to have ideals, but if you lose your life, you lose everything. Do you understand this principle?"

After leaving several bloody marks on Dr. Maki's neck with the claw blade of his left hand, Miku pushed him to the ground.

"You may not know what kind of family I come from, but I can tell you for sure that these hands are stained with a lot of blood!"

The heavy armor on Dr. Maki's right arm swept past his eyes, and his bangs fell down.

"I hope you can understand this, Dr. Maki!"

Miku, having deactivated her transformation, took two steps back, turned, and left. Watching Miku disappear into the office, Dr. Maki's face instantly turned extremely gloomy. Touching his broken bangs, he let out a cold snort.

"We need to speed up the development of the new drive!"

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"Are you alright, Aifin? I'll return your Core Medal to you right away!"

The goofy thief transformed into a humanoid form and tried to retrieve the Core Medals from his body. However, with fourteen Core Medals inside him, he had no way to control them, let alone retrieve them.

"That's strange, why can't I get it out?"

Electricity, like long snakes, snaked and crawled across Thief Horn's body. Seeing this, Aifin said, "My Core Medallion is also inside you, which means..."

"This idiot was used as a vessel by that doctor." The mane-wearing creature squatting to the side looked at the thief with a complicated expression in its eyes.

One of his own Core Medals was inside him, but he couldn't control the power of those Core Medals.

What a waste!

Duo Qiao sat on the old handle and snorted coldly. Ai Qi glanced coldly at his two former companions and pulled Dao Jiao up, saying, "Let's go, let's get out of here first!"

"Now that things have come to this, where do you think you can run to?"