C1 Part11

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He wondered if once you become an ayakashi, your memory of being a normal cat starts to become vague.

“The Country of Cats……is a different world from where I had been living up until now?”

“Yes. It’s different from the human world. But, the world of ayakashi and the human world are connected all over. Since there are a lot of ayakashi cats living in this area, it’s called the Country of Cats. There are youkai other than cats here too. Also, it’s possible for regular ayakashi to freely come and go as they please from the ghostly darkness to the human world.”

This wasn’t the place he had been living in up until now. It was clearly beyond his territory—more so, not even the human world, but the world of ayakashi.

He had thought the cat-eared children were strange when he saw them, but he still couldn’t help being stunned by another world.

“This is Kiri’s house? Why am I here?”

“I had just come home when you had fallen in front of my home.”

According to Kiri, when he had propped him up, Touya started to cry pitifully.

“I was crying……?”

“Yes—you immediately lost consciousness, so I carried you into the house and just let you sleep.”

Touya reflexively touched his own cheek. He could feel traces of tears there. But the feeling was distant.