Chapter 323 Are All Egyptians Cat Lovers?

However, it was not just Kaiba who was doubting his XP problem, but another guy who could not help himself.

[“Another me?”]

At this time, Yugi unexpectedly discovered that Atum, who had just merged with him again, was a little bit off. After seeing the white-clothed girl stroking the Sky Wind Dragon Girl like a kitten, he actually... had a strong impulse?

[“AIBO, can I take over?”]

Atum hurriedly said the "default line" that he used almost every time he encountered a strong enemy. In the past, as long as Atum said this, Yugi would often nod, and then the "Millennium Building Blocks" would glow, Yugi Muto would grow ten centimeters taller unscientifically, his temperament would change greatly, his sneakers would suddenly turn into leather shoes, and his school uniform would suddenly turn into a cape floating behind him...

But this familiar yet strange sentence did not make Yugi immediately agree to Atum's "possession" request this time. The reason was not because after seven years of growth, Yugi Muto's strength had surpassed Atum, but because he felt that Atum now gave Yugi a feeling... a little strange.

【"Another me, what's wrong with you?"】Yugi asked in his heart with a face full of question marks: 【"You give people a very wrong feeling."】

【"I... am I?"】 Atum stammered, trying to cover up something: 【"I'm normal."】

Yugi (suspicious eyes): 【"Really? I feel from your mental connection now... Although you hide it very secretly, there is still a kind of desire to 'lust for my body' in it."】

Atum (sweating): 【"This... AIBO, this is your illusion, illusion..."】

Yugi: 【"Really..."】

Just as Atum was nervously explaining to Yugi, the "Legendary Dark Mage" standing beside him blinked. He looked at Yugi's expression changing rapidly, which made him seem to understand something.

So the Dark Mage pulled out a chopstick-like wand from under his wizard robe and gently tapped the wand on the head of the "Half-Dragon Maid·Dragon Housekeeper" beside him.

"Gu?"

The attacked Dragon Housekeeper looked at the Dark Mage in confusion, and then she seemed to have suddenly deflated, shrinking from a 1.81-meter-tall queen to a 35-centimeter-long black and white baby dragon.

"Gu huh?" The shrunken Dragon Housekeeper - now she should be called "Glowing Dragon Girl·Young Body" - jumped out of the pile of clothes, jumped onto the long table, staring at Yugi and the Dark Mage with two round eyes, puzzled.

And just as the Glowing Dragon Girl stared at Yugi with her round eyes, Yugi's chest flashed with golden light - Atum's spirit flew out directly!

"Another me?!"

There are no ordinary people here, and everyone can see Atum, so Yugi doesn't need to telepathically ask: "What's wrong with you?"

However, Atum didn't respond to Yugi at the first time, but directly stretched out his spiritual hand and reached for the chin of the furry little dragon on the table, thinking about "petting a cat" and said: "The last time I petted a cat was thousands of years ago. I don't feel this way usually, but I don't know why today... I just want to pet it!"

Yugi covered his mouth in surprise: "Ah, this... By the way, you are also an Egyptian!"

Egyptians are cat lovers, especially the Pharaohs. Yugi only knew this after he went to college.

Yugi Muto wanted to refute this argument because the Egyptian he knew (Atum) was not a cat lover, but he suddenly remembered that he had never kept a cat at home, and he had never seen a cat in his adventure with Atum.

Although there are cats in the deck, they are just pictures after all, and the cat cards drawn by the International Illusion Society before the "wealth code" was found at that time are not cute at all.

Now, when he saw the young dragon that looked like a cat, Atum couldn't help himself - although he was quickly rejected by the Radiant Dragon Girl, it was not because she didn't let him pet it, but more because Atum was now a spirit and couldn't touch it at all.

"Another me." Yugi waved to Atum and said, "You can't touch it like this, come here."

"AIBO?" Atum, who was suffering from not being able to pet the cat, heard Yugi Muto say so, and flew back to Yugi's body without refusing.

Yugi's soul switched to a back spirit, floating behind Atum and watching him pet the cat.

Well... Although the one being petted by Atum was not a cat, but a young dragon that looked like a cat... I don't know how this young dragon grew up to be the Radiant Dragon Girl with both beauty and strength in the card picture.

