Eight Uncles' Beloved Treasure (Lily)

Esper glanced at the cat mockingly. Fish, shrimp, and now grass? I’ll never eat it. Esper smelled it out of instinct. Hmm… It took a bite. What’s this weird-tasting grass? And it got lost in eating again. It was fed more food after eating the grass. Esper had never been this full in its life. It walked around the garden just to digest the food. Lilly was looking at it from the balcony. Drake walked up to her to help her with school work. “What are you looking at?” Lilly pointed at Esper and said, “Drake, it’s moving in circles because it can’t eat anymore.”

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Bellflower was bored of lingering out there. This is boring; I should go back to play with that dumb bird… It can’t do anything to me with Lilly there, right? Right! Why should I be afraid when Lilly is there? Ugh! That’s my territory; why should I run after all my hard work?

Its stomach sounded like it was starving. It only realized how delicious Bettany’s food was after it ran away from home. Bellflower missed her cooking… It was as if its legs had their own wish; it went back.

it arrived home. It

so it turned around and saw the striking Bellflower. Esper paused and growled at it. It thought,

this cat come from? Why do I feel like I might lose

are you backing off?” Someone yelled. “Go get it! Don’t be a coward!” Polly started to sing,

while it escaped to Lilly’s

into her room through the window. “Eh? Bellflower, you’re back.” It

room, and she said, “Eh? Have you eaten Bellflower?” It went to her and nuzzled her as it meowed. Bettany said, “Oh, you