[Imperial Investiture failed.
Individual aptitude insufficient.
Unable to serve as a guard.] Hm?
No, something was wrong!
“Aura Reading!” [Fortune consumed: 100.] [Name: ???] [Age: 17] [Fortune: Gold] Was her name not showing because the kitten had no name, or was there another reason?
And gold fortune!
She was actually rarer than Hiratsuka Shizuka and Kawasaki Saki.
What kind of cat was this?
The true body of that physics divine beast, Schrödinger’s cat?
Higashino Akira suddenly reached out and fiercely stroked this golden legend up and down.
Listening to the little cat’s affected, high-pitched voice as if it were embarrassed, and watching its resistant appearance as it dodged left and right to not let him touch positions like its belly, bottom, and chest, the little cat was ultimately no match for human hands, being stroked until its eyes rolled back and its little tongue stuck out.
He supported the kitten under its front legs and lifted it up in front of his eyes.
He did not see two little furballs.
“Oh, you’re still a little girl.
No, wait, for a cat, at your age, maybe you’d already count as an old maid.” Akira commented like that.
The cat froze too, hanging there motionless like a long cat-caterpillar.
Then, her eyes instantly filled with shame and anger.
She arched her back, kicked wildly with both legs, and struggled.
Even her voice stopped sounding delicate, turning into constant hissing instead.
“Appoint as Fourth-Rank Beauty!” [Fortune consumed: 1000.] “Aura Reading!” [Fortune consumed: 100.] [Imperial Investiture successful.] [Name: ???] [Official Rank: Fourth-Rank Beauty] [Age: 17] [Fortune: Gold] Once that was done, Akira stuffed the still-hissing cat into the wide pocket of his coat and got up to leave.
Whatever kind of monster, spirit, or strange creature she was, if she had held any intent to resist, the investiture could not have succeeded.
In other words, since the investiture succeeded, that meant she had agreed.
As for what exactly she had agreed to, or whether she knew she had somehow gained a human partner, that was another matter entirely.
Family, I picked up a cat while jungling!
She wants to come home with me!
[Emperor: Higashino Akira] [Fortune: Red (2100)] [Harem: 2] Carrying the kitten all the way to the pet center, he bought the most expensive cat food for his new wife.
Watching the cat beauty wolf it down in huge mouthfuls, Higashino Akira also arranged a full set of pet checkups for her.
Although the cat beauty looked rather clean, the necessary checks still could not be skipped.
Otherwise, if he accidentally got infected with parasites or something, that would be miserable.
While he had time, Akira also walked around the pet center and bought a pet raven.
This time, the investiture succeeded smoothly, proving that Akira’s sudden idea of appointing small animals was indeed feasible.
The issue had been with the cat beauty herself.
“From now on, you’re my Number One Hound!” Akira released the raven from its cage.
Under the surprised gazes of the people nearby, the raven immediately flew out and circled above Akira’s head while shouting as it flew.
“King Higashino!
King Higashino!” “Get lost.
You’re not a fox, so that specialty doesn’t match.
If you get hungry, remember to come back for food.” Talking was a racial talent for ravens.
Its already decent intelligence had likely risen after the investiture, roughly reaching the level of a seven- or eight-year-old human child.
That night, because he had been targeted by a sinister haunted property and did not want to drag others into it, Akira took the cat with him and did not return to Miko’s place.
Instead, after leaving Miko a message saying he would not be coming back, he returned alone to the student apartment near campus that he had not visited in several days.
After running around all day, physically and mentally exhausted, Akira washed up early and went to sleep.
At midnight, beneath the moonlight, inside the student apartment.
The blanket that had been lying snugly over Higashino Akira gradually began to rise.
Then it started to wriggle faintly.
The sudden weight pressing down on him made him subconsciously let out a muffled groan, and his brows furrowed.
The movement under the blanket seemed startled by that sound and instantly stopped.
A long while later, seeing no further reaction, it began to wriggle faintly again.
The raised part of the blanket slowly shifted away from Akira’s body and moved to his side.
Then, a small head with long, loose blue hair poked out from beneath Akira’s blanket.
Her face was unmistakably that of a charming young girl in the bloom of youth.
Further down, in the places untouched by the pitch-black shadows of the blanket, illuminated under the pale moonlight, large stretches of fair, flushed skin were exposed without any concealment along the rises and falls of the peaks and valleys.
Under the effect of the chilly night air of late autumn, tiny goosebumps stood up on the originally smooth and delicate skin.
The girl climbed out from beneath the blanket bit by bit, doing her best not to make too much noise and wake the sleeping man on the bed.
Only after she had fully crawled out did she slowly lower her legs to the floor, step down, and stand steady.
Only then did she tightly wrap her arms across her chest and lower abdomen to block the view of her body, glaring at the man on the bed with a flushed face full of shame and resentment.
Then, forcing down her embarrassment, she turned around and crouched in front of the wardrobe.
After rummaging through it, she put on the men’s clothes, which were far too loose for her.
Once she was done, she tried to leave silently.
However, just as she took her first step, she stopped again.
She turned back to the bedside, picked up Akira’s charging phone, and carefully used his fingerprint to unlock it.
“Sorry.
I’m borrowing this for a while.
Once I get home, I’ll definitely pay you back double, desuwa!” After apologizing softly, the girl quickly turned around and hurried away with the phone.
On the way out, she also took the only pair of fluffy slippers Akira had in the dorm.
Although she did not know why she had turned into a cat for so many days, thankfully, she had finally changed back!
She had disappeared for so long.
Her father and grandfather must be terribly worried.
And Mutsumi too!
Toyokawa Sakiko did her best to make herself not think about the reality of being rudely fondled and stroked all over by that man when she was a cat earlier, as well as lying completely naked just now in a strange man’s blanket, and even the fact that what she was wearing right now was entirely the other party’s clothing, with the unfamiliar fabric rubbing against the skin of her sensitive areas from time to time, bringing a strange and shameful sensation.
No matter what, that man was still her benefactor.
He had not done it on purpose either.
At the very least, she could not think badly of him.
After all, he knew nothing.
So as long as she said nothing, everything could be treated as if it had never happened.
Once she returned home, she would contact him and say the cat he had found was actually a pet of the Toyokawa family and had already come home.
Then she would return his clothes and phone with a thank-you gift.
Toyokawa Sakiko thought this with her cheeks faintly burning as she gradually moved away from the bed, walking farther and farther.
One step.
Two steps.
Three steps…
She did not notice at all that her field of vision was unknowingly getting lower and lower.
The pants, which had only barely stayed up because she had tightened the belt, began to loosen around her waist again.
The hand holding the phone also started shrinking, and fine fur began to reappear on the back of it.
Finally, a loud clattering rang out as the phone dropped and bounced across the floor, waking Higashino Akira from his sleep.
He turned on the light, sat up, and looked toward the source of the sound.
In the middle of a messy pile of clothes, the blue cat he had picked up and appointed into his harem was tangled inside, and his phone had been thrown over toward the doorway after smashing hard against the floor a few times.
One person and one cat stared at each other.
The blue cat instinctively opened her mouth.
“Hah!” Oh no, it was Keycap!
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