"It's time for him to be released." The Dark Mage walked to where he stood side by side with Yugi, turned around and looked at Yugi and said, "Don't you think his life is very tiring?"

"I do think so." Yugi nodded, and said with a complicated look in his eyes, "I heard Atum say that when he was alive, he was the Pharaoh, when he was sealed in the Millennium Brick, he was a prisoner, and after his official death, he was the Supreme Lord of the Underworld... For thousands of years, he didn't have much time for himself."

In this way, Atum is actually quite unfortunate.

"Egyptians love cats, especially the Pharaoh, and this sir has been suppressed for thousands of years." The Dark Mage pointed to the ceiling and said, "Now he probably doesn't realize that some of his deepest wishes are being realized by the Black Tower; the most dazzling label on this sir can be slightly lowered in the Black Tower, so that he can be... more like an ordinary person."

"Ah... slightly lowered."

When he heard "the most dazzling label", Yugi's face darkened. He remembered what the Dark Mage said to him and Atum before he came here, and his eyes looked at Atum with a hint of complexity.

But soon he shook his head vigorously to shake out a terrible idea from his mind; for this reason, he deliberately changed the subject and said: "By the way, isn't the Yaoguang Dragon Girl the Dragon Girl Housekeeper? Would this offend you?"

Yugi didn't forget that this silly and cute little dragon actually has a mature and intellectual "half-dragon maid·dragon girl housekeeper" form...

Fuck, it seems that Atum's behavior...

"Haha, don't worry, the Yaoguang Dragon Girl is just an ordinary dragon girl now." The Dark Mage shook the magic wand in his hand, pointed to the young Tianfeng Dragon Girl who was fluttering in the arms of the white-clothed girl and said: "After all, if we don't return them to their ignorant young bodies, what we are going to say next will kill them once they know it."

"I see..." Yugi nodded, without asking more questions, he knew that the Dark Mage did not lie to him.

However, the problem on Yugi's side was solved, and the other person's confused state was not resolved yet.

Kaiba looked at Atum who was holding the Radiant Light Dragon Girl in his arms with a confused look on his face: "This is... that Pharaoh? What happened to him?"

"He just exposed a little personal hobby." The girl in white sat on the chair and continued to stroke the cat as if nothing had happened. The Sky Wind Dragon Girl in her arms also purred comfortably, "He has been suppressed for too long and needs some private time."

"Suppressed? Suppressed by what?"

"Fate." The girl in white smiled and said, "Let me ask you, the chairman of Kaiba Entertainment Group: Why do the protagonists in action games always fight?"

"The game is designed like this. From the setting, he can't save the world if he doesn't fight. From the fundamental reason, if he doesn't fight all the time, how can the players be happy?"

Kaiba didn't know why the girl in white suddenly asked this question-this doesn't seem to have anything to do with the sudden cat slave outbreak in the game, right?

"The players are very happy, but does the protagonist really want to fight?" The girl in white raised the Sky Wind Dragon Girl in her hand, poked her head out from behind and said to Kaiba: "Maybe he doesn't like fighting at all, and just wants to be a cat-stroking otaku?"

"What does this mean... The protagonist in the game only knows how to fight and Atum suddenly wants to stroke the cat... Hmm?!"

Kaiba is also a smart person. He suddenly remembered Atum's past... It seems that he has never heard of any other hobbies of his. Except for governing the country, he is dueling, and he is either solving this conspiracy or on the way to solving the next conspiracy. As a tool to save the world, he has no personal hobbies.

[This kind of guy, with such a "flat" "personality", is simply...] Kaiba gritted his teeth and thought of a terrible possibility: "You mean, if reality is a game, then Atum is like..."

"Shh." The girl in white grabbed one of the paws of the Sky Wind Dragon Girl and put it on her lips to interrupt Kaiba's words, "I dare not speak loudly, for fear of disturbing the people in heaven."

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About the fact that Egyptians are cat lovers... I really didn't make it up.

In order to write this book, I studied Egyptian history for a period of time, and read several papers and popular science articles about Egyptians and cats. After that, I was always bothered by the fact that there was no scene of Wang petting cats in the original work.