Golden fortune was worth fifty thousand a day.
Forget raising one cat.
Even if there were a Nie Xiaoqian hidden under the blanket, draining his yang energy every day, as long as it did not damage his foundation, Akira would still be willing to work day and night!
“You knew from the beginning that I wasn’t a cat?” Hearing his words, Toyokawa Sakiko suddenly thought of all the unusual things he had shown before.
Ravens that could speak and act with discipline.
A great number of footsteps and voices that had appeared out of nowhere on an empty nighttime street.
An elegant guy, who looked like Zhuge Kongming and was even named Zhuge Kongming.
And now, even after learning that she could turn from a cat into a human, he remained calm, as though his ability to accept strange things was absurdly high.
Back when she had not thought deeply about it, she had not noticed.
But looking back now, every detail revealed that he was not ordinary.
So, had he planned this situation from the very beginning?
Or, thinking even darker thoughts, could her turning into a cat also have something to do with him?
Otherwise, why could she only turn back into a human when she was beside him?
Toyokawa Sakiko’s heart gradually sank.
She questioned herself.
‘If everything points toward the worst possible outcome, what should I do?’ Fortunately, things did not reach that point.
Hearing her question, Akira merely shook his head faintly.
“No.” “At the time, I was just going through some rather unpleasant things and had learned that this world still had another side that wasn’t very scientific.
Then I happened to meet you, felt you weren’t ordinary, and brought you home.” “After all, you were only a little cat.
Raising you wouldn’t cost much.
And what if you turned into a catgirl and came to repay my kindness?” “Unfortunately, there was no repayment.
You were clearly such a well-behaved little cat at first, but later you started hissing at me whenever you felt like it, and your paws got restless enough to rummage around and break my phone.” Toyokawa Sakiko sniffled softly.
Her earlier wariness was instantly shattered, and she stammered for a long while without managing to say anything.
“Then afterward, at night, why did you…” “Did I what?” Akira “ascended the mountains,” his movements a practiced display of “plucking, stroking, and smoothing.” The sudden stimulation forced a soft moan from Sakiko’s lips.
Her crying was abruptly cut short, and she blushed furiously, unable to maintain her sadness.
“Hentai!” “Frivolous!” She squeezed her legs together, one arm blocking her chest to fend off his wicked hand, while the other rested on her lower abdomen, extended in front.
“How can it count like that between lovers?” Only on matters of principle like this did Akira refuse to yield an inch.
“Kawasaki and you are lovers!
I’m not!
Back then, I was a cat, so agreeing at that time doesn’t count!” “The cat was still you.
If I only touched the cat and not you, wouldn’t that make me look too biased?” Akira leaned a little closer, catching the faint fragrance around her.
‘Come to think of it, is my fate with blue-haired girls a little too deep?’ Kawasaki Saki also had blue hair, and Toyokawa Sakiko was the same.
Their personalities were both strong and serious too, with a faint trace of tsundere pride.
“Relax.
You’re cute too.
You’re not worse than your cat form, so have some confidence.” “That’s not what I mean!” Toyokawa Sakiko’s face was red, and her breathing unconsciously grew uneven.
Her voice softened in frustration.
“Stop touching me already!” “Speaking of which, you haven’t taken a bath in almost a month, right?
But you still smell nice.
Back when you were a cat, I only washed you once too.
Do your cat form and human form not share the same state?
Or did you secretly wash yourself?” Akira’s sudden question made Toyokawa Sakiko freeze all over.
Then a huge wave of shame wrapped around her, leaving her whole body nearly overheated.
‘Who asks a girl that kind of question?!’ ‘Besides, if you care so much, why were you so enthusiastic earlier?!’ ‘Do you think I don’t want to bathe?’ ‘If I hadn’t suddenly turned into a cat, and if I didn’t turn back the moment I got a little farther away from this guy after becoming human, would I be like this?’ ‘Even as a cat, I worked hard to learn how to clean myself and paid attention to hygiene, okay!’ The girl huffed hard, no longer wanting to speak to this person.
Once her clever mind returned, and she threw away the embarrassment that only came from being human, her intelligence finally reclaimed the high ground.
For example, she had clearly only experienced that “thorn in the back” situation once before.
So why, after a certain day, had he suddenly started getting handsy almost every night?
And why could she never keep Nagasaki Soyo blocked on her social account?
Toyokawa Sakiko understood it all.
Looking at Sakiko, who had suddenly become like a little hedgehog and was puffed up in silence, Akira smiled.
He did not try to push things further.
Unlike Kawasaki Saki, who had been told in advance and knew what might happen, Toyokawa Sakiko had been half-tricked and half-coaxed into being picked up and brought home.
Akira did not mind giving her enough time to gradually adapt.
At 12:30, the miracle expired.
The soft, warm girl in his arms changed again.
The feeling of smooth skin gradually shifted, and her body rapidly shrank.
Before she completely turned back into a kitten, Toyokawa Sakiko, who had been sulking for a long time, finally spoke again.
“Don’t use my account to contact Soyo anymore!” The moment her words fell, a blue kitten shot out from beside Akira with a whoosh.
Only after putting two body-lengths of distance between them under the blanket did she stop, turning her backside toward this awful man and burying her head to sleep.
… The night passed without further incident.
The next morning, Akira casually made breakfast and sat across from Yotsuya Miko, eating quietly.
Miko’s close friend, Yurikawa Hana, had already gone home.
Even during a holiday, it was not possible for them to stay together and play every single day.
Over the past two days, Akira could feel that Miko had been doing her best to avoid him.
But it was not purely because she had an issue with him.
From their usual conversations and attitude, he could still sense that she was willing to grow closer to him.
It was just that in terms of physical distance, she felt a little distant.
Thinking that, Akira casually threw Aura Reading at his ‘sister’ and was surprised to find that she still had golden fortune.
Its quality was even higher than Yurikawa Hana’s.
‘Another protagonist?’ If this had been before, Akira might not have thought much of it.
But now that the world’s background had changed, he inevitably started thinking in other directions.
The origins of that cursed house, the one capable of cursing someone across half the metropolitan area, had also been investigated clearly.
When he saw that among the people who had died in that house was a woman named Kayako, he understood.
If anything about him had changed compared to the beginning, then it was probably that Ju-On had set its sights on him.
Miko might have some kind of talent in this area and had perhaps noticed something abnormal.
However, she had not said it out loud.
Whether it was because of danger or because their relationship had not reached that point, Akira did not plan to dig deeper.
After all, the two of them were not truly family yet.
Akira also did not plan to stay here long-term.
Although he was the one targeted by Ju-On, that thing was basically unreasonable.
It did not care about the idea of blaming only the person responsible.
It was a purely insane, indiscriminate attacker.
He himself was fine for now.
At present, he could confirm that short-term contact with others would not implicate them.
As for whether long-term contact would cause changes, there was no need to test that.
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