I! Cleaner!-Chapter 749 - 684: Pisces

Although she immediately saw through Leon’s lie, under the intimidation of the "Food God," the short female Cleaner ultimately chose to give in. With a sullen face, she was picked up horizontally by Leon and thrown back into the lake with a splash.

As Leon violently disturbed the waters, the previously stable order in the lake was completely disrupted in an instant. One lionhead goldfish after another swam up from the bottom of the lake, opening their large mouths and chasing after the short female Cleaner.

"Ah!"

Seeing those frenzied big-headed monster fish with gaping mouths rushing toward her, the female Cleaner couldn’t help but let out a scream. While desperately paddling toward the heart of the lake, she shouted to Leon on the shore:

"Quick! Look quickly!"

I’m looking, I’m looking!

Ignoring the female Cleaner’s screams, Leon squinted his eyes from the big rock on the shore, discerning the movement paths of the fish one by one.

Without the external "interference" of the female Cleaner, the swimming paths of those lionhead goldfish in the lake connect seamlessly to form a perfect closed loop, with no way to tell which fish was really the "beginning."

However, with the female Cleaner’s excellent lure, in the chaotic and crashing fish swarm, countless mixed tracks from different "Time" layers finally started to show an order...

It should be that one!

Spotting a goldfish that always moved a bit faster among those chasing behind the female Cleaner, Leon couldn’t help but rejoice. He called out to the female Cleaner in the lake:

"I found it! The one behind your right hand, that’s the first fish!"

Found it?

Upon hearing Leon’s call, joy surged in the female Cleaner’s heart. As she stopped dog-paddling and looked back, there were at least fifty bizarre fish heads with tumor-like lumps, opening their enormous mouths that could swallow a bull, frantically chasing her.

"Agh!"

With a scream, the female Cleaner hurriedly turned around and continued dog-paddling, her arms flailing like propellers.

No matter how fast she swung her arms, it was impossible to outswim fish in water. With repeated fearful glances, she saw those mouths larger than her entire self chasing ever closer from behind, ever closer... 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

"Liar! You’re lying!!!"

"..."

I’m really not lying to you; I already found the most crucial fish, but it seems just "finding" it isn’t enough... I’ve got it!

Watching the fish behind the female Cleaner, their mouths opening and closing in a peculiar rhythm, a sudden flash of insight struck Leon’s mind. He began sorting them mentally, connecting all the goldfish in order of their movements...

"Ah! I hate fish!"

With a scream of despair, dog-paddling halfway across the lake, the female Cleaner finally couldn’t escape the pursuing fish swarm and was grabbed by the closest lionhead goldfish behind her.

But just as she fell into the fish’s mouth, the fifty-odd goldfish simultaneously made the swallowing motion, and Leon, using the obvious movements, completed the mental "connections," linking all the lionhead goldfish together.

"Success!!!"

With Leon’s shout, fifty-odd goldfish connected front to back, crashing directly into the goldfish holding the female Cleaner, causing their forms to suddenly enlarge, swelling countless times until they were even taller than the distant misty mountains.

As the sticky female Cleaner kicked away the giant goldfish biting her and grabbed the hidden mountaintop in the clouds, Leon felt a spinning sensation, tumbling out of the shrinking fishbowl.

...

"Ah!"

Hearing the commotion behind her, Mimi, who was looking down from the edge of another fishbowl, turned around joyfully, her eyes brimming with happiness:

"Less than an hour, you’re out so fast!"

But the two fell from the fishbowl didn’t pay attention to her joy. Instead, they were pushing and hugging one another, tightly entangled together.

"My clothes!"

Looking at the sticky female Cleaner in his arms, Leon felt his scalp tingle and quickly pushed her away.

"Don’t rub! Don’t! I just washed these clothes!"

You liar! I’m rubbing! I’m rubbing!

Hearing Leon’s anxious voice, the short female Cleaner showed a look of sweet revenge. Like a boar scratching a tree bark, she pressed her face against Leon’s chest and rubbed vigorously, smearing his woolen sweater until it was drenched in slime before she let go with satisfaction.

"..."

Ugh... I shouldn’t have grabbed you when you fell!

Looking at his clothes, which weren’t soaked by the lake but were smeared with slime, Leon clicked his tongue in annoyance. He got up from the floor and turned toward Pisces Chairman.

"Pisces, we..."

"You did well."

A youthful male voice came from the mouth of the Pisces Chairman. Mimi seemed to realize this, quickly covering her mouth with her hand, but no matter how hard she tried, the distinct man’s clear voice emerged through her palms.

"Managing to grasp the partial rules of Pisces secret technique without any hints when Mimi forgot to tell you the rules is impressive; both your talents in secret techniques are truly outstanding."

"..."

Wow, so you were the one who forgot to tell us the rules! No wonder the Pisces Palace test was so abstract!

Upon hearing the Pisces Chairman’s praise, Leon’s mouth twitched, and Mimi protested, still covering her mouth:

"Not so! Joan told me those things!"

"Yet you misplaced the paper with the written rules you were supposed to read to each Cleaner, didn’t you?"

"..."

"Alright, Mimi."

Raising his left hand to stroke his head, the youth’s voice kindly said:

"You’ve played outside long enough; it’s time for me to come out... Be good, listen!"

"Ugh... okay..."

Hearing the faint sternness in the man’s voice, Mimi had to lower the hand covering her mouth and pouted in response.

As she responded, the childlike form of the Pisces Chairman suddenly grew, quickly reaching a height similar to Leon’s. The previously slender arms of a child gradually filled out with well-defined muscle.

Soon, a young man with rather ordinary looks but exuding a deep sense of time replaced the sulky Mimi, standing before Leon and his companion.

"Don’t be surprised, Mimi and I are both parts of the Pisces Chairman."

Nodding at the shocked female Cleaner, the youth-version Pisces Chairman smiled and said:

"The state of Pisces Palace’s [Abnormal Observation] secret technique aligns closely with your deductions; it indeed requires two people to perform.

Since humans are both observers and participants of time, the [Abnormal Observation] secret technique slightly involves future time, necessitating an active division into two.

One person must actively step into time to interfere, luring or forcing ’goldfish’ in the lake to change their swimming path, destroying the overly perfect closed loop of time, while the other must transcend time, observing from outside the ’lake,’ to obtain accurate observation results..."

Briefly explaining the workings of [Abnormal Observation], the youth-version Pisces Chairman kindly said:

"Even though there’s only one seat for the Pisces Chairman, it’s very special, usually occupied by two chairmen... Are you two interested in the position at Pisces Palace?"