Chapter 294: Dirty Cat

Bomi had grown accustomed to living a difficult life, it truly had not thought about dragging things back. On the other hand, as a plant, it did not like moving around anyway. It had simply been waiting for Joo Joowon to return and water and fertilize it.

Therefore, it finally moved a little only now.

Once the spikes of a cactus were fired out, they could not be recovered. Joo Joowon pulled them out and took a look. After leaving the cactus, they had turned into ordinary spikes. They could not be collected and reused to make hidden weapons or anything similar, so he stopped paying attention to them and walked around the plants in the courtyard before entering the house.

"Meow!"

Before he had even gone upstairs, he heard Hwi let out an excited howl. Immediately afterward, there was a loud sound of something heavy hitting the ground.

Hwi came rolling and scrambling all the way to Joo Joowon, then suddenly leaped into the air.

He instinctively caught Hwi. The heavy weight in his hands caused his arms to sink down involuntarily, and he almost failed to catch him. He had completely not expected him to be this heavy.

In his opinion, no matter how heavy Hwi was, he should have weighed at most around twenty kilograms. However, he had never expected that his actual weight would be more than two or three times that amount. If this had been his body before changing classes, that leap might have directly fractured his bones.

Joo Joowon was somewhat stunned. How could he be so heavy?

Thinking about it again, physical enhancement would naturally affect things like muscle density, so it was normal for his weight to increase as well.

He had no doubt that if Hwi encountered an enemy now, he would not even need to fight. He could simply sit on them and crush them to death with his butt.

Joo Joowon could not resist bouncing him up and down a little. This was the first time he had ever raised such a solid and sturdy cat. No matter how much he fed Byeol, his weight simply would not increase. He always felt light and airy when he picked him up, nowhere near as "heavyweight" as Hwi.

"Meow... Woo..." Byeol let out a somewhat unrestrained cat cry.

When he knew he had failed to welcome Joo Joowon immediately, he could not help grinding his teeth at Hwi.

Did he even know who was the boss of this house?

Joo Joowon immediately squatted down and rubbed Byeol.

Byeol’s Mental Power was not very high, and his level was also lower than Hwi’s, so his five senses were naturally inferior to Hwi’s now. That was why he had failed to notice that Joo Joowon had returned right away. However, the moment he saw Hwi rushing downstairs, he immediately realized that the one who fed him had definitely returned.

He dodged Joo Joowon’s hand and, without thinking, kicked Hwi away as he rubbed himself against him. However, not only did the kick fail to move Hwi, Byeol himself was knocked away with a duang.

Byeol: "..."

Joo Joowon froze for a moment, still somewhat puzzled as to why Byeol would not let him touch him. When he saw this scene, he could not help revealing a somewhat wicked smile, but he quickly controlled his expression to avoid being resented by Byeol.

Hwi did not even notice that Byeol had attacked him. He kept rubbing against him as if he were addicted to humans. After rubbing against him for a while, he finally managed to restrain himself a little and shook his fur.

As he shook himself, a very obvious cloud of dust immediately floated into the air. Joo Joowon could not help looking down at his hand, and he immediately realized why Byeol had refused to let him touch him.

With his clean loving personality, it would have been strange if he could tolerate this.

"Hwi, how did you manage to get yourself so dirty?" Joo Joowon immediately felt helpless. How many days had it even been since he had just taken a bath?

"Meow meow meow!" Byeol immediately could not help complaining. He had really endured Hwi for far too long!

Ever since Joo Joowon had left, he had not stopped for even a minute. The entire bedroom floor had been wiped clean by him!

Hwi lowered his ears slightly and looked innocently at Joo Joowon, his round eyes sparkling brightly.

Joo Joowon immediately could not bring himself to say anything harsh: "You can’t do this again next time, you little dirty cat."

"Meow!" Byeol protested unhappily.

He instinctively raised his hand and gave him a pat. Immediately, he saw that Byeol had been "dyed" with a head of gray hair.

Byeol: "..."

Water resources were precious now, so Joo Joowon naturally could not give them a bath. He simply used a wet wipe to clean the top of Byeol’s head. Only after that did the fur on his puffed up tail finally smooth back down.

As for Hwi, Joo Joowon simply picked him up and shook the dust off him, then casually wiped him down with a wet wipe and called it a day.

To put it plainly, there was no way he could possibly get this dirty and become clean just by using wet wipes. He had to take a bath. Since that was impossible for now, they would just have to make do.

With Hwi this dirty, if he licked his own fur, he could probably lick his tongue black in the process. Therefore, Joo Joowon felt there was no need to put himself through the trouble either. After a few more days, he would simply take him to the stream and wash him there.

He opened the panel and took a look. The separation anxiety buff in Hwi’s status bar had already disappeared. He had no idea what he had done after he went out to somehow manage to get himself this dirty.