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"Perhaps you two should just trade. Since apparently you can't take care of the other species all that well," Shun finally said in a rather flat tone. After all, Riyo didn't seem particularly receptive of the advice Mitsu gave her on how to take care of the pup and now she was doing more or less the same about cats.

Taka just continued to run around, after the headcrab, or at least tried to. Where did it go? He began to sniff around, trying to find where it might have gone.

Inwardly Riyo facepalmed at Mitsu's answer. Was she serious? "A lot. I own a lot." The feline didn't like to count because that meant she'd have to put a limit on the cats she took in. "Honestly... You probably haven't seen all of them. Not all of them run to the door when people knock. And there's one of them..." She scratched the back of her head as she trailed off. "Mm. Nevermind." The ghoul didn't like to admit that there were some cats who didn't take to her, but there was at least one cat that didn't take to her. She really couldn't even pet him without risking a good scratch to the hand or worse.

"No. I don't trade. I only take cats off the street when I find ones that have no home." She'd kinda missed the whole point of what Shun was saying, much like Mitsu had missed hers with the prior comment. "And I'm sure Mitsu does her best." Hey, would you look at that? One nice thing to come out of Riyo's mouth today.

Mitsu looked to Shun shortly wondering why he was so quiet after his comment but the few nice words to tumble out of Riyo's mouth caught Mitsu off guard. She turned toward the demoness, confusion written on her face.

Then, her tail started to wag. It was something small but it was one of the nicest things Riyo had said about her and it made her happy. So much so her next decision came without thinking.

"Maybe you would have some advice then, Riyo? Since you are really good with cats." Mitsu shuffled to her closet stepping over the puppies as they zoomed passed. "Who knows, maybe Ziggy will like you."

If there were any warnings to be heard they fell on deaf ears as Mitsu cracked the closet door open. At first there was nothing and then the green head of the acrobat peeked out gazing around the room. She really didn't seem intrigued until she spotted the other occupants in the room. As soon as her eyes settled on Riyo and Shun those slits for pupils dilated consuming her eyes with black. OwO

Digging her claws into the floor Ziggy was off bounding off the furniture in the room and living up to her name sake of acrobat. She flew through the air landing nimbly on the couch before she sprang, claws out, right for Shun's face. It was a ritual, a right of passage, a routine even. His face just begged to receive her clawy goodness.

Tobi had been in the process of chasing the ball but as soon as the closet creaked open the pup stopped dead in his tracks and turned. The green streak made its way around the room and the pup, though slow, did his best to follow it barking up a storm in the process.

Shun frowned when it seemed like Ziggy was going to be let out. Great. He watched the closet carefully only to see the green fluff appear. And right on cue, she came flying right at him. Expecting it this time around, he glanced to the side and shadow stepped to the other end of the room, safe from the claws.

For now.

Taka's ears perked up once more as the cat showed up. Tilting his head, he watched as it went right after his master!

With a low growl, he soon began to bark at Ziggy.

"Taka." Shun said sternly. That worked to silence the pup in the mean time, but he appeared to be a bit confused for it.

You would figure with the amount of cats Riyo had dealt with, she would've known what a lunge looked like and just how it would end, but she didn't move. In fact, the ghoul seemed to plant her feet into the ground. Her hands balled up into fists and her eyes narrowed as she braced herself for impact, fully prepared to take claws to the face. To run would make her prey. To stand where she was and take whatever was given would hopefully prove that she wasn't afraid of the fellow feline.

The cat had changed her target over to Riyo for now it seemed. Good. He didn't have to deal with her pouncing his face.. yet. Regardless of what he did, she just wouldn't stop trying to claw him up. Though, his attention shifted over towards the door. That voice... he heard it before.

Shun heard the sound from under the bed and managed to catch sight of the headcrab. Just briefly.

"Mitsu, keep an eye on Ziggy. I'll get the door..." he said while opening it just a bit. He didn't want any of the creatures inside to bolt on out after all.

".. Yes. There's a headcrab in here."

Taka spotted it too. And as a result, he poked his head under the bed to try and get a better view of the critter.

Ah, not attacking right away? Riyo didn't look impressed. Amused on the inside, perhaps. But not impressed. It had been awhile since a cat directly challenged her.

Instead of trying to follow the movements fully, the ghoul stood still. Her ears turned this way and that, listening to the sound of claws clacking on wood as she did at her own room. But there was an interruption in the usual sounds around them. Someone was banging at the door, making it very hard for the curious feline to NOT look that way.

Okay. She had to. There was no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Her eyes darted towards the door at about the time Ziggy's claws met her back. There was a small flinch, but the ghoul refused to cry out. She had been scratched by many cats. Some bigger, some smaller. She would not relent to this. Slowly, her head turned to look at the little acrobat, a cold, slitted stare greeting the fellow cat.

Baka seemed shocked at the agility of the cat at first, but in the end the headcrab caught his attention more than the feline. Cats he had seen enough of to last him a lifetime. This thing? Oh, he thought he'd just stroll up to it and bark for awhile.

Oh, it was the custodian. At least Shun was sure of it. He had seen her once or twice around before after all. Nodding to her, he glanced over at his pup.

"Takamaru. Go find the headcrab," he ordered.

It seemed that he wasn't paying much attention to the feline antics going on within the room. As long as Ziggy wasn't attacking him, he didn't really care what she did with Riyo.

Taka tilted his head at the command, then let out a bark. Immediately, he began to sniff around, trying to see if he could pinpoint its location.