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"Stop messing around, Anya, how could a dog play detective games?"
Haibara Ai said helplessly.
As for detective games, the Human-faced Dog at home could, but the Human-faced Dog is a pervert; instead of playing detective games with Anya, she'd rather play the part after a master thief breaks in and gets caught by a detective with her owner…
"Yeah, how could a dog play detective games?" the shop assistant also said stiffly.
"By the way, aren't there a bit few pets here?" Haibara Ai looked around and noticed that many enclosures had no pets, and some breeds only had a few left for display, making the whole shop seem very empty.
And these West Highlands indeed looked as scraggly as Kanna said.
"That's because there's a pet exhibition event today; most of them have already been taken there…"
The shop assistant explained that it was indeed the case, and most of the pets left in the shop were those with less desirable appearances.
"Pet exhibition!"
Hearing the shop assistant's words, Anya's eyes immediately lit up as she looked at Haibara Ai.
Being stared at by Anya, even though she said nothing, Haibara Ai already understood her meaning.
"Waku waku, it's a pet exhibition! Haibara Ai, let's go see it together!"
"…Honestly."
Haibara Ai sighed lightly, inexplicably feeling that her mindset had already aged, completely lacking the vitality of a child who acts on whatever they think of.
Seeing that these children were attracted by the pet exhibition, the shop assistant breathed a sigh of relief and enthusiastically found a promotional poster, handing it to Haibara Ai, who looked like the leader.
Anya and Kanna also squeezed over, glanced at the event address on the poster, exchanged a look, and immediately took action.
"Bye-bye, Anya's going on an adventure."
Pulling Haibara Ai and Kanna, Anya ran outside while saying goodbye to the shop assistant.
"Bye-bye, thank you for showing me the scraggly dogs."
Kanna also shouted; compared to the hard-to-remember name West Highland White Terrier, its appearance was easier to describe.
"Thank you very much, I wish you a happy life…"
Haibara Ai, being pulled away, turned her head to say thanks, but before she could finish her sentence, she was already pulled away by the impatient Anya.
Worried that these children might encounter danger, the shop assistant also followed, standing at the shop entrance, watching the children's bouncing figures.
"They're truly… strange yet energetic."
Just after she finished sighing, the shop assistant saw them hail a taxi, intending to go to the pet exhibition just like that.
"…So they're children from a rich family."
Taxis in Japan are very expensive, especially since there was still a considerable distance from here to the pet exhibition.
After a moment of silence, the shop assistant rubbed her face, forcibly dispelling her fatigue.
The taxi stopped by the roadside and opened its door. The shop assistant casually observed, but then she saw those strange children say something, and then the child who called herself Anya ran back.
"Did she forget something?"
Thinking this, the shop assistant put on her worker's smile, ready to step forward and help.
Unexpectedly, Anya did not come closer; she just ran to a nearby spot, cupped her hands into a megaphone shape, and with a smile, shouted, "Sister Aoyama, I believe you will definitely become the best voice actor in the future!"
After saying that, Anya waved her hand and quickly ran back to get into the car.
Only after witnessing the taxi start and gradually drive away did the shop assistant stare blankly at her employee name tag.
It clearly showed her name: Nanami Aoyama.
"But how did this child know my dream?"
Nanami Aoyama patted her face, feeling that she might have worked too late, hadn't rested well, and was hallucinating.
After all, she really wanted to hear someone say an encouraging word about her dream.
—
At the same time, at the Chiba Pet Exhibition, in a sparsely populated exhibition area, a Great Pyrenees, not of pure breed and not yet named Bond, opened its eyes.
"Someone will come to adopt me?"
Recalling the scene she had just foreseen, the Great Pyrenees looked around.
In front of her were clear water and dog food, part of which had already been eaten. In the cage next to her was a fierce-looking wolfdog, which barked a few times when it noticed the Great Pyrenees looking over.
Ignoring this roommate, the Great Pyrenees looked at her black front paws and fell into contemplation.
"Am I going to be adopted?"
She had become a player not long ago. Compared to humans who are constantly enveloped by various fantasies, a dog that has only recently gained sentience would be somewhat "bewildered."
Fortunately, the Paradise would not let non-human players encounter complex situations in the early stages.
In several games, the Great Pyrenees' most vivid memory of a mission mode was a [Faction Confrontation].
The Paradise allowed her to choose a faction between the Hunter and the Big Bad Wolf; the former needed to protect Little Red Riding Hood, while the latter needed to kill Little Red Riding Hood.
After much thought, the Great Pyrenees chose the Hunter faction, which no normal animal would choose.
After that, her identity was inserted as the Hunter's hound. Just as she had mentally prepared for battle, the Great Pyrenees, following the Hunter, realized that the factions' strengths seemed very unequal.
On the other side were a group of extraordinary evil wolves, while beside her was only a Hunter holding a chainsaw and a hunting rifle.
Fortunately, the Great Pyrenees still achieved victory in the end. It wasn't that she suddenly burst with power, but rather that she waited for Little Red Riding Hood, who was picking mushrooms. That Little Red Riding Hood took off her hood and directly pulled out a cannonball from it…
"No wonder the faction strengths were so unequal; turns out I just had to wait for Little Red Riding Hood to appear."
The Great Pyrenees settled the game and then drew a very rare Foresight Skill from the random Skills.
…
Raising her hind leg to scratch her belly, the dog tried to continue foreseeing future situations.
In the illusory foresight bubble, she saw a little girl with two pointed horn-like hair ornaments on her head.
Next to the little girl were two other presences: one was white-haired, but the other was unclear, which made the Great Pyrenees show a human-like expression of surprise.
Since gaining this Foresight Skill, it was the first time the dog had encountered such a situation.
The foreseen future continued, and the Great Pyrenees saw the girl say to her, "Anya is going to name you Bond Forger."
As this sentence was spoken, the foresight stopped. The dog shook her dizzy head and lay down in front of the basin, drinking a few sips of water.
This ability had too high a requirement for intelligence attributes and was quite energy-consuming to use.
"Bond Forger? A strange name…"
"But with a given name and surname, it should be a sign that they value me, right?"
Looking at her roommate next door, the Great Pyrenees felt a little tempted. The dog actually had no resistance to being adopted by humans.
Just like the stray animal prevention center she was currently staying in, although the dog food was a bit cheap, tasting like cardboard, and sometimes the staff even accidentally put in cat food, she could at least get by.
Originally, she had wanted to stay hidden in this place, waiting until what humans called "invincible under heaven" before going out to see the world.
Unfortunately, something unexpected happened.
Hmm… Yesterday, the Great Pyrenees suddenly foresaw something: the staff here were preparing to sterilize them, the animals.
Clamping her little tail between her legs, the Great Pyrenees had no choice but to decide to leave this place.
But where to go?
The Great Pyrenees decided to find herself an owner.
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