Jealous Ballie Runs Away
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Shao Zifeng returned to his rented house carrying a pack of bread and mineral water.
"Meow!"
As he closed the door behind him, the white cat was seen walking with graceful steps up to him, greeting him by cocking its tail straight up and rubbing its body against his legs.
"You are okay now?" Shao Zifeng squatted down to stroke the furry head of the cat. Checking its condition, he saw the pop-up display showing that there was only a minor injury.
Shao Zifeng breathed a sigh of relief but also felt a headache at the same time. He was not sure what to do with this little thing. Should he send it back from where it came, take it back to the Guchang Anju Neighborhood?
This sounded good, and he quietly gave himself a pat on the back.
Shao Zifeng was deep in thought, his hand still stroking the cat unconsciously. The white cat just played along, closing its eyes and purring as it enjoyed the pampering.
"Awww!" Screw the Tang saber. When Ballie saw that, he pulled at Shao Zifeng's sleeve and used its puppy dog eyes on him, as if saying since it had grown its scales, Eggie was no longer stroking it like he used to be.
So sad.
It looked down at the scales that it was so proud of. Ballie was in a pickle, not sure if it should remove the scales.
The thought gave Ballie chills as it could almost feel the pain.
Sensing Ballie's hurtful feeling, Shao Zifeng came to his senses. He smiled as he took Ballie in his arms. Ballie took the opportunity to hug his neck and shot the white cat a triumphant look as it leaned on Shao Zifeng's shoulder.
The white cat was also a pet beast but was of lower intelligence. When provoked by Ballie, it became upset and cocked its tail as it rubbed against Shao Zifeng's legs.
"Meow! Meow!" The white cat bent over backward to act cute, just stopping short of baring its belly.
"All right, go have fun by yourselves. I need to pack up now." Shao Zifeng could not help but put Ballie beside the white cat, then turned around to lift the bread and duffle bag on the bed and started to shove things in.
Ballie secretly glanced at Shao Zifeng, whose back was now facing it, then turned to shoot an evil look at the white cat—Heavens knew how a lizard pulls an evil face and smacked the white cat with its claws in the face.
The white cat was licking its paw while Ballie hit it. As it looked up at Ballie, stunned, Ballie slapped it on the face again.
"Meow!"
"Awwk!"
Shao Zifeng looked back and saw the white cat's tail puffing up twice as big as it pinned its claws down on Ballie and gnawed Ballie's scales madly.
Ballie had curled itself up into a ball with a pitiful expression in its eyes. It grunted and yelped as if it had been unfairly treated.
At first, Shao Zifeng was a little angry. But when he saw the messy hair on the white cat's face and the snicker on Ballie's face, he instantly knew what it was all about. Not sure if he should laugh or cry, he comforted the white cat and took Ballie in his hand.
"She is a guest. She will only stay for a few days here. Don't you do that again, okay?" Shao Zifeng lifted Ballie at eye level and looked at it in the eyes.
"Eekk!"
Knowing that it was exposed, Ballie stubbornly covered its eyes with his tail as it did not want to look at Shao Zifeng.
"Ballie!" Shao Zifeng got a little angry at seeing Ballie's reaction. Perhaps it had overcome its timidity as it grew up, Ballie had become a little mischievous, like how it bullied the corn snake yesterday. But Shao Zifeng did not blame it, as he thought Ballie was still too young.
Little did he expect Ballie's behavior had turned from bad to worse. Shao Zifeng looked at Ballie sternly and said nothing.
The atmosphere in the room became tense.
After a while.
"Awww!" As if it had sensed his anger, Ballie let out a cry at the white cat. It jumped down from his hand, ran over to the Tang saber, and hugged the hilt tightly while drawing a line in the air with its little claw. As a translucent fissure formed in the air, Ballie jumped into it with the Tang saber.
"Ballie…"
Watching the dimension fissure gradually disappear, Shao Zifeng's heart sank. He asked himself if he had gone overboard. This was the first time Ballie had returned to the pet beast dimension. It had never wanted to enter last time.
After a moment of silence, Shao Zifeng continued to pack up while the stunned white cat sat on one side, not knowing what to do.
The white cat looked at Shao Zifeng with its head tilted, then opened its mouth and spat out a translucent water curtain. Water elements gathered behind the water curtain and went through it to become a blanket of white vapor.
When the cooling vapor came into contact with his skin, Shao Zifeng felt alert instantly. The water vapor had also dispelled the airborne odor from the crawling pets. Shao Zifeng looked back at the white cat that squatted on the floor. He smiled at it and thanked it.
"Meow!" The white cat shook its head slightly. It jumped up to the bed that Shao Zifeng had prepared for it and lay down with its eyes closed.
...
At 0200, Shao Zifeng opened his eyes and instinctively reached over the spot beside him. There was nothing there except loneliness. Only then he realized Ballie was still angry at him. He shook his head and forced a smile, carefully feeling with his heart the unseen pet beast dimension to apologize to Ballie. But there was no response even after a long while.
He lay on the bed and sighed. "Was I too harsh toward Ballie? As much as I want to discipline Ballie, it is still a kid." He mumbled to himself.
He checked his mobile phone; it was about time to assemble. He dressed up, then replenished water for the baby snakes in the pet house, and left something for the white cat to eat before he rushed back to the university.
...
In an unknown dimension, a few smoke-spewing volcanoes stood erect in the middle of an endless desert. The ashes that spewed into the air had blocked out the sunlight. The environment was bursting with fire elements.
Thick lava was constantly surging with bubbles bursting and lava splashing in the central-most volcano's crater.
Right in the center of this lava pool was a solitary stone pillar, where Ballie was lying with its eyes closed and the Tang saber beneath its body.
As if Ballie had sensed something, it suddenly opened its eyes with a look of delight. It raised its claw and was ready to draw, then it froze before lying down back on the Tang saber.
Ballie looked sadder and sadder as tears accumulated in its eyes. It opened its mouth and bit its claw, trying hard not to cry.
It was Ballie's first time away from Shao Zifeng for such a long time. Ballie was feeling wronged and hungry. At last, it could not hold back its tears. With its paws on its eyes, it bawled.
Boom!
Those volcanoes rumbled as if they were angered. They erupted with magma bursting into the air, then rained down as lava rain.
Ballie stopped crying. As it gazed up at the doomsday-like scene, a burst of fire element flew toward Ballie and engulfed it inside a burning red-light egg.
Ballie was panicking at first, paddling with its four paws as if it was drowning.
Following that, its action became slowed down as it gradually fell asleep.
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