Chapter 68 Pet Hamster Whose hamster is this?

Hamsters are rather timid creatures, and the slightest disturbance can overwhelm their poor little hearts.

Although Chaomu's personality has nothing to do with being timid, after turning into a hamster, he was affected by the animal instinct buff. Under the aura of Yunlark, he still felt a little arrhythmia and his limbs were stiff.

Anyway, she'd been looking like she was trying to escape when Yun Que arrived, so it seemed perfectly reasonable for her to collapse in shock. Yun Que didn't know she'd stolen the information, anyway. She looked like a stray hamster...at best, a hamster that'd bit Master Watanabe. Given Miss Watanabe's relationship with her brother, she wouldn't necessarily have warned Yun Que about this.

The morning rat lay on its back, peacefully resting on the man's black leather shoe, waiting for him to kick her away in disgust. Surprisingly, the man, who seemed a bit of a germaphobe, didn't move, but remained in that position, continuing to study her.

The silver-grey fur ball that fell sideways on the surface of his shoe rose and fell slightly with the frequency of his breathing. Its round belly even made a cute concave arc on the surface of his leather shoe, as if it was just an innocent hamster passing by and fainted at his feet out of fright.

Yundou fluttered his wings and landed next to the hamster. He tilted his head and pecked at the hamster's pink ears with his beak: "Skylark! Skylark!"

The morning murrel's whiskers trembled slightly, and a weak moan came from its throat. It curled up its front paws and rubbed its face on Skylark's shiny leather shoes. The whole murrel gave off the aura of "I'm just a weak little hamster who can't take care of itself."

Please, Skylark-kun, while you're not some cold-faced old man who loves animals, consider that hamsters are actually not much different from hedgehogs in some ways. Just treat her as an innocent hamster and let her go! She's only one step away from completing her mission, so she shouldn't have to crash and start over here, right...?

As she closed her eyes, waiting for the debuff to pass, the bird's sharp beak gently pecked her soft belly twice. Seeing she didn't react, the little yellow ball jumped up on its paws, hopping lightly across the hamster's round belly as if performing CPR. "Skylark! Skylark!"

The morning mouse, deflated by the beating, nearly spat out the nuts hidden in its cheeks.

The feigned death debuff gradually faded, and her body gradually adjusted to the dangerous aura of the lark. She blinked, and her eyes met with the bird on her body. The sparrow flapped its wings at her in a friendly manner and hopped twice, as if inviting her to get up and play.

Chaomushu: Thanks for the invitation. The live mouse is slightly dead, so I can’t play for the time being. I’ll definitely play next time.

Before she could stand up, his slender fingers precisely grasped the fur at the back of her neck and lifted her up. Hibari Kyoya held the hamster ball in his palm, his eyes meeting those dark, beady ones, his brows raised slightly.

"Interested in new friends?" He raised his eyes slightly, looking at the little yellow bird that had flown back to his shoulder. Yundou chirped and hopped twice, as if expressing his approval.

【Hibari Kyoya is very interested in you. 】

Chaomushu almost froze into a stuffed hamster in his palm, but when he saw this line of prompt, he couldn't help but complain in his heart: How come Hibari Kyoya is the same as those parents who buy game consoles saying they are buying them for their children... He even has to ask Yundou, isn't he very interested in the little hamster himself!

But even though she complained, when she met the black-haired young man's sharp gaze, she still honestly nudged his palm and tried her best to make a flattering "ji" sound in her throat.

If a human had made such a fawning gesture, Skylark wouldn't have even glanced at it. But the chubby hamster, its soft fur still pressed against its palm, looked more pleasing to the eye than its timid, feigning death look just now.

He kept pinching the back of her neck, tightening his grip slightly. Miss Watanabe, breathlessly catching up, saw the aloof young man confronting a hamster. After a moment's hesitation, she cautiously warned, "Mr. Skylark, there's a bomb in the room..."

Yun Que glanced at her out of the corner of his eye but didn't respond. He seemed completely unconcerned about the bomb that could explode at any moment, and in fact, he didn't care much about the stolen chip either.

As Ms. Watanabe became increasingly embarrassed, Toru Amuro opened the door and walked into the corridor, saving the awkward atmosphere.

"Please don't worry, Miss Watanabe," the blond young man said in a hurry. He didn't have time to pay attention to the tense atmosphere. He quickly walked towards the eldest lady in charge and reported, "I don't know which security guard was so skilled that the countdowns on the time bombs in the room have stopped."

Ms. Watanabe: "...Hmm? Who are you? Why are you still staying in there..."

The young woman, who had not anticipated the development, looked at the unfamiliar kitchen helper with a bit of surprise. The latter seemed to have just diligently reported on behalf of the other security personnel who stayed behind to defuse the bomb, and then her eyes moved to the young man with phoenix eyes who looked very imposing - the hamster ball in his palm.

"I'm sorry... but now I can't hide it from you anymore," the golden-haired young man coughed shyly, his eyes fixed on the hamster with its back to him, "I came back to find it..."

"I know it's against the rules to bring pets to work, and I have no objections if you want to fire me... But, can you please give me back my hamster? It's very important to me, like a family member..."

He spoke earnestly, with a genuine feeling. The morning and evening rats squeaked in confusion, then reacted, their fur standing on end. What the hell was that jerk talking about? Who was his pet? Had he discovered she was the troublemaker hamster in his house and was taking her home for revenge?

She looked at the little black-faced man with disdainful eyes, and seeing that he was staring at her, she changed her mind and felt that compared to being held by Hibari like this, it seemed like a better choice to go with Amuro Toru - at least the little black-faced man was relatively weaker in combat, so it would be easier for her to run away.

Thinking of this, Chaomushu was about to squeeze out a few affectionate tears from Doudou's eyes, sobbing and stretching out his little paws in the direction of Amuro Toru, when he felt his neck being pinched tightly again, lifted up and shaken up and down.

"Yours?" The young man with phoenix eyes was holding up a hamster with short legs. "It's a hamster running around outside. It doesn't have a pet chip or a collar..."

Before being captured, Chaomu had quickly thrown all the props on his body, such as cameras, into the system backpack. Therefore, when he was picked up like this, he looked like an ordinary hamster - except that there was a little dust on his body.

When she was working on the main storyline, she was relatively cautious, even paying attention to the trajectory of her bite when gnawing on the safe, precisely carving a perfect circle that looked as if it had been cut by a machine. Because the shape she gnawed was so regular, and generally speaking, no one would think that rodents could bite through metal with their teeth, Ms. Watanabe didn't suspect her at all.

And Amuro Toru, who had some guesses in his mind, naturally would not treat her as an ordinary hamster.

"Because I adopted her recently, I haven't had time to take her to get a microchip implant yet. This is indeed my mistake." He curled his eyes, not letting anything slip. "But it is indeed my hamster... I still have its bite marks on my body. This little guy is not very obedient and has sharp teeth. If necessary, I can also provide traces for comparison."

"Right, little one? You were at my house yesterday."

There was a sudden crisp sound under the window in the corridor, as if the railing was broken. The two men who were originally confronting each other over a hamster looked out the window at the same time, but there was no figure under the empty windowsill.

Using the momentum to flip himself onto the windowsill, Shen'er expressionlessly broke the railing stick in his hand and asked Chaomushu, who had just stopped him from breaking in, in the chat room, "You really don't need me to snatch you back? I said, even though I don't like dealing with Yun Que, it doesn't mean I'm afraid of him."

Chaomushu was almost scared to death.

"Really? No need! If you come to rob me, isn't that telling Yun Que that there's something wrong with me?" She quickly typed in the team chat, stopping Shen Er, who had suddenly become eager to fight for some unknown reason. "It's fine for me to stay here for now. Yun Que seems pretty tolerant of small animals anyway."

If I want to run, I need to find an opportunity, and there seems to be nothing wrong in borrowing the little black face.

Or maybe...

Her claws still hovered in mid-air, her eyes meeting those of the phoenix-eyed young man who had returned his gaze. The latter's face was expressionless, the word "invincible" practically written across his cold expression.

What a powerful face it was... Asagusuku had to admit that he was moved.

If she lets him take it home, it seems like she'll win. If she can get her hands on his trash can...

"You go back first, Shen'er. I'll bring the chip home to you later." She sent a message to Shen'er in the team chat. "Don't worry about me. I will try my best to lure Yunque away. You should leave quickly while you can."

Goodbye, teammates! She's sailing away today!

Shen Er: “……?”

I was so angry that I almost laughed.

He clenched his fists downstairs, wondering whether he should come up and snatch the little hamster back to give it a good spanking. However, the little hamster had completely forgotten about his teammates and lay down in Yun Que's palm with good acceptance, turning over.

"So, Mr. Skylark, can you give me my hamster back?" The little black-faced man, whose attention had just been briefly diverted and interrupted, spoke again at this moment, as if he would not give up until he achieved his goal. "That little guy obviously wants to go home with me..."

Skylark lowered his eyes slightly and looked at the furry hamster ball. The hamster ball, which had just been wiping away tears and looking at its "master" affectionately, squeaked in disgust, turned its back, and faced only its butt towards the blond youth, and cuddled Skylark's fingers with its little paws.

A little thing that knows the times.

Under Toru Amuro's gaze, the young man with phoenix eyes put the hamster into his pocket very naturally.

"It doesn't matter what happened before," he declared coolly, "it's mine now."

"Regarding the chip... I'm waiting for the Watanabe family's explanation."

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The author has something to say: I have been stuck on the plot these days and have been discussing it with friends and family and revising the outline, so the updates are not very stable. I missed the full attendance yesterday (holding my head), but it should be much better after I sort it out.

Yesterday I mentioned wanting to write a story about a human alien, but it's actually more of a romance-oriented original, a story about a calm, ordinary Beta girl, a masked, muscular mercenary adoptive father, and all sorts of tentacles/mechanical arms/other aliens, all about XP bursts. My head is full of weird play, and if I write it, I'll probably end up writing it from beginning to end...

The pre-collection has been released. If you are interested, you can go to the column to take a look at "Ordinary Players, Naturally Unlucky Husbands"