C3 Part142

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However, if Kiri was a tiger, it all

added up. Whenever he brought up Kiri’s true form, Natsuki and Akio’s

words became vague. He was told he was “scary”. No matter how

mild-mannered and handsome his human form was, since they could see

his true form as an ayakashi was a tiger, the people walking down the

streets of the town would stay out of his way, and call him “Kiri-sama”

out of fear and respect. There was no way a cat two meters long could

exist in the first place.

“Touya?”

Even though he

didn’t feel anything when he didn’t know, his ears were lowered from

the fear he instinctively felt. Seeing that, Kiri tilted his head.

There was no way he could tell him it was because he was sitting in

front of a tiger. Feeling bad when he realized he could call Kiri

“scary”, Touya mustered all of his resolve.

“Um, today

at noon—”

For now, he would tell him what happened

when he went outside trying to go after Natsuki and Akio. He told him

about the woman that was in the garden, how when he spoke to her

thinking she was Kudou-san, it was actually an impostor in a fox

mask, and about the blue flame that came out from the mansion that incinerated the fox. Kiri looked at Touya with no shock on his face as

he listened to his story.

“—A fox showed up, huh. He

probably came in when you opened the gate door.”