Event Story – Cyber Animal Panic! ch.5

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Gast: Dr. Nova! Sorry this is sudden, but there's something we'd like you to cheー

Victor: Oh my, Gast, Ren. Is something the matter?

Gast: Doctor!?

Ren: Why are you in Dr. Nova's lab...?

Victor: Nova is on a business trip for an academic conference and for some time I will take over part of what he does.

Ren: Dr. Nova is away...

Victor: Correct, so I shall help you on his behalf.

Ren: ......

Gast: In this case, let's have Doctor take a look Ren.

Ren: But...!
......
... I would rather not show it to him. Sorry for interrupting you.

Gast: O- Oi Ren!

Cat?: Meow~

Ren: !! No, don't come out...!

Victor: Is it perhaps the cat over there? The thing you wanted me to check...?

Ren: T- This is just a plushie!

Gast: Give it up, Ren, that's not very convincingー



Victor: The cat... disappeared?
I did not see wrong, did I?

Gast: Ahー no, it disappeared for real. The cat's still here.

Victor: Here...
... I see. One would think there is nothing, but you feel fur to the touch where the cat was.

Ren: ... Don't touch it so roughly.

Victor: Apologies. But even so, this is quite a fascinating cat. Is the body invisible, I wonder?
My, it returned to its original state. Is it the cat will what makes it do that? Or mayhap some sort of law...?
Hmm, it appears to be injured, let's have it examined for now.

Ren: ... No thanks. Who knows what you'll do.

Gast: Hang on, Ren. Even if you say that, 's not like we can do anything by ourselves, right?

Ren: ......

Gast: Don't worry. It's not like Doctor's suddenly gonna bite.
If we stick to him like this, he won't be able to do anything strange, right?

Victor: Outrageous. I will simply check on the cat condition.

Ren: ... Okay. However, don't go administer it medicine all of a sudden. Nutritional supplements either.

Victor: ... Fufu, I understand.



Ren: ......

Gast: What did you find, Doctor?

Victor: Let's see. It suffers from fatigue and moderate malnutrition, there are bruises and scratches all over its body, but nothing life-threatening.

Ren: I see...

Victor: However, I do not comprehend why it turns invisible. Let's preserve it at HELIOS for a while and see how things progress.

Ren: Preserve...?

Victor: Exactly. We certainly cannot take it to a public veterinary clinic in this state, now, can we?
And it is reasonable to think that its invisibility was affected by a "substance".
Where on earth did this cat come from? It would be nice if there was something that could tell us the whereabouts of its owner...

Ren: It didn't even have a collar...

Victor: Is that so? Very well, I shall check with the headquarters if there is a missing report of a big cat. I will notify you then.

Ren: ... Sure.

Gast: Would be nice if we knew where it was before.

Victor: It would be even better if that was a nice place for the cat, though.

Ren: What do you mean...?

